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Oprah Winfrey signs multiyear non-exclusive deal for new original programs with Apple; Winfrey is expected to have an on-screen role as host and interviewer — Oprah shares her secrets to success with graduates — Apple has signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs.
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Tweets: @mgsiegler, @recode, @lucas_shaw, @thr, @thr, @caro_milanesi, and @tim
| Muyao Shen / CoinDesk: |
Block.one finally launches EOS blockchain but many in the crypto community remain skeptical about project's centralization and its prospects — After a messy weeks-long process, CoinDesk broke the news yesterday that the EOS blockchain is officially live. — To some, it's already an event for the cryptocurrency history books.
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Tweets: @eosnewyork, @brandonlovejoy, @ummjackson, @excellion, @matt_odell, and @lopp
| Steve LeVine / Axios: |
JD.com's new Shanghai fulfillment center ships 200,000 orders per day and employs four people to service the robots — JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce gargantuan, has built a big new Shanghai fulfillment center that can organize, pack and ship 200,000 orders a day. It employs four people — all of whom service the robots.
Tweets: @khanoisseur
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Crown, a Match Group dating app made by a team of millennial women that lets users pick daily winners to chat with by a process of elimination, launches in LA — If you're already resentful of online dating culture and how it turned finding companionship into a game, you may not be quite ready for this …
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| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Some mass email marketing firms complain they cannot get most of the people in mailing lists to check their emails and may lose ~80% of them due to EU's GDPR — - The GDPR requires companies to send emails to people on their mailing list who have never bought anything, asking permission to keep emailing them.| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Letting AT&T buy Time Warner was wrong since it conflated internet platforms with providers after the government made a weak case — Let's read 170 pages of dunking on Professor Carl Shapiro together — AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week …
Tweets: @gigibsohn and @reckless
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Samsung ordered to pay $400M by US federal jury for willful infringement on a patent for FinFET chip manufacturing technology owned by a South Korean university — - Dispute is over a way to make chips smaller, more efficient — University claimed Samsung used the technology without paying
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| Michael del Castillo / Forbes: |
AlphaPoint raises $15M Series A from Novogratz's Galaxy Digital to help build cryptoasset exchanges and digitize assets like gold and real estate via blockchain — Forbes Staff I cover enterprise adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency. … Famed hedge fund trader and bitcoin evangelist … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Avalara, a Seattle-based sales tax automation cloud startup, closes up 87% on its first day of trading, after raising $180M in its IPO at $2B+ valuation — Forbes Staff Covering venture capital, software and startups — Wall Street's lovefest with cloud computing companies continued …
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Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's alleged right-hand man Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, extradited to US after 2.5+ years in Thai custody — Roger Thomas Clark had previously told Ars: “They don't have shit on me.” — The Department of Justice announced Friday … | Josh Millard / MetaTalk: |
MetaFilter considers subscription-based and community-funded models as it discloses that it's running at an $8,000/month deficit in financial update — Important site updates, folks: — 1. The site is running at a significant deficit and we urgently need to make that up.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than with pricier OLEDs in its fall lineup, plans to release at least one LCD model in 2019 — Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than pricey OLED models in its coming lineup: sources
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Tweets: @mochi_wsj and @mochi_wsj
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