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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 … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
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 7 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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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.
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| 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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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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| Anna Hensel / VentureBeat: |
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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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
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 … | Chloe Aiello / CNBC: |
Twitter is reorganizing its teams into groups, like engineering, instead of individual products; Kayvon Beykpour, former Periscope CEO, named head of product — - Ed Ho, who has been on leave since May, explained in a series of tweets his decision was based largely on an unexpected family loss.| 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 …
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Tweets: @finnmyrstad and @pernillet
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
The California Consumer Privacy Act, one of the toughest data privacy bills in the US, has been signed into law — California lawmakers passed one of the toughest data privacy bills in the United States today, as they faced pressure from an even stronger ballot measure in the state.
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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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| 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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VentureBeat, The Verge, Amazon.com, Android Police, Neowin, Pocketnow, Voicebot, SlashGear, BetaNews, Android Authority, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, GeekWire, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @dcseifert
| 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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LINE Corporation, TechCrunch, NewsBTC, CoinDesk, PaymentsSource, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, Fortune, and Bitcoinist.com. Tweets: @jonrussell
| 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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The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Guardian, 9to5Mac, Wired, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, and Engadget
Tweets: @reckless, @ow, and @benbajarin
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
China's Tsinghua University to launch an AI research center in collaboration with Google, Tencent, and others; Google's AI chief Jeff Dean is an advisor — Today at Google's AI Symposium in Beijing, Tsinghua University revealed plans to open a center for artificial intelligence research and development in China.
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| 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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