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FCC Chairman Ajit Pai outlines plan to roll back Title II net neutrality rules, plans to release full proposal on April 27 for FCC vote on May 18 — Vote to begin net neutrality rollback scheduled for May 18. — The Federal Communications Commission will vote next month to start the process …
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| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Interview with Jack Dorsey on Twitter's harassment problems, its focus on live video, Donald Trump, and the company's future — Twitter's CEO on the president, the future of the product, and the harassment problem. — It was only 11 years ago that Jack Dorsey first sent a message via …
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Echo Look, a $200 “style assistant” camera for taking selfies that works via Alexa commands and is compatible with Amazon's Style Check app — With the addition of a camera, Amazon's new Echo Look device can now see and hear all.
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| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Instagram says it now has 700M monthly active users, adding 100M new users in just over four months — It took the company just four months to add 100 million new accounts. — Instagram is growing faster than it ever has before. — The photo and video app, which is owned by Facebook …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
On-demand ride service Gett acquires rival Juno for $200M; Gett CEO Dave Waiser says company will be looking to raise more capital this year — The competitive landscape for transportation apps has become a little smaller today. Gett has announced that it has acquired Juno, a rival in the New York market.
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Juno terminates drivers' stock program, offers small sum, in some cases less than 10% of what it advertised in recruitment materials, to drivers — Juno always had the best sales pitch. The company started in New York in early 2016, a late entrant to the competitive ride-hailing business … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber updates app to make ratings of riders more visible, encouraging “better” behavior, changes UberPool so riders say why they rated drivers below five stars — Are you a 4.9? — It used to be that if you wanted to see how many stars you've racked up as an Uber rider … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Chris Sacca retires from startup investing and will stop appearing on Shark Tank; Lowercase Capital will not raise another fund — Chris Sacca, one of the earliest investors in companies like Uber and Twitter, today announced that he has decided to stop making investments in technology startups.
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Spotify acquires blockchain startup Mediachain to identify and track creative works across the internet — Spotify has acquired Mediachain, the New York-based startup behind an open source peer-to-peer database and protocol for registering, identifying, and tracking creative works across the internet.
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Spotify Press, TechCrunch, Tech in Asia, AppleInsider, Tech.eu, Mediachain Blog, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Mashable, RAIN News, and Business Insider. Tweets: @womeninmusicorg
| Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics says it will not adopt holding company structure, announces share buyback worth $2.03B; Q1 profit up 48% YoY to $8.75B — Strong memory chip earnings propelled tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) to its best quarterly profit in more than 3 years … | George Slefo / Ad Age: |
IAB: digital ad revenue grew 22% YoY to $72.5B in 2016, surpassing TV for the first time; idea that Google/Facebook ‘duopoly’ is driving ad growth is incorrect — Digital advertising saw $72.5 billion revenue in 2016, a 22% upswing from the previous year.
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Tweets: @jason_kint and @adage
| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Luxe ends door-to-door valet service in all cities; CEO confirms launch of new service this summer in “the same vein” as Luxe parking garages announced in March — Luxe started as a company that promised to make parking in busy cities less awful with an app that summoned blue-jacketed …
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