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St. Louis Cardinals investigated by FBI for breaching Astros network; internal discussions about trades, proprietary statistics, scouting reports compromised — St. Louis Cardinals Investigated by F.B.I. for Hacking Astros — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. and Justice Department prosecutors … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber failed to win delivery deals with Apple, Starbucks as its push into logistics proves costly and complex — The $50 Billion Question: Can Uber Deliver? — Investors are counting on Uber to upend the delivery business much as it has for taxis, but progress has been slow so far
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is developing an app that pays ordinary people, rather than carriers, to deliver packages; no firm timetable for when the service would launch — Amazon Considers Paying People to Drop Off Packages — Web retailer mulls paying people to drop off packages amid push to cut shipping costs
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| Joe Siegrist / The LastPass Blog: |
LastPass warns it was hacked, says secure vault storing user passwords was not accessed, but account email addresses, password reminders, more were compromised — LastPass Security Notice — We want to notify our community that on Friday, our team discovered and blocked suspicious activity on our network.
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| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
New Xbox One interface shown: Quicker, social, and Cortana-equipped — And far fewer tiles than before. — The Xbox One is getting a major update later this year that'll bring an all-new user interface to the console. Microsoft gave a short preview of the new interface as part …
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Privacy groups opt out of US talks on face recognition, say they can't achieve minimum rights for consumers — Consumer Groups Back Out of Federal Talks on Face Recognition — A central component of President Obama's effort to give consumers more control over how companies collect and share … | Yoree Koh / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter CFO Anthony Noto's rapid ascent at Twitter makes him a front-runner to succeed Dick Costolo as CEO — Twitter CFO's Ascent Creates New Power Center — Anthony Noto has amassed a broad range of responsibilities, emerging as a front-runner to succeed Dick Costolo
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| Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg Business: |
Fitbit raises IPO goal by 37% to $655.6M at $17-19 per share; company could be valued at up to $3.9B — Fitbit Boosts IPO Goal by Up to 37% on Health-Device Demand — Fitbit Inc. co-founder James Park. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg — Fitbit Inc., the maker of wearable devices … | Jon Gertner / Fast Company: |
Behind the scenes at US Digital Service and 18F, part of Obama's new digital corps which is attracting top Silicon Valley talent — Inside Obama's Stealth Startup — President Obama has quietly recruited top tech talent from the likes of Google and Facebook. Their mission: to reboot how government works.| Suzanne Vranica / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter rolls out auto-play videos and GIFs after several months of testing — Twitter Finally Rolls Out Auto-Play Video — Twitter is officially rolling out ads that will play automatically in a user's timeline, taking on the dominant forces in online video advertising — Google and Facebook.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Hands-on with YouTube Gaming—Google built itself a Twitch killer — A slick interface, huge user base, and tons of content should have Twitch worried. — NEW YORK—YouTube Gaming is coming! YouTube's Twitch Killer was announced on Friday, so we stopped by the YouTube Space in Manhattan …
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Adobe announces 2015 Creative Cloud updates and the new integrated Adobe Stock image service for additional fees — Adobe Announces 2015 Creative Cloud Updates, New Integrated Adobe Stock Service — Adobe today announced that all of its Creative Cloud desktop apps, including Photoshop … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
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Sources: Alibaba and Foxconn in talks to invest $500M in India's Snapdeal at a $5B valuation — Alibaba, Foxconn in Talks to Invest $500 Million in India's Snapdeal — An investment by Alibaba and Foxconn could value the e-commerce startup at $5 billion
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| Michelle Starr / CNET: |
PlayStation Vue expands to San Francisco and Los Angeles; a la carte channels like Showtime, Fox Soccer Plus, and Machinima coming in July — PlayStation Vue announces a la carte service, coming to SF and LA — Sony's PlayStation live TV streaming service is launching tonight in new markets … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Sony's Xperia Z4 is coming to the US this summer as the Z4v for Verizon Wireless — Sony's Xperia Z4 is coming to the US as the Z4v for Verizon Wireless — Sony quietly announced the Xperia Z4 smartphone in Japan back in April, and today it's announcing the first version that will be available outside of its home country.
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| David Still / Box: |
Box debuts Box for Office Online, lets users create and manage Word, PowerPoint, and Excel files from its website — Introducing Box for Office Online, A New Way to Work in the Cloud — Microsoft Office files are among the most uploaded, edited and shared files in Box.
| Ryan Whitwam / Android Police: |
Google Maps Now Warns You If You Are Navigating To A Place That Will Be Closed When You Arrive — Ryan is a tech/science writer, skeptic, lover of all things electronic, and Android fan. In his spare time he reads golden-age sci-fi and sleeps, but rarely at the same time. His wife tolerates him as few would.
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