Google announced today that it will begin testing an experimental feature will allow presidential candidates to respond to issues brought up during the Republican debate in real-time directly in Google’s search results.
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Apple plans to offer subscription content through News app
Apple Inc is working to make subscription content available through its News app, giving publishers with paywalls a new way to control who sees their articles, two sources familiar with the matter said.
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Spotify Ready to Introduce Video Product
Spotify AB is finally rolling out its video product to the masses. The Swedish music-streaming service is planning to introduce video content on its Android app starting this week, followed by the iOS app by the end of next week in the U.S., the U.K, Germany and Sweden, the company said.
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Silicon Valley’s $585 Billion Problem
Of all the Silicon Valley IPOs in the past couple of years, Lending Club’s might have been the surest bet of all.
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香港史上第一隻獨角獸？
香港 Startup 生態圈經常被指欠缺「成功案例」，如果香港出了一家獨角獸級別的 Startup，恐怕這評價大家就不能再用了！
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Quartz sees its readers’ behaviors evolving, so it’s evolving with them: It’s launching its first major app
Since its launch in 2012, Quartz has been among the fastest-growing and most closely watched, digital news sites. With a mobile-first focus on social distribution, email newsletters, and high-quality ads, the Atlantic Media-owned site has often been ahead of media trends.
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Google’s 2015 “Bad Ads” Report: 780 Million Ads, 25K App Accounts Shut Down
In a semantic flip, Google has renamed what’s been known as its annual “Bad Ads” report — a rundown of all the annoying, if not malicious, trick and scam ads that the company blocked the prior year — as the “Better Ads” report.
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The resolution of the Bitcoin experiment — Medium
I’ve spent more than 5 years being a Bitcoin developer. The software I’ve written has been used by millions of users, hundreds of developers, and the talks I’ve given have led directly to the creation of several startups. I’ve talked about Bitcoin on Sky TV and BBC News.
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Bitcoin Is Dead, Long Live Bitcoin – AVC
I’ve been writing about the Bitcoin blocksize debate here at AVC (the only place I write and I’m hard core about that) for the past year. It’s a big deal.
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