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| Jem Aswad / Variety: |
Amazon Music launches an ad-supported tier for Alexa-enabled devices in the US, allowing users to listen to Amazon Music's top playlists and stations for free — Amazon Music today basically soft-launched its free streaming tier, in which U.S. customers of its Alexa voice assistant …
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Day One, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, USA Today, TechCrunch, Neowin, Thurrott, VentureBeat, and CNET. Tweets: @canterrain
| YouTube Blog: |
Google Home and Assistant-powered speakers get a free ad-supported version of YouTube Music with limited functionality, in 16 countries including the US and UK — Listening to music on your Google Home speaker right out-of-the-box seems too good to be true, right? It's not!
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The Verge, Daring Fireball, Engadget, 9to5Google, Neowin, Trusted Reviews, TechCrunch, Droid Life, SlashGear, Thurrott, Music Ally, VentureBeat, and CNET
Tweets: @johnkoetsier and @chrismessina
| Kurt Wagner / Recode: |
Facebook updates a March blog post to say it stored passwords of millions of Instagram users in plain text, not tens of thousands as first announced — This number is much, much bigger than Facebook originally shared. — On the same morning Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report …
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| Bla1ze / CrackBerry.com: |
Emtek announces it will shut down BBM for consumers on May 31, but BlackBerry's enterprise-grade service, BBM Enterprise, will become available to individuals — Consumer BBM users encouraged to switch to BBM Enterprise — Back in 2016, BlackBerry announced a new partnership …
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BBM Blog, MacRumors, The Next Web, Business Insider, BBM, 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, Neowin, unbox.ph, CNET, TechRepublic, SoyaCincau.com, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, The Register, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Authority, TechSpot, SlashGear, Gizmodo, and Android Police. Tweets: @blackberryhelp
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
Zoom closes up 72% on its first day of public trading, valuing the company at $15.9B after it raised $356.8M in its IPO — Videoconferencing software company Zoom made its debut Thursday on the Nasdaq under the ticker symbol “ZM,” surging 80% to $65 and closing out the day up 72% at $62.
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Express Logic, which claims its real-time operating system for IoT and edge devices called ThreadX RTOS has over 6.2B deployments worldwide — Microsoft today announced that it's acquired Express Logic, a 23-year-old San Diego, California-based developer of real-time operating systems …
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Pinterest closes up 28% on its first day of trading after raising $1.43B in its IPO and is now valued at nearly $13B, above the $12B valuation at its last raise — - Pinterest begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker “PINS,” debuting at $23.75, up 25% from its IPO price.
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| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
A look at Apple's Material Recovery Lab, which houses Daisy, a robot that can disassemble 15 different iPhone models at a rate of 200/hour for parts recycling — Hidden not far from downtown Austin, Texas, a research lab is working to change the way we recycle electronics. And it's being run by Apple .| Apple: |
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| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google and Amazon end their streaming video spat: YouTube will come to Fire TV and Prime Video will work with Chromecast and Android TV — Google and Amazon haven't historically been the best of friends, at least when it comes to their respective streaming video services.
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Tweets: @chriswelch, @sarahintampa, @rjmarvin1, @backlon, @chriswelch, and @hiteshrajbhagat
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Super, a startup providing an online subscription service for home maintenance and repairs, raises $20M Series B led by Aquiline Technology Growth — Home owners in the US spend upwards of $300 billion annually on home repairs and maintenance — a huge sum that often comes with another …
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| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: 2019 iPhones will feature a 12MP front camera; the 6.5" and 5.8" OLED iPhones will have a rear-facing triple-camera system with a new super-wide 12MP lens — Kuo today said that Apple plans to upgrade the front camera in the 2019 iPhones from 7-megapixels to 12-megapixels.
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| Paulina Duran / Reuters: |
Life360, an SF-based startup that makes a family tracking app, announces IPO in Australia, plans to raise A$145M, valuing the company at ~A$689M — SYDNEY (Reuters) - U.S. family tracking app operator Life360 has launched a A$145 million ($104 million) initial public offering in Australia …
| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
Binance says it has launched its Binance Chain blockchain and will activate its BNB cryptocurrency on it on April 23; BNB runs on Ethereum now — Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has released new details about the forthcoming launch of its new custom blockchain, Binance Chain …
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CoinDesk, MithrilOfficial, The Block, SiliconANGLE, Cointelegraph, ETHNews, Cryptonews, Bloomberg, Smartereum, and SludgeFeed
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber is testing new push alerts and Lyft rolls out continuous driver background checks after a woman was murdered allegedly by a man posing as her Uber driver — In-app reminders to verify your driver's car and license plate — This week, Uber and Lyft rolled out new safety measures designed …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Several journalists have reported their Samsung Galaxy Fold review unit's screen breaking after a day or two of use — Yikes — Look closely at the picture above, and you can see a small bulge right on the crease of my Galaxy Fold review unit. It's just enough to slightly distort the screen, and I can feel it under my finger.
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| Tom Wilson / Reuters: |
Report: VCs invested ~$850M in blockchain startups in Q1 2019; Coinbase UK had $173M in revenue in 2018, accounted for about a third of Coinbase's total revenue — LONDON (Reuters) - Major finance and tech firms are pouring money into startups building technology to develop the crypto market … | Marc Hochstein / CoinDesk: |
Winklevoss Capital settles with ex-BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem; Winklevoss Capital had alleged Shrem stole 5K bitcoin in 2012, worth ~$26M at today's prices — Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have settled their lawsuit against fellow early bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem …
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Modern Consensus, Decrypt, BREAKERMAG, CoinGeek, ETHNews, Bitcoin Magazine, and The Block
| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
T-Mobile's no-fee mobile-first checking account, T-Mobile Money, rolls out nationwide, offers T-Mobile customers 4% interest rate on the first $3,000 deposited — While it's not quite a pivot, it seems more and more tech companies are straying out of their lane and into the finance world.
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T-Mobile, Fortune, InvestorPlace, Android Authority, CNET, Droid Life, TmoNews, Digital Trends, and Android Police. Tweets: @johnlegere
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