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Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable — The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.
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Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.
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China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China's Newest Foe: iPhone — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. technology companies.
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| Patrick May / Mercury News: |
Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed … | Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stake at $500-600M valuation — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …
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FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan — Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted to set aside funds …
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| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Judge orders unmasking of Amazon.com “negative” reviewers — A federal judge has granted a nutritional supplement firm's request to help it learn the identities of those who allegedly left “phony negative” reviews of its products on Amazon.com. — The decision means that Ubervita …
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV — Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we'd been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. — Sure enough, it's just been made official.
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Google Maps for iOS adds mapped search results and Gmail appointments, more — Google today updated its Maps application for iPhone and iPad to version 3.2 introducing new features and improvements. — The latest version of Google Maps now supports viewing search results with descriptions directly on the map view.
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Twitter's analytics dashboard now includes detailed data on all tweets, not just ads — Twitter today announced a new tweet activity analytics dashboard for advertisers, Twitter card publishers and verified users that shows them detailed data on how their organic tweets are doing.
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Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate — We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
Microsoft acquires disaster recovery solutions firm InMage to strengthen Azure — Summary: Microsoft hopes the acquisition will boost the Azure Site Recovery service and lure more enterprise clients to the Azure platform. — Microsoft has acquired InMage to improve hybrid cloud business … Sponsor Posts
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