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EU fines Facebook $122.4M for providing misleading information during acquisition that it could not automatically match user accounts on WhatsApp and Facebook — European Union antitrust regulators on Thursday said they would fine Facebook 110 million euros ($122.4 million) …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Restaurant search service Zomato hacked, says 17M email addresses and hashed passwords were stolen — Restaurant search service Zomato is the latest in a long line of companies to be hacked. The company has revealed that millions of its customer accounts were accessed, with email addresses and hashed passwords stolen.
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| David McCabe / Axios: |
FCC votes to begin rolling back Obama-era rules governing net neutrality for ISPs — The long-anticipated rollback of net neutrality rules has officially begun. The FCC voted along party lines on Thursday to formally consider Chairman Ajit Pai's plan to scrap the legal foundation for the rules …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Twitter lets you see which advertisers are targeting you, opt out from individual interest categories, and will remove support for Do Not Track on June 18 — As it begins to store people's off-Twitter browsing data for longer, the company adds new data controls and ends Do Not Track support.
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| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Uber officially launches Uber Freight, its app for pairing truck drivers with companies that need cargo shipped across the US — Available on iOS and Android — After getting a peek from Travis Kalanick earlier this month, Uber today officially launched Uber Freight …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google to update Daydream VR platform later this year with 2D function panel overlay, Chrome, screen capture, Google Cast support, and more — Google's Daydream VR platform is getting its first major software revamp later this year, nudging the interface toward being a more full-featured operating system.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook says it's now limiting News Feed distribution of posts that withhold or exaggerate information at the individual post level, to combat clickbait — Facebook's leverage over news publishers can be worrisome, but today it's putting its muscle to good use.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google makes Android Studio 3.0 preview available for download; 20+ new features include performance profiling tools, Instant Apps, Java 8, and Kotlin — At its I/O 2017 developer conference, Google today unveiled Android Studio 3.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE).
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| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Kickstarter partners with Avnet and Dragon Innovation to launch Hardware Studio program, aimed at helping hardware-focused projects succeed — Kickstarter announced the launch of a new program today, called Hardware Studio, that's designed to help startups navigate the dizzying world of manufacturing.
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Indian digital payments firm Paytm raises $1.4B from SoftBank, to launch the Paytm Payments Bank and other financial services products — Paytm is now SoftBank's biggest investment in the Indian start-up ecosystem — New Delhi: Paytm, run by One97 Communications Ltd … | Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba reports Q4 revenue up 60% at $5.6B beating estimates, and net income of $1.55B; online sales of retail goods in China rose 26% in four months this year — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba said earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter nearly doubled as more shoppers turned to its online platforms for purchases.
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| Anya George Tharakan / Reuters: |
Cisco reports Q3 revenue of $11.9B, down 1% YoY, profits of $2.52B, forecasts disappointing Q4, and says it will cut 1100 more jobs; shares open down 7%+ — Cisco Systems Inc (CSCO.O) forecast current-quarter revenue that widely missed analysts' estimates and said it would cut 1,100 more jobs … | Carla Sertin / Forbes Middle East: |
Dubai-based logistics startup Fetchr raises $41M Series B led by NEA to tackle delivery challenges in Arab countries, where streets often lack a formal address — Fetchr announced today it raised $41 million in a series B round, led by returning investor New Enterprise Associates …
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| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Google says it's bringing Smart Reply to Gmail for all iOS and Android English-speaking users, with Spanish support arriving “in the coming weeks” — Google is using its machine learning prowess to respond to emails for you. The company's Smart Reply feature … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Google debuts 2nd-generation machine learning TPU chips, says they can deliver up to 180 teraflops of performance, available on Google Compute Engine platform — The TPU V2 could be a huge boon to Google's cloud computing platform — Google today is unveiling its second generation Tensor Processor Unit … Sponsor Posts
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