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Alphabet Program Beats the European Human Go Champion

DeepMind, a research organization, said that a program combining two separate algorithms had soundly defeated a high-ranking professional Go player.

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Daily Report: Facebook’s Lucrative Long View

Mark Zuckerberg has told investors over and over: Don't expect Facebook to focus much on quarterly earnings. The company is taking the long view. But that long view is sure looking spectacular in...

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Facebook to Shut Down Parse, Its Platform for Mobile Developers

Facebook is shutting down Parse, a toolkit and support system for mobile developers, which it acquired in 2013.

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Daily Report: Divergent Fortunes in Cloud Computing

The earnings reports released by Amazon and Microsoft reinforced that cloud computing is a booming, multibillion-dollar business.

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Daily Report: More Earnings, Earnings, Earnings

The tech earnings season is hitting peak news this week with big reveals from Alphabet and Yahoo.

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Daily Report: Alphabet Eclipses Apple to Become the Most Valuable Company

There's a shifting of the guard at the top of the technology food chain, with Alphabet overtaking Apple to become the world's most valuable company.

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Daily Report: Yahoo’s Multipronged Turnaround Strategy

Yahoo is opening itself up to all options — spinoff, sale, a simplification of its operations — in its quest to right itself.

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Mall Executive Backtracks From Statement on Amazon Retail Stores

A day after saying that Amazon planned to open 300 to 400 brick-and-mortar bookstores, a shopping mall executive stepped back from his comments.

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Daily Report: The Mystery of Amazon’s Bookstores

How an offhand remark about Amazon opening new bookstores spawned a viral reaction and a backtracking.

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Daily Report: As Tech Powers, China Is Rising, While Japan Declines

China's growing tech industry is inciting concern, while Japan's stalling tech industry is spurring deals.

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BlackBerry Lays Off 200, Pointing to Shift Away from Phones

The Canadian company's chief executive has said in the past that he wants to maintain the company's phone business. That is, if it is not a money loser.

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Daily Report: Waiting for the F.C.C.’s Lawyer to Take Another Stand

The commission's high-profile general counsel has faced criticism that too many of his decisions have been based upon Democratic politics.

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For Some Cord Cutters, Streaming Super Bowl Was a Nonstarter

Users complained that a CBS Sports app cut out while they were trying to watch the big game.

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Zenefits, in a Shake-Up, Appoints New C.E.O., Replacing Parker Conrad

Zenefits, a high-profile San Francisco start-up specializing in health insurance, replaces its co-founder and chief executive after questions about compliance.

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Daily Report: A Net Neutrality Setback for Facebook in India

In the United States, the social media giant has been an advocate of equal treatment of all Internet content. In India, regulators who share that belief have effectively blocked a free Facebook service.

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