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Lululemon says it plans to acquire home fitness startup Mirror for $500M; Mirror was last valued at $300M — Lululemon today announced plans to acquire home exercise startup Mirror, for $500 million. The fitness apparel company noted its plans by way of a press release …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Reddit will ban r/The_Donald, r/ChapoTrapHouse, and ~2,000 other subreddits, most of which are inactive, after updating rules to more explicitly ban hate speech — More than 2,000 communities are being removed on Monday for violating Reddit's new content policies
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Twitch temporarily bans President Trump for “hateful conduct” that was aired on stream, noting it does not make exceptions for “political or newsworthy content” — A temporary suspension for ‘hateful conduct’ — Twitch has temporarily banned President Donald Trump …
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Amazon launches Watch Party on Amazon Prime Video, a desktop feature for US Prime members to watch content together and chat with up to 100 viewers — Amazon Prime Video is beginning to roll out a co-viewing feature to Amazon Prime members in the U.S., the company announced today.
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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
Memo: Microsoft suspended its ads on Facebook and Instagram in the US in May and has since expanded the pause globally, over concerns of “inappropriate content” — Microsoft suspended its advertising on Facebook and Instagram in the U.S. in May and recently expanded that to a global pause …
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| Rahul Shrivastava / India Today: |
Indian government bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, ShareIt, UC Browser, WeChat, and Clash of Kings, citing national security and maintaining public order — Govt bans 59 Chinese apps including TikTok as border tensions simmer in Ladakh — As tensions along the Line of Actual Control …
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| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber in talks to buy Postmates for ~$2.6B in a deal that could be announced next week if not sooner — A deal between Uber and the San Francisco-based food-delivery company could be announced next week if not sooner — Uber Technologies Inc. is in discussions to buy Postmates Inc …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Spotify to launch real-time lyrics feature in 26 markets across Southeast Asia, India, and Latin America in partnership with Musixmatch, live on June 30 — Last November, Spotify confirmed it was testing real-time lyrics synced to music in select markets. Tomorrow, the company will announce …
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| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
Despite pretending to be a free speech alternative to Twitter, Parler is taking down content and shutting down accounts — Well, that did not take long at all. On Friday we predicted that just like every other social media platform out there, the new favorite among people who falsely …
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
German startup solarisBank, which offers financial services to other fintech companies through a set of APIs, raises $67.5M Series C at a valuation of $360M — Despite the Wirecard fallout, German fintech startup solarisBank has raised a Series C funding round of $67.5 million (€60 million).| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Benchmark scores for Apple's Developer Transition Kit unit, with A12Z chip used in iPad Pro, suggest it outperforms Surface Pro X even under Rosetta 2 emulation — Apple's Developer Transition Kit equipped with an A12Z iPad Pro chip began arriving in the hands of developers this morning …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS makes CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs and suggest potential optimizations, generally available — AWS today announced that CodeGuru, a set of tools that use machine learning to automatically review code for bugs …
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ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, DEVCLASS, Business Wire, and AWS News Blog. Tweets: @kevinmiller
| Micah Maidenberg / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon details new one-time bonuses for front-line workers and delivery contractors with Amazon throughout June, after phasing out its initial pandemic pay bump — Payout comes after e-commerce giant ended last month a short-term pay bump; sales have shot up during coronavirus — Amazon.
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