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- 2. APP for CREATORS • SoundCloud Pulse • Share Publicly and Privately • Track Stats , Performance • Reply to comments and follow other users
- 3. SMART REPLY • Craft Automatic Responses • App “Learns”
- 4. • Girls working together • Extension of Google’s “Made with Code” Project • Filmmaker Lesly Chilcott • Will be in Theatres Next week
- 5. Electric Car Roads • British Government 500 million Euros to project • Magnetic Induction • Cables buried under the highway • Commcn system to detect coming cars • Trials restricted to areas where regular drivers aren’t allowed
- 6. Out of Town Carpool • Beta flat-fee long-distance uberPOOL • To San Francisco from Palo Alto, Mountain View, and San Jose from 6am to 10am. • Fares will average $20 from Palo Alto, $22 from Mountain View, and $26 from San Jose
- 7. One Plus X • 5-inch Gorilla Glass 3 display • 1080p Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) screen, 441 PPI resolution • Onyx black glass or a limited Ceramic edition (only 10,000 made) • Snapdragon 801 chipset • 3GB of RAM • 16GB storage(Expandable up to 128GB) • Supports two nano SIMs • Onyx version weighs just 4.86 oz while feeling super sturdy in the hand • 13MP rear camera (no 4K video like the new Nexus line) • 8MP frontfacing camera • UK – 5th November (Price EUR 249) • US – 19th Novemeber(Price $249)
- 8. User Groups • User Groups Larger Teams Collaborate Way More Effectively • Notifications specific departments • automatically add users to a preset list of channels when they sign on with a team for the first time.
- 9. BUYS • Activision; Behind Popular Call of Duty and the fantasy game World of Warcraft. • $5.9 billion • Activision will pay $18 a share for Dublin- based King Digital
- 10. Hearts over Stars Twitter Product Manager – Akarshan Kumar
- 11. Self Destructing Connections • unique ID Buzz code (Changes with time) • Conversation expires after 72 hours • co-founders Matthew Groves, Brian Albright and Hanna Xu – all three having previously met while they worked at the messaging app Tango. Groves and Albright were QA engineers, and Xu was a designer.
- 12. Q3 Result • Total Revenue $1.23 billion • 7% up below expectation Partnership with • Google will supply search adverts to Yahoo on mobile and desktop {From Oct} • Effect on Yahoo {“Mobile”:$271M , “PC”:$844M}
- 13. Zero to Dinner Hero • Raises $10.75 Million • Gobble prepares farm fresh 10-minute dinner kits with 3-step instructions delivered to your door.
Editor's Notes
- On the driver side, Uber has gotten drivers who often take the route to opt in to accepting these fares. This way you won’t get a driver angrily cancelling on you for making them drive a long trip. If the program is successful, you can imagine Uber rolling the commuter option to other markets like New York or Los Angeles. The closest thing Uber’s stateside competitor Lyft has done is courting drivers by allowing them to set their own commute’s destination so they can get paid for picking someone up along the way. It’s a predates Uber’s similar UberCommute product. Google’s Waze has tested a shared trip feature for commuters, and startup called Ride is focused on carpooling for co-workers. In China, Uber’s big rival Didi Kuaidi is testing full-sized commuter shuttles running fixed routes.
- Slack, previously known as Tiny Speck, is a company started by Stewart Butterfield, who previously started Flickr. Their first product was Glitch, a Flash-based massively multiplayer online game. After shutting down Glitch, Tiny Speck launched Slack in August 2013.
- Yahoo has struck a deal with Google over search ads in a bid to boost revenues following the former's freshly announced lukewarm fiscal results for Q3. Yahoo's third quarter results saw the firm's GAAP revenue total $1.23 billion (£800 million). While that was up 7% year-on-year, the figure was slightly below analyst expectations and therefore disappointing news for investors. Mobile revenue reached $271 million (£175 million), and PC revenue totalled $844 million (£545 million), with Yahoo announcing that mobile revenue now represented 24% of its total traffic-driven revenue of $1.115 billion (£720 million). That's up from 20% in Q3 last year. So what of this Google deal then? Well, Yahoo hopes to help its recovery pick up not just through its existing search agreement with Microsoft, but also with this fresh partnership with the big G. The idea is simple enough - Google provides search ads to Yahoo on both mobile and desktop, and Yahoo takes a cut of the money made. Exactly how much of a percentage of the profits Yahoo gets wasn't detailed. Greater flexibility In a press statement, Yahoo announced the deal saying: "In October, the Company reached an agreement with Google that provides Yahoo with additional flexibility to choose among suppliers of search results and ads. "Google's offerings complement the search services provided by Microsoft, which remains a strong partner, as well as Yahoo's own search technologies and ad products." So this shouldn't affect the deal with Redmond in any way. Ken Goldman, CFO of Yahoo, said of the overall results: "We are pleased with our financial flexibility and strong balance sheet, with a cash and marketable securities position of $6.8 billion at the end of Q3. "This quarter we've reduced spending in areas such as workforce, facilities and discretionary expenses, and in our ongoing efforts to control expenses, we'll continue to focus our headcount on growth initiatives."