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Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack, which organizes and delivers drugs to consumers and is licensed in 50 states; PillPack has raised $117.8M in funding — - PillPack packages, organizes and delivers drugs. It sends consumers packages with the specific number of medications they're supposed to take at specific times.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon acquired PillPack in a deal valued at just under $1B; PillPack had been in acquisition talks with Walmart, which was outbid by Amazon — A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition …
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Facebook rolls out a button to show ads a Page is running, even if not targeted to the user, across Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — Facebook today released a new tool that will allow users to see what advertisements a Page is running — whether or not all of those advertisements are targeted at that particular users.
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Twitter makes its Ad Transparency Center, announced before Congressional hearings in October, available to all users — Twitter is unveiling the Ads Transparency Center that it announced back in October. — This comes as Twitter and other online platforms have faced growing political scrutiny around …
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Niantic Labs, which helped develop Pokémon Go, says it will open the underlying AR platform, called Real World Engine, to third-party developers — Niantic Labs, the San Francisco-based game developer responsible for creating the massively successful augmented reality game Pokémon Go …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram adds the ability to add licenced songs as background music for Stories starting today in 51 countries and says it has 400M daily Stories users — The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories.
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Sling TV raises core package price by $5 to $25/month, introduces free content and a la carte channel subscriptions — Sling TV, the first to deliver an over-the-top TV service aimed at cord cutters, is shaking up its business. The company announced today it's raising the base price … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Bird officially announces $300M raise led by Sequoia Capital, its second raise in just a few months — And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively-hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital.
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Researcher: Facebook quiz maker NameTests exposed personal info of ~120M users for years, in a data leak that was fixed after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Ever took a personality test on Facebook? For years, anyone could have accessed your private information, friends, posts and photos.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Norwegian agency report: Facebook and Google manipulate users to share personal data using “dark patterns” despite GDPR; Windows 10 gets a more favorable rating — Despite the new GDPR regulation entering into effect across Europe, Facebook and Google are manipulating users … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon introduces Show Mode in its Fire HD tablets via a software update that turns them into an Echo Show for a hands-free Alexa experience — Amazon wants you to think of your Fire tablet as not just a tablet but a full-fledged Alexa-enabled device — or more precisely, a slimmed down Echo Show.
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Kroger, the US's largest supermarket chain, teams up with Nuro, a two-year-old self-driving startup, to launch driverless delivery service later this fall — Kroger is teaming up with Nuro, a startup founded by two veterans of Google's self-driving team — Kroger, the nation's largest …
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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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| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
Chat app Line will open a crypto exchange next month in Singapore, which will be available in 15 languages to users worldwide except those in US and Japan — - Bitbox will open in July and handle more than 30 virtual coins — Service will be available worldwide, except in Japan and U.S.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Sonos Beam review: the Alexa integration works well, but music sound quality is average for a $400 device, and Google Assistant support has not yet arrived — Exactly what it says it'll do — It's extremely tempting to overthink the Sonos Beam — it's the first really new product …
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| 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 … | 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.
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The Verge, Engadget, Android Police, BuzzFeed, KaiOS, Android Authority, ValueWalk, Firstpost, Ubergizmo, The Register, MediaNama, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, and XDA Developers. Tweets: @jonrussell
| David Henry / Reuters: |
JP Morgan Chase launches Finn by Chase, a mobile only bank account with an app for iOS and an Android version coming by the end of the year — NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N) said on Thursday that it is now offering a digital bank account for smartphones nationally after testing …
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Survey of 4,594 US adults: 72% say it's likely social media firms censor opposing political views; 43% say firms support liberal views over conservative views — A majority of Republicans say technology firms support the views of liberals over conservatives and that social media platforms censor political viewpoints.
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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 … | Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Catalog Technologies, which is based at the Harvard Life Lab, emerges from stealth with $9M in funding to help commercialize its DNA-based data storage method — The practice of encoding data in DNA molecules could be inching closer to graduating from research labs to finding practical commercial use.Sponsor Posts
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