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Apple ordered to stop iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus sales in Beijing, as regulator finds it violated design patent; Apple says devices are still on sale during appeal — Intellectual property regulator rules the design is too similar to a Chinese phone — BEIJING—Beijing's intellectual property regulator …
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Hacker moved $50M+ worth of Ethereum from The DAO project into an alternative wallet; the funds are frozen and owners should be able to recover stolen funds — A hacker appears to have moved digital money worth more than $50 million from an experimental virtual currency project that recently raised …
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| Katherine Noyes / PCWorld: |
Google opens dedicated machine learning research center in Zurich to focus on machine intelligence, natural language processing, and machine perception — It will focus primarily on machine learning — Google has made no secret of its AI ambitions, and on Thursday it announced the next step … | Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Uber says it has reached profitability in all of its developed markets, claims China accounts for one third of its daily trips — Uber says it has now reached profitability in all its developed markets, underscoring the business case for the new ride-hailing models that are disrupting the transportation industry.
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Salesforce was a rival suitor for LinkedIn, says Benioff; sources say LinkedIn reached out to Microsoft — Microsoft agreed to buy networking website for $26.2 billion — Salesforce competes with Microsoft in corporate cloud software — Salesforce.com Inc. was a rival potential bidder … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla announces experimental “containers” feature that lets Firefox users log in to sites using different identities within the same browser — Mozilla's Firefox browser is getting a new experimental feature today that aims to help you segregate your online identities and allow …
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| Steven Zeitchik / Los Angeles Times: |
VR startup Vrse changes names to Within and announces $12.56M funding round, led by Andreessen Horowitz and including Fox, WME, and Vice — A shot from Chris Milk's ‘Evolution of Verse’ (Within) — For virtual-reality entertainment, the money keeps coming.
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Asus announces ZenPad Z8 7.9-inch tablet for $250, with Snapdragon 650 SoC, exclusive to Verizon, available for pre-order now, shipping June 23 — As a part of Asus' continued commitment to the tablet market today Asus is launching a new tablet for Verizon, called the ZenPad Z8.| George Slefo / Ad Age: |
Twitter will now let advertisers target users based on the emoji they have tweeted — It's Exactly What You Think It Is — Advertisers will either cry with laughter or happiness following Twitter's announcement of emoji based-targeting. — The company's move is in time for next month's World Emoji …
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| Davey Alba / Wired: |
Facebook Messenger's home tab on mobile now organizes the app into recent messages, favorites, active users, messages awaiting a response, and birthdays — Facebook wants to make Messenger the app to anchor a post-app Internet that lets you do everything within a chat. Need an Uber?
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| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Marc Andreessen forecasts a surge in M&A in tech in 2016 and 2017, is seeing more M&A in the pipeline than in last four years — Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen spoke at the Bloomberg Technology conference this afternoon, and he said he expects far more M&A than the tech industry has seen in recent years.
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Nonprofit Crisis Text Line counseling service receives $23.8M in grants, led by Reid Hoffman with Steve Ballmer, Pierre Omidyar, others participating — Crisis Text Line, a free, around the clock text-messaging support line for people in crisis, is getting a massive new round of grants … Sponsor Posts
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