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Apple Secretly Acquired “Pandora For Books” Startup BookLamp To Battle Amazon — TechCrunch has learned that Apple has made another acquisition, one that it is using to boost its e-books effort and “beat Amazon at its own game.” It has bought BookLamp, a startup based out of Boise, Idaho …
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| Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: |
Verizon will start restricting LTE speeds for its heaviest unlimited-plan customers — Verizon's 4G networks soon will start favoring customers who pay for mobile data by the gigabyte over customers who draw deeply from Verizon's unlimited plans. — Verizon Wireless has been trying to coax …
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Tweets: @piercedavid, @dannysullivan, @gigaom and @kifleswing
| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
House votes to allow cellphone ‘unlocking’ — The House on Friday passed legislation allowing people to “unlock” their cellphones and switch from one carrier to another, sending the bill to the president's desk. — The bill won unanimous support in the lower chamber and has been widely backed …
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| Lyft Blog: |
Lyft launches in NYC, drivers need taxi commission licenses; company “will pause operations” in Buffalo and Rochester by August 1 — Lyft Launches in NYC — Tonight, after making positive progress with local and state leaders, Lyft will launch in all five boroughs of New York City.
| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Bose sues Beats over headphone noise-cancellation patents — (Reuters) - High-end sound system and headphone maker Bose Corp is going after the newer kid on the block, Beats Electronics, with a lawsuit accusing Beats of infringing several patents related to noise-cancellation technology.
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fixed Raises $1.2 Million For A Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets For You — Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on $1.2 million in seed funding.
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PE Hub Blog, StrictlyVC, Business Insider and silicontap.com
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Vevo, the Giant Music Video Site, Tries to Fix Itself Before It Sells Itself — Music videos are huge on the Web, and Vevo is huge in music videos. It generates six billion views a month, and is crucial to both the music industry and YouTube. — Now Vevo's owners want to find a new investor … | Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Judge Denise Cote concerned about e-book settlement because Apple's liability could fall from $450M to $70M if her ruling is reversed on a minor issue — U.S. judge says she is troubled by Apple $450 million e-books deal — (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Thursday expressed concern … | Bloomberg: |
IBM Said to Reject Globalfoundries Offer for Chip Unit — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)'s talks to sell its money-losing chip-manufacturing operations to Globalfoundries Inc. have ended after the two companies failed to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the process.
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VentureBeat and The Register
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Homejoy expands beyond cleaning, offering a beta test group plumbing, landscaping, painting and other home services — Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services — When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December, the company did so with a plan … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Translate Adds Crowdsourcing Features To Improve Its Translations — Over the years, Google Translate has gotten significantly better at giving its users (relatively) legible translations fo most commonly used languages. It's still far off from being perfect, though …
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Inside Search, 9to5Google, The Next Web, SlashGear and WebProNews
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Russian Interior Ministry offers $111k to crack TOR network — Russia's Interior Ministry is offering $111k for a technological solution that would allow police officers to identify internet surfers who are using the TOR anonymizer network, which has been rapidly growing in popularity inside the country.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Fire smartphone now available at AT&T — Amazon's Fire Phone Hits Stores, Minus the Fanfare — Amazon on Friday is embarking on its grandest attempt yet to keep customers buying more from its namesake site. — The company will begin selling its new Fire smartphone at AT&T stores without …
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