Facebook says there are 2B+ users each month watching videos eligible for in-stream ads and is starting a test of targeting by topic for in-stream video ads
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Sources: thinner and lighter, higher-end 13" MacBook Air with MagSafe charging to launch as soon as this year; redesigned MacBook Pros to get SD card slot back
and kill this feature Samuel Martinez / Pocketnow : Pocketnow Daily: M1X MacBook Leaks: EVERYTHING We Wanted? (video) Julio Cachila / International Business Times : MacBook Pros May See Return Of SD C...
Google says News Showcase will soon add free access to select paywalled articles, and it has doubled publisher partners to ~400 since its launch in October
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Kea, which is building an automated voice assistant for restaurants to process routine orders, raises $10M Series A led by Marbruck
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Google will pay publishers $1B+ through 2023 to create and curate high-quality journalism for the new Google News Showcase, starting in Germany and Brazil
to help convince governments not to take a whole lot more than that Sundar Pichai / The Keyword : Our $1 billion investment in partnerships with news publishers Byron Kaye / Reuters : Google drops Aus...
Pinterest launches Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover, and overlaid text, in beta, and other tools for creators
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Facebook is testing linking users' accounts to their news subscriptions, to let them read articles without hitting the paywall or having to log-in again
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Facebook expands its fan subscription program, launched in early 2018, to any creator in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Brazil, Mexico, and Thailand
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Scribd announces Scribd Perks, which gives paying subscribers access to additional audio and video streaming services like Pandora Plus at no extra charge
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Quibi app review: works reliably, auto-flips between landscape and portrait, but no tablet-optimized mode, no family member profiles, and lacks a TV experience
Online video streaming service … Henry T. Casey / Tom's Guide : Quibi vs TikTok: Which short-form video app is best? Anthony Ha / Yahoo Finance : Quibi had a launch day outage Shawn Knight / TechSpot ...