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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
California Supreme Court rules that Yelp can't be forced to remove negative reviews from users, overturning a lower court's decision against the company — Businesses can't sue Yelp to get defamatory reviews removed, California's Supreme Court has ruled. The decision overturns …
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CSO, Yelp, New York Times, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, The Next Web, The Mac Observer, Hit & Run, The Hill, Technology & …, CNET, NBC News, and Fortune
Tweets: @randfish, @daphnehk, and @alisonfrankel
| Matthew Townsend / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon plans to send a physical holiday toy catalog to millions of US households this year as it incorporates traditional retailers' strategies — - Move is part of push to gain market share of defunct toy chain — Printed toy guide to be mailed and handed out at Whole Foods| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber and Careem are in preliminary talks to combine their Middle Eastern ride hailing services — - Uber seeks majority stake in Middle Eastern rival, sources say — Careem is raising money at a reported $1.5 billion valuation — Uber Technologies Inc. and Careem Networks FZ …
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TechCrunch, Telegraph, Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, and Reuters
Tweets: @faseehmangi and @viviannereim
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018 — Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.
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The Verge, Engadget, Fast Company, Digital Trends, Pocket-lint, Fortune, TechSpot, and CNET. Thanks:@kslosh
| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
A look at changes WhatsApp can make to curb misinformation after violence in India, including making messages private by default and forwarding only by consent — With over 200 million users in India, WhatsApp has a massive Fake News and misinformation problem.
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Reuters, The Next Web, ThePrint, SiliconANGLE, BuzzFeed, Firstpost, MediaNama, CNN, NDTV.com, SludgeFeed, and Washington Post
Tweets: @shivaroor, @theromit, and @saliltripathi
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
German privacy-focused organizations Zwiebelfreunde, a nonprofit that runs Tor relay servers, and Chaos Computer Club say police raided their offices and homes — Two privacy-focused organizations have accused today German police of carrying out raids at their offices and members' private homes …
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torservers.net blog, Chaos Computer Club Updates, and ZDNet
Tweets: @zackwhittaker and @ramyraoof
| Adrian Chen / New Yorker: |
Profile of Paul Denino, an “IRL” streamer who goes by Ice Poseidon and streams most of his life on YouTube, often with serious consequences — When your job is to constantly share your life, even your worst moments are an opportunity to please your audience.
Tweets: @drbrake, @nuclearteeth, @shelbygrad, @adrianchen, @aaronpcalvin, and @realiceposeidon
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
US provides ZTE temporary authorization through August 1 to continue supporting equipment and consumer devices already deployed — So it can update phones and other equipment — The US Commerce Department has temporarily lifted a portion of the ban on ZTE that all-but shut down the company almost three months ago.
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Android Police, Bloomberg, 9to5Google, CNET, SiliconANGLE, US Department of Commerce, Reuters, Fortune, The Register, Gizmodo, Engadget, BGR, The Hill, and Android Central. Tweets: @jessicastonetv
| New York Times: |
Amid the boom in AI, Silicon Valley's tech giants have taken their talent hunt for engineers and researchers to Cambridge, UK — A boom in artificial intelligence research has drawn the tech industry's biggest companies and their checkbooks to the storied English city.
Tweets: @nytimes, @matthausk, @cademetz, @professorshaw, and @satariano
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Facebook's political ads disclosure rules enforcement blocks ads for firms, from waxing salons to Walmart, using words “bush” and “Clinton”, a common town name — Blaine Simons last month paid Facebook to run an ad for his lawn-mowing company, Al Mowit, in Rapid City, South Dakota.
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Digiday, USA Today, and The Hill
Tweets: @sarahfrier, @cczona, @jekeep, @issielapowsky, @ericgeller, @xayelet, @cwarzel, @starsandstripes, and @deaneckles
| Zaid Shoorbajee / Cyberscoop: |
Maryland-based cyber security company Tenable, which has raised $300M, files for an IPO and says it had $187.7M revenue in 2017, up 53% YoY — Tenable announced on Friday that it has officially submitted plans to become a publicly traded company. — The Columbia, Maryland …
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americaninno.com, Washington …, MarketWatch, and SiliconANGLE
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
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