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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Photos is adding a new star-shaped Favorites button for your own photos starting today, and a heart-shaped Like button coming next week for shared photos — Twitter swapped out its Favorite star icon for an appreciation-focused heart icon instead, but Google Photos is embracing both icons with an update rolling out now.
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The Verge, Android Police, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, CrackBerry.com, Android Beat, and Android Central
| Mark Hachman / PCWorld: |
Facebook and Qualcomm partner to develop high-speed Terragraph WiFi for cities, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology from Qualcomm — Facebook's plan to connect neighborhoods and businesses wirelessly, known as Terragraph, will begin field trials in 2019 using 60GHz technology …
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Qualcomm, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, SiliconANGLE, and TechSpot
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches SharePoint Spaces so users can view company content in mixed reality and says that 400K organizations now use SharePoint, up about 100% YoY — Microsoft today unveiled its latest vision for a mixed reality (MR) world with the launch of SharePoint Spaces …
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Microsoft 365 Blog, ZDNet, The Verge, Windows Central, GeekWire, MSPoweruser, and Neowin
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Acer to pre-install Alexa on its PC lineup, starting with Spin 5 laptops, and roll the feature out to compatible Acer models over the next few weeks — Acer announced this morning that it is the first to ship notebook PCs preinstalled with Amazon Alexa. It won't be the last.
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PRWeb, TechCrunch, Engadget, CNET, GeekWire, AnandTech, Laptop Mag, and Digital Trends
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Adobe announces $1.68B deal to buy Magento Commerce alongside a $8B common stock buyback program through 2021 — - Company also announces $8 billion share repurchase plan — Acquisition will help it compete against Salesforce, Oracle — Adobe Systems Inc. agreed to buy e-commerce company Magento …
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TechCrunch, Adobe Newsroom, CNBC, MarketWatch, Axios, Reuters, Adobe Newsroom, Investor's Business Daily, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @willoremus. Thanks:@sameerpatel
| Michael D. Shear / New York Times: |
Barack and Michelle Obama sign multiyear deal with Netflix to produce TV shows and films for the streaming service, from scripted series to documentaries — WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama formally announced on Monday a multiyear production deal with Netflix in which he and the former …
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| Jeff Grubb / VentureBeat: |
Epic Games, maker of popular Fortnite, commits $100M over next 12 months to prize pools for the game's competitions, dwarfing other games' esports prize money — Epic Games had $100 million burning a hole in its proverbial pocket, and the company has decided to use that cash to begin building …
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The Next Web, Epic Games' Fortnite, Windows Central, Engadget, Business Insider, The Verge, Forbes, Ars Technica, CNBC, CNET, TechSpot, Polygon, VG247, MSPoweruser, Boing Boing, Twinfinite, USgamer.net, dbltap, Fortune, Gamasutra, GamesIndustry.biz, WRAL TechWire, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @originpcceo, @juiceboxca, @optic_crimsix, @stewie, and @deantak
| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Amazon debuts Marketplace Appstore, to provide 3rd-party tools for pricing, inventory, and advertising to professional sellers, rolling out in North America — Amazon is creating another app store, but it's not for consumers. — Instead, the online retail giant will for the first time put … | Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Intel discloses new version of Spectre and Meltdown security flaws, labeled Variant 4, that uses a different method to extract info; patch coming within weeks — Intel said it will soon release updates to fix newly revealed vulnerabilities. — Intel has disclosed a new variant …
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The Verge, US-CERT, The Register, Intel Newsroom, Axios, and Softpedia News. Thanks:@alfredwkng
| Mark Scott / Politico: |
European Parliament President says Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with MEPs on Tuesday will be livestreamed — Turnaround comes after plans for a closed-door meeting with the Facebook chief and select MEPs prompted widespread criticism. — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's meeting with MEPs …
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Recode, USA Today, The Verge, Quartz, Engadget, Reuters, TechCrunch, International Business Times, The Hill, Silicon Republic, Ubergizmo, Mashable, BetaNews, Fortune, CNET, Fast Company, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, Financial Times, BBC, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @ep_president
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin urges DOJ to review monopolies in tech after a 60 Minutes segment about Google's monopoly in search — - Mnuchin acknowledged that antitrust matters don't fall under his jurisdiction, but said someone ought to be looking. — His comments come on the heels of a …
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Yelp, The Hill, The Register, CBS News, Marketing Land, Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Mercury News, Axios, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @ron_miller and @60minutes
| Tara Francis Chan / Business Insider: |
Chinese state-run media says the country's social credit system has blocked people from taking over 11M flights and 4M train trips; full rollout coming by 2020 — - The social credit system in China has blocked people from taking more than 11 million flights and 4 million train trips.
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China, signaling thaw with US over trade, approved sale of Toshiba's lucrative microchip unit last week to a consortium led by Bain Capital — Chinese officials have finally approved Toshiba's sale of a majority stake in its lucrative microchip unit to an American-led group …
Tweets: @nytimes
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
HMD Global, developer of Nokia-branded phones, raises $100M round led by Swiss VC firm Ginko Ventures at a valuation of $1B+ — HMD Global, the so-called “home of Nokia phones,” has raised $100 million in a round of funding led by Swiss VC firm Ginko Ventures, with participation …
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HMD Global, Thurrott.com, Reuters, Android Police, Android Authority, Gizmochina, TechCrunch, CNET, and Android Central
| Chris Bing / Cyberscoop: |
Inside Project Indigo, the quiet info-sharing program between banks and US Cyber Command that helps the government respond quickly to online attacks — A secret information sharing agreement between the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) …
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New York Times, PaymentsSource, PYMNTS.com, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Thanks:@gregotto
| Cory Weinberg / The Information: |
Sources: Lyft consultants approached San Francisco officials about applying for permits for an e-scooter service — Lyft plans to seek permits to run an electric scooter service in San Francisco, The Information has learned. It is the clearest sign yet that the No. 2 ride-hailing firm plans …
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Engadget, Fast Company, Fortune, Business Insider, Silicon Valley Business …, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Seeking Alpha, and socalTECH.com
Tweets: @coryweinberg and @joshconstine
| David Ku / The Official Microsoft Blog: |
Microsoft acquires Berkeley-based conversational AI startup Semantic Machines — AI researchers have made great strides in recent years, but we are still at the beginning of teaching computers to understand the full context of human communication. Most of today's bots and intelligent assistants respond …
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Digital Trends, eWeek, VentureBeat, The Verge, CNBC, Android Authority, PYMNTS.com, The Register, The Next Web, Gizmodo, Forbes, Inquirer, Windows Central, Quartz, Voicebot, SlashGear, Softpedia News, TechSpot, Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, Xconomy, Thurrott.com, VoIPWatch, ZDNet, Engadget, Neowin, Fortune, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechCrunch, Axios, Seeking Alpha, GeekWire, On MSFT, CNET, and MSPoweruser
| Nitasha Tiku / Wired: |
After last week's Google resignations, a look at how big tech firms' employees feel about their employers' defense contracts, from indifference to activism — FOR MONTHS, A growing faction of Google employees has tried to force the company to drop out of a controversial military program called Project Maven.| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Sales automation startup Outreach raises $65M Series D, CEO says at $500M valuation, to fuel growth, with Microsoft Ventures and DFJ Growth among return backers — - The hot Seattle startup Outreach has raised another $65 million, bringing its total investment to $125 million at a valuation …
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