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Sources: secret Uber program “Hell” created fake Lyft rider accounts to track Lyft driver locations, and identified individual drivers using Lyft vulnerability — As the ride-sharing market was exploding in the U.S. between 2014 and the early part 2016, Uber had an advantage …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Instagram Stories now has 200M daily active users, passing Snapchat's 161M DAUs; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos, more — Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature. Four months after launching …
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| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Google launches food delivery and home services app called Areo in India, currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai — Areo aggregates food dishes and home services across various local service providers, allowing users to order food or schedule appointments with a local beautician … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft unveils Steam-like refund system for Xbox One and Windows 10 games and apps with a 14-day return window — Refunds are already live for many users, come with 14-day window, Steam-like caveats. — Xbox One is officially the first video game console to support digital purchase refunds by default.
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| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Yext starts trading at $14 per share, up 27% from IPO price — Yext, a 10-year-old enterprise tech business that manages “digital knowledge” — mmmkay! — started trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange at $14 per share, up by more than 27 percent from its IPO price of $11 per share.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a hub for WebVR content and adds support for its Cardboard headset — Today, Google made some WebVR updates to Chrome, adding support for Cardboard while also building a home for all of its online VR web content. — WebVR Experiments is a bit of a storefront for online VR experiences …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Filing: General Motors is planning to add 1,163 staff to its Cruise self-driving car unit in San Francisco by 2021 tax year — General Motors is adding 1,163 employees to its self-driving car unit in San Francisco, according to a state filing flagged by Bloomberg's Dana Hull .
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
New Burger King ad for prime time TV aims to trigger Google Home by asking “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?”; Google intervenes to stop Home responding — Oh no, Google — Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought …
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| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Eat24 partners with robotics startup Marble for new autonomous robot food delivery in two San Francisco neighborhoods — Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Spotify Apple Watch companion app in the works as Spotify collaborates with third-party developer Snowy — Over the past few months, users on Reddit have been voicing excitement for a new app being developed and beta tested that would finally bring Spotify onto the Apple Watch.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to unveil Project Scorpio Xbox console at E3 on Sunday, June 11 — Microsoft just sent out invites to members of the media for its big reveal of Xbox Project Scorpio, the upgraded console that will be the “first true 4K console for gamers” according to the company.| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Mark Shuttleworth to take over as Canonical CEO in July as current CEO Jane Silber announces her departure and move to board of directors — Ubuntu is in a very weird and uncertain place right now. If you have been following the Linux distribution lately, you would know that Canonical dropped …
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