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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
San Francisco-based food delivery startup Sprig, which raised over $56M, says it is shutting down today — San Francisco food delivery startup Sprig will be shutting down on Friday, Business Insider has learned. — The company had raised over $56 million from Silicon Valley's top investors for its new spin on food delivery.
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The Information, TechCrunch, and Axios
| Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Change.org raises $30M led by LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman; Sam Altman and Bill Gates invest too — In 2006, newly minted Stanford grad Ben Rattray sat at a Starbucks in Silicon Valley, pitching LinkedIn founder and early Facebook investor Reid Hoffman to fund his idea for a political website.
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LinkedIn and Yahoo! Finance
| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Lyft officially launches a dedicated app for its drivers, allows drivers to schedule pickups in advance, offers extra bonuses for pickups in high-demand areas — Uber and Lyft drivers are often at the whims of the app that dictates what rides are coming in.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
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Bloomberg, PYMNTS.com, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, SiliconANGLE, Tech Times, Android Police, Business Insider, SlashGear, Mashable, TechSpot, and Recode. Tweets: @alex
| Matt Brian / Engadget: |
Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with Dublin-based CoderDojo Foundation, which has over 1,250 coding clubs in 69 countries — Raspberry Pi's credit card-sized computers have helped kickstart a coding revolution. Thanks to their low cost, major companies like Google and VMWare …
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Raspberry Pi, ZDNet, VentureBeat, bit-tech.net, BetaNews, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, The Tech Portal, TechSpot, and Inquirer
Tweets: @coderdojo and @raspberry_pi
| Marc Schneider / Billboard: |
Tidal confirms the departure of CEO Jeff Toig; source says he exited in March — A replacement for Toig, who was the company's third CEO since its launch, will be announced soon. — Jay Z's music streaming service Tidal has confirmed the departure of Jeff Toig, its third chief executive in two years.| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
T-Mobile's Digits, which lets users make/take calls with same phone number on all their devices, launches on May 31 for free, with a second line costing $10/mo. — T-Mobile's DIGITS, which allows subscribers to mix & match with multiple numbers across multiple devices, is rolling it to all its customers from May 31.
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AndroidGuys, International Business Times, Droid Life, TechSpot, YouTube, BetaNews, Tech Times, iPhone Hacks, AppAdvice.com, Android Central, Phandroid, Newsroom, The Verge, Android Police, ZDNet, GeekWire, BGR, AndroidHeadlines.com, Digital Trends, 9to5Mac, Wireless Week, Tom's Guide, CNET, Liliputing, Pocketnow, PhoneArena, Fierce Wireless, TmoNews, Bloomberg, PC Magazine, PhoneDog.com, Android Authority, and Fortune. Tweets: @arrington
| The Local: |
A court in Rome lifts a ban issued in April that blocked the Uber Black service across Italy — The Local — A court in Rome has lifted a ban blocking the Uber Black service across Italy, which had been in place since April 7th. — The initial ban upheld a complaint filed by taxi unions …
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Reuters
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Circle Media, maker of Circle with Disney device that pairs with a Wi-Fi network to give parents control over kids' web access, announces $10M Series A — Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney - a device that helps parents enforce their home's internet rules and restrictions …
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Building Circle, Portland Business Journal, socalTECH.com, and PYMNTS.com
| Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: |
Qualcomm agrees to pay BlackBerry $940M for royalty fees smartphone maker overpaid between 2010 and 2015 — Qualcomm has agreed to pay the full amount on or before May 31. — BlackBerry revealed Friday that it has reached a final settlement agreement with Qualcomm for $940 million.
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Seeking Alpha, MarketWatch, BlackBerry, Seeking Alpha, Fortune, and The Tech Portal
| Lulu Yilun Chen / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Alibaba to invest $1B+ in Chinese food-delivery service Ele.me, valuing the company at $5.5B to $6B — Ele.me said to be valued at $5.5 billion to $6 billion — The Chinese food delivery service competes with Meituan — Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and its financial services affiliate plan …
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Business Insider, Retail Dive, TheStreet, The Tech Portal, and Tech in Asia. Tweets: @luluyilun
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Stripe debuts Express accounts for Connect, allowing sellers to sign up to marketplaces in under “two minutes”, and rolls out new payment routing infrastructure — Stripe, the fast-growing fintech startup that's now worth around $9 billion, has announced that it's making it easier … | Oliver Darcy / CNNMoney: |
Lauren Kern, executive editor at New York magazine, is leaving to become first-ever editor in chief of Apple News — Apple News is getting its first ever editor in chief. — Lauren Kern will leave her role as executive editor of New York Magazine on June 2nd for the Cupertino-based company …
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Fortune, The Hill, MacDailyNews, Axios, Nieman Lab, The Mac Observer, and Politico
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