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Chinese Internet giant Baidu unveils Silicon Valley arm dedicated to self-driving cars
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Intelligent assistants are catalysts for digital commerce
1 million people now access Facebook via Tor each month
Uber drivers remain independent contractors as class action lawsuit settled
What Prince could have learned from Bowie about the value of music streaming
Apple’s iTunes Movies, iBooks Store reportedly shut down in China
Ark: Survival of the Fittest brings dinosaur-based esports to PlayStation 4
Bitcasa killing Drive cloud storage service on May 20, will focus on ‘growing platform business’
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Netflix shares how it grew to 81 million monthly subscribers: Secrets of a subscription model (webinar)
Call of Duty: Heroes hits 30M downloads (update)
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Natural language processing startup Idibon nears shutdown
Medium raises $50 million while it can, adds Ben Horowitz and Judy Estrin to board
Xbox One is selling better, but lower price drags down Microsoft’s revenues
Fallout Shelter update streamlines how you manage your postapocalyptic dwelling
Google parent Alphabet slips 6% on low $20.26B revenue, $7.50 EPS
Microsoft reports $22.1 billion in Q3 2016 revenue, cloud business passes $10 billion annual run rate
TBS reveals 24 teams for its Counter-Strike: Global Offensive league
Secretive audio startup Human raises $5 million
Crossy Road gets party-mode multiplayer on Android
Facebook tweaks its News Feed to factor in time spent on articles
Hearthstone wants to give players free Whispers of the Old Gods card packs
Handy Games CEO Chris Kassulke on crunch, VR, and mobile gaming
BitTorrent replaces Eric Klinker with co-CEOs Jeremy Johnson and Robert Delamar
Pinterest acqui-hires founder of design app Curator
Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst’s release date parkours from May 24 to June 7
Evernote releases redesigned Windows app with better search, trash section
Video games will become a $99.6B industry this year as mobile overtakes consoles and PCs
The Elder Scrolls: Legends starts its closed beta and sure looks like Hearthstone
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The Omnichannel Challenge: Stop siloing your customers (webinar)
LinkedIn makes all Lynda.com courses available on Apple TV
India’s Nazara Games invests in U.K. mobile studio Mastermind Sports
Zengaming gets $2.8M in funding to expand its social network for the esports business
Product Hunt’s new app shows you what’s trending right on the desktop
HotelTonight launches Aces in-app human concierge service
Amazon now sells its own-brand product protection insurance
PayPal, others plunge $30 million into mobile investing app Acorns
HTC and Dassault Systèmes unveil plan to bring virtual reality to the enterprise
