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Twitter adds stickers to photos and lets you search them like hashtags — Twitter will begin letting you add virtual stickers to the photos you post, the company said today. Hundreds are available at launch, including the standard Unicode emoji and some original work from Twitter.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Lyft hires M&A banker Qatalyst Partners, possibly seeking a sale or new funding — Lyft was last valued at $5.5 billion by investors including GM — Ride-hailing startup Lyft Inc. has hired Qatalyst Partners LP, the boutique investment bank best known for helping tech companies find a buyer … | Joshua Sabatini / The San Francisco Examiner: |
Airbnb files lawsuit against city of San Francisco saying recent ordinance breaks federal law — Airbnb sued San Francisco on Monday over a new regulation requiring short-term rental companies to list on their websites only legal housing listings. — The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook launches human-curated Featured Events, currently for iOS users, in 10 US cities — Approximately 550 million people use Facebook Events each month, with 60 percent of connections to events happening serendipitously in the News Feed. But Facebook is giving hardcore extroverts seeking … | Dissent Doe / The Daily Dot: |
655K patient records from three healthcare breaches are up for sale on the dark web after hacking victims refused extortion demands — For 655,000 patients who were enjoying a quiet Sunday, life may become a lot more complicated. Their personal, medical, and insurance information is up for sale in a forum on the dark net.
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Motherboard, Deep Dot Web, Office of Inadequate Security, Inquirer, BGR, BBC, Computerworld and Softpedia News. Thanks:@amyvernon
| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Google launches Cast for Education to let students cast their screens to the classroom projector, debuts quizzes feature for Forms, and opens up VR Expeditions — It's no secret that Google's Chromebooks have seen the most success in the classroom, and have quickly become the de facto education computer … | Matt Day / The Seattle Times: |
Microsoft reaches $10K settlement with a small business over an unplanned Windows 10 update — With about a month left for many PC users to upgrade to Windows 10 at no charge, Microsoft is being criticized for its aggressive — some say too aggressive — campaign to get people to install the new operating system.
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| Andrew Webster / The Verge: |
Microsoft is ending Xbox Fitness, citing content costs, with full shutdown on June 30, 2017 — Xbox One owners are going to have to find another tool for working out in front of the TV: today Microsoft announced plans to shut down its Xbox Fitness service.
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Google announces Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform to make coding physical for kids, still in development — Posted by Steve Vranakis and Jayme Goldstein, Executive Creative Director and Project Lead, Google Creative Lab — At Google, we're passionate about empowering children to create and explore with technology.
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| Stephanie Condon / ZDNet: |
HPE CEO Meg Whitman announces several organizational changes, including the departure of CTO Martin Fink — CEO Meg Whitman announces more organizational changes less than a year after HP spun off its Enterprise business. — Less than a year after Hewlett Packard spun off HP Enterprise …
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's open source .NET Core project, which brings .NET Core and ASP.NET Core to Linux, OS X, and other OSes, reaches version 1.0 — It's been over a year and a half since Microsoft first announced the open source .NET Core project, which aims to bring the core parts of Microsoft's .NET framework …
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BetaNews, Red Hat Developer Blog, ZDNet, The Official Microsoft Blog and VentureBeat. Thanks:@jaypeters
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
MeetMe acquires mobile flirting app Skout for $55 million in cash and stock — MeetMe announced today that it has acquired the mobile flirting app startup Skout for $28.5 million in cash and approximately 5.37 million shares in the social discovery company — estimated at $54.6 million.Sponsor Posts
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