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| Day One: The Amazon Blog: |
Amazon selects New York City and Arlington, Virginia for its new headquarters, receiving $1.5B in performance-based incentives from NY and $573M from VA — Amazon to invest $5 billion and create more than 50,000 jobs across the two new headquarters, and announces Nashville as new Operations Center …
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| Washington Post: |
A look at the likely factors behind Amazon's decision to choose Crystal City, VA, as one of its HQ2 locations and how it may affect the region — Amazon will open major new outposts in Northern Virginia's Crystal City and in New York City, splitting its much-sought investment …
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Facebook: Congressman Adriano Espaillat. Tweets: @wsj, @ocasio2018, @buzzfeednews, @buzzfeednews, @byrosenberg, @byrosenberg, @alexrkonrad, @_waleedshahid, @digiphile, @theharryshearer, @juddlegum, @tonyromm, @joshuamound, @dkthomp, @mekosoff, @anandwrites, and @ryan_wichman
| J. David Goodman / New York Times: |
Amazon to receive incentives of $1.5B+ over ten years based on creating 25K jobs in Queens, but politicians object, with some saying they will fight the deal — Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio sat together Tuesday to announce that they had emerged victorious from a nationwide competition …
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon says it has more than 10,000 employees working on its Alexa virtual assistant and Echo devices, up from 5,000 in September 2017 — Number of employees doubles the staff in that division a little more than a year ago — LAGUNA BEACH, Calif.— Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.35% …
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Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co says it accidentally caused the problem that misrouted some Google traffic through China on Monday — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nigerian internet provider Main One Cable Co took responsibility on Tuesday for a glitch that caused some Google traffic … | Wall Street Journal: |
Waymo CEO says its driverless car service will be available first in Phoenix and will charge individuals as well as businesses that want to shuttle customers — Waymo, which has been testing the program in the Phoenix area, has spent years and driven millions of miles to develop the technology| Tom Randall / Bloomberg: |
Source: Waymo plans to launch the world's first commercial driverless car service in December under a new brand that will compete directly with Uber and Lyft — Under a new name, the Google sibling plans to methodically build a futuristic rival to Uber and Lyft. This is how it will unfold.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
DeepMind's health subsidiary, maker of an app called Streams that helps with diagnosing specific conditions, is moving under the newly-formed Google Health unit — - DeepMind's health subsidiary is moving under the newly-formed Google Health led by former Geisinger CEO David Feinberg
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is finally re-released, after data loss bugs caused it to be pulled; Microsoft says it's focusing on improving code quality — October update, or November update? — Microsoft is releasing its Windows 10 October 2018 Update again today, after bugs forced the company to pull it offline last month.
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| Steve Ranger / ZDNet: |
EE says it will launch 5G in 2019 in the busiest parts of London, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Belfast, Birmingham, and Manchester, and in 10 more cities later in year — EE's rollout to the 1,500 busiest sites in the UK will start in 2019, but don't expect 5G autonomous cars or smart cities just yet.| Variety: |
Spotify launches in 13 markets across the Middle East and North Africa, including the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt, with a fully Arabic user experience — As expected, today Spotify announced that it has launches its service in 13 new markets in the Middle East and North Africa, bringing the service to 78 markets in total.| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Spotify will roll out its Apple Watch app in the coming week but without key features like the ability to stream music on LTE or download songs — One of the big selling points of smartwatches is the ability to control apps without needing to pull out your phone.
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| Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Lime to launch a car sharing service in Seattle this week, starting with a fleet of 50 vehicles and quickly ramping that up to 1,500 cars by early 2019 — San Francisco-based startup Lime has spent the last year scattering an assortment of brightly colored scooters and bikes around American cities … | Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Microsoft fixes a zero-day escalation of privilege bug in Windows after Kaspersky Lab researchers noticed multiple cyber-espionage groups exploiting it — Kaspersky: Windows zero-day exploited by multiple cyber-espionage groups. — Microsoft released today its monthly roll-up of security patches known as Patch Tuesday.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Bitmain claimed it had $1.25B in 2017 profits during the pre-IPO $400M+ Series B in June of 2018, while its IPO prospectus says it earned just ~$700M — Bitmain Technologies, the world's largest maker of cryptocurrency mining hardware, has stated significantly smaller profits … | Sara Fischer / Axios: |
Sources: Yahoo Finance is launching a subscription service, Yahoo Finance Premium, in Q1 2019 that a source says will likely cost $100+/month — Yahoo Finance, the decades-old money brand now owned by Verizon, is launching a subscription service that aims to compete with Bloomberg for the cash … | Kevin Martin / Facebook: |
Facebook, Google, and Twitter are partnering in a new coalition, Tech Together to Fight the Opioid Crisis, to help those struggling with addiction — The opioid crisis continues to scourge families and communities. Everyone can play a role to help those in need and tech companies are no exception.| Alison Frankel / Reuters: |
Snap says it's responded to subpoenas from the DOJ and SEC about its IPO, following a suit alleging Snap misled the public on how Instagram affected its growth — NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department and Securities and Exchange Commission have subpoenaed Snap Inc (SNAP.N) …
Tweets: @joshconstine, @mr_james_c, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
| AJ Dellinger / Engadget: |
Snapchat introduces Friendship Profiles highlighting close relationships, custom Bitmoji merchandise, and Bitmoji Stories — Snapchat is introducing new Friendship Profiles that will celebrate your relationships with your closest friends. The feature will dig up some of the highlights …
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