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| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
Apple to debut paid App Store search ads at WWDC, offer developers a 85/15 revenue split for in-app subscriptions for users subscribed for over a year — Apple's annual conference for developers, which kicks off next Monday, is normally when the company previews its newest software for iOS …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon will invest $3B in its Indian operations, bringing total planned investment in India to $5B since 2014 — The announcement brings the e-commerce gaint's total planned investment to $5 billion — Amazon.com Inc. plans to invest an additional $3 billion into India … | Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft says it has paused its plans to add a TV DVR feature to the Xbox One — Microsoft is no longer planning to add a TV DVR feature to its Xbox One console. The software giant originally unveiled plans to add TV DVR to the Xbox One back in August, noting that the feature would arrive some time in 2016.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Yahoo hires bank to auction off 3K patents, including original search patent, expects $1B+, sets mid-June deadline for preliminary bids — Yahoo has set mid-June deadline for preliminary bids and hired Black Stone IP to run auction — Yahoo Inc. has kicked off an auction …
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| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
CrowdFlower, a crowdsourced workforce service, raises $10M series D led by Microsoft, Canvas, and Trinity, to focus on new AI product — CrowdFlower is announcing that it has raised $10 million in Series D funding. — The round was led by Microsoft, with participation from Canvas Ventures and Trinity Ventures.
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| Joshua Sabatini / The San Francisco Examiner: |
New San Francisco legislation requires Airbnb to list only registered hosts or face daily fines of up to $1K — Short-term rental websites will have to play by a much tougher set of rules in San Francisco under legislation approved by the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday.
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| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Nomura research: installs of apps from the top 15 publishers dropped 20% YoY in May 2016 in the US, up 3% elsewhere; Snapchat and Uber saw downloads double YoY — Your phone is full of apps, and you're done downloading new ones — unless they're Snapchat or Uber.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Memo from new Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz: company is not for sale, will focus on scale and growth of products — It's been a tumultuous few days for Nest, which saw co-founder and CEO Tony Fadell depart last week amidst swirling unhappiness about the company's product roadmap, demanding culture …
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CNET, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Phandroid and Android Central
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google and U.S. Cellular partner for expanded coverage area for Project Fi; additional coverage to roll out next week — Google today announced a new Project Fi partner network: U.S. Cellular. The additional coverage will be automatically rolling out to all Fi users “over the coming weeks” …
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Official Android Blog, Engadget, Android Authority, ZDNet, BetaNews and The Verge. Tweets: @anshelsag
| Rachael King / Wall Street Journal: |
Salesforce to invest $50M in startups and launch an incubator to foster an ecosystem of apps that run on its cloud-computing platform — Move intended to foster ecosystem of applications that run on its cloud-computing platform — SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.—Salesforce.com will devote …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Big data analytics startup Celonis, which specializes in process mining, raises $27.5M Series A round led by Accel and 83 North — How do big businesses optimize IT-driven processes? Often by hiring management consultants to cast an expert eye over digital traceries and deliver recommendations …
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Tech.eu, PE Hub Blog, Reuters and VentureBeat
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft's business collaboration app GigJam available in preview to all, coming to Office 365 later this year — Microsoft today announced that its GigJam app for working with someone else on certain workflows, like sending an email or entering a record in customer relationship management software …
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