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Line, Japan’s Take On WhatsApp, Is Creating A Digital Butler Service

The messaging app seeks to stimulate revenue growth, with a focus on amassing users in Asia rather than Europe or the U.S.

The Line messaging app, a Japanese rival to WhatsApp and WeChat, is working on a digital butler service in its quest to better monetize and compete with its peers, TechCrunch reports. The product will be unveiled in Thailand later this month, and will make its way to other markets shortly after if successful.

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The Big (Big!) Question About Yahoo Is Its Future, Not Its Quarterly Results

The web giant is still struggling. Change is inevitable. What form will it take, and when will we know about it?

On February 2, Yahoo will announce its financial results for the last quarter of 2015 and the full year, and will hold a webcast to discuss them. But to an unusual degree, what people are waiting to hear about isn’t how the company’s been doing, or what its expectations are for the next quarter. They want to know about its future—which could involve the company getting broken up in various ways, shrinking, and/or making major changes to its management and board.

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White House To Propose $1 Billion Budget For Cancer Research

On the day that Joe Biden convenes new Cancer Moonshot task force, White House says his budget will propose big boost for research.

Working on a cure for cancer is emerging as a top initiative of President Obama’s final year in office. Since the formal announcement of the goal in the State of the Union address, the White House effort, under Vice President Joe Biden, has been moving fast. The VP convenes the first meeting of a special task force today, pulling together five federal departments and various other agencies and bodies. And just this morning, according to sources including the Washington Post the White House reported that it will request an extra $1 billion in funding in the next two years for its Cancer Moonshot initiative.

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