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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Big tech industry groups claim EU's new ePrivacy Regulation will limit growth online; the law has been delayed after being slated to go into effect this month — The new European data privacy legislation is so stringent that it could kill off data-driven online services and chill innovations …
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Business Insider, VentureBeat, AdExchanger, Lawfare, Silicon Republic, and AdExchanger
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
The EU has emerged as a powerful regulator of Silicon Valley, stepping in where Washington has failed or been unwilling to limit influential US tech companies — Europe implemented a sweeping overhaul of digital privacy laws on Friday that has reshaped how technology companies handle customer data …
Tweets: @tedgioia
| Wall Street Journal: |
US tech founders are increasingly wresting control from VC backers and extracting huge pay packages tied to going public compared to their non-tech peers — Silicon Valley financiers are losing leverage to star entrepreneurs — Founders of highflying startups are increasingly wresting control … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Source: US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission investigating potential age discrimination in Intel's 2016 cuts that led to 10,000+ being laid off globally — Federal watchdog investigates allegations by former Intel employees that they were let go because of their age| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
DHS moving forward on plans to rescind International Entrepreneur Rule, which would have let immigrant founders of startups stay in the US for up to five years — After nearly a year of protest and litigation, the Department of Homeland Security finally announced late last week …
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Federal Register, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, and GeekWire
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| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Snapchat launches its first Lens that reacts to sound and says it will roll out more in the coming weeks — Snapchat has quite a few intriguing Lenses you can play with, including its body-tracking ones that can follow you around and its majestic sky whale Lens that uses sky segmentation technology.
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Creators of cryptocurrency trading app Taylor, which recently completed an ICO, claim a hacker stole around $1.35M of Ether from company funds — The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company's wallets.
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Taylor, SiliconANGLE, Taylor, Taylor, Coingeek, CCN, DataBreaches.net, Coinjournal, and The Merkle. Tweets: @chrismessina
| BBC: |
London launches contactless payment system for street performers with payments firm iZettle and Busk In London, an organization supporting street performers — London has introduced a contactless payment scheme for buskers in what the organisers claim is a world first.
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Sky News, Fortune, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, Press Association, The Verge, CNET, Firstpost, Digital Trends, City A.M., Fin24, TechRadar.com, The Independent, ABC, Daily Express, Forbes, euronews, Daily Mail, Finextra Research Headlines, Ubergizmo, NFC World, and Engadget
Tweets: @im_nsp, @sadiqkhan, @mayoroflondon, and @skynews
| Manish Singh: |
Star India's streaming service Hotstar set new global record for a live event on Sunday by drawing 10M+ concurrent viewers during IPL cricket tournament final — An Indian on-demand streaming service, with fewer than 400 employees, has pulled off a milestone that Silicon Valley companies Facebook …
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The Economic Times, Digital TV Europe, BostonGlobe.com, Entrackr, Indian Television Dot Com, Times Now Live TV, and Slashdot. Thanks:@refsrc
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google brings ARCore to China, where Play Store isn't available, through a partnership with the Xiaomi App Store on the Mi Mix 2S smartphone — After launching this February, Google's platform for mobile augmented reality hit version 1.2 and received a number of new features at I/O 2018.
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Engadget, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Firstpost, and BGR India
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Venezuelan migrants propel growth of ride-sharing apps in Latin America but are vulnerable to taxi syndicate threats and the conditions apps impose on drivers — One month ago, Yonathan Segovia, a Cabify driver originally from Venezuela, was allegedly attacked by a mob of taxi drivers on the streets of Quito in Ecuador.| Gray Chapman / BuzzFeed: |
How animal shelters and rescue organizations are successfully using social media to promote less desirable dogs, helping save their lives by finding them homes — In the age of the viral doggo, shelters and rescue organizations are recognizing the need to hop aboard the meme train — or risk getting left behind.
Tweets: @amandalitman, @buzzfeednews, @johnlegere, and @buzzfeed
| Patrick Brzeski / Hollywood Reporter: |
iQiyi debuts its first on-demand physical movie theater in China, with mini-theaters seating two to 10, that users can rent by the hour to watch iQiyi's content — The company plans to build physical cinemas in major cities across China. — Beijing-based streaming-video giant iQiyi … Sponsor Posts
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