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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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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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| 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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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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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.| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and wants to enlist entrepreneurs and small business owners to start their own delivery service networks — Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and promising to support a new wave of small business owners with the launch …
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A look at Facebook's struggle with differentiating between legitimate political campaigns and disinformation ahead of the Mexican election next week — By Elizabeth Dwoskin June 22 Email the author — MEXICO CITY — This spring, a doctored image claiming that the wife … | 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 …
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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.| 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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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff rejects employee petition to cut ties with US Customs and Border Protection, says its software isn't part of agency's border policy — - CEO says company products not used in family separation policy — Benioff responds to employees' letter to revisit contract| 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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Business Insider, The Verge, South China Morning Post, Lyft Blog, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, CNET, Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, Xconomy, CNNMoney, and GeekWire. Tweets: @mdudas
| 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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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Google is taking more steps to curb trolling and ad hominem attacks on internal message boards, passing new rules and empowering forum moderators — Internet giant bans ‘trolling’ on internal message boards and ad hominem attacks against co-workers — Google is trying to quell …
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