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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Hacker siphoned $50M+ worth of Ether from The DAO project; the funds are frozen as Ethereum project leaders debate code change to recover the lost Ether — 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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Tweets: @mikejcasey, @tuurdemeester, @bryce, @tuurdemeester, @tuurdemeester, @tuurdemeester and @rsg
| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
The “theft” of Ethereum from the DAO violated the DAO's intent, but not its smart contract, exposing tensions between blockchain idealism and real world systems — There's a fairly incredible trial going on in London right now. The Libyan Investment Authority is suing Goldman Sachs …
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Thanks:@_trendspotter| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| Seth Fiegerman / Mashable: |
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future — After Marissa Mayer promised ‘not to screw it up’ — Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn't for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor …
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25. See also Mediagazer| 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
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Petri, Business Insider, CNET and SiliconBeat
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See also Mediagazer| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
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.
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Tweets: @mnot, @jsneedles and @chrismessina
| 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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Phone Scoop, Breitbart, Business Insider, TechnoBuffalo, Android Authority, TalkAndroid.com, Pocketnow, Fone Arena, SlashGear, PhoneDog.com and Android Central. Thanks:@svbiznate
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
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 … | Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic: |
Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms — To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs. He founded a podcast company years before most people listened to them.| Andy Chalk / PC Gamer: |
Twitch files lawsuit against seven makers of “view-bots, follow-bots, chat-impersonation bots” designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts — The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. — Twitch has filed a lawsuit …
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Twitch Blog, Gamasutra, Polygon, Hollywood Reporter, SlashGear, The Register, Engadget and Tech Times
Tweets: @imfraggindragon, @twitch, @basche42 and @head_crabtv
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Acer alerts 34,500 customers of its online store between May 2015 and April 2016 that hackers have stolen their credit card data — It's not known how many online store users are affected. — Acer has quietly informed the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers.| 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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WebProNews, Mattermark, CNET, Investor's Business Daily, PYMNTS.com and Business Insider. Tweets: @jonrussell
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