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Apple says it plans a $350B “direct contribution” to US economy over next five years through repatriating overseas profits, new infrastructure projects, more — $350 Billion Contribution to US Economy Over Next Five Years — Cupertino, California — Apple today announced …
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| Anita Balakrishnan / CNBC: |
Apple says it expects to make tax repatriation payments of ~$38B and plans to open new US campus later this year that will initially house customer tech support — Apple has previously pledged to invest more in U.S. manufacturing, telling CNBC's “Mad Money” that it would invest $1 billion fund … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple will issue each employee below director level a $2.5K bonus in restricted stock grants, following passage of tax overhaul, over coming months — Company giving bonuses to most global employees in stock units — Bonus program follows Apple pledge to increase U.S. spending
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's Project Fi now caps data bills at $60, entering the crowded market of “unlimited data” plans, will throttle speeds at 15GB — Google's Project Fi cell service never played the “unlimited data” game that most carriers in the U.S. like to play (and which is never truly unlimited).
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Anonymously-run cryptocurrency lending and exchange platform BitConnect, long suspected of being a Ponzi scheme, shuts down — Bitconnect, the lending and exchange platform that was long suspected by many in the crypto community of being a Ponzi scheme, has announced it's shutting down.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google to make page speed a factor in mobile search ranking starting in July, says change will only affect pages that “deliver the slowest experience to users” — Google today announced a significant change in how it ranks websites for mobile searches: it will now take page speed …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Cloud AutoML, a service to build image recognition and other custom AI models for developers, including those with no ML expertise — Google today announced the alpha launch of AutoML Vision, a new service that helps developers — including those with no machine learning …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook begins testing Watch Party, a new feature for groups that lets members watch videos simultaneously while continuing to comment and interact — A new feature for groups — Facebook today began testing Watch Party, a new feature available to groups that lets members watch videos …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitch says its cofounder, Kevin Lin, will step down as COO and be replaced by ex-Pandora COO Sara Clemens — Twitch today announced its co-founder Kevin Lin will be stepping down from the COO role at the company, amid a series of new executive hires. Lin will continue to work at Twitch …
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Researchers find that COMPAS algorithm, used to determine if a defendant will reoffend, is no better than average person's guess; developer disputes findings — Our most sophisticated crime-predicting algorithms may not be as good as we thought. A study published today in Science Advances takes …
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| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple opens Siri feature that plays a podcast from news orgs when asked for the news to all users in US, UK, and Australia with iOS 11.2 or later — Update: The feature is also rolling out in Australia, with ABC, SBS, and Seven Network as sources. — Earlier this month …
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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it will open a standalone investigation into potential Russian meddling in UK's EU referendum on its platform, after pressure from UK politicians — - Facebook will investigate whether Russian groups bought ads on its platform to influence the outcome of the UK's vote to leave the EU in 2016.| Brian Boucher / artnet News: |
Google's Arts & Culture app becomes the number one free app on the iOS App Store after its face-matching feature that was added in December goes viral — The search behemoth's app was all the rage on social media this weekend. — Googling yourself took on a whole new meaning this weekend.
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| Greg Ip / Wall Street Journal: |
Examining the arguments for antitrust regulation against Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon suggests they are safe for now, but history shows that could change — A few technology giants dominate their worlds just as Standard Oil and AT&T once did. Should they be broken up?
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Flurry data: overall app session activity grew 6% in 2017; shopping app usage grew 54%, media, music, entertainment apps grew 43%, lifestyle apps dropped 40% — The app economy is continuing to grow, with the worldwide revenue from app stores expected to top $110 billion this year, according to recent estimates from App Annie.
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| Liz Hamren / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft brings 15-inch Surface Book 2 to 17 more countries starting today; both 15-inch and 13-inch variants will come to more countries over next two months — Surface Book 2 is the most powerful Surface we've ever built, and customers love that they can run their most demanding applications from anywhere.
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| Liana B. Baker / Reuters: |
Thomas Siebel's big data analysis startup C3 IoT raises $100M from TPG Growth, following a $70M Series D in September 2016; C3 was valued at $1.4B in March 2017 — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - C3 IoT, a software company founded and run by longtime Silicon Valley executive Thomas Siebel …
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Sources: online polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year, as talks with banks accelerate; firm was valued at $2B in 2014 — It would be one of the most closely-watched IPOs of 2018. — The 19-year-old polling company SurveyMonkey is preparing to go public later this year … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Toronto-based collaborative writing platform Wattpad raises $51M at an estimated ~$398M post-money valuation to expand its tech platform — Content, as they say, is king — but these days, that may be true only for as long as you can figure out a good business model to deliver it.
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google support page says a fix for Google Cast protocol bug that causes temporary WiFi outages on many routers will roll out tomorrow via Google Play update — A few days back we reported that the Google Home Max (among other Cast-enabled devices) might be connected with some recent reports for widespread Wi-Fi troubles.
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