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Mobile Minutes: Apple invests in Didi; AI tool Parsey McParseface; Weather Channel’s Local Now; Viral ads

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Google launched an AI tool that understands English…called Parsey McParseface
Computers find it difficult to understand the English language. This is where Google’s Parsey McParseface comes in.
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Weather Channel to launch app for its Local Now service: CEO
The Weather Channel plans to introduce a mobile phone app for its recently launched online local news service Local Now in a bid to expand its viewership, Chief Executive Dave Shull told Reuters in an interview.
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Digital publishers promise new ways to make ads go viral in the post-Web site era
The modern digital media company has so much to do: Besides making sponsored content for its advertising partners, it now has to help those partners figure out where the content will live.
Read more on The International Business Times