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Russell Wilson touts Bing after being accused of using Google to express love for Ciara
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As a business, Twitter is struggling. But dang, the social media platform sure is providing some serious entertainment this week. After Wednesday gave us Wiz Khalifa and Kanye duking it out, and later Paul Graham arguing with Mark Cuban about Shark Tank, the latest Twitter fun went down Thursday afternoon. It started after...
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Harbingers of failure: meet the customers you don’t want to love your product
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Unbeknownst to themselves, some of these apparently happy consumers are actually harbingers of failure. (credit: Flickr user Peter Hilton)

A central premise in marketing seems so obvious that it doesn’t even bear scrutiny: if customers give you positive feedback on your product, that’s good. And if those people buy the product repeatedly, that's even better.

But what...

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Why people in China love Microsoft’s Xiaoice virtual companion, and what it says about artificial intelligence
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Microsoft Research Asia Managing Director Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon.
Dr. Hsiao-Wuen Hon is speaking quickly inside a Beijing boardroom, excited about the conversation topic. He’s rattling off statistics and talking about Xiaoice, a new personal assistant built by Microsoft that is already being used by 40 million smartphone owners across China and Japan. Hon explains how Xiaoice is similar to digital assistants like...
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