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Spotify thinks its algorithm can find your next favorite podcast — Discover Weekly but for podcasts — Spotify is taking its first step toward personalizing podcast recommendations with the official launch of its Your Daily Podcast playlist, which will offer listeners an automated list … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify launches Your Daily Podcasts, a personalized podcast playlist, featuring trailers, older evergreen episodes, and more, to help listeners discover shows — Spotify is taking the personalization technology that powers its music playlists, like Discover Weekly and Daily Mix, and turning it to podcasts.| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
DeepMind outlines collaboration with Google on the Play Store's recommendation engine, claims app recommendations are now more personalized than they used to be — AI and machine learning model architectures developed by Alphabet's DeepMind have substantially improved the Google Play Store's discovery systems, according to Google.| Sean Hollister / The Verge: |
Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early rivals but 4K games do not look 4K, tons of features are missing, and it feels like a beta — Google Stadia works. — That's what you came here to find out, and I won't bury the lede: on Tuesday, November 19th …
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Apple's integrated approach is fostering monopolistic behavior and has started to stifle innovation resulting in user-hostile keyboards and no NFC based apps — When I started Stratechery in 2013, the conventional wisdom was that modularized ecosystems were best.
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Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, which integrates telephony inside Service Cloud, a revamped Einstein Voice Assistant, and a voice app development toolkit — Salesforce's annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco is in full swing, as evidenced by the steady clip of product- and service-related announcements.
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16" MacBook Pro teardown shows a new thermal system, keyboard similar to the standalone Magic Keyboard, a six-speaker system, and a high-performance mic array — A beloved old feature returns to the MacBook Pro, and it starts with M-a-g. If you guessed MagSafe, we have disappointing news …
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Amazon expands its free ad-supported version of Amazon Music to its mobile apps, FireTV, and the web, with access to select playlists and radio-like stations — Watch out Spotify: Amazon Music has widened the net of its ‘free’ music streaming platform. — Amazon Music customers without …
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Apple announces press event on December 2 in NYC, says the event will be focused on “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019” — Apple just announced a press event that it will hold a special press event at 4 p.m. ET on Dec. 2 in New York City.
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BlueVine, which offers financing and other banking services to SMBs, raises $102.5M Series F, bringing its total raised between $240M and $250M — When it comes to fintech plays, small and medium businesses are not often the target audience: they're too small and fragmented compared … | Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Microsoft claims 20M DAUs for Teams, up from 13M in July, extending its lead over Slack, which in October said it had 12M; Slack's stock down +7% — - The new 20 million daily active user count is up from 13 million, which Microsoft announced in July. — Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella … | CNBC: |
Google buys Microsoft-backed CloudSimple to help its customers run VMware workloads on the Google Cloud Platform, after partnering with the company in July — - CloudSimple makes it easier for large companies to run applications in public clouds like Google's.| William Feuer / CNBC: |
Evan Spiegel says Snapchat has a team that fact checks all political advertising on the platform, in stark contrast to Facebook — - Snap's policy represents a middle ground in a debate that has been largely defined by extremes as Facebook pushes for no regulation and Twitter grapples with removing political ads altogether.
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Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta, who joined from Google in 2015, says he is leaving the company — Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta announced today he is leaving the company. Gupta's last day will be December 13, he wrote in a note to Uber's product team today.Sponsor Posts
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