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St. Louis Cardinals investigated by FBI for breaching Astros' network; internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics, scouting reports compromised — St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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.| 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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| 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.| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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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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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Tweets: @ericg, @conway, @bmcclendon and @mikeisaac
| 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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| Bertel King, Jr / Android Police: |
Mozilla Makes A Beta Version Of Webmaker For Android Available To Download From Google Play — Born and raised in the rural South, Bertel knows what it's like to live without 4G LTE - or 3G, for that matter. The only things he likes sweeter than his tea are his gadgets …
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| 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.
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Techstars acquires UP Global, operator of Startup Weekend and Startup Next — Techstars and Up Global have long been joined at the hip, both founded with the mission to support and empower entrepreneurs. — In fact, the very idea for the 54-hour Startup Weekend bootcamps …
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VentureBeat, Techstars, Tech+, UP Global, PandoDaily, Inc.com, Xconomy, Chicago Tribune, TechCrunch, tech.co and Feld Thoughts. Thanks:@toddbishop
| David Still / Box: |
Box debuts Box for Office Online, lets users create and manage Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files from its website — Introducing Box for Office Online, A New Way to Work in the Cloud — Microsoft Office files are among the most uploaded, edited and shared files in Box.
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ZDNet, SlashGear, Bloomberg Business, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Mashable, Computerworld, The Next Web, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, WinBeta and Office Blogs
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees strong Q2 with $1.16B in revenue, 639K new Creative Cloud subscribers — Got email marketing? We've got best practices from LivingSocial and estate sale guru Everything But The House in our next Insight webinar. — Adobe now has 4.61 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers …
| 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 … | 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 … Sponsor Posts
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