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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
Apple met with top podcasters as concerns have grown about its commitment to the medium; lack of sharing tools, analytics, paid subs remain industry sore points — Steven P. Jobs put his talent as a master salesman to the test when, in 2005, he introduced new Apple software for downloading digital audio shows.
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Despite Apple's dominant role in podcasting, the medium has remained decentralized and open; individual podcasters would suffer if Apple asserted more control — This New York Times article gets a lot wrong, and both podcast listeners and podcast producers should be clear on Apple's actual role …
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| Rick Jervis / USA Today: |
Uber and Lyft say they'll shut down Monday in Austin after voters reject proposition against fingerprint background checks for drivers — AUSTIN — Despite an $8 million dollar campaign by ride-hailing companies, Austin-area voters on Saturday rejected a proposal by Uber and Lyft to self-regulate …
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Dropbox says it's cutting some employee perks including SF shuttle bus, gym laundry service, and unlimited dinner guests in leaked memo — When Dropbox employees walked into their new office on Brannan Street last month, they were dazzled by something they hadn't seen before — a gleaming, 5-foot-tall panda statue made of chrome.
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| Joe Lonsdale / Quora: |
Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale accuses BuzzFeed of taking “select facts out of context” in effort to “hunt unicorns”, says customer traction is “astonishing” — Let's address this briefly here rather than write emails back to a lot of friends and investors …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft will remove Windows 10 upgrade prompts from Windows 7, 8.1 PCs after July 29th — Microsoft's Windows 10 upgrade prompts will become a thing of the past soon. The software giant is planning to remove its Get Windows 10 app from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 PCs after July 29th.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Evernote's CEO talks about slimming down the product, says 100K people sign up every day — By any standard, the past year has been hard on Evernote. Phil Libin, who led the company to 100 million registered users and a $1 billion valuation, abruptly quit the CEO post last July … | Shalini Ramachandran / Wall Street Journal: |
Business news streaming startup Cheddar launching premium $6.99/mo service powered by Vimeo — Streaming video site from former BuzzFeed executive Jon Steinberg will start charging $6.99 a month — Former BuzzFeed executive Jon Steinberg's effort to create a Web-based “CNBC for millennials” is going behind a paywall.| Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
EFF rates Uber and Lyft highest among sharing economy companies on privacy and transparency, says many others haven't stepped up to meet accepted best practices — Download Report — Download the complete Who Has Your Back? 2016: Protecting Your Data From Government Requests report as a PDF.
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| Kerry Flynn / International Business Times: |
Facebook testing “Discover” feature for Groups on iOS and Android to simplify finding Groups by category — More than 1 billion people use Facebook Groups every month. But for the world's largest social network, that just isn't enough. — The nearly decade-old product …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
HP EliteBook Folio G1 review: thin and light with a great build, trackpad, keyboard, but confusing array of configuration options — Two Thunderbolt 3 ports and a great keyboard and trackpad help it excel. — HP's EliteBook Folio G1. … Apple's laptop designs used to feel like they were a few years ahead of the curve.
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| Brad Chacos / PCWorld: |
NVIDIA announces GeForce GTX 1080 starting at $600 and available May 27, and 1070 starting at $380 and available June 10; both are faster than the Titan X — Latest GeForce cards also push prices that won't break the bank either — Austin, Texas— “This is the largest chip project endeavor … | Katherine Boehret / The Verge: |
Amazon Kindle Oasis review: extremely thin and light, but very expensive and no adaptive backlight — My favorite way to test any e-reader is to see if I still like using it when my reading material isn't exactly thrilling. For the past week, I've been using Amazon's newest Kindle to get through a book called Oh Crap!Sponsor Posts
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