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US Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing iPhone users to sue the company for alleged App Store monopolization; Apple stock is down 5%+ — KEY POINTS — The Supreme Court, ruling 5-4, allows iPhone users to pursue their antitrust lawsuit against Apple in a case involving its signature electronic marketplace, the App Store.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon has added machines that automate boxing up customer orders at a handful of warehouses; they pack ~700 boxes per hour, 4-5x the rate of a human — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its Delivery Service Partner program, incentivizes Amazon employees with $10K and three months' pay to start their own delivery businesses — Following news of Amazon's plans to reduce Prime shipping down to one day, the company this morning announced an expansion …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook raises pay for content moderation contractors to $22/hr in SF, NYC, DC; $20/hr in Seattle; and $18/hr in other metros; says minimum wage is not enough — Social-media giant says current minimum wage isn't enough in expensive areas such as Silicon Valley
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft launches Ion, an open source decentralized identity tool on bitcoin blockchain; source: Ion to shift from bitcoin's testnet to mainnet later this year — Microsoft is launching the first decentralized infrastructure implementation by a major tech company that is built directly on the bitcoin blockchain.
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Flexa launches Spedn app to let users pay for goods in physical stores with cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and the gemini dollar — Accepted at GameStop, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, and more — A new payment network called Flexa is launching today that'll let you spend cryptocurrencies in physical stores.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MailChimp to launch a marketing platform for SMBs and introduce four tiered pricing, says it now has 11M customers and is on track for $700M in revenue in 2019 — Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Georgia, is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage … | Biz Carson / Forbes: |
A look at Uber's pitch deck in 2008, where it projected to reach 5% of the top US cities with $20M in profits, and, in the best case scenario, $1B in revenues — ber's founders in 2008 thought the best-case scenario for what they were calling UberCab was to hit $1 billion in revenue.| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
How DataCamp tried to cover up an allegation of sexual misconduct against its CEO for over a year before a community of data scientists forced the truth out — “Sexual misconduct happens everywhere. But DataCamp was dealing with a community with abnormally high standards and support for each other."
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber pilots a new PIN feature at the Portland Airport that gives riders a one-time 6-digit PIN in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce congestion — Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time six-digit numeric code … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 12.3 with an overhauled TV app that includes the new Channels service, curated collections, and personalized recommendations — Apple today released iOS 12.3, the third major update to the iOS 12 operating system that first launched in September 2018. iOS 12.3 comes …
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Slack updates financials, estimates revenue of $133.8M to $134.8M for the quarter ending April 30, up from $80.9M YoY, and a net loss of $39M, up from $26.3M — KEY POINTS — The company brought in estimated revenue of about $134 million, with a net loss of around $39 million, for the three months ending April 30.| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Chat app Discord says it now has 250M registered users and 56M MAU — You may never have heard of Discord, but you might soon. — The chat app built initially for gamers has been steadily expanding outside that world as it's increasingly used by YouTube personalities, podcasters, hackers and more.
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| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Indian streaming service Hotstar, now owned by Disney, claims it set a global record by drawing 18M+ concurrent viewers for the IPL cricket final — India's video streaming giant Hotstar, owned by Disney, today set a new global benchmark for the number of people an OTT service can draw to a live event.Sponsor Posts
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