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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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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 … | Barak Turovsky / Official Google India Blog: |
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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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
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Marketing tech company Zeta Global raises $140M at a $1.3B valuation — Zeta Global, the marketing tech company that has recently acquired the likes of eBay's enterprise arm and Acxiom Impact, is preparing for another round of acquisitions and investments in its technology.
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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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| 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 … | Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Didi nears deal to raise $5B+, which would value the company at ~$50B, up from the $34B valuation after its Uber China deal in August 2016 — Ride-hailing service plans to raise at least $5 billion — Didi said to raise funds for automated driving expansion
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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 … | 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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| Andy Medici / Washington, D.C. Business Journal: |
Edtech startup EverFi announces it has raised $190M from The Rise Fund, TPG Growth, and existing investors including Jeff Bezos, Eric Schmidt, Ev Williams — District-based EverFi Inc. has raised a whopping $190 million in a new funding round, the education technology company announced Wednesday.Sponsor Posts
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