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Sources: DOJ's probe into the Cambridge Analytica scandal has broadened to focus on the actions and statements of Facebook; FBI, SEC, and FTC are also involved — A federal investigation into Facebook's sharing of data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica has broadened to focus …
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CNNMoney, Gizmodo, Engadget, New York Times, The Hill, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Axios, CNBC, CNET, Slate, The Verge, Fast Company, Wall Street Journal, Silicon Republic, and Forbes
Tweets: @jason_kint, @profcarroll, and @matthewstoller
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Makers of email software like Return Path and Edison Software let their employees read users' email, a practice they say is covered by user agreements — Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services — Google said a year ago …
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Forbes, The Verge, AppleInsider, iMore, INSIDER, CNET, Page Array, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Android Authority, Business Insider, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, and reddit.com
Tweets: @milenarodban, @wsj, @lutherlowe, @timodc, and @cheddar
| Facebook: |
Facebook is shutting down Android contacts app Hello, fitness tracking app Moves, and anonymous teen social media app tbh due to “low usage” — We wanted to let you know that we are shutting down three apps due to low usage: Moves, tbh and Hello.
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The Verge, Business Insider, Engadget, Ubergizmo, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Axios, and 9to5Google
Tweets: @mgsiegler and @codybrown
| New York Times: |
Lyft is buying the core operations of Motivate, parent of CitiBike; the business will be renamed Lyft Bikes and keep contracts with NYC and seven other cities — Lyft competes with Uber for ride-hailing customers. Now it is following its rival into bike-sharing, as the companies move …
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Lyft Blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, Quartz, SludgeFeed, Adweek, CityLab, Mashable, Fortune, and Austin Business Journal
Tweets: @lyft, @a_w_gordon, @citylab, @logangreen, @ericpauldennis, @sallyshin, and @amir
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service now throttles personal hotspot usage on its “unlimited” plan to 600kbps and caps videos at 480p quality unless users pay extra — Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service is imposing new speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage …
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Digital Trends, The Verge, SlashGear, reddit.com, FierceWireless, KnowTechie, BGR, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and Fortune
Tweets: @webjedi, @fark, @omgdadno, and @johnlegere
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out its “all caught up” feature; sources: Facebook and Instagram are developing Do Not Disturb features to let users better manage notifications — Instagram is turning the Time Well Spent philosophy into features to help users avoid endless scrolling and distraction by notifications.
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Instagram, The Verge, Engadget, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, KnowTechie, Adweek, SlashGear, Phone Scoop, Neowin, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, 9to5Google, and Mashable
Tweets: @sarahintampa and @kateconger
| Annie Gowen / Washington Post: |
Mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp messages continue to sweep India as authorities struggle to combat fake news; five were killed by a rumor-driven mob on Sunday — NEW DELHI — Five people were killed by a mob in India on Sunday after rumors spread on social media that they were child traffickers …
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Engadget, Times of India, Hindustan Times, CNET, and BBC
Tweets: @caseynewton, @pritishnandy, @bentaub91, @nidhi, @karlbode, @anniegowen, @rama_rajeswari, @anniegowen, and @mhbergen
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
DirecTV Now prices go up by $5/month, but two months ago, AT&T said in a court filing that buying Time Warner would “enable the merged company to reduce prices” — Most DirecTV Now prices go up $5 a month, weeks after AT&T bought Time Warner.
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CNBC, Gizmodo, CNBC, Dallas Morning News, Droid Life, reddit.com, and CordCutters. Tweets: @matthewstoller
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla's SVP of engineering Doug Field is officially leaving the company, after Tesla characterized his initial departure in May as a “leave of absence” — Doug Field's departure is latest of several high-level executive exits in the last two years
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Tesla, Inc., Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, Bloomberg, CNBC, and Axios
| Facebook: |
Facebook says it's notifying ~800,000 users who were hit by a bug in Facebook and Messenger from May 29 to June 5 that unblocked some people they had blocked — Starting today we are notifying over 800,000 users about a bug in Facebook and Messenger that unblocked some people they had blocked.
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Fast Company, The Hill, CNBC, The Verge, Business Insider, Associated Press, Gizmodo, Slate, SlashGear, Recode, Marketing Land, Neowin, Adweek, BGR, Quartz, CNET, KnowTechie, Engadget, Mashable, Thurrott.com, Axios, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @facebook, @mattrosoff, and @joshconstine
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Anthony Levandowski, the entrepreneur at the heart of the Uber/Waymo trial, is involved with Kache.ai, an autonomous trucking company still in stealth — This is a comeback story. Or at least the first chapter to one. — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer … | Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Coinbase's cryptocurrency custodial service for institutional customers, Coinbase Custody, announced in November 2017, is now open for business — Coinbase's cryptocurrency custody service is officially open for business, the company announced on its blog today.
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The Coinbase Blog, SiliconANGLE, Bitcoin Magazine, SludgeFeed, Bitsonline, and CryptoGlobe. Tweets: @coinbase
| Reuters: |
HTC plans to cut around a quarter of its global workforce, or 1,500 jobs, at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan; layoffs will be completed by the end of September — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit …
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TechCrunch, CNET, Mashable, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Road to VR, Inquirer, CRN, Android and Me, The Register, Android Central, UploadVR, Digital Trends, The Verge, Engadget, Android Authority, Android Beat, SlashGear, Fortune, Android Police, 9to5Google, and reddit.com
Tweets: @samsonellis and @somospostpc
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Citymapper adds dockless bikes and electric scooters to its app globally including Bird scooters in San Francisco and Ofo bikes in London — Citymapper has been adding a multitude of transport options to its popular city transit app over the past few weeks, with dockless bikes and motorized scooters now appearing globally.
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Citymapper and Engadget
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell announces it will become a public company again by subsuming its tracking stock DVMT in a cash and share-swap deal worth $21.7B — - Dell to offer DVMT shareholders Dell stock or cash buyout — Total deal size comes to $21.7 billion, Dell to list on NYSE
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TechCrunch, Dell Technologies …, ZDNet, The Verge, Silicon Valley Business …, Light Reading, eWeek, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Dell Technologies, Wall Street Journal, The Register, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Financial Times, CNET, Windows Central, Axios, Reuters, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @financialtimes
| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
As Ripple tries to promote XRP use via giveaways and a $300M fund to pay firms for using it, the company raises the risk of XRP being categorized as a security — SAN FRANCISCO — You may have seen the actor and part-time tech investor Ashton Kutcher present $4 million worth of digital coins called XRP …
Tweets: @nathanielpopper and @nathanielpopper
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