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Sources: Apple has set a budget of ~$1B to procure and produce original content over the next year, could acquire and produce as many as 10 TV shows — Company immediately becomes a considerable competitor in crowded market for original shows — Apple Inc. AAPL 1.09% has set a budget …
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| Sheila Dang / Reuters: |
Crowdfunding sites including GoFundMe, Kickstarter, and Indiegogo disallow crowdfunding for Charlottesville murder suspect, with multiple campaigns halted — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online fund-raising sites are turning their backs on activists looking to offer financial support for James Fields …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Sources: Chris Saad, head of Uber's developer platform, leaves company after nearly two years, says cost of losing Kalanick as CEO will be incalculable — Saad has been at Uber since November 2015. — Chris Saad, a product manager of Uber's developer platform, is leaving the company after close to two years, sources tell Recode.| Mark Harris / IEEE Spectrum: |
Texts between Travis Kalanick and Anthony Levandowski surface in Waymo-Uber court case, covering thoughts on Tesla, Otto acquisition, DMV probe, more — The epic court case between Waymo and Uber over self-driving car secrets took a tabloid turn last week, as Waymo's lawyers filed …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Apple, Snap, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, Cisco, and Verizon among firms who filed amicus brief for cellphone location privacy case going before US Supreme Court — In a new amicus brief, tech and telecom companies say law enforcement should have to clear a higher bar to obtain location data.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Allo arrives on the web via Chrome and currently only pairs with Android phones — Google's consumer-facing chat application Allo, a successor of sorts to Gchat, is today available on the web for desktop users. The service, which lets you chat with friends while taking advantage …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram gets threaded comments, and Facebook News Feed gets UI tweaks like bubble-style comments — Taking inspiration from line drawings, Reddit and Messenger, Facebook is overhauling the design of the News Feed to make it more legible, clickable and commentable.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Sources: MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO, has submitted S-1, aims to go public before year end — MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO, TechCrunch has learned. The company has submitted an S-1 filing in the past few weeks and is aiming to go public before the end of the year.
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| Sonya Mann / Inc.com: |
Source: Lyft spending ~$10 per new user, down from $70 in fall 2016; App Annie says Lyft's US app downloads grew 115% while Uber's grew only 25% YoY in Q1 2017 — The smaller startup is acquiring customers at a lower cost and closing the gap of its big bad rival. — WRITE A COMMENT| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
HTC filing with FCC reveals Google Pixel 2 will have an “Active Edge” branded squeeze feature — While this year's Pixel XL successor widely rumored to be manufactured by LG, the smaller Pixel is expected to be again made by HTC. Recent leaks points to the device looking near identical … | Niall McGee / The Globe and Mail: |
SEC filing shows Apple raised CAD $2.5B in its debut Canadian bond sale to fund buybacks and dividends — Apple Inc. has tapped the maple bond market for the first time, raising $2.5-billion, the single biggest offering ever for this unique corner of the debt market.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Qualcomm unveils new Spectra depth-sensing camera tech, expected to be part of the next flagship Snapdragon Mobile Platform — Dual cameras are so passé. Qualcomm is getting ready to define the next generation of cameras for the Android ecosystem.Sponsor Posts
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