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Uber Acquires Part Of Bing's Mapping Assets, Will Absorb Around 100 Microsoft Employees — Uber will acquire assets from Microsoft Bing, including roughly 100 employees focused on the product's image collection activities. In short, Uber is absorbing data-collection engineers from Microsoft to bolster its own mapping work.
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| Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
AOL to take over Microsoft ad sales for display, mobile, and video in US and 8 other markets; Bing to replace Google on AOL for search and search advertising — AOL Takes Over Majority of Microsoft's Ad Business, Swaps Google Search For Bing — AOL and Microsoft struck a new partnership …
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| Dina Bass / Bloomberg Business: |
Source: Microsoft shutting down Web display ad business, handing operations to AOL, AppNexus, 1200 jobs affected — Microsoft Said to Exit Display Ad Business, Cut 1,200 Jobs — Microsoft Corp. is shutting down its Web display advertising business and handing operations over to AOL Inc …
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| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
Supreme Court declines to hear Oracle v. Google case over software copyright — The Supreme Court has declined to hear Oracle v. Google, sending the long-running case back to a lower court where Google will have to argue that it made fair use of Oracle's copyrighted APIs.
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| Jad Mouawad / New York Times: |
Federal Railroad Administration partners with Google to include railroad crossings in Maps, asks other map makers to do the same — Agency Taps Mapping Technology to Curb Rail Crossing Accidents — After a sharp increase in the number of rail crossing accidents last year … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Google skews search results in anticompetitive behavior, says new study by Yelp and leading academic Tim Wu — Google's search practices come under scrutiny from leading academic Wu — Tim Wu, author of The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires, argues in a paper …
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| Oliver Gee / The Local: |
Uber France CEO Thibaud Simphal and Europe GM Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty reportedly taken into custody in France, investigated for “inciting illegal employment” — Two Uber bosses ‘held by police’ in France — Two of the bosses of Uber France have been arrested by police and taken …
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| New York Times: |
When a Company Goes Up for Sale, in Many Cases, So Does Your Personal Data — The privacy policy for Hulu, a video-streaming service with about nine million subscribers, opens with a declaration that the company “respects your privacy.” — That respect could lapse, however, if the company is ever sold or goes bankrupt.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte in private beta for iPhone, allowing users to make and share collages of text, sound, photos, memes, emojis, and more — Byte is a wild new creative tool from the founder of Vine — Dom Hofmann grew up in an earlier era of software development …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Some Uber drivers in China place fake bookings to cash in on free rides intended to build brand awareness — One Driver Explains How He Is Helping to Rip Off Uber in China — The Uber app in Beijing. Source: Imaginechina — James Li was unhappy with his pay as a security guard in Shanghai …
Tweets: @sarahfrier
| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung says it sold 1M Z1 Tizen phones, will launch several more in 2015 according to source — Samsung Electronics plans more Tizen smartphones this year: source — Leading smartphone maker Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch more handsets running on its own Tizen operating system later … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Craigslist, 3taps Settle Their Scraping/Antitrust Suits; 3taps To Pay $1M To Be Donated To The EFF — A week after Craigslist finally got its emancipation from eBay, some closure on another long-standing legal battle for the listings site: the local listings giant has now finally reached …
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