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Waymo to offer free rides in its self-driving minivans to residents of Phoenix, Arizona as part of an “early rider program”, available to users today — Major milestone for the Google spin-off — Starting today, residents of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area can sign up to go for a ride in a self-driving minivan.
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| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
To combat fake news, Google allows users to report inappropriate search suggestions, aims to improve search quality with an emphasis on authoritative content — Google knows it has a search quality problem. It's been plagued since November with concerns about fake news …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook tests displaying links to fact-checks beside stories inside Related Articles widget — Facebook wants you to think about whether a headline is true and see other perspectives on the topic before you even read the article. In its next step against fake news, Facebook today begins testing …
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| Vindu Goel / New York Times: |
Filing shows Yahoo's Marissa Mayer is set to make $186M from Verizon deal, from stock options, restricted stock units, and shares — SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo shareholders will vote June 8 on whether to sell the company's internet businesses to Verizon Communications for $4.48 billion.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
AV provider Webroot mistakenly flagged Windows system files as malware, bricking millions of managed PCs worldwide; company is working on a fix — Windows' system files were flagged as malicious, and Facebook was marked as a phishing site. — Tough day for anyone running Webroot antivirus.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: data management startup Rubrik is raising up to $200M at a $1B valuation led by IVP — Make way for another juggernaut amongst enterprise startups: Rubrik, a data backup company that only emerged from stealth in 2015, is in the process of raising between $150 million and $200 million …
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| Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: |
Netflix signs licensing deal with iQiyi, one of China's top video streaming services and a subsidiary of the country's search giant Baidu — The streaming giant has been attempting to negotiate greater accesss to the huge Chinese market for several years. — Blocked by regulators … | Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a crowdfunded news site that will use journalists to write and volunteers to fact check in effort to combat fake news — The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”
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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple announces it's reducing affiliate commissions on apps and in-app purchases from 7% to 2.5% starting May 1 — Today, Apple announced that it is reducing the commissions it pays on apps and In-App Purchases from 7% to 2.5% effective May 1st. The iTunes Affiliate Program pays a commission …
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| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Atlassian's messaging platform HipChat was hacked over the weekend, potentially exposing names, email addresses, and hashed passwords — Over the weekend, an unknown intruder broke into HipChat, the Atlassian-owned team communication platform, and made off with a significant amount of data.
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HipChat Blog, Inquirer, Softpedia News, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, CIO.com, VentureBeat, The Register, Engadget, and International Business Times. Tweets: @hipchat
| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google adding TV ad inventory to DoubleClick Bid Manager, letting advertisers measure video campaigns across digital media and linear TV — In a new test, advertisers will be able to buy linear TV spots programmatically via DBM. — To allow advertisers to buy and compare video ad performance … | Madhumita Murgia / Financial Times: |
British digital health firm Babylon raises $60M to improve its AI that diagnoses illnesses, sources say at a valuation of over $200M — UK tech group says new funding will help its software predict future health problems — Read next … British digital healthcare company Babylon …
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