YouTube will discontinue 30-second unskippable ads in 2018
Starting next year, YouTube will stop allowing the 30-second unskippable ad and will focus instead on shorter formats. YouTube to stop 30-second unskippable ads In an official statement, Google expl...
Microsoft Office for Mac gets Touch Bar support
Owners of the Macbook Pro with Touch Bar will be pleased to hear that Microsoft Office now works with the LCD strip Apple introduced with its latest laptop. Support for Touch Bar was announced alongs...
Bill Gates supports taxing the use of robots to slow the spread of automation and to finance other employment
Robots are taking human jobs. But Bill Gates believes that governments should tax companies' use of them, as a way to at least temporarily slow the spread of automation and to fund other types of emp...
Mark Zuckerberg's lip service to journalism is not enough to sustain media amid Facebook's ad revenue siphoning and hands-off view of editorial responsibility
It's not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago.
Source leaks hands-on pics and specs of LG G6: always-on display, Snapdragon 821, 4GB of RAM, 3,200 mAh battery, base 32GB of expandable storage
The LG G6 is far from being a secret at this point, with LG itself going as far as to confirm its ‘FullVision’ 18:9 5.7-inch display …
Nebraska state senator warns that Apple is opposing the state's proposed “right to repair” bill; similar bills are making their way through 7 other states
Apple is inventing new and interesting arguments to prevent you from fixing your iPhone: It's lobbying Nebraska lawmakers to kill …
Sources: GM plans to deploy thousands of self-driving Chevrolet Bolts in test fleets in 2018, most of them in partnership with Lyft
General Motors Co plans to deploy thousands of self-driving electric cars in test fleets in partnership with ride-sharing affiliate Lyft Inc, beginning in 2018 …
How competition from T-Mobile forced bigger carriers to offer “unlimited” data plans again, and how those plans compare
It's been a weird week in the world of major cell providers. After years of moving away from offering unlimited plans after the rise of data-hungry smartphones …
EU Parliament rejects proposal to tax robot owners to fund support for or retraining of workers who are put out of jobs by robots
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Apple buys Israel's facial recognition firm RealFace - report
US giant acquires Tel Aviv-based Israeli cybertechnology startup for a couple of million dollars, Calcalist says — Apple Inc. has acquired Israel's Realface, a cybertechnology startup whose facial r...
Sources: SoftBank is considering renewing T-Mobile US merger talks in April, may cede control of Sprint
and the shares are exploding Evan Selleck / iPhone Hacks : SoftBank Willing to Cede Control of Sprint in Potential Merger with T-Mobile Eric Abent / SlashGear : T-Mobile, Sprint merger may have SoftBa...
Airbnb sued in California and Florida by AIMCO, a landlord that manages about 50K apartments across US, for allegedly helping tenants breach their leases
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Q&A with Sonos' CEO on his plans to integrate assistants from firms like Amazon and Google
A conversation with Patrick Spence — It's a weird time for Sonos — and not because it recently got a new CEO. That transition seems to have happened without much drama …
SaaS integration startup MuleSoft files for $100M IPO; MuleSoft was valued at $1.5B in its latest VC round
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Sriram Krishnan, who led Snap's ad tech offerings, is leaving the company after one year
Sriram Krishnan, who joined a year ago from Facebook, was in charge of ad tech — Sriram Krishnan, one of Snap's top ad executives, has left the company less than a month before Snap's expected IPO.
Sources: Apple will start assembling iPhone SE in India at contract manufacturer Wistron's plant in Bengaluru starting April
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HTC to exit entry-level phone market this year but will continue to support current models; its focus is shifting to high-end, high-margin devices
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How residents producing and selling goods sold on Alibaba's eBay-like marketplace Taobao is helping to eliminate poverty in over 1,000 Chinese villages
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Q&A with Bill Gates on his work as an adviser to Microsoft, the evolution of the company, and his focus on natural language processing and virtual assistants
It has been nearly a decade since Bill Gates left his day-to-day role at Microsoft, but he still has a connection to the company …
Lytro raises $60M Series D from Blue Pool Capital, Foxconn, Qualcomm Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NEA, GSV, others to bring light field VR technology to Asia
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Niklas Zennström's London-based VC firm Atomico, which is focused on European tech startups, closes its fourth fund at $765M
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Sources: Beepi, a used car marketplace that raised $150M, shuts down and is selling off assets after efforts to sell the startup to Fair.com and DGDG broke down
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
TetraVue raises $10M Series A from Bosch, Samsung, Foxconn, others to bring high-density 3D flash LIDAR technology to self-driving cars
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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