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Apple and Samsung settle seven-year long patent fight over copying the iPhone; terms of the settlement were not disclosed — Apple and Samsung have finally put an end to their long-running patent battle whose central question was whether Samsung copied the iPhone.
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| Jessica Toonkel / The Information: |
Sources: Apple is considering a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service, and magazine articles — Apple is considering creating a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service and magazine articles …
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| Andrew Dalton / Associated Press: |
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre owe former partner Steven Lamar $25.2M in Beats headphones royalties, a jury in Los Angeles decided Wednesday — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Wednesday found that Dr. Dre, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and their headphone company Beats Electronics owe a former partner $25.2 million in royalties.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Lite for Android appears on the Google Play Store at 573KB in size, which is 1/55th the size of Instagram's 32MB main app — Instagram's future growth depends on the developing world, so it's built a version of its app just for them. “Instagram Lite” for Android appeared today …
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| George Burduli / XDA Developers: |
YouTube starts rolling out its picture-in-picture mode, previously available only to YouTube Red/Premium users, to all users in US running Android Oreo or above — Google added picture-in-picture mode support for Android smartphones back in 2017 with the release of Android Oreo.
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Exactis, a marketing and data aggregation firm, allegedly exposed a database of ~340M individual records with phone numbers, addresses, more on a public server — YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of the marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis. But it may well have heard of you.| TechCrunch: |
Google leads $22M Series A in feature phone OS KaiOS, which powers over 40M phones made by OEMs including Nokia, Micromax, and Alcatel — Google is turning startup investor to further its goal of putting Google services like search, maps, and its voice assistant front and center for the next billion internet users in emerging markets.| The Information: |
Sources: Snap to launch a platform later this year to let outside developers create games that can be played in Snapchat — In the past few months, Snap has been lightly dipping its toe into the waters of gaming. Later this year, it's going to take the plunge.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey dined with and consulted Ted Cruz, Mercedes Schlapp, Sean Hannity, and others to assuage complaints of liberal bias — Twitter and Facebook are scrambling to assuage conservative leaders who have sounded alarms — and sought to rile voters …
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| Steven Musil / CNET: |
DOJ says first nationwide undercover operation targeting darknet vendors has resulted in arrests of 35 people suspected of selling illicit goods on the darknet — After a yearlong sting operation, US law enforcement officials have arrested 35 people suspected of selling “illicit goods” … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to a small group of “trusted testers” and businesses that have opted in to receiving calls from Duplex — Google is moving ahead with Duplex, the stunningly human-sounding artificial intelligence software behind its new automated system …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Lyft has raised $600M in new funding led by existing investor Fidelity at a post-money valuation of $15.1B — Lyft has raised $600 million in new funding led by existing investor Fidelity at a valuation of $15.1 billion post-money, up from $11.7 billion at the previous round.
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| Tom Korosec / Bloomberg: |
Judge cuts ZeniMax's Oculus win in half to $250M, rejects ZeniMax's request to ban sales of Oculus headsets — - ZeniMax loses request for court order banning Oculus sales — Mark Zuckerberg made early bet on virtual reality headsets — Facebook Inc. won a ruling that halved … Sponsor Posts
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