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Imagination Technologies: Apple says it will stop using our intellectual property for graphics tech in 15 to 24 months — Imagination Technologies Group plc (LSE: IMG, “Imagination”, “the Group") a leading multimedia, processor and communications technology company, has been notified by Apple Inc. …
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The Verge, Financial Times, BetaNews, BBC, Inquirer, TechCrunch, MacRumors, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Telegraph, Associated Press, iPhone Hacks, Reuters, and City A.M.
Tweets: @turnergs, @katie_martin_fx, and @ow
| Giles Turner / Bloomberg: |
Imagination Tech says Apple will struggle to avoid infringing its IP, while the UK company's shares fall as much as 69% — Apple is a major source of revenue for the U.K. tech company — Imagination, Apple in talks regarding future contract — Imagination Technologies Group Plc shares plunged …
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| Noam Scheiber / New York Times: |
How Uber and Lyft use behavioral science, gamification, well timed messages, and other marketing techniques to entice specific behavior from drivers — The secretive ride-hailing giant Uber rarely discusses internal matters in public. But in March, facing crises on multiple fronts …
Tweets: @jodikantor, @vilile, @vilile, @jesserobertson, @zeynep, @janedueker, @uma_karma, @nytimes, @nkulw, @natematias, and @s_m_i
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Remote exploit, successfully demoed on two fully-updated Samsung smart TV models in Feb., compromises TVs via maliciously-crafted digital video broadcast signal — Demo exploit is inexpensive, remote, scalable—and opens door to more advanced hacks. — A new attack that uses terrestrial radio signals …
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The Next Web, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, International Business Times, and Engadget
Tweets: @tenedosnetworks and @seldo
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Industry insiders shed light on how pricing war between Amazon and Walmart is putting pressure on suppliers of consumer packaged goods — Grocery suppliers are feeling the squeeze — big-time. — Last month, Walmart gathered some of America's biggest household brands near its Arkansas headquarters for a tough talk.Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Benedict Evans: |
Beyond obvious effects like better efficiency and safety, thoughts on the 2nd and 3rd-order consequences that electric and autonomous cars might have on society — There are two foundational technology changes rolling through the car industry at the moment; electric and autonomy.
Tweets: @jordansanders0, @equartey, @tim, @mims, @modestproposal1, and @visualwatermark
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
JetSmarter, “Uber for private jets”, faces member pushback over perk changes, price increases, non-disparagement clause, as it struggles with its cost structure — Tim Martz made his fortune in broadcast radio, but even as a wealthy man, the price of chartering a private jet always stung a bit.
Tweets: @danprimack
| Kirsten Korosec / Fortune: |
Carvana, online used car seller using vending machines for some sales, files for $100M IPO; firm had revenue of $130.4M in '15, $365M in '16 on loss of $93.1M — Carvana, the online marketplace for buying used vehicles, filed for an initial public offering on Friday.
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Atlanta Business Journal, SiliconANGLE, and Business Insider
| Siddhartha Mukherjee / New Yorker: |
How deep learning algorithms can be used to augment doctors with diagnosis — In some trials, “deep learning” systems have outperformed human experts. — One evening last November, a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Bronx arrived at the emergency room at Columbia University's medical center with a grinding headache.
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MIT Technology Review, AVC, Outside Two Standard …, and reddit
Tweets: @newyorker, @mcwm, @cccalum, @neuroecology, @bonku, @dramyabernethy, @drsidmukherjee, and @sub8u
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Grab acquires Indonesian payment startup Kudo, source says in a deal that is a mix of cash and equity potentially worth $80M to $100M in total — Grab, Uber's biggest rival in Southeast Asia, has completed its first major acquisition after it bought up Indonesian startup Kudo to boost its nascent mobile payments platform.| Landon Thomas Jr / New York Times: |
BlackRock, the largest fund company in the world, shifts away from actively managed mutual funds and starts relying more on algorithms and models to pick stocks — Score one for the machines. — From the moment Laurence D. Fink, the chief executive of BlackRock, created the largest fund company …
Tweets: @grady_booch and @aaronklein
| Benjamin Mullin / Poynter: |
Facebook, Craig Newmark, Mozilla, Betaworks, others help launch $14M global News Integrity Initiative administered by CUNY to improve online news literacy — A global coalition of tech leaders, academic institutions, nonprofits and funders, including Facebook, Mozilla and Craigslist Founder Craig Newmark … Sponsor Posts
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