Things are up with the Broadcom-Qualcomm takeover.....It seems Snapchat has other ideas...Amazon may
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March 5 · Issue #259 · View online |
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Things are up with the Broadcom-Qualcomm takeover…..It seems Snapchat has other ideas…Amazon may want to handle your money…New details emerge in the Uber-Lyft wars…Google has new ways to remove videos from YouTube…Google sells Zagat…What happened to Google Fiber…Those stories and more are all in today’s COMUNICANO!!!
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U.S. Orders Qualcomm to Delay Meeting for Review of Broadcom Offer
The U.S. government ordered chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. to delay its shareholder meeting this week to provide it more time to review rival Broadcom Ltd.’s proposed $117 billion takeover of the chip maker.
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Stop Calling Snapchat a Social Network
In a crowded social media landscape, Snapchat needs to reinvent itself as the internet’s favorite camera app.
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Amazon coming for bank margins?
Among the discussions taking place in bank boardrooms of late: When will Amazon (AMZN) show up to claim our margins?
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MIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their..
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Uber disagrees with MIT study that says Uber, Lyft drivers make just $3.37/hour
Uber and Lyft have been battling complaints that they underpay their drivers.
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MIT forced to redo study that found minuscule earnings for Uber drivers
After a weekend of numbers-crunching — at the behest of Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi — eggheads at Massachusetts Institute of Technology are…
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Google to Sell Zagat to The Infatuation, an Upstart Review Site
The deal will bring a new owner for Zagat, once the 800-pound gorilla of restaurant recommendations, at a time when competition is stronger than ever.
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Google is testing real-time background removal for YouTube videos
YouTube Stories can replace backgrounds automatically – like chroma-keying without a green screen.
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Eight Years Later, Google Fiber Is A Faint Echo Of The Disruption We Were Promised
Google’s ‘pause’ is driven largely by executive frustrations with fiber deployment costs and a fascination with the potential of next-generation wireless.
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Phone Makers Are Embarrassing Themselves By Copying Apple’s Ideas
How the iPhone X left other phone makers flailing at Mobile World Congress.
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Silicon Valley Is Over, Says Silicon Valley
About a dozen venture capitalists recently took a bus tour through the Midwest, and a funny thing happened: They caught the heartland bug.
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Legal Cannabis Industry Poised For Big Growth, In North America And Around The World
Spending on legal cannabis worldwide is expected to hit $57 billion by 2027, according to Arcview Market Research and BDS Analytics.
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Rap video featuring Ric Flair gets 1.5 million views in a day
“Ric Flair Drip” rap video released by 21 Savage, Offset, Metro Boomin, racking up a million views in a day. Flair, known at The Nature Boy in the WWE as a professional wrestler, was known for his lavish lifestyle of big spending and partying.
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Voice tech in travel, part 1: Brand adoption
The days of typing search terms in a desktop or mobile browser or clicking through a brand’s drop-down menus may be fading. Rising in their place is a much more natural interface – voice.
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Almost 80% of Chinese concerned about AI threat to privacy, 32% already feel a threat to their work
Survey reveals Chinese people’s concerns over aspects of AI and willingness to try it and learn more about other aspects
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Signal and Telegram are down for many users [Update: they're back]
Move your private chats to WhatsApp or Telegram: it has been hours since encrypted messenger Signal went down for users worldwide.
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The Supreme Court Case That Could Give Tech Giants More Power
The last thing we need at this time is for Amazon, Facebook and Google to avoid antitrust scrutiny.
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More ‘boomerang’ employees return to Microsoft as corporate culture shifts
The number of employees returning to Microsoft for a second job stint rose after Satya Nadella took over as CEO. For these “boomerangs,” returning to Redmond feels like stepping into a changed company.
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Mobike rides into San Diego
It becomes the latest bike-share company to launch in the city and its dockless bikes have been rolled out in key locations
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First sustainable Lego pieces to go on sale | Life and style
Range including leaves, bushes and trees made entirely from plant-based plastic sourced from sugar cane will be available later this year
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