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Sources: Apple in talks to introduce person-to-person payment service, which may be announced later this year, and plans to offer prepaid Visa debit cards — Could the money-transfer service be called Apple Cash, perhaps? — Apple's on-again, off-again flirtation with building its own money-transfer service appears to be back on.
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| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
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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Jimmy Iovine says Apple will introduce a new version of Apple Music that better showcases video alongside the next version of iOS — The company wants to turn its music app into a one-stop shop for pop culture. — Subscribe Reprints — Will.i.am was shopping a reality show to TV networks … | 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 … | Barak Turovsky / Official Google India Blog: |
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UiPath raises $30M Series A led by Accel to help enterprises automate repetitive tasks with software robots — The world is awash with bots these days — applications the run either partly or entirely using natural language processing, machine learning, computer vision and other artificial …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Lyft forecast a $130M loss and $800M in gross bookings for Q1, and booked 22.8M rides in February after #DeleteUber, up 137% YoY — The No. 2 U.S. ride-hailing provider has seized on Uber's recent troubles — Lyft Inc.'s bookings and ridership surged in the first quarter … CB Insights:Lyft
| 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 … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Facebook details its plans to tackle “information operations” that amplify false content by deleting accounts identified using ML — Facebook Inc (FB.O) acknowledged on Thursday that it has become a battleground for governments seeking to manipulate public opinion in other countries …
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| Robert Booth / The Guardian: |
Uber to offer UK drivers sickness, jury, and injury cover in return for £2-a-week fee, months after tribunal ruling that drivers are not self-employed — Move likely to cost several million pounds a year is firm's latest bid to head off criticism over conditions for its 40,000 UK drivers
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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