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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google reaches $7.8M out-of-court settlement in Android antitrust case in Russia, which was originally filed by Yandex — Google has reached a settlement with Russia's Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) agency in the antitrust case the Russian search rival Yandex had originally filed …
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FAS Russia, Reuters, Yandex, TASS, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Tech.eu, Associated Press, East-West Digital News, and Seeking Alpha
| Katie Benner / New York Times: |
Leaked documents reveal the hotel industry's plan to combat Airbnb with lobbying, pushing for bills at state level, and funds for anti-Airbnb research — SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, Airbnb underwent a rough regulatory patch. — The short-term rental company became a Federal Trade Commission target …
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SiliconBeat, Engadget, Axios, PYMNTS.com, and Fortune
Tweets: @edwardwalker, @paulg, and @adamholthouse
| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
How Zuckerberg has polished his image to win people over, beginning with greater use of personal FB posts in 2015 and culminating in his current US talking tour — Until recently — , Mark Zuckerberg's most iconic public appearance may have been the image of the young startup founder sweating through …
Tweets: @annehelen, @buzzfeednews, @jacobwe, @martinsfp, @matt_cagle, @nitashatiku, @nxthompson, @glennf, @annehelen, and @kimmaicutler
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Instagram now lets you organize bookmarks into private collections — Instagram will make its bookmarking feature more useful, the company announced this morning, with the introduction of “collections.” The new feature will allow users to organize the posts they save into private groupings for easier access.
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Instagram Blog, VentureBeat, MacRumors, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge, and MacStories
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
AI technique called “generative adversarial networks”, where neural networks are pitted against one another, could lead to unsupervised learning — The day Richard Feynman died, the blackboard in his classroom read: “What I cannot create, I do not understand.”
Tweets: @hadip, @ericschmidt, and @googleresearch
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
How Facebook's shifting priorities and inferior monetization options for Instant Articles are leading some big publishers to abandon the format — Facebook's Instant Articles promised to transform journalism — but now big publishers are fleeing — Inside Facebook's Menlo Park headquarters …
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Axios. Tweets: @seanblanda, @pkafka, @lainnafader, @cyrusshepard, @reckless, @moorehn, @backlon, @rafat, @mathewi, @thomaswilburn, @jayrosen_nyu, @caseynewton, @mhbergen, @the_fjp, @caseynewton, @mdudas, @dannygroner, @jcstearns, @sonyaellenmann, @kbn_au, @mtwelves, @mathewi, and @raju
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Several hours passed before Facebook removed a video of a murder shared on the social network — Facebook took posts down hours later — A Cleveland man is at large after reportedly killing someone and uploading the footage to Facebook. The video appears to show a man identified by police …
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Wired, Variety, TechCrunch, Raw Story, Jezebel, Real Stories, Associated Press, People.com, CBS News, fox8.com, The Hill, Gizmodo, Fortune, NBC News, Network World, CBS New York, USA Today, New York Daily News, and The Next Web
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @reversegremlin, @_lilchen, @sdkstl, @brianstelter, @sdkstl, @jason_kint, and @dannysullivan
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
How Google, Apple, and Microsoft and their operating systems are faring in their fight for the cheap computer market — The war for cheap computers is about to begin — It feels like a long time since we've had a great big knock-down, drag-out operating system battle.
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Gizmodo
| Robert Fenner / Bloomberg: |
China's Ant Financial ups offer for MoneyGram by 36% to $1.2B; MoneyGram board approves deal — Ant Financial raised its agreed offer for MoneyGram International Inc. by 36 percent as the financial-services company controlled by Chinese billionaire Jack Ma tries to top a competing offer.
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Reuters, Tech in Asia, New York Times, MediaNama, and TechCrunch
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
The next Mac Pro should prioritize versatility as aggressive minimalism, among other factors, led to failure of the 2013 Mac Pro — Much of modern Apple's design philosophy is to relentlessly strip down most products to the bare minimum in certain areas as technological progress allows …
Tweets: @devindra, @stevesi, @counternotions, and @mgiraldo
| Marie Mawad / Bloomberg: |
Actility, Paris-based Sigfox competitor in IoT connectivity space, raises $75M Series D from Bosch, Inmarsat, Foxconn, Orange, and others — Actility taking different tack than French rival Sigfox — Startup raised $75 million to target the industrial sector| John D. McKinnon / Wall Street Journal: |
If Ajit Pai moves too fast to roll back net neutrality, he risks a tough court fight; if he goes too slowly, protests could grow as midterm elections near — Moving too fast to kill Obama-era rules risks a court fight, but going too slowly is politically fraught
Tweets: @karlbode
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