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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Amazon partners with GM and Volvo to launch in-car package delivery service for Prime subscribers in 37 cities in the US — New service in collaboration with GM and Volvo will launch in 37 cities in the US — Last year, Amazon asked for permission to unlock your front door …
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| Monika Bickert / Facebook: |
Facebook publishes the internal guidelines it uses to enforce its public Community Standards, will allow users to appeal when their posts are taken down — One of the questions we're asked most often is how we decide what's allowed on Facebook. These decisions are among the most important …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @geoffreyfowler, @williamturton, @anujsrivas, @ellanso, and @kevinbankston
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches a redesigned mobile app for its free users that lets them listen on-demand to any song on one of 15 personalized discovery playlists — Today at the Gramercy Theater in NYC, Spotify's Chief R&D Officer Gustav Söderström announced a brand new free version of the Spotify mobile app.
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| Alphabet: |
Alphabet reports Q1 revenue of $31.1B, up 26% YoY, net income of $9.4B, up from $5.4B YoY, but capital expenditures hit $7.3B, up from $2.5B YoY — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - April 23, 2018 - Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG, GOOGL) today announced financial results for the quarter ended March 31, 2018.
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Nest generated $726M in revenue on an operating loss of $621M in 2017, as revealed by a one-time accounting change in Alphabet's quarterly results — Google's smart-home gadget brand generated $726 million in revenue last year. — How much money is Nest, Google's smart-home gadget brand, bringing in?
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Tweets: @edmundlee, @belril, and @lexnfx
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Researchers reveal seemingly unpatchable vulnerability in Nvidia Tegra chips that make all currently available Nintendo Switch consoles hackable — Newly published Tegra bootROM exploit could be a big headache for Nintendo and others. — A newly published “exploit chain” …
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Tweets: @fail0verflow, @thebladeee, @cstross, @fail0verflow, @fail0verflow, @sirstendec, and @smealum
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Job listings indicate Andreessen Horowitz is hiring for “a separately managed fund focusing on crypto assets” — Posted job listings reveal that the firm is hiring for a “separately managed fund focusing on crypto assets.” — Andreessen Horowitz, one of the leading venture capital firms … | YouTube Blog: |
YouTube releases its first community guidelines enforcement report: 8M+ videos removed in Q4 2017, with 6.7M first flagged by machines — In December we shared how we're expanding our work to remove content that violates our policies. Today, we're providing an update and giving …
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Tweets: @therealjpk and @lexnfx
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Human Rights Watch: Chinese tech giants like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent discriminate against women in some job listings by posting “men only” job ads, more — Qualifications for the job: Must be a man — Silicon Valley isn't the only tech hub guilty of widespread gender discrimination.
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Tweets: @kenroth, @felixsalmon, @nytopinion, @nytopinion, and @equalrightsadv
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
DoorDash begins a pilot program for grocery delivery with Walmart in Atlanta, wants to work behind the scenes to power delivery networks for larger companies — DoorDash is about to make a huge move into grocery delivery, but instead of going all out as a delivery service on its own …
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| Steve Pratt / Pacific Content: |
As it prepares to launch a podcasts app, Google adds seamless podcast listening across devices, allowing users to listen on a phone and resume on Google Home — Google has a new podcasting strategy that completely reimagines how people find and listen to shows. Today, part one of our exclusive five-part series.
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9to5Google, Nieman Lab, Android Authority, Thurrott.com, TalkAndroid.com, Lifehacker, Engadget, The Next Web, The Verge, and RAIN News. Tweets: @ow
| Jen Wieczner / Fortune: |
Interview with former Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpelès on what he claims really happened in the company's final days and a look at what's next for the case against him — He led the world's largest Bitcoin exchange before a mysterious heist made it go bust.
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
US Supreme Court upholds legality of patent review process called inter partes review, which has been a relatively cheap way to combat “patent troll” firms — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a government review process prized … | Julie Steinberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing is in early-stage talks about a multibillion-dollar IPO as soon as this year, at a valuation of ~$70-$80B — A multibillion dollar offering for Didi Chuxing could happen as soon as this year — China's Didi Chuxing Technology Co. … | Ry Crist / CNET: |
Inside Amazon's Lab126 and the Alexa Voice Services team, which has helped manufacturers pack Alexa into more than a hundred consumer devices — “JR” has a big, dumb grin on his face as he meanders around the room. A Bluetooth speaker strapped to his back blasts out the first few lines … Thanks:@rycrist
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