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Uber riders from China can now use Alipay to pay for trips in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Macau

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Adtech isn’t in trouble — it’s just misunderstood

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Depth-sensing cameras will open up a whole new frontier for smartphones

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A new breed of ‘data-first’ tools could soon dominate the enterprise

Google’s U.K. tax deal sparks criticism

Nokia-Samsung patent verdict expected within days

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Name-brand colleges are hurting tech hiring

Twitter experiments with trending tweets in the timeline

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12 things we learned as a new VC fund

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How Twitter could be 10X bigger, 100X more profitable, and 1000X more awesome

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Online ad execs repent the sins of their first $50 billion

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Why Facebook’s Parse shutdown is good news for all of us

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President Obama unveils initiative to bring computer science to more schools

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SolidEnergy Announces Series B Investment

Facebook bans person-to-person gun sales on its site

Padmasree Warrior leaves Box’s board after joining Microsoft’s

Apple acquires spatial perception startup Flyby Media, reportedly has a secret VR team

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Mobile marketing tips from CMOs who are killing it (webinar)

Intel promotes 8 executives, but its upper ranks aren’t more diverse

Jeff Bezos and Amazon: He who laughs last, laughs best

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BloomReach lands $56M to deliver personalized marketing to every digital business

Google launches iOS AdWords app for marketers to manage their ad campaigns on the move

GM forms team for self-driving, electric cars

Google has paid security researchers over $6 million in 6 years

Google Calendar now supports 41 more languages on Android and iOS

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323 marketing tech startups fetched over $11B from VCs in 2015 (research)

Facebook is shutting down its Parse cloud service on January 28, 2017

Xerox will reportedly split, bowing to pressure from Carl Icahn

Amazon’s stock tanks 13% despite record $482 million profit

Amazon Web Services brings in $2.4B in revenue in Q4 2015, up 69% over last year

IBM is buying digital marketing agency Resource/Ammirati

Dropbox became even more white and male in 2015, appoints head of diversity
