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Crowdfunding sites including GoFundMe, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo disallow crowdfunding for Charlottesville murder suspect, with multiple campaigns halted — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online fund-raising sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields …
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Reddit bans a subreddit after uproar led by r/AgainstHateSubreddits, and Facebook bans several group pages after Charlottesville attack — The Charlottesville tragedy has highlighted neo-Nazi communities across the internet. Reddit and Facebook are beginning to take action.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
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Texts between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski surface in Waymo-Uber court case, covering thoughts on Tesla, Otto acquisition, DMV probe, more — The epic court case between Waymo and Uber over self-driving car secrets took a tabloid turn last week, as Waymo's lawyers filed …
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Sources: Chris Saad, head of Uber's developer platform, leaves company after nearly two years, says cost of losing Kalanick as CEO will be incalculable — Saad has been at Uber since November 2015. — Chris Saad, the head of Uber's developer platform, is leaving the company after close to two years, sources tell Recode.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram gets threaded comments, and Facebook News Feed gets UI tweaks like bubble-style comments — Taking inspiration from line drawings, Reddit and Messenger, Facebook is overhauling the design of the News Feed to make it more legible, clickable and commentable.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Apple, Snap, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Cisco, and Verizon among firms who filed amicus brief for cellphone location privacy case going before US Supreme Court — In a new amicus brief, tech and telecom companies say law enforcement should have to clear a higher bar to obtain location data.
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Source: Lyft spending ~$10 per new user, down from $70 in fall 2016; App Annie says Lyft's US app downloads grew 115% while Uber's grew only 25% YoY in Q1 2017 — The smaller startup is acquiring customers at a lower cost and closing the gap of its big bad rival. — WRITE A COMMENT| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
Amazon launches “Instant Pickup” points to fulfill pickup orders in minutes, now live near a few college campuses in the US — If you think speaking to your fellow humans is the worst part about going to the local corner store, Amazon might just have a solution.
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Microsoft acquires Cycle Computing, which makes software for orchestrating workloads in Azure, AWS, and Google clouds, will make future versions “Azure focused” — Microsoft is buying Cycle Computing, which develops software for orchestrating workloads in the Azure, Amazon and Google clouds, for an undisclosed amount.| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Sources: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO, has submitted S-1, aims to go public before year end — MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO, TechCrunch has learned. The company has submitted an S-1 filing in the past few weeks and is aiming to go public before the end of the year.
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Chinese drone maker DJI working on mode to let pilots disconnect from internet during flights, weeks after US Army ended DJI use due to “cyber vulnerabilities” — (Reuters) - Chinese drone maker SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd is tightening data security on its drones after the U.S. Army ordered …
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SEC filing shows Apple raised CAD$2.5B in its debut Canadian bond sale to fund buybacks and dividends — Apple Inc. has tapped the maple bond market for the first time, raising $2.5-billion, the single biggest offering ever for this unique corner of the debt market.
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LinkedIn quietly debuts Active Status feature, on by default, that shows if a user is online — *18:44 GMT: Updated to include LinkedIn quote — LinkedIn has stealthily launched a new feature called ‘Active Status’, a green circle that shows when a user is online and available to chat via the LinkedIn Messaging platform.Sponsor Posts
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