Cities learn more from Amazon....Oh GGGGG due to T-Mo/Sprint tie up....More from Facebook's F8...Goog
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Cities learn more from Amazon….Oh GGGGG due to T-Mo/Sprint tie up….More from Facebook’s F8…Google maps, assistants and more…..Twitter…Google Ventures… Tesla….and more are all in today’s COMUNICANO.
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‘Hi, It’s Amazon Calling. Here’s What We Don’t Like in Your City.’
Amazon held postmortem phone calls with almost all of the cities it rejected for its second headquarters shortlist, to explain why they didn’t make the cut. Now, some are trying to address those weak spots.
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TLDR: Jeff Bezos and philanthropy, $6 lunch pickup service, 8-year-old coder
https://youtu.be/h9Vhmxj2gcg [Editor’s Note: TLDR is GeekWire’s daily news rundown, hosted by Starla Sampaco. Watch today’s update above, subscribe to GeekWire on YouTube for every episode, check back weekday afternoons for more, and sign up for TLDR email updates below.] Today’s featured stories…
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Amazon Offers Retailers Discounts to Adopt Payment System
Amazon.com Inc. is offering to pass along the discounts it gets on credit-card fees to other retailers if they use its online payments service, according to people with knowledge of the matter, in a new threat to PayPal Holdings Inc. and card-issuing banks.
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Amazon Says More Than a Million U.S. Small Businesses Sell on Its Site
The Seattle-based retailer said more than one million small businesses in the U.S. sell their wares on its online marketplace, providing the number for the first time.
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Amazon Launches Own Pet Product Brand, Wag; Starts With Food
Amazon.com Inc. has started its own brand of pet products, called Wag, expanding on existing private-label efforts that include batteries, baby products, clothing and household goods.
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Why T-Mobile and Sprint merger would give the US a 5G lead
A truly national 5G network could ensure the US retains the advantage it gained with 4G
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AI at F8 2018: Open frameworks and responsible development
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Google brings Advanced Protection's security features to Apple's apps
The program, designed to secure high-risk internet users, is expanding to cover Apple’s mail, contacts and calendar apps.
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Google's GV on why investment success isn't all about the money
Google’s venture capital arm is doing things differently to create a breeding ground for companies with a social conscience
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Google Assistant hits 5,000 smart home partners, adds Dish, Logitech
Google Assistant now counts 5,000 supported devices, up from 1,500 in January.
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Google Pay rolling out on the web through desktop browsers and iOS
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Google revamps its Google Maps developer platform
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Twitter approved an ad pretending to be Twitter.
This is not comforting ahead of the midterms.
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Twitter is moving some infrastructure to the Google Cloud Platform
Twitter is moving parts of its infrastructure out of physical data centers and onto the Google Cloud Platform. To be clear, the bulk of the social company’s infrastructure will remain in its data centers, but specific workloads will now take advantage of Google’s cloud.
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Elon Musk blames journalists for Tesla’s problems. Fine, I’ll write an article his way.
I definitely won’t mention the fatal accidents, and I promise not to bring up the misleading statistics you’ve cited to defend your technology.
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SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant
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