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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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Yahoo sued for sexual harrassment, complaint alleges female exec coerced female engineer into sex — Female Yahoo exec sued for sexual harassment — A high-level female Yahoo executive helping to lead the company's mobile-content efforts was named Friday in a state lawsuit filed … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Lyft reverses under legal pressure, cancels Friday night New York launch — Attorney General insists NY Supreme Court issued injunction—but Lyft denies it. — Facing the weight of the New York Attorney General, Lyft now says it will delay its planned launch in the Big Apple on Friday evening.
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Jury finds Apple did not push MLB, others to adopt its live video streaming format and cause them to infringe Emblaze patent — Apple Wins Emblaze Patent Trial Over Live Video Streaming — Apple Inc. (AAPL) defeated a lawsuit brought by Emblaze Ltd. (BLZ) claiming the iPhone-maker pushed …
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Apple Spent Over $3B With 7,000 U.S. Small Business Suppliers In 2013 — Today, Apple SVP of Operations Jeff Williams attended a meeting with President Obama following the company's adoption of the White House's ‘SupplierPay’ initiative. The program, which also includes a financing component … | Jeffrey Sparshott / Wall Street Journal: |
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China's Newest Foe: iPhone — 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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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Apple launches new Swift blog, offers Xcode 6 beta for free — Apple's new Swift programming language has attracted a lot of interest from developers since it was announced last month at WWDC, and now the company is looking to get it in the hands of more developers.| David Kravets / Ars Technica: |
Judge orders unmasking of Amazon.com “negative” reviewers — A federal judge has granted a nutritional supplement firm's request to help it learn the identities of those who allegedly left “phony negative” reviews of its products on Amazon.com. — The decision means that Ubervita …
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Dropbox updates desktop client with streaming sync: Up to 2x faster via overlapping uploads and downloads — Dropbox today announced its desktop client is getting streaming sync, a new feature that significantly reduces the time needed to synchronize large files.
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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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| 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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