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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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Medium, The Next Web, Wall Street Journal, Periscope, Wired, Digital Trends, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, Fone Arena, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Technology Chronicles, Marketing Land, PhoneDog.com, BetaNews, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iMore, Business Insider, Mashable, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Engadget, Fortune, USA Today and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @joshconstine. See also Mediagazer
| 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, Nikkei, Computerworld, Softpedia News, Fortune, 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.| Wall Street Journal: |
LendingClub CEO resigns after board investigation of improper practices in lending process; stock down over 26% — Renaud Laplanche's departure follows nonconforming loan sale to a single investor — The CEO of the leading company in the burgeoning “peer-to-peer” lending industry resigned Monday following …
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