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Pandora's stock up 16% on reports of a possible sale; sources say Sirius XM approached the company again and Pandora has reached out to other potential suitors — Board hasn't responded to new engagement from Greg Maffei — Pandora advisers have begun soliciting interest from buyers
| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Sources: Facebook is working on Collections, a feature to showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed — Facebook is working on a new feature that will showcase lists of curated content from publishers directly in the News Feed, according to two people familiar …
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BuzzFeed, Digiday, VentureBeat, Breitbart, Fortune, Engadget, Mashable, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, Investor's Business Daily, iPhone in Canada Blog, and SocialTimes
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Thanks:@lexnfx. See also Mediagazer| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
Researchers bypass Apple's Activation Lock on iPhone and iPad running the latest version of iOS — Researchers have found a bug that can be used to bypass Apple's Activation Lock feature and gain access to the homescreen of locked iPhones and iPads running the latest version of iOS.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: key executive for Apple health initiatives, Yoky Matsuoka, has left the company after joining in May — Yoky Matsuoka joined Apple in May to help lead health projects — Previously co-founded Google X, ran technology at Nest Labs — Yoky Matsuoka, who joined Apple Inc …
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GeekWire, Silicon Valley Business …, AppleInsider, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @markgurman and @markgurman
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
FCC reaches preliminary conclusion that AT&T is violating net neutrality with DirecTV data cap exemption — Verizon also in trouble with FCC over charging competitors for zero-rating. — The Federal Communications Commission has reached a preliminary conclusion that AT&T …
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The Verge, Engadget, Associated Press, SiliconBeat, TechCrunch, BGR, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Forbes, Digital Trends, Business Insider, ZDNet, and The Verge. See also Mediagazer
| Geoffrey Smith / Fortune: |
Airbnb will limit entire home rentals to 60 days a year in Amsterdam and 90 days in London, unless hosts have a license to rent for longer — Home-sharing firm Airbnb said it will for the first time impose fixed limits on the number of nights a year that hosts can rent out their homes through its site in Amsterdam and London.
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Wall Street Journal, london.airbnbcitizen.com, TheStreet.com, GeekWire, Amsterdam.nl, CNET, Associated Press, Morning Consult, City A.M., London Evening Standard, BelfastTelegraph.co.uk, The Hill, amsterdam.airbnbcitizen.com, GeekWire, BBC, Engadget, Mashable, Bloomberg, and Business Insider
Tweets: @nealkwatra and @kfrenken
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Chrome 55 for desktop starts rolling out, blocking Flash even further by defaulting to HTML5; sites that only support Flash and top 10 sites are exempted — Over the past year, Google Chrome has been implementing a multi-phase plan to de-emphasize Adobe Flash.
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Google Chrome Releases, TechSpot, Laptop Mag, SlashGear, and Engadget
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Steve Kondik leaves Cyanogen Inc., blames co-founder and CEO Kirt McMaster for company's troubles, ponders what's next for CyanogenMod — Steve Kondik has left a statement about the rather troubling news coming out of Cyanogen Inc. this week on the [private] official CyanogenMod developer Google+ community …
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cyngn.com, AndroidGuys, PhoneArena, Android Beat, Gear, Inquirer, and Droid Life. Tweets: @cyanogen
| Zac Bowden / Windows Central: |
Sources: Microsoft developing Home Hub software feature for Windows 10 to compete with Google Home and Amazon Echo — Microsoft's connected home ambitions with Home Hub lay far beyond just competing with Amazon and Google. — Rumors regarding a new Windows 10 feature called “Home Hub” … | William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits CEO David Sacks confirms he's stepping down, says search for new CEO has begun; one source says he's open to working in the Trump administration — David Sacks is giving up the CEO job less than a year after taking over amid a legal scandal. — David Sacks, the CEO of Zenefits … | Diane Bartz / Reuters: |
Obama prohibits German semiconductor equipment maker Aixtron from selling its US based business to a Chinese investment fund, citing national security risks — President Barack Obama issued an executive order which prohibits China's Fujian Grand Chip Investment Fund from acquiring …
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Wall Street Journal, The Seattle Times, and Bloomberg
| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Airbnb and New York City settle suit over short-term rentals after city agrees to fine hosts and not the company for illegal listings — Airbnb has capitulated to the demands of lawmakers over its operations in New York City, the company's largest market in the United States …
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Reuters, Bloomberg, New York Daily News, New York Post, and Wall Street Journal
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