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SF to send letters to 37K Uber and Lyft drivers demanding they obtain $91 business licenses if they drive in the city more than seven days per year — SF to require Lyft, Uber drivers to obtain business licenses — For the first time, San Francisco is going to require the 37,000 Lyft …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Huawei VR headset announced in China, works like Samsung Gear VR but with P9, Mate 8 phones — Of course Huawei is making a Gear VR rival — Huawei may have just announced the fancy P9 and P9 Plus smartphones in London last week, but it actually saved a little surprise for its Shanghai launch today.
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| Brandt Ranj / Business Insider: |
Facebook says it won't try to influence how people vote, despite verbal jabs between Zuckerberg and Trump campaign plus staffers' internal questions — Facebook promises not to use its product to influence the US presidential election — Despite some not-so-subtle political jabs … | Mike Rogoway / Oregonian: |
Sources: Intel planning job cuts significantly larger than last year's 1,100, could come after Q1 financial results on Tuesday — Intel planning for thousands of job cuts, internal sources say — Intel is preparing a significant round of job cuts across business units this spring …
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| Fortune: |
Sources expect fewer than ten offers from bidders by Yahoo's Monday deadline; many of the rumored 40 bidders have not even read Yahoo's sale book — Don't Believe Everything You Read on the Yahoo Sale — If you believe everything you read about Yahoo YHOO , then you'd expect the company …
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New York Times, SiliconBeat and Business Insider
Tweets: @pkedrosky, @jyarow, @jyarow, @pkafka and @eringriffith
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers detail how they brute forced shortened URLs from OneDrive and Google Maps to access private information; Microsoft and Google respond — Researchers Crack Microsoft and Google's Shortened URLs to Spy on People — For anyone with minimalist tastes or an inability …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mitel buys Polycom for $1.96B in enterprise communications consolidation play — As more enterprises move their communications services over to IP networks and cloud-based services, we're seeing an increasing amount of consolidation as the businesses that serve them continue to grow … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google updates Chrome Web Store user data policy with stricter privacy and transparency requirements, gives developers until July 15 to comply — Google updates Chrome Web Store user data policy, will remove violating apps and extensions on July 15, 2016 — Google today updated …
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| Reuters: |
Apple opposes unlocking iPhone in Brooklyn drug case, saying the government has not proven its help is necessary — Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case — Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed …
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The Verge, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, MacRumors, TechCrunch, AppleInsider, The Hill and iPhone Hacks. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Apple stops patching QuickTime for Windows despite 2 active vulnerabilities — If your Windows computer is running Apple's QuickTime media player, now would be a good time to uninstall it. — The Windows app hasn't received an update since January, and security researchers from Trend Micro …
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Tweets: @kunikos, @uscert_gov and @trendmicro
See also Mediagazer| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google adds a secure beacon feature to its Eddystone beacon format to enable private interactions — Google's Eddystone beacons offer a privacy-focused way to track your stuff — Google's bluetooth beacon hopes to bring the Internet of Things to all your things.
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Wired, Google Developers Blog, The Verge, FierceCIO News, The Next Web, 9to5Google and GitHub
| Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!: |
Sling is working on AirTV box able to stream local TV channels, FCC filing shows — AirTV Streams Local Channels Directly Into Sling TV — Bypassing content licensing, Sling TV will soon cram customer's local television channels directly into the company's pay TV service via a small set-top box and antenna.
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