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TechDirt faces fight for its life in ‘inventor of email’ lawsuit
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Snapchat chooses London for its international HQ
Choozle raises $2.4 million to power real-time advertising for social, mobile, and video
Tailwind launches toolkit to help brands with Instagram marketing
Airbnb leads $13 million investment into restaurant booking service Resy
Volkswagen unveils I.D. Buzz, an all-electric connected concept vehicle
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Apple is planning its first retail store in South Korea, Samsung’s home turf
The curious, the lavish, and the best, most pointless news of CES 2017
Apple says New Year’s Day was biggest day ever for App Store, with $240 million in sales
With Kodakit, Kodak wants to create the ‘photography ecosystem of the future’
BMW turns to Tango and taps Google’s augmented reality platform to sell cars
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How personal tech giant Garmin turned data + creative into a 9.7x return on ad spend (VB Live)
Vuze, an $800 VR camera for consumers, is shipping in March 2017 with support for 3D audio
Withings and L’Oreal made a smart hairbrush that rates your hair
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Machine learning: What, how, and why you need it now (VB Live)
Polar unveils connected sports shirt with built-in heart-rate monitor
Netflix vs. Amazon in 2016: A big year for 2 video streaming giants
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CMOs under pressure: How real-time analytics demonstrates bottom-line results (VB Live)
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3 things that will help your app pay off from the start (VB Live)
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For publishers, Facebook is the devil
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Snap doubled its acquisitions in 2016 as it builds toward IPO
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Twitter admits ‘technical error’ in product update impacted video ad campaign reporting
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Howdy brings bCRM to its Botkit to manage marketing campaigns for Slack and Facebook Messenger
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How real-time data helps Feeding America fill the meal gap for 49 million (VB Live)
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How startups can leverage location-based marketing to woo millennials
Google updates algorithm to demote Holocaust denial and hate sites in search results
Russian Methbot stole $5 million daily with ad fraud scheme
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