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Sources: US Justice Department lawyers leaning against Comcast merger with Time Warner Cable, could submit recommendation next week — U.S. Antitrust Lawyers Said to Be Leaning Against Comcast Merger — Staff attorneys at the Justice Department's antitrust division are nearing a recommendation …
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Apple plans to launch Pay in Canada in November, in talks with six biggest banks, which account for more than 90% of country's retail bank accounts — Apple Pay Plans to Launch in Canada This Fall — Apple is in talks with six Canadian banks for mobile payment service's first venture outside the U.S.| Aaron Butcher / Blogging Windows: |
Microsoft's new Maps app comes to phones with latest Windows 10 Technical Preview build, with guided navigation features from HERE maps, traffic data from Bing — Navigate the World with Windows 10 Maps for Phone — Hello! I'm Aaron Butcher and I'm the Group Program Manager for the Maps Team …
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| Kashmir Hill / Fusion: |
Profile of lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan, who's suing Uber, Lyft, Homejoy, Postmates, and Caviar, alleging they misclassified workers as independent contractors — Meet the lawyer taking on Uber and the rest of the on-demand economy — Several years ago, Boston lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan … Thanks:@kashhill
| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
MakerBot's new CEO lays off 20% of the staff, about 100 people — MakerBot Just Laid Off 20 Percent of Its Staff — When MakerBot, the Brooklyn-based 3D printing company, became a subsidiary of 3D printing giant Stratasys, Inc. in 2013, everyone expected there would be changes.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft to bring universal Office apps to Windows Phones in a test build before the end of April — What's next for Microsoft's ‘universal’ Office apps — Summary:Microsoft is readying a test build of its Office ‘Universal’ apps for Windows Phones before the end of April.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Interview: Slack's Stewart Butterfield on the favorable fundraising climate and options for spending the $160M he recently raised — Is Slack Really Worth $2.8 Billion? A Conversation With Stewart Butterfield — When I recently wrote about Slack, a corporate messaging app that has aspirations …
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| Howard Blume / Los Angeles Times: |
L.A. schools iPad program subject of inquiry by SEC — The federal Securities and Exchange Commission recently opened an informal inquiry into whether Los Angeles school officials complied with legal guidelines in the use of bond funds for the now-abandoned $1.3-billion iPads-for-all project.
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| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Universal credit card device Coin ships 350K units after year delay, some backers still must wait months — Coin, The One Credit Card To Rule Them All, Is Finally Shipping — The Coin (promising to let you combine all your credit/debit/loyalty cards into a single piece of tech) …
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| C. Custer / Tech in Asia: |
Xiaomi CEO says company has invested in 20+ startups and plans to invest in a hundred more — Lei Jun: Xiaomi will invest in 100 more startups — This has been a big week for the Xiaomi ecosystem, as one of the companies in the Xiaomi fold just acquired Segway.| Caleb Melby / Bloomberg Business: |
Tim Cook has the best pay-for-performance rating among highest-paid US executives, earning $65.2M last year — Apple's Tim Cook Is a Steal at $65 Million in Pay — Apple Inc.'s Tim Cook has the best pay-for-performance rating of any chief executive officer on the Bloomberg Pay Index … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Klout co-founder Joe Fernandez steps down as CEO about a year after firm's acquisition — Klout Founder Joe Fernandez Steps Down — Klout co-founder and CEO Joe Fernandez has stepped down from his role leading the social media influence startup that's now owned by Lithium Technologies.
Tweets: @marshallk
| Nate Raymond / Reuters: |
Court-appointed monitor in ebooks antitrust case says Apple's cooperation has sharply declined — Apple cooperation with antitrust monitor down ‘sharply’: report — (Reuters) - Apple Inc's cooperation with a court-appointed monitor has “sharply declined” as he reviews … | Stuart Dredge / Guardian: |
YouTube competitor Vessel raises a $57.5M Series B round led by IVP, just weeks after launch — Vessel raises $57.5m funding to expand its ‘first window’ for YouTube creators — Silicon Valley heavyweight IVP joins US startup's investors, and predicts it could be as successful as Netflix and Twitter| Ryan Knutson / Wall Street Journal: |
FCC to share shorter distance, higher frequency airwave spectrum with commercial users for free, with prioritized access sold via an auction system — FCC Frees Up Spectrum for Low-Cost Wireless Hubs — Regulators to let users share airwaves free or pay for priority access
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Shuts Down TestDrive, The Appstore Feature That Let You Try Apps Before Downloading — Amazon is shutting down TestDrive, one of the differentiating features of the Amazon Appstore which allowed consumers to test out new applications ahead of purchase.| Joel Hruska / ExtremeTech: |
How Moore's Law has been reinvented over the last 50 years, becoming cultural shorthand for innovation itself — Moore's Law is dead, long live Moore's Law — Moore's Law turns 50 this coming week — making this an opportune time to revisit Gordon Moore's classic prediction …
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