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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Zack Kanter / TechCrunch: |
How Amazon is eliminating internal inefficiencies and avoiding technological stagnation by exposing its internal operations to external competition — I co-founded a software startup in December. Each month, I send out an update to our investors to keep them updated on our progress.
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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.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
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| Nathan McAlone / Business Insider: |
Facebook signs deal with MLB to broadcast 20 Friday night games live this season, with the first one being streamed tomorrow — Facebook just announced that it has reached a deal with Major League Baseball to broadcast 20 games live on Facebook this season, part of the tech giant's big push into premium video.| 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Google says there are 2B pages and 900K domains using AMP; pages now load twice as fast — As Google looks for ways to keep people using its own mobile search to discover content — in competition with apps and other services like Facebook's Instant Articles — the company is announcing some updates to AMP … | 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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Google releases the first beta of Android O — It's already been available for a few months as a developer preview, but now the rest of us can finally get our hands on an upcoming version of Android. Android O Beta starts shipping today, if you point your browser over to android.com/beta.
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Google unveils voice chat system and shared room feature for YouTube VR in Daydream update coming later in 2017 — Google is adding a shared rooms feature to YouTube VR as part of an update to the app as well as an update to the Daydream platform in general.
| 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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