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| Tom Foster / Inc.com: |
How Wharton became a hotbed for direct-to-consumer firms after Warby Parker, as 400+ startups now try to be the next Warby with toothbrushes, bras, and more — Wharton professors, venture capitalists, and entrepreneurs are fueling an entire generation of Warby Parkers.
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the most prolific sources of Apple scoops, resigns from KGI Securities, will focus more on non-Apple firms moving forward — Ming-Chi Kuo, widely considered to be one of the best analysts covering Apple, might no longer focus his research on the iPhone maker.
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Tweets: @markgurman, @ohmdee, and @alexeheath
| Reuters: |
Didi announces an industry alliance for electric and autonomous vehicles with 31 firms, including Renault and Toyota; sources: a dedicated Didi fleet is planned — Norihiko Shirouzu, Paul Lienert — BEIJING/DETROIT (Reuters) - China's Didi Chuxing, already disrupting the global ride-hailing market … | Sarah Jeong / The Verge: |
Facebook reduces the labor of networking by helping users create better substitutes for many in-person communication networks, which makes it very hard to quit — Facebook is an emotional labor machine, and if you want to leave it, you're going to have to start doing a lot of work| David McCabe / Axios: |
In a pitch seemingly aligned with Trump admin's rhetoric and aimed at regulators, T-Mobile and Sprint argue merger will help US beat China in 5G and create jobs — The CEOs of T-Mobile and Sprint argued on an analyst call that their just-announced merger would create jobs and boost America's position …
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CNNMoney, BGR, Associated Press, CNET, Houston Chronicle, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, DSLreports, Wired, and GeekWire
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Washington Post, The Verge, CNNMoney, Quartz, PCWorld, MIT Technology Review, New York Times, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Recode, Thurrott.com, Axios, Droid Life, Fortune, FierceWireless, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, The Mac Observer, NBC News, Pocketables, Light Reading, Gizmochina, PYMNTS.com, Android Central, Phone Scoop, The Next Web, Technology Personalized, The Register, TmoNews, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Digital Trends, Associated Press, Ars Technica, BGR, Mashable, eWeek, Business Wire, AndroidGuys, Ubergizmo, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, and Neowin
Tweets: @marceloclaure, @marceloclaure, @cnn, and @jerrymoran
| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Owner of the France.com domain since 1994 sues French government for seizing the domain following a court ruling that the site violated French trademark law — Jean-Noël Frydman: “If it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.” — A French-born American has now sued his home country because …
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The Verge, The Register, BBC, Inquirer, Mashable, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Newser, Fortune, Softpedia News, and Engadget. Tweets: @arstechnica
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Starship Technologies launches autonomous robot delivery service aimed at corporate and academic campuses in Europe and US, with ~1K robots rolling out in 2018 — Starship Technologies, a robotics startup created by Skype's cofounders, has launched a large-scale commercial autonomous delivery service aimed … | Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Oculus is developing a new kind of VR theater experience where live actors in motion capture suits can perform around users, tentatively slated for next year — Oculus is inventing a new kind of VR experience, coming next year, that brings a virtual play with live actors into your home.Thanks:@joan_e
| Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss / Reuters: |
Andra Capital raises $500M for Ethereum-based token called Silicon Valley Coin that investors can use to back a group of late-stage VC firms; summer ICO planned — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Andra Capital, a U.S. technology fund, has raised $500 million in funding for a new digital currency …
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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Mozilla to launch sponsored story recommendations from Pocket for new tabs with Firefox 60 in the US — Mozilla has confirmed plans to introduce sponsored content to new tabs in the upcoming Firefox 60 release. — The news comes just a few months after the company revealed …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
F8 will be a more “muted” event this year, with developers blindsided by API changes and sources saying much of the event has been reworked after data scandal — The theme for F8 this year: lowered expectations — Type with your brain. “Hear” with your skin.| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Dutch police shut down longstanding revenge porn site Anon-IB and arrest 3 men from the Netherlands, following an investigation that began in March 2017 — After seizing the website's servers, police discover hundreds of women fell victim to hackers who stole their photos.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
“Dark ads” on Facebook, some of which impersonate people to promote scams, are a systemic problem, and need better solutions than the proposed “view ads” button — Facebook's admission to the UK parliament this week that it had unearthed unquantified thousands … Sponsor Posts
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