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• Apple Pay heads across the Pond

  Apple Pay will launch in the U.K. in July, where it will initially work at 250,000 retail locations and the London transit system -- with credit card support from eight major banks, Apple announced Monday.

• For its next feat, Google will try to make you eat your vegetables

  If your image of the Google cafeteria is a bunch of portly coders tucking into steak and lobster every night, think again: Silicon Valley's cream of the crop is going on a diet.

• Medicare data available to help businesses ‘shake up healthcare'

  WASHINGTON -- In an effort to expand the utility of government health data and improve care for the sickest Americans, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Tuesday said it will open its datasets to the business community for the first time.

• Toyota eyes Ford's latest smartphone interface

  Toyota announced today that it may adopt the SmartDeviceLink (SDL) protocol, which is the open-source version of Ford's smartphone-linking technology called Ford AppLink.

• Oracle brings Ghostery into Marketing Cloud to help users monitor their websites

  The average company has about 70 different types of third-party code on its website but is aware of only about a third of them. The rest are hidden in services like ad networks, widgets and analytics tools, and they can bog down performance, threaten security and compromise search-engine optimization.

• Ford to roll out Blackberry OS-based entertainment systems this summer

  After announcing in December that it was dropping Microsoft's platform for Blackberry's QNX OS on its infotainment systems, Ford today said the first of the new systems will launch in 2016 models.

• Hospital tests lag time for robotic surgery 1,200 miles away from doctor

  A Florida hospital has successfully tested lag time created by the Internet for a simulated robotic surgery in Ft. Worth, Texas, more than 1,200 miles away from the surgeon who was at the virtual controls.

• GM to offer both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on most vehicles

  General Motors will begin offering both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto in most of its 2016 vehicles, allowing customers to mirror their smartphones and their apps to their infotainment systems.

• Adtech and martech worlds collide

  People not in the branding business don't see much difference between advertising and marketing. As new-age advertising technology, or adtech, and marketing technology, or martech, logically merge, what's the problem? For advertising agencies, which have been on the frontline of branding since the late 18th century, a lot is at stake.

• Android Auto makes debut on Hyundai Sonata

  Hyundai announced yesterday that it's deploying Android Auto in its 2015 Sonata with Navigation, making it the first car manufacturer to integrate Android Auto into its vehicles.

• Hyundai becomes first to use Android Auto in production cars

  Hyundai today announced it will begin using Android Auto in vehicles this year, making it the first carmaker to enable vehicles to mirror a connected Android smartphone to the car's dashboard infotainment system.

• Content marketers are overworked and under-performing

  Are you feeling overworked, overwhelmed, on the edge of a mental breakdown? You're probably a content marketer.

• Apple's Tim Cook tells GW grads: Ignore the cynics, change the world like Steve Jobs did

  Apple CEO Tim Cook delivered the commencement address to the George Washington University Class of 2015 on Sunday, May 17. He reflected on negative and positive influences in his life, from Gov. George Wallace to President Jimmy Carter to Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, urged students to find their direction and to make a difference in the world. Here's the <a href="https://commencement.gwu.edu/sites/commencement.gwu.edu/files/downloads/GW%20Commencement%20Transcript%205-17-15.pdf">transcript from his talk</a> as well as the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fJMBW-9LTI">video, which is below</a>.

• Google's self-driving cars hitting the streets of California

  The first self-driving cars built by Google are heading to public roads for the first time.

• Digital marketers face a suite challenge

  Marketers lean on their enterprise marketing software suites to deliver on lofty promises: cross-channel campaign management, analytics, automation, personalization, customer journey mapping, testing and optimization, customer insights and the list goes on. Marketers need this powerful engine to be well-integrated with other systems and data in order to complete these Herculean tasks.