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Lisbon-based Unbabel, a service which combines human and machine translation in 70+ languages and has Microsoft and Facebook as clients, raises $60M in Series C (Florian Faes/Slator)

Florian Faes / Slator: Lisbon-based Unbabel, a service which combines human and machine translation in 70+ languages and has Microsoft and Facebook as clients, raises $60M in Series C  —  Tech-enabled language service provider (LSP) Unbabel has become the language industry’s most lavishly funded startup to date. Lisbon-based Unbabel, a service which combines human and

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Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices (Tom Warren/The Verge)

Tom Warren / The Verge: Microsoft opens registrations for public preview of Project xCloud, coming in October to US, UK, and Korea, starting with Android devices  —  Available in the coming weeks in the US, UK, and Korea  —  Microsoft is starting to accept registrations for its upcoming Project xCloud game streaming preview. Microsoft opens

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Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote (CBS Pittsburgh)

CBS Pittsburgh: Google contract workers in Pittsburgh, employed by IT services provider HCL, vote to join the United Steelworkers union in a 49 vs 24 vote  —  PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – About 80 contracted Google employees voted to join the United Steelworkers union.  —  The workers voted in favor of unionization … Google contract workers in

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Snapchat extends its skippable ads limit to three minutes from ten seconds; non-skippable six-second ads within shows now let users swipe up for related actions (Garett Sloane/Ad Age)

Garett Sloane / Ad Age: Snapchat extends its skippable ads limit to three minutes from ten seconds; non-skippable six-second ads within shows now let users swipe up for related actions  —  At Advertising Week, company makes adjustments to its commercial formats  —  Snapchat is relaxing its time constraints for ads … Snapchat extends its skippable

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