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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple announces it's reducing affiliate commissions on apps and in-app purchases from 7% to 2.5% starting May 1 — Today, Apple announced that it is reducing the commissions it pays on apps and In-App Purchases from 7% to 2.5% effective May 1st. The iTunes Affiliate Program pays a commission …
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Waymo to offer free rides in its self-driving minivans to residents of Phoenix, Arizona; users can sign up for the “early rider program” on Waymo's site today — Major milestone for the Google spin-off — Starting today, residents of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area … | Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a crowdfunded news site that will use journalists to write and volunteers to fact check in effort to combat fake news — The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will start integrating Dynamics 365 for Sales with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator in July and announces new HR app called Dynamics 365 for Talent — Microsoft is rolling out a new talent-management application, staking out a space in human-capital management …
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Reuters, The Official Microsoft Blog, Computerworld, LinkedIn, Neowin, TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Forbes, Adweek, TheStreet, MSPoweruser, Petri, and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @satyanadella
| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Atlassian's messaging platform HipChat hacked over weekend: names, email addresses, and hashed passwords may have been exposed — Over the weekend, an unknown intruder broke into HipChat, the Atlassian-owned team communication platform, and made off with a significant amount of data.
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HipChat Blog, CSO, ZDNet, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Register, Engadget, and International Business Times. Tweets: @hipchat
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Xiaomi-backed Yi Technology debuts Yi Halo, a $17K 17-camera VR rig made in partnership with Google that can shoot stereoscopic video in 8K resolution at 30FPS — Plus a promising new 360-degree consumer camera from Yi Technology — Chinese company Yi Technology has made a name for itself …
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Google, Tech Times, Engadget, Technology Personalized, The Next Web, Tech2, 9to5Google, Tubefilter, VRFocus, Fast Company, BGR, International Business Times, Android Central, TechSpot, Phandroid, Android Police, UploadVR, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, Variety, Yahoo! Finance, 9to5Google, and CNET. Tweets: @claybavor
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says it now has 500M members in 200 countries, up from 467M in October 2016; it has 9M+ companies and 10M+ jobs listed — Now that LinkedIn is a part of Microsoft (after closing its $26.2 billion acquisition in December), the social networking site for the working world no longer reports earnings …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, Digital Trends, Adweek, MediaNama, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, VatorNews, LinkedIn Newsroom, CNET, Forbes, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechSpot, Mashable, GeekWire, The Next Web, Windows Central, Fortune, BetaNews, On MSFT, VentureBeat, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @kantrowitz and @adamsinger
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Source: Square acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak, which had raised ~$74M in total funding, for less than $3M — Company pays less than $3 million for small team of engineers — The deal is a sign of the once high-flying app's decline — Square Inc. acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak …
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Forbes, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Neowin, and PYMNTS.com
Tweets: @caseynewton and @kantrowitz
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile reports net income of $698M, up 46% YoY, and says it gained 914K post-paid customers in Q1, amid Verizon's loss of 289K post-paid customers — The carrier's move to eliminate all options except for its T-Mobile One unlimited data plan didn't slow its momentum down.
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T-Mobile Newsroom, T-Mobile, ZDNet, Android Central, BGR, GeekWire, PhoneDog.com, Tech Trader Daily, TmoNews, Reuters, and Fortune
Tweets: @johnlegere, @rogerwcheng, @rogerwcheng, and @rogerwcheng
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber — Sorry not sorry. — That's the tone of the apology posted by Unroll.me, an email decluttering service which takes a look at the subscriptions clogging up your inbox …
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Unroll.Me Blog, The Verge, BuzzFeed, New York Times, Wired, Daring Fireball, SiliconANGLE, TECHSEEN, TechSpot, CNNMoney, Memex 1.1, The Register, Yahoo! Finance, Naked Security, Gizmodo, Ars Technica UK, Neowin, Softpedia News, CNET, East Bay Times, The Intercept, Engadget, International Business Times, TechnoBuffalo, Nextgov, The Verge, Digg, The Daily Dot, CNBC, miamiherald, The Guardian, and CNET
Tweets: @waxpancake, @samfbiddle, @wbm312, @gaberivera, @unrollme, @seldo, and @ashk4n
| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
DJI's new FPV headset, called DJI Goggles, lets you control your drone with head movements, shipping after May 20 for $499 — When DJI announced the Mavic Pro last year they also teased a pair of FPV goggles that could be used to see first-person video from DJI's drones.
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The Verge, Fone Arena, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, and Engadget
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon has created a team for self-driving tech, which focuses not on building vehicles but on how to leverage them — Group could help retailer deliver packages quickly as it builds out its supply chain and logistics network — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.39% has created a team focused …
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Engadget, Fortune, Ubergizmo, Tech2, SiliconANGLE, International Business Times, USA Today, Quartz, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, SlashGear, Consumerist, Business Insider, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @wsjbusiness
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