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Judge rejects $324M settlement in anti-poaching class action suit against Apple, Google, Intel, Adobe; says it should have been at least $380M — BREAKING: Judge strikes down Techtopus wage theft settlement — The judge overseeing the landmark Silicon Valley wage theft antitrust lawsuit …
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Facebook unveils Autoscale, its load-balancing system that achieves an average power saving of 10-15% — Facebook today revealed details about Autoscale, a system for power-efficient load balancing that has been rolled out to production clusters in its data centers.
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China refutes claim of government ban on Apple purchases — (Reuters) - Apple Inc (AAPL.O) products such as laptops and tablets are not banned from Chinese government procurement lists, according to the country's chief procurement center, refuting a report claiming Apple was blacklisted on national security concerns.
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Exclusive: Tango secondary financing values company at around $1.5 billion — (Reuters) - Tango, the mobile messaging company, is arranging a financing transaction that would value its business at around $1.5 billion, roughly one-third more than the valuation it received just five months ago … | Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Google is testing “Listen Now” ads with Spotify, Rhapsody, and Apple's Beats Music — Google Tests New Music Ads — Google is testing “Listen Now” ads with Spotify, Rhapsody and Apple 's Beats Music, the latest in a string of new ad formats that can simplify purchases for consumers.| Tim Peterson / AdAge: |
Google Tests Way to Track Consumers From Mobile Browsers to the Apps They Use — For Advertisers, One Mobile User Has Previously Often Looked Like Two — Ebook — Advertising Age Essentials — Google has come up with a way to overcome the ad-targeting gap between mobile web visitors … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Meta Watch's Meta M1 premium smartwatch is now available for preorder starting at $249 — Meta Watch's ‘premium’ smartwatch is now available for pre-order — The Meta M1 can be had in a variety of colors and band options — Smartwatches are everywhere this year, but with few exceptions …
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Anonymous email service Leak banned from using MailChimp and SendGrid APIs for not complying with “opt-in” policies, suspends service — Why we are forced to suspend Leak... for a while. — As you may know if you have read this post, Laurent and I launched Leak 11 days ago …
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China's Alibaba Is Not Investing in Snapchat — Alibaba's interest in Snapchat has disappeared. — While there have been persistent reports, including one in Forbes today, that the Chinese e-commerce giant was going to make a big investment in the popular Los Angeles-area ephemeral messaging company …
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Windows Phone Store hits more than 300,000 apps — And Microsoft expects the number to get much larger with the arrival of “universal” Windows apps. — Microsoft's Windows Phone Store has reached a new milestone with more than 300,000 apps on its virtual shelves.| Vanessa Mock / Wall Street Journal: |
EU is asking companies to provide evidence by Sept. 12 that Google imposed app bundling, exclusivity requirements on Android device makers, carriers — Google's Tough European Summer: Android and Online Search Probes — Google Inc. isn't having a good summer.
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Public Wi-Fi users in Russia will have to log on with ID, reports say — Russia's clampdown on internet freedom continues, this time with a measure designed to counter “those interested in destabilization.” However, there is some confusion over the details.| Kaylene Hong / The Next Web: |
Twitter has quietly removed Bing translation from its mobile apps and web platform — A useful translation feature (albeit poorly executed at times) appears to have disappeared from Twitter's platform, less than two months after the company quietly rolled it out.
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