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June 17, 2016, 5:35 PM

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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 …

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 …

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 …

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

More: CNET, SiliconBeat, Business Insider and Petri

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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.

More: AppleInsider, Engadget, BGR, Gizmodo, The Verge, iMore, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac and Ars Technica UK

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 …

More: Phone Scoop, Android Authority and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@svbiznate

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.

More: CNET, WebProNews, Investor's Business Daily, Mattermark, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider and New York Times

Molly McHugh / The Ringer:

Snapchat acknowledges it may have copied artists' works for its filters — Monday morning, Argenis Pinal did what many of us do: He grabbed his phone, swiped to Snapchat, opened the app, and started flipping through the filters. Puppy, princess, face morph, and ... oh. The Joker. His Joker.

More: The Verge and Business Insider

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.

Tweets: @thestalwart and @bryce

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 …

More: CNET, Google Research Blog, Tech Times, Ars Technica UK, TechSpot, Business Cloud News, eWeek, Android Central, GeekWire, Digital Trends, Mashable and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check

Leena Rao / Fortune:

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 …

Tweets: @melindagates and @omidyarnetwork

Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:

Ammon, Idaho piloting open access fiber network project the lets residents sign up for an ISP - or switch ISPs - almost instantly, via city-operated website — Ammon's open access fiber network will let customers change ISPs in minutes. — Most cities and towns that build …

More: DSLreports, The Next Web and Blue's News. Tweets: @goretsky

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