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House Antitrust Hearing Rescheduled For Wednesday, July 29
Apple's Tim Cook to appear alongside Jeff Bezos, Sundar Pichai and Mark Zuckerberg
Financial
Zuckerberg: Libra Won’t Launch Anywhere Without U.S. Regulator Buy-In
But warns D.C. hostility to U.S. tech could open door to others
Industry
Warren Outlines Plan To Cut Amazon, Google, Facebook Down To Size
Would include classifying Big Tech as 'platform utilities'
Retailing
Amazon Accelerating Private-Label Brands
Also: Facebook has begun selling its own version of the Echo Show.
Keeping Current
Amazon, Facebook & Others In Tech To Commit $300 Million To White House’s Computer Science Push
The donations will be spread out over five years and come as part of a larger push by the Trump administration to direct grant...
Keeping Current
Facebook Pulls Plug On Conspiratorial Bots
Facebook, perhaps having seen one too many “Terminator” installments, ended an experiment in artificial intelligence when two of its chatbots – Bob and Alice – began...
news
Facebook Takes Deeper Dive Into Augmented Reality
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees the phone as the bridge product to the widespread adoption of augmented reality (AR), and the company is basing...
news
Sony, Samsung, HTC, Acer, Facebook & Google Form Global Virtual Reality Association
A team of VR-headset manufacturers have banded together to form the Global Virtual Reality Association. The non-profit organization will “promote the growth of the...
Blogs
Facebook’s Marketplace App Expands Its E-Commerce Footprint — And Opportunities
Facebook’s recent introduction of a Marketplace feature on its mobile app represents a major step forward in its e-commerce efforts. The new functionality allows members...
Industry
Facebook Co-Founder Gives $20 Million To Fight A Trump Presidency
Dustin Moskovitz, a co-founder of Facebook worth an estimated $10 billion, is donating $20 million to help elect Hillary Clinton and Democratic candidates across...
CTA
Facebook, Twitter Join Consumer Technology Association
Facebook and Twitter have joined fellow social media giant Snapchat as members of the Consumer Technology Association (CTA). The companies join a large number...
news
MWC16: Facebook To Boost 360 Video Quality On Samsung Gear VR
Facebook will quadruple the resolution of 360-degree streaming Facebook videos to Samsung’s Gear VR virtual-reality headset in the next few weeks, Facebook founder Mark...
Blogs
Facebook Testing In-App Shopping
Commerce is fueling the next wave of mobile innovation. There has been a flurry of recent activity from leading companies across the mobile eco-system...
CES-2016
Digital Smackdown: Siri Vs. Cortana Vs. M
San Francisco last month was playing the big game of “Who is it?” as everyone tried to figure out who had taken over the...
Blogs
The Debut, And Disconnect, Of CES Asia
Ni hao from Shanghai! I’m writing from the first-ever CES Asia, where about 25,000 attendees, a vast majority from China and other Asia Pacific...
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