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Google signs licensing deal with LyricFind to display lyrics in search results — Starting today, music publishers and songwriters will have a brand new source of revenue. — Google has signed a multi-year licensing deal with Toronto-based LyricFind to display song lyrics in its search results, both companies announced today.| 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 … | 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 …
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Documents reveal Google's Sidewalk Labs is working on technologies to fix public transit in US — Exclusive: Documents reveal Sidewalk Labs is offering cloud software Flow to Columbus, Ohio, to upgrade bus and parking services - and bring them under Google's management| Adam Jourdan / Reuters: |
New Chinese rules for mobile app developers require user verification with real-name registration and preservation of user activity logs for 60 days — China has tightened rules for mobile app developers including requiring real-name registration and preserving users' activity logs …
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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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| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed: |
The temporary follow feature in Twitter Moments is indispensable when big news hits, but too hard to find — Two major news events unfolded this week with the kind of incremental and quickly evolving updates that made Twitter an ideal place to follow both.| Stephen Gandel / Fortune: |
Behind Citigroup's response to startup competition, Citi FinTech, a 40-person skunkworks team — The mega-bank needs to counter a new wave of financial technology startups. — What he needed was a SWAT team. The week after being put in charge of Citigroup's c consumer banking business last year …
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| 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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| Kevin Kwang / Channel NewsAsia: |
Android Pay launches in Singapore, is available for devices with NFC running Android 4.4 or higher — SINGAPORE: Google's mobile payment system, Android Pay, on Tuesday (Jun 28) joined the mobile payments bandwagon in Singapore, making the city-state the first in Asia to have the system.| 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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| Susan Crawford / Backchannel: |
A look at the payola deals landlords, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), and developers make with the ISPs — When building owners get kickbacks from big providers it's the tenants who lose — I live in an apartment. Chances are good that you do, too: Tens of millions of Americans live …
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