Some Pixel and Pixel XL owners experiencing failing microphones, Google recommends warranty replacements
When the customer threads over on the Google Support Forum start to get hundreds of replies deep, you know there's a serious problem afoot. This one is affecting the Pixel and Pixel XL …
Uber security chief says company is reviewing Greyball technology and will prohibit using it to evade regulators
We wanted to give everyone an update on “greyballing”. This technology is used to hide the standard city app view for individual riders, enabling Uber to show that same rider a different version.
Facebook rolls out Messenger Day, its Snapchat Stories-like ephemeral messaging feature located inside the Messenger app and desktop chats
Today Facebook is globally launching Messenger Day to put a utilitarian spin on the slideshow format. While Snapchat Stories is for retelling what you've done …
Airbnb raises $1B at a $31B valuation; source says the firm has no plans for IPO anytime soon, was profitable in Q2 2016 and expects to be profitable in 2017
Airbnb has closed on a more than $1 billion round of funding, according to a source close to the company. It is now worth approximately $31 billion.
Google debuts Cloud Video Intelligence API, letting developers analyze and catalog the contents of video
At its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco, Google today announced the launch of a new machine learning API for automatically recognizing objects in videos and making them searchable.
Report: WhatsApp testing chat tools to let businesses talk to customers as a source of revenue, conducting an early trial with a group of Y Combinator companies
WhatsApp has begun testing a system that allows businesses to message consumers directly, according to a report by Reuters.
Didi Chuxing opens AI lab in Mountain View, California, and hires Uber engineer Charlie Miller to lead security and development teams
The Mountain View lab will focus on AI-based security and intelligent driving systems for cars. — Didi, China's largest ride-hail player, is getting serious about self-driving cars.
Google debuts Engineering Support for cloud services, charging a flat fee based on response time; plans start at $100/user per month for 4-8 hour response time
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Pinterest acquires Q&A service Jelly, which pivoted and unpivoted over its 4-year life, and whose co-founder Biz Stone is a Pinterest angel investor
Jelly rolls — Pinterest said today that it has acquired Jelly, a bad 4-year-old search engine, for an undisclosed sum.
Gary Marcus, director of Uber's AI Labs, to leave his role after four months with the company and become a “senior adviser” to Uber
Gary Marcus, a research scientist who joined Uber four months ago as director of its AI labs, is leaving the company, according to sources.
Google announces it has bought Kaggle, a platform with ~500K data scientists, which hosts data science and machine learning competitions and has raised $12.75M
Google today said it is acquiring Kaggle, an online service that hosts data science and machine learning competitions …
Google announces several new high-profile Google cloud clients, including eBay, HSBC, Colgate-Palmolive, and Verizon, which a source says moved from Microsoft
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Microsoft partners with Qualcomm and Cavium to develop Windows for servers using ARM processors, has been testing it in Azure for search, storage, more
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Facebook launches Facebook 360, a hub for 360-degree photos and videos available only on Samsung Gear VR
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Facebook refreshes server line, with design specs available on Open Compute, debuting Big Basin, a GPU server that can train ML models 30% larger than before
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Veem, formerly Align Commerce, raises $24M round led by National Australia Bank (NAB) Ventures, for faster and cheaper remittance services for SMBs
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Amazon says it's working on its 10th Amazon Books store, located in Bellevue Square in Seattle with plans to open in 2017
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Amazon acquires meeting productivity startup Do.com, plans to integrate it into Chime, its new conferencing tool for businesses
Mar 8, 2017, 3:05 amMar 8, 2017, 7:51 am — Amazon has quietly made one more acquisition to build out the productivity services on its cloud platform AWS.
Open-source NoSQL database startup ScyllaDB raises $16M Series B from Samsung, Qualcomm Ventures, Western Digital, Magma Ventures, others
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Sources: Alibaba-backed mobile search company Quixey, which raised more than $130M, in process of shutting down
Quixey, a seven-year-old mobile search company that raised more than $130 million from Alibaba Group and others, is in the process of shutting down, said a person with direct knowledge of the situatio...
JetSmarter ex-President Gennady Barsky, who left the firm after his arrest last month, faces charges this week of embezzling $11M prior to joining JetSmarter
or was it just about money again? http://twitter.com/... Scott Austin / @scottmaustin : Hmm: The ex-president of JetSmarter, valued at $1.6B in December, is accused of embezzling $11M pre-startup http...
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