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Shanhai Capital acquires Analogix Semiconductor for $500 million

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What to do when chatbots start spewing hate

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What we learned from hosting a social media contest

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This company is more than doubling YOY revenue — with website personalization (VB Live)

Apple confirms acquisition of big data startup Tuplejump

Yahoo claims state-sponsored hackers stole data on 500 million users

How A.I. will complement human ingenuity

Apple rolls out iPhone 7 Plus portrait mode to public beta testers

LinkedIn reveals what it’s doing with Lynda.com: LinkedIn Learning

Google launches VR SDK out of beta, starts taking applications for Daydream Access Program

Elon Musk to unveil ‘solar roof’ on October 28

BotBeat: This week’s top bot stories

Google open-sources Show and Tell, a model for producing image captions
AdAction Interactive Named TUNE Top 25 Global Ad Partner

Microsoft launches TypeScript 2.0 with more types, read-only properties, and easier module declarations

Facebook Messenger gets polls and now encourages peer-to-peer payments

Mobile app marketers will lose $100 million to fraud this year

Instagram passes 500,000 advertisers, up by more than double in 7 months

Backed by anti-Trump Twilio, HelloVote bot registers voters in under 2 minutes
Kony Wins First Place Honors for 2016 CTIA Emerging Tech Awards

Avalara raises $96 million from existing investors to expand its cloud-based tax service

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SwiftKey founder on selling his startup to Microsoft, and why it was the right time

MyVR social virtual reality platform debuts in October

Shopping bot Operator raises $15 million for expansion in China

Snaplytics launches its Snapchat analytics platform for brands and influencers

Trump opposes plan for U.S. to cede control of ICANN to global community

Lenovo confirms that Linux won’t work on Yoga 900 and 900S laptops

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The pros and cons of messaging with a business

Yahoo shutting down Flickr Marketplace as it rethinks photo licensing and royalties

GitHub repos now prominently show open-source licenses

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3 reasons chatbots can’t replace B2B customer support agents yet

Amazon hires CEO of conversational commerce startup Angel.ai

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Even your toaster is about to be smarter than you

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Why ‘there’s a chatbot for that’ is now a thing

Pogoplug unlimited cloud storage service is shutting down on September 28

Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announce $3 billion initiative to ‘cure all diseases’

Waze launches Bluetooth beacons to circumvent GPS blackspots in tunnels
