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| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
In another supplier confrontation, Amazon stops taking preorders for forthcoming Warner movies — Amazon Stops Taking Advance Orders for ‘Lego’ and Other Warner Videos — The Everything Store is shrinking again. Amazon customers who want to order forthcoming Warner Home Video features …
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| Paul Sawers / The Next Web: |
As London cabbies protest, Uber launches UberTaxi platform for London cabbies — Up to 12,000 black-cab drivers (cabbies) are expected to fill the streets of London today, in protest against technology-enabled services such as Uber. Their gripe? Uber allows its users to beckon a cab …
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| Bloomberg: |
Uber Demonstrations Snarl Traffic From London to Berlin — Uber Technologies Inc., the car-sharing service that's rankling cabbies across the U.S., is fighting its biggest protest from European drivers who say the smartphone application threatens their livelihoods.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
Amazon Prime music streaming could launch as early as this week with Sony and Warner, but without Universal — Amazon Said to Be Close to Unveiling Music Streaming Service — Amazon is planning to introduce a limited music streaming feature as early as this week, according to several people briefed on the company's plans.
| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
HP Labs working on new computer architecture with new OS and memristor-based memory — With ‘The Machine,’ HP May Have Invented a New Kind of Computer — If Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) founders Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard are spinning in their graves, they may be due for a break.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Powerful worm on Twitter unleashes torrent of out-of-control tweets — Twitter on Wednesday was briefly overrun by a powerful computer worm that caused tens of thousands of users to tweet a message that contained self-propagating code exploiting a bug in the TweetDeck app.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Banks say credit cards for sale online were used at P.F. Chang's, restaurant investigating — Banks: Credit Card Breach at P.F. Chang's — Nationwide chain P.F. Chang's China Bistro said today that it is investigating claims of a data breach involving credit and debit card data reportedly stolen … | Ray Kurzweil / KurzweilAI: |
Ray Kurzweil, who predicted a computer would pass the Turing test by 2029, does not think chatbot Eugene Goostman passed — Response by Ray Kurzweil to the announcement of chatbot Eugene Goostman passing the Turing test — Two days ago, on June 8, 2014, the University of Reading announced … | Lorraine Luk / Wall Street Journal: |
Firefox OS smartphones as cheap as $25 launching in India and Indonesia later this year — India, Indonesia to Get $25 Smartphones — Mozilla's Firefox Operating System Powers Devices Priced for Emerging Markets — SHANGHAI—Smartphones as cheap as $25 powered by Mozilla Corp.'s software … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Introduces “Google My Business,” A New One-Stop Shop To Help Business Get Found Online — Google announced a suite of tools this morning for business owners, offering them a one-stop shop to update their business information, add photos, read reviews and, of course, use Google+.| Dwight Silverman / Houston Chronicle: |
Comcast turning 150k routers rented by Houston customers into public Wi-Fi hotspots by July — Comcast is turning your Xfinity router into a public Wi-Fi hotspot [Updated] — Update: Comcast has turned on the first 50,000 residential hotspots. — Original post:
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| David Meyer / Gigaom: |
Apple's Irish tax avoidance schemes come under formal European investigation — European authorities have launched a probe into whether Apple's corporate income tax arrangements in Ireland are legal, or whether they qualify as unlawful state aid. — Ireland is the base of choice …
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| Leslie Picker / Bloomberg: |
GoPro Seeking Value of Up to $3 Billion in Camera Maker's IPO — GoPro Inc., which made about $1 billion last year selling cameras to surfers, skiers and sky divers, is seeking a market valuation as high as $3 billion in its initial public offering. — The company intends to sell 17.8 million shares …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Pinterest Becomes More Search Engine-Like With The Launch Of Guided Search On The Web — In April, Pinterest introduced a new way to narrow down what you're looking for on mobile with the addition of a feature called “Guided Search,” which pops up related terms at the top of the screen after you enter in a keyword to start a search.| David Pierce / The Verge: |
The Verge announces This Is My Next, a Wirecutter-like buying guide that's “all about the best things” — Welcome to This Is My Next, your buying guide for the future — If you write about technology, work in technology, or just spend regular time near technology, the questions come early and they come often.
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| Benny Evangelista / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Alibaba's 11 Main online mall bids to lure U.S. shoppers — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is setting up a virtual shop on Main Street USA. Alibaba, which is set to score the biggest IPO in U.S. history, on Wednesday is opening 11 Main, an online mall of boutique …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
US Appeals Court rules warrantless phone location tracking is illegal — Summary: A panel of appeals judges has ruled that police must obtain a warrant before collecting cellphone location data, adding further weight to the pro-privacy argument. — Zack Whittaker
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| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Lytro Partners With 500px, Opens File Format Letting its Pictures Live More Places — One of the big challenges for light-field photography startup Lytro has been dealing with the fact that it has to fit into a world that understands photos and video, but isn't well suited or even interested …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Wallet's 2-Click Instant Buy Checkout Comes To iOS — About a year ago, Google Wallet launched its Instant Buy API for Android apps, and today it is bringing it to iOS apps. With Instant Buy, developers can integrate Google Wallet's checkout into their apps and have users check out with as few as two clicks.
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Google Commerce, The Next Web, 9to5Mac, VentureBeat, iMore and App Advice
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
BitTorrent announces its server-less chat app will allow sign up via email, phone number, or nothing at all — BitTorrent today released an internal alpha of its server-less chat app. The company says a private alpha launch is still “right around the corner,” but it decided to share … Sponsor Posts
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