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Oprah Winfrey signs multiyear non-exclusive deal for new original programs with Apple; Winfrey is expected to have an on-screen role as host and interviewer — Oprah shares her secrets to success with graduates — Apple has signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs.
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| Steve LeVine / Axios: |
JD.com's new Shanghai fulfillment center ships 200,000 orders per day and employs four people to service the robots — JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce gargantuan, has built a big new Shanghai fulfillment center that can organize, pack and ship 200,000 orders a day. It employs four people — all of whom service the robots.| Bloomberg: |
Samsung ordered to pay $400M by US federal jury for willful infringement on a patent for FinFET chip manufacturing technology owned by a South Korean university — - Dispute is over a way to make chips smaller, more efficient — University claimed Samsung used the technology without paying
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AlphaPoint raises $15M Series A from Novogratz's Galaxy Digital to help build cryptoasset exchanges and digitize assets like gold and real estate via blockchain — Forbes Staff I cover enterprise adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency. … Famed hedge fund trader and bitcoin evangelist … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Crown, a Match Group dating app made by a team of millennial women that lets users pick daily winners to chat with by a process of elimination, launches in LA — If you're already resentful of online dating culture and how it turned finding companionship into a game, you may not be quite ready for this … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than with pricier OLEDs in its fall lineup, plans to release at least one LCD model in 2019 — Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than pricey OLED models in its coming lineup: sources
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Letting AT&T buy Time Warner was wrong since it conflated internet platforms with providers after the government made a weak case — Let's read 170 pages of dunking on Professor Carl Shapiro together — AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week …
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Avalara, a Seattle-based sales tax automation cloud startup, closes up 87% on its first day of trading, after raising $180M in its IPO at $2B+ valuation — Forbes Staff Covering venture capital, software and startups — Wall Street's lovefest with cloud computing companies continued …
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Six current and former Fitbit employees have been charged in a federal indictment for possession of stolen trade secrets from now bankrupt rival Jawbone — The Fitbit and Jawbone trade secrets mess has been revived — US federal prosecutors charged six former and current Fitbit employees … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's alleged right-hand man Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, extradited to US after 2.5+ years in Thai custody — Roger Thomas Clark had previously told Ars: “They don't have shit on me.” — The Department of Justice announced Friday … | Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
rideOS raises $9M Series A led by Sequoia for its real-time routing and dispatch software for fleets of autonomous cars — A slew of companies have sprung up to make the smarts, sensors and other integral systems for self-driving cars. Here comes one to tell these cars where to go.
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Tweets: @business and @rideos_inc
| Josh Millard / MetaTalk: |
MetaFilter considers subscription-based and community-funded models as it discloses that it's running at an $8,000/month deficit in financial update — Important site updates, folks: — 1. The site is running at a significant deficit and we urgently need to make that up.Sponsor Posts
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