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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
Sources: EU may announce €3B fine against Google in shopping search case as early as next month — Google faces a record-breaking fine for monopoly abuse within weeks, as officials in Brussels put the finishing touches to a seven-year investigation of company's dominant search engine.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: Amazon to debut new lines of private label products, including perishable foods and household items, for Prime members only in coming weeks — The first of the brands could appear on the company's website in coming weeks — Amazon.com Inc. in the coming weeks is set to roll …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google plans to make Flash plugin click-to-play by default in Chrome in Q4'16, rendering HTML5 instead when available, except for 10 top sites relying on Flash — Google has outlined a plan to push HTML5 by default in Chrome, instead of Flash. In Q4 2016, the company plans to only serve Flash …
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Facebook says it has invited “about a dozen” conservative leaders to meet Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday, including Glenn Beck — “It would be interesting to look him in the eye.” — Mark Zuckerberg is hosting a summit for conservative leaders on Wednesday. — So says Glenn Beck, who says he will attend.
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See also Mediagazer| Jack Clark / Bloomberg: |
Source: Google plans big expansion of Project Tango with focus on indoor mapping and VR, seeks eventual ubiquity for the technology, to showcase progress at I/O — Tango to give phones new sense of their immediate surroundings — Project is crucial part of Google's virtual reality efforts
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| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Acer partners with Starbreeze on StarVR headset with 210-degree field of view for arcades and theme parks — Acer is joining forces with the game studio Starbreeze to develop a high-end virtual reality headset designed for arcades and theme parks. Starbreeze has already been showcasing the headset …
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| Bogdan Petrovan / Android Authority: |
WhatsApp beta users briefly get the option to make video calls, hinting at future in-app feature — A beta version of WhatsApp for Android included the option to initiate a video call. The feature was not active for most users, and it was removed with a later update …
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| Michael del Castillo / CoinDesk: |
The DAO, a distributed organization on the Ethereum blockchain that disperses ETH to other startups and projects, has now raised 10.5M+ ETH, worth about $105M — A distributed organization with no single leader that could theoretically exist so long as there's an Internet connection was launched last month …
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Fortune, Privacy Online News, Finance Magnates, Great Wall of Numbers, VentureBeat and R3
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| Patrick Foster / Telegraph: |
Sources: BBC working on subscription steaming service to rival Netflix, dubbed Britflix, delivered via iPlayer; ITV and NBC Universal are involved — The BBC is to push ahead with plans to launch a British rival to Netflix, after getting the go-ahead from the government to develop a new subscription streaming service.
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Guardian, Variety, The Verge, Business Insider, The Drum, Daily Express, TechRadar.com, Daily Mail, Gizmodo UK and Yorkshire Post
Tweets: @patrickfoster2 and @ahess247
See also Mediagazer| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Didi Chuxing, China's largest taxi on-demand firm, denies plan for U.S. IPO in 2017 — Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing firm that leads Uber in China, has denied a report that it plans to go public in the U.S. next year. — Just days after Didi announced a landmark $1 billion investment from Apple …
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Bloomberg, MacRumors, Macworld, Reuters, Financial Times and Business Insider
Tweets: @amir, @jonrussell and @jonrussell
| Sarah Jeong / Motherboard: |
Oracle v Google trial, which is based on the notion that APIs are copyrightable, hinges on a judge and jurors who don't have a firm grasp of FOSS philosophy — The problem with Oracle v. Google is that everyone actually affected by the case knows what an API is, but the whole affair …
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The Next Web, Ars Technica, FOSS Patents and Slashdot
Tweets: @mirmidon1973, @joshuajuran, @liberationtech and @jgbarah
| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: group led by Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, backed by Warren Buffet, and advised by former senior Yahoo executives bids for Yahoo — Former execs Dan Rosensweig and Tim Cadogan are also helping in the Yahoo sweepstakes. — Apparently, once you bleed purple, you never stop.
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