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Rap Genius rebrands as “Genius”, raises $40M led by Dan Gilbert, and makes annotations embeddable — The Inside Story Of How Rap Genius Fired A Cofounder — And Just Raised $40 Million (Annotated!) — On May 23 of this year, things were finally coming together for Rap Genius.
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China Calls iPhone a Security Risk — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. technology companies.
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| David Drummond / Guardian: |
Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate — We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches
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The Verge, Tech Times, The Official Google Blog, CNET, PC World, SiliconBeat, New York Times, TechCrunch, WebProNews, PandoDaily, Search Engine Land, Wired.co.uk, 9to5Google, Electronista, PC Magazine, Business Insider, Search Engine Land, Mashable, TechPresident and Gigaom. Tweets: @dananmargason
| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stake at $500-600M valuation — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …
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| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
Lyft hit with restraining orders from NY Attorney General, Taxi Commission — The service was set to give free rides to locals starting this week — The New York Attorney General and the Taxi and Limousine Commission filed temporary restraining orders against ridesharing company Lift today …
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| Bill Gurley / Above the Crowd: |
How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber's Potential Market Size — On June 18, Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Uber Isn't Worth $17 Billion.” This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post …
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan — Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted to set aside funds …
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| Greg Kumparak / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Video Streaming Platform RayV — Following rumors of talks going as far back as May, we'd been hearing whispers all morning that Yahoo had finally acquired the video broadcasting platform RayV. — Sure enough, it's just been made official.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
Google Maps for iOS adds mapped search results and Gmail appointments, more — Google today updated its Maps application for iPhone and iPad to version 3.2 introducing new features and improvements. — The latest version of Google Maps now supports viewing search results with descriptions directly on the map view.
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| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon sidesteps French ban on free shipping by charging a penny — France's “anti-Amazon” law prohibiting free shipping and discounts has now gone into effect, and Amazon quickly announced that it had conformed — technically. Though it no longer ships books for free, it only charges 0.01 euro … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M — The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can't beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com's $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email …
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RelateIQ Blog, Re/code, The Register, CITEworld, Thomson IR, VatorNews, Forbes, Gigaom, VentureBeat, and bizjournals. Tweets: @hunterwalk
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple's sapphire-covered ‘iWatch’ to enter mass production in November — Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has provided relatively accurate information on future Apple product plans in the past (but frequent misses on timing), has issued a new report today indicating … Sponsor Posts
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