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| Michael Nunez / Gizmodo: |
Ex-Facebook news curators describe suppressing conservative news, being instructed to include non-trending stories, removing news about Facebook itself — Facebook workers routinely suppressed news stories of interest to conservative readers from the social network's influential “trending” …
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Facebook VP of search Tom Stocky: we found no evidence contractors manipulated Trending Topics to suppress stories of interest to conservatives — My team is responsible for Trending Topics, and I want to address today's reports alleging that Facebook contractors manipulated Trending Topics …
| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Motorola is preparing two Moto X flagships with backplate design that allows for modules called Amps to be plugged in, reportedly to debut June 9 — EXCLUSIVE: — Just like last year, Motorola is preparing multiple Android handsets to be sold under the flagship Moto X brand …
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| Todd Shields / Bloomberg: |
FCC and FTC ask smartphone makers and mobile carriers for information on phone patching process, express concern about long delays and unpatched older devices — FCC and FTC ask for information on process for issuing patches — Letters go to carriers AT&T, Verizon and to device makers
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Viv, the multi-platform AI assistant made by Siri co-founders Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer which is built for easy 3rd-party integrations, demoed for first time — Voice-controlled assistance is seeing another evolution as it looks to prove its worth as the next shift in human-computer interaction.
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| Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg: |
Spotify expands its video offerings, unveils slate of 12 original series which will be available to both free and paid users in US, UK, Germany, and Sweden — Russell Simmons, Tim Robbins to produce programs for Spotify — Videos will help Spotify compete with YouTube, Apple
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Periscope will make broadcasts permanent by default, introduce search, and integrate with certain DJI drone models in update in coming weeks — It's been a month now since Facebook rolled-out a dramatically improved design for live video — a design that borrowed liberally from Twitter-owned Periscope.
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| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Sources: Zenefits co-founder Parker Conrad, who authored cheating “macro”, sold $10M in stock when company raised Series C at $4.5B valuation — Parker Conrad, the Zenefits co-founder who resigned in scandal from the human resources startup, sold stock last year worth $10 million …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Sales of PCs, laptops, and tablets fell 13% in Q1; reaching lowest point since 2011 — The consumer electronics industry was dealt another punch in the face during the first three months of this year. — According to the latest report from market research firm Canalys, shipments of PC devices …
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| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft to shutter MSN China portal June 7, to focus on providing software and services for Windows 10 devices in the country — Company to promote software and services for Windows 10 devices to China market — Microsoft Corp. is shutting down its Chinese Web portal next month …
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TechCrunch, PCWorld, Nikkei, Softpedia News, MSPoweruser, Reuters and The Register
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Opera launches a free and unlimited VPN app for iOS — European technology titan Opera Software is today launching a virtual private network (VPN) client for iPhones and iPads. This launch comes three weeks after the announcement of such a feature for its desktop Opera browser.| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Sources: second round of bidders in Yahoo sale have begun all-day meetings; Mayer playing a more active role as initial recalcitrance regarding sale has faded — It's time for the real deal to emerge. — The second round of bidders in the sale of Yahoo have begun holding all-day meetings … Sponsor Posts
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