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Verizon will start restricting LTE speeds for its heaviest unlimited-plan customers — Verizon's 4G networks soon will start favoring customers who pay for mobile data by the gigabyte over customers who draw deeply from Verizon's unlimited plans. — Verizon Wireless has been trying to coax …
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| Andrew Chung / Reuters: |
Bose sues Beats over headphone noise-cancellation patents — (Reuters) - High-end sound system and headphone maker Bose Corp is going after the newer kid on the block, Beats Electronics, with a lawsuit accusing Beats of infringing several patents related to noise-cancellation technology.
| Lyft Blog: |
Lyft to launch 7pm tonight in NYC, drivers will need taxi commission licenses, company “will pause operations” in Buffalo and Rochester by August 1st — Lyft Launches in NYC — Tonight, after making positive progress with local and state leaders, Lyft will launch in all five boroughs of New York City.
| Julian Hattem / The Hill: |
House votes to allow cellphone ‘unlocking’ — The House on Friday passed legislation allowing people to “unlock” their cellphones and switch from one carrier to another, sending the bill to the president's desk. — The bill won unanimous support in the lower chamber and has been widely backed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Fixed Raises $1.2 Million For A Mobile App That Fights Your Parking Tickets For You — Fixed, the clever mobile application that helps you fight your parking tickets just by snapping a photo of the ticket with your mobile phone, has now closed on $1.2 million in seed funding.
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Homejoy expands beyond cleaning, starts offering plumbing, handyman, landscaping, painting and other home services as beta to some customers — Homejoy Expands Beyond Cleaning With Beta Test Of Home Services — When Homejoy raised its $38 million round of funding last December … | Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google X project to collect anonymous genetic and molecular info from thousands to aid in detecting diseases earlier — Google to Collect Data to Define Healthy Human — Baseline Study to Try to Create Picture From the Project's Findings — Google Inc. has embarked on what may be its most ambitious …
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| Laura Slattery / The Irish Times: |
Google pays €27.7m tax at Irish subsidiary on €17bn revenue — ‘Administrative expenses’ of €11.7bn stripped out from Google Ireland Ltd, accounts show — Revenue at Google's Irish subsidiary rose 10 per cent last year to €17 billion, with pretax profits climbing almost 23 per cent to €189.1 million.
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| RT: |
Russian Interior Ministry offers $111k to crack TOR network — Russia's Interior Ministry is offering $111k for a technological solution that would allow police officers to identify internet surfers who are using the TOR anonymizer network, which has been rapidly growing in popularity inside the country.| Sam Schechner / Wall Street Journal: |
Google has granted over 50% of “Right to be Forgotten” requests, over 100,000 links from 91,000 people — Google Grants Majority of ‘Right to Be Forgotten’ Requests — Statistics Come as 91,000 People Request Removal of Some Search Results for Their Names| Bloomberg: |
IBM Said to Reject Globalfoundries Offer for Chip Unit — International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)'s talks to sell its money-losing chip-manufacturing operations to Globalfoundries Inc. have ended after the two companies failed to agree on terms, according to people familiar with the process.
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Fire smartphone now available at AT&T — Amazon's Fire Phone Hits Stores, Minus the Fanfare — Amazon on Friday is embarking on its grandest attempt yet to keep customers buying more from its namesake site. — The company will begin selling its new Fire smartphone at AT&T stores without …
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Amazon.com, TechCrunch, MacDailyNews, Gotta Be Mobile and Digital Trends
Tweets: @wsj, @techcrunch and @wsjd
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Vevo, the Giant Music Video Site, Tries to Fix Itself Before It Sells Itself — Music videos are huge on the Web, and Vevo is huge in music videos. It generates six billion views a month, and is crucial to both the music industry and YouTube. — Now Vevo's owners want to find a new investor … Sponsor Posts
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