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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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Sources: Due to objections from Apple and others, Unicode did not approve a suggested rifle emoji in the latest Unicode 9 update coming this June — You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.| 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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| Nathan Donato-Weinstein / Silicon Valley Business …: |
Yahoo sells 48.6-acre Santa Clara site for $250M to LeEco, a Chinese company planning US video streaming service and smartphone launches later this year — Chinese tech company LeEco has completed the acquisition of Yahoo's nearly 50-acre development site in Santa Clara …
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Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief — Snapchat doesn't just care about video. — The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly … | Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
How Marissa Mayer's spending at Yahoo to spur growth, in defiance of deals with activist investors to cut costs, led to auction of core assets, board shakeup — Embattled CEO failed to produce pledged savings, plunged deeper into turnaround; more room in the parking lot| 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.| 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 … | Joshua Brustein / Bloomberg: |
Kickstarter paid dividends to its shareholders this spring, an unusual move for a non-public VC-backed startup — The company quietly made the first payment this spring and continues to say that it has no plans to go public. — In early March, Kickstarter quietly sent shareholders a dividend.| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
A detailed report of a penetration test Palantir conducted; firm says issues are now resolved — Palantir Technologies has cultivated a reputation as perhaps the most formidable data analysis firm in Silicon Valley, doing secretive work for defense and intelligence agencies as well as Wall Street giants.| 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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| Daniel Frankel / FierceCable: |
As pay TV provider group releases “Ditch the Box” proposal to FCC, Google-backed group calls it a delay tactic — A trade group backed by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has derided the pay-TV industry's counter-proposal to an FCC plan to open cable …
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