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Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018 — Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
The California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company — Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled.
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CSO, Yelp, New York Times, Engadget, Silicon Valley Business …, Associated Press, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Hit & Run, The Hill, Fortune, Technology & …, and CNET
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber and Careem are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride hailing services — - Uber seeks majority stake in Middle Eastern rival, sources say — Careem is raising money at a reported $1.5 billion valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ …
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TechCrunch, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, and Reuters
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
US provides ZTE temporary authorization through August 1 to continue supporting equipment and consumer devices already deployed — So it can update phones and other equipment — The US Commerce Department has temporarily lifted a portion of the ban on ZTE that all-but shut down the company almost three months ago.
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Bloomberg, 9to5Google, US Department of Commerce, CNET, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Gizmodo, The Register, Engadget, BGR, The Hill, and Android Central. Tweets: @jessicastonetv
| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
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The Next Web, ThePrint, BuzzFeed, SiliconANGLE, Firstpost, MediaNama, CNN, NDTV.com, SludgeFeed, and Washington Post
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| Sankalp Phartiyal / Reuters: |
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| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
On Tuesday, Wikipedia Italy set all of its pages to redirect to a statement protesting a July 5 EU Parliament initial vote on changes to copyright law — Last month, members of European Parliament voted to move forward with a sweeping overhaul of the European Union's copyright laws that critics …
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| Bloomberg: |
A Chinese court temporarily bans Micron chip sales in the country, with patent ruling in favor of Taiwanese rival UMC; Micron says no injunction has been served — A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world's largest …
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UMC, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, bit-tech.net, The Register, CNBC, TheStreet, Investor's Business Daily, CNBC, and CNBC. Tweets: @david_schor
| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google says Cloud COO Diane Bryant has left the company, less than a year after joining from Intel, where she had been for 32 years — Google Cloud chief operating officer Diane Bryant has left the company after less than a year. — “We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google … | New York Times: |
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK — A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Tweets: @cademetz, @satariano, @nytimes, and @professorshaw
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's political ads disclosure rules algorithm blocks ads for lawn-mowing, waxing salons, Walmart, and more that use the words “bush” and “Clinton” — Blaine Simons last month paid Facebook to run an ad for his lawn-mowing company, Al Mowit, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Digiday, USA Today, and The Hill
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @cczona, @jekeep, @issielapowsky, @ericgeller, @xayelet, @cwarzel, @starsandstripes, and @deaneckles
| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
In trial against Six4Three, Facebook argues it's a publisher with the free speech right to take away access to data but also claims protection under Article 230 — In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform| Zaid Shoorbajee / Cyberscoop: |
Maryland-based cyber security company Tenable, which has raised $300M, files for an IPO and says it had $187.7M revenue in 2017, up 53% YoY — Tenable announced on Friday that it has officially submitted plans to become a publicly traded company. — The Columbia, Maryland …
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