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California Labor Commission rules Uber drivers are employees, not contractors — Uber drivers are employees, not contractors -Calif. Labor Commission — A San Francisco-based driver for ride-hailing service Uber is an employee, according to a ruling by the California Labor Commission.
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British Independent music labels balk at Apple's plans for free trial period, during which they would receive no royalties — Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them ‘completely screwed’ — Independents claim they could be forced out of business by free trial … | Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces executive shakeup and internal reorganization as Stephen Elop departs — Microsoft Shakes Up Its Leadership And Internal Structure As Its Fiscal Year Comes To A Close — This morning Microsoft announced changes to its organizational structure and leadership team.
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Amazon updates Kindle Paperwhite with doubled resolution of 300ppi at the same price of $119 — Amazon announces new Kindle Paperwhite with a high-resolution screen — Amazon is updating the Kindle Paperwhite today with a new display, now at 300 pixels per inch.
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Microsoft partners with 150 accelerators worldwide to offer $120K free Azure cloud credits to startups beginning July 1 — Microsoft Teams with Top Global Accelerators and Incubators to Provide Startups with $120,000/Year of Free Azure Cloud Credits — Every startup is unique.
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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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| Vijith Assar / Wired: |
Twitter's new shared blocking feature is poorly implemented, requires CSV export and import; block lists can only be shared through a third-party service — The Glaring Hole In Twitter's New Shared Blocking Feature — Last week Twitter announced a new tool to stem online harassment … | 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)
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| 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.
| 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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| 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.| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Cohesity Emerges With $70 Million to Consolidate Data Storage … Serial entrepreneur Mohit Aron is unveiling his latest company, Cohesity Inc., which continues his quest to consolidate computing and storage systems so that data centers can run more efficiently.
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ZDNet, Network World, Forbes and PE Hub Blog
| Mark Walton / Ars Technica: |
AMD unveils R9 Fury X for $649, Fury for $549, and Nano graphics cards based on Fiji chip, should be available this summer — AMD unveils R9 Fury X, Fury, and Nano graphics cards — Plus, a nutty dual-GPU Fury X PC called Project Quantum and rebranded 300-series .| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Tidemark announces $25M funding, bringing total raised to $100M as the company expands further into Europe — Tidemark Continues To Sail Along With $25M In New Funding — Tidemark, the cloud financial planning platform announced $25 million in additional funding today along with some new growth numbers.
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Re/code, PYMNTS.com, Forbes, ZDNet and VentureBeat
| 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.
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Rejecting M&A, FreedomPop Raises Another $30M For Its Free Mobile Service — FreedomPop is taking another step ahead today in its bid to build out a global mobile business based on free voice, text and data bundles and upselling additional services. Amid months of M&A rumors …
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Re/code, Fortune, Partech Ventures and socalTECH.com
| 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”| Ernesto / TorrentFreak: |
Amazon Bans Kodi/XBMC App Over Piracy Concerns — Taking “infringing” apps out of popular app stores is one of Hollywood's key anti-piracy priorities for the years to come. — Various entertainment industry groups frequently report “piracy-enabling” apps to Apple, Google, Microsoft and Amazon …
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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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