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Peter Thiel acknowledges he spent around $10M to fund a team of lawyers to help Gawker “victims” like Hulk Hogan sue the company, in act of “deterrence” — A billionaire Silicon Valley entrepreneur was outed as being gay by a media organization.
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Report: Microsoft to announce a basic Chromecast-like Xbox streaming device and a more advanced option at E3 — Microsoft is said to be planning to unveil new Xbox streaming devices at E3 next month. The software giant has been considering an “Xbox TV” device for at least three years …
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Sources: Microsoft is planning a cheaper, smaller Xbox One for E3 and a more powerful model in 2017; possible partnership with Oculus in the works — Microsoft is preparing at least two new Xbox models for release in the next two years, sources tell Kotaku.
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| BBC: |
Foxconn replaces 60K factory workers with robots, denies that it means long-term job losses — Apple and Samsung supplier Foxconn has reportedly replaced 60,000 factory workers with robots. — One factory has “reduced employee strength from 110,000 to 50,000 thanks to the introduction of robots” …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google is aiming to reduce Android fragmentation by pressuring carriers, OEMs into pushing out updates more quickly — Web giant creates rankings that could shame ecosystem laggards — Friendly tactics also used to unify top phone operating system
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| David Muller / MLive.com: |
Google to open a 53K square foot self-driving car development center in Novi, outside of Detroit — DETROIT - Google's self-driving car project will open a technology development center in Novi, John Krafcik, who heads the technology giant's autonomous vehicle program, announced on social media Wednesday.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
Source: Twitter curtails development of Buy button and product pages, moves commerce team to other projects — Jack Dorsey puts Dick Costolo-era project on backburner as Twitter refocuses on core product. — Twitter has curtailed product development on its ‘Buy’ button and product pages …
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| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Salesforce to spend $400M on Amazon Web Services over next four years according to 10Q statement and sources — We knew Salesforce and Amazon Web Services were getting cozy, ever since Salesforce's recent earnings call when its chief executive, Marc Benioff, effusively praised Amazon's cloud unit.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Chrome 51 released with new APIs, including Credential Management API, more efficient page rendering; available for Windows and Mac, Linux coming soon — Google today launched Chrome 51 for Windows and Mac, promising that the Linux version will “ship shortly.”
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PayPal to discontinue mobile apps for Windows Phone, BlackBerry, and Amazon Fire on June 30 — PayPal is thinning the number of mobile operating systems supported by the company's flagship app down to just two: Android and iOS. The PayPal mobile apps for Windows Phone, BlackBerry … | Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Uber and Foursquare sign global, multi-year agreement to license Places data, meaning customers will no longer have to know the exact address of venues — Foursquare and Uber have today announced a global partnership that would use Foursquare's location data to let users type in a venue name …
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| Reuters: |
Senior Indian government official says Apple must oblige by foreign retailer rules and sell 30% locally-sourced goods if it intends to open stores in India — India has said Apple Inc must meet a rule obliging foreign retailers to sell at least 30 percent locally-sourced goods if it wishes …
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| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
HTC confirms it has stopped manufacturing Google's flagship tablet, the Nexus 9 — HTC confirms it isn't making any more of the slates, and only a limited supply is available on the company's site. — by , Roger Cheng — The end of the Nexus 9 is nigh.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
| Wall Street Journal: |
HP Inc. misses target, reporting Q2 results of $11.59B in revenue, down 11% YoY; personal systems sales dropped 10% YoY; guidance cut — CEO says the company, a product of Hewlett-Packard's split in the fall, continues to target niches where sales are growing.
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