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Sources: Amazon is developing an app that pays ordinary people, rather than carriers, to deliver packages; no firm timetable for when the service would launch — Amazon Seeks Help With Deliveries — Web retailer mulls paying people to drop off packages amid push to cut shipping costs
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USA Today, TechCrunch, Consumerist, Forbes, BIA/Kelsey, Fortune, Guardian, The Daily Dot, Engadget, SlashGear, Gizmodo UK, The Next Web, The Verge, VentureBreak, Ubergizmo, Business Insider, GeekWire, International Business Times, Reuters, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, 9to5Mac and iLounge. Tweets: @gregbensinger
| Thomas Fox-Brewster / Forbes: |
‘600 Million’ Samsung Mobiles Vulnerable To Keyboard Cracking Attack — Given everything that's occurred over the last two years, Android phone owners would be forgiven for thinking major manufacturers had their backs when it came to security, especially encryption.
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NowSecure, Ars Technica, NEWS.com.au, Wall Street Journal, Black Hat, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, LIFARS, SlashGear, Redmond Pie, The Tech Portal, Digital Trends, Computerworld, Android Central, The Tech Report, International Business Times, CRN, Android Beat and SamMobile. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Paresh Dave / Los Angeles Times: |
Snapchat debuts the first sponsored geofilter at all McDonald's locations in the US — Snapchat turns geofilter digital stickers into revenue source — Much of social media involves showing off where we are, whether it's watching a ballgame at Dodger Stadium, meeting Mickey Mouse …
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Marketing Land, SlashGear, Business Insider, Fortune and International Business Times. Tweets: @latimes. Thanks:@peard33
| Josh Aas / Let's Encrypt: |
Let's Encrypt, the free SSL certificate service backed by EFF, Mozilla, others, announces limited launch end of July and general availability mid-September — Let's Encrypt Launch Schedule — Let's Encrypt has reached a point where we're ready to announce our launch schedule.
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PCWorld, Electronic Frontier Foundation and The Register
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
SEC filing shows Y Combinator raising money for new VC fund, the Y Combinator Continuity Fund I — Y Combinator, Silicon Valley's hottest startup factory, has filed to raise a venture capital fund — Y Combinator is raising money to create a new VC fund according to forms filed with the SEC.| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Huge Loss For Free Speech In Europe: Human Rights Court Says Sites Liable For User Comments — Last year we wrote about a very dangerous case going to the European Court of Human Rights: Delfi AS v. Estonia, which threatened free expression across Europe. Today, the ruling came out and it's a disaster.
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Ars Technica UK, Slashdot, Marketing Land, Media Legal Defence Initiative, The Register, Media Policy Project and Access Blog. Tweets: @benthompson
| Re/code: |
Uber hires Brian McClendon, Google ten-year veteran and former head of Maps, to oversee its Pittsburgh Advanced Technologies Center — Uber Hires Google's Former Head of Maps to Oversee Location Technology, Pittsburgh Center — Uber is getting serious about maps, and it has poached the former head of Google Maps to lead the charge.
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Business Insider, Understanding Google … and Asymco
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @ericg, @bmcclendon and @conway
| Brad Stone / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: why he stepped down, what it's like serving on a board with two former CEOs, and more — Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: Why He Stepped Down, and What's Next — Don't expect the onetime stand-up comic to return to the stage: On Twitter, “I can be heckled in real time anywhere around the world”
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Wall Street Journal, Re/code, VentureBeat, Mercury News, Mashable, Fortune, TechCrunch and Business Insider
| Cromwell Schubarth / Silicon Valley Business Journal: |
Andreessen Horowitz makes case against tech bubble talk — There has been a lot of debate about whether a new tech bubble has formed in the past couple of years, but the investors at Andreessen Horowitz aren't buying it. — In a presentation to its big investors, the Menlo Park firm co-founded …
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Andreessen Horowitz and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @startupljackson, @paulg, @startupljackson, @skupor and @raju
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
San Diego firm plans to file first net neutrality complaint against TWC for charging unreasonable rates to deliver streaming video — Time Warner Cable will be the first to get hit with a net neutrality complaint — FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler. (Lauren Victoria Burke/AP)| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple revokes Monster's authority to make licensed accessories through its MFi program — Apple Revokes Monster's Authority to Make Licensed Accessories — Move follows Monster's lawsuit against Apple unit Beats — Audio-equipment maker Monster LLC is discovering that all is fair in love and law.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, MacNN, International Business Times, The Verge and The Next Web. Tweets: @fmanjoo. See also Mediagazer
| Owen Williams / The Next Web: |
Fairphone 2, a new modular Android smartphone, with HD 5-inch display, 2GB RAM, MicroSD and dual SIM slots, will be available in Europe in the fall, for €525 — A peek at Fairphone's amazing new modular smartphone — Fairphone, the Dutch startup that's working to build a fairer smartphone … | Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
TWC says it can bring gigabit internet to LA with D3.1 technology, which allows cable operators to deliver multi-gigabit speeds on hybrid fiber/coax networks — TWC ‘Well-Positioned’ to Bring 1-Gig Across L.A. — City Seeking Partners to Deliver 1-Gig, WiFi, Free Internet Tier
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| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Comparison shopping engine Connexity buys PriceGrabber, making it the second-largest retail lead generator behind Google — Connexity Buys PriceGrabber In CSE Consolidation — Company says the merger makes it second largest retail lead generator, behind Google.
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| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
Hulu changes the name of its paid tier from Hulu Plus to just Hulu — Hulu Makes Name Change Official, Ditches the Plus — Hulu has officially changed the name of its paid tier: The online video service informed paying subscribers via email early Tuesday morning that Hulu Plus would now simply be known as Hulu.
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DSLreports, TechnoBuffalo, TechnologyTell, Tubefilter, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch and The Verge. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Joe Lallouz / Etsy News Blog: |
Etsy launches Fund on Etsy, a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform, as 2-month pilot in US — Etsy Launches Fund on Etsy Pilot Program to Crowdfund New Products — Today, we're launching Fund on Etsy, a crowdfunding pilot program to help Etsy sellers grow their businesses and create new products.
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The Daily Dot, CNBC, Consumerist, PCWorld, Ubergizmo, ZDNet, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, VentureBeat and The Next Web
| David Morgan / Reuters: |
Amazon says federal rules, not state or local, should regulate unmanned aerial systems ahead of oversight committee hearing Wednesday — Amazon insists federal rules apply to U.S. deliveries by drone — Amazon.com, seeking to bolster its efforts to deliver products via drone …
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ITworld.com and Engadget
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