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Samsung launches Bixby Marketplace, where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, called capsules, in the US and South Korea — Samsung has launched its Bixby Marketplace, a dedicated app store where third-party developers can offer their own Bixby-compatible services, similar to Amazon's Alexa skills.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify ends its direct music upload beta program for artists after debuting it last year, saying it would rather focus on features unique to the platform — Spotify is shutting down a program that allowed indie artists to upload their own music to the streaming service, the company announced today.| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Google open-sources its robots.txt parser and submits a proposal to IETF to make the Robots Exclusion Protocol an official standard — Google wants to turn the decades-old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) into an official internet standard — and it's making its own robots.txt parser open source as part of the push.| Caroline Haskins / VICE: |
FOIA docs: Amazon worked with police in Aurora, Colorado to set up a package sting operation as part of a PR stunt for Ring, which resulted in no arrests — Emails and documents obtained by Motherboard via a public records request reveal how Amazon, Ring, and GPS company 7P Solutions helped set … | Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Report: Jony Ive was dispirited by Tim Cook's lack of interest in the product development process and frustrated inside a more operations-focused company — Shortly after Apple's announcement last week that Jony Ive was leaving the company, Bloomberg published a report that suggested … | Alex Hern / The Guardian: |
Facebook-appointed auditors say its policy banning “white nationalism” and “white separatism” is too narrow as it only applies to posts using the specific terms — Company policy prohibits praise or support for specific term ‘white nationalism’| Facebook: |
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China ordered suspension or termination of 26 audio-focused apps on Friday; Apple restricted access to podcasts not hosted by Chinese partners in June — Audio apps are flying high in China. In 2018, online listeners in the country grew 22.1% to surpass 400 million, at a rate far exceeding … | Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Ahead of Prime Day, HBO's Last Week Tonight does a segment on workers' conditions at warehouses; Amazon's SVP of operations tweets that the show is “insulting” — Working conditions in Amazon's fulfillment centers got a blistering critique at the hands of the HBO series “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” on Sunday.| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
Many internet outages are caused by problems with the trust-based Border Gateway Protocol, which was conceived in 1989 and remains largely unchanged since 1994 — IN A WEEKS-LONG stretch in 2014, hackers stole thousands of dollars a day in cryptocurrency from owners.| Charlie Fink / Forbes: |
Industrial AR headset maker RealWear raises $80M Series B led by industrial automation company Teradyne, bringing its total raised to over $100M — I'm a former tech executive covering VR, AR and new media for Forbes. — RealWear, Inc., producer of the HMT-1 ruggedized head-mounted … | Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Uber's main app now shows JUMP bikes and scooters alongside Lime scooters in Atlanta and San Diego, the first time it's so prominently shown 3rd-party services — Uber is taking another step to more fully integrate micromobility into its core services. Today, Uber is now showing JUMP bikes … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Epidemic Sound, a search engine for video producers looking to license music for soundtracks, raises $20M at a reported $370M valuation — The rise of streamed video has seen the market for licensing streamed music boom in the last few years, with not only consumers using video as a medium … | Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News: |
Strategy Analytics predicts that Roku will, at 52M devices, have 70% more OTT devices than its next closest competitor, Sony Playstation, by year end — Strategy Analytics predicts there will be 52 million Roku-enabled devices in use by year-end — The Roku OTT ecosystem further extended …
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