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After burying elimination of free plan in ToS update, Photobucket starts demanding $400/year for hosted images, kills client links on Amazon, eBay, other sites — Denver photo-sharing site says it needs to find “sustainable business” … Denver-based Photobucket on Thursday …
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Waymo drops 3 of 4 patent infringement claims against Uber, says Uber no longer uses infringing tech; bulk of the case related to trade secrets theft remains — Waymo, Alphabet Inc.'s self-driving car division, dropped three of four patent infringement claims in its lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc …
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| Dan Levine / Reuters: |
Magistrate judge ruling orders Waymo to disclose details of its deal with Lyft to Uber — A U.S. judge on Friday ruled that Alphabet Inc's self-driving car unit Waymo must disclose documents to attorneys representing Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] about Waymo's partnership with Lyft Inc … | Joyce Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics forecasts record quarterly profit of ~$12B in Q2, up 72% year-over-year — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) on Friday said its second-quarter operating profit likely rose 72 percent from a year earlier to a new record, beating analyst estimates, as strong memory chip prices helped widen margins.
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois departs amid layoffs; Kurt DelBene named chief digital officer — Microsoft's Chief Information Officer Jim DuBois has left his post, the company confirmed Friday. — DuBois was on sabbatical and decided to leave Microsoft as part of the reorganization of its global sales staff …
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| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Facebook proposes Willow Campus, “mixed-use village” expansion to its Menlo Park campus with office buildings, housing, retail space, and a grocery store — The proposed village includes offices, home, a grocery store, and parks and plazas — MENLO PARK — Aiming …
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| Cory Doctorow / Electronic Frontier Foundation: |
Amid Unprecedented Controversy, W3C Greenlights DRM for the Web — Early today, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standards body publicly announced its intention to publish Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)—a DRM standard for web video—with no safeguards whatsoever for accessibility …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Google and Facebook confirm they will join other companies in a July 12 “day of action” opposing the FCC's plan to change net neutrality rules — The fight over net neutrality just got more interesting as two tech giants said they will step off the sidelines and join a so-called …
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| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Qualcomm asks US ITC to ban imports of certain iPhone models using Intel components due to infringement of 6 patents that it claims are not standard-essential — Chipmaker claims infringement by some models and seeks ‘cease and desist’ order — Read next
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| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Comma.ai announces Panda, an $88 OBDII dongle that records car performance data, cloud dashcam app Chffr, and Cabana software to interpret collected data — George Hotz, aka geohot, is fidgeting in his living room, wearing dark shades and a giant comma on his t-shirt as he shows … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
After a total of $20M in VC funding, Omise raises $25M in an ICO to build new Ethereum-based p2p payments platform Omise Go — By now you've probably heard of ICOs. The alternative fundraising option has been used to raise more than $500 million in funding this year alone … | Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Dark web market AlphaBay down since Tuesday, prompting fears of law enforcement action or theft of user funds; admins claim the site is down for maintenance — SAN FRANCISCO — The largest online black market for drugs, AlphaBay, has been down for nearly two days, raising questions about whether …
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