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China's state broadcaster calls iPhone's location tracking a “national security concern” — China Calls iPhone a Security Risk — State-run China Central Television has labeled Apple's iPhone location-tracking feature a “national security concern,” in the latest backlash against U.S. technology companies.
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Google's top lawyer describes challenges in implementing EU's Right To Be Forgotten, urges public debate — We need to talk about the right to be forgotten — After the European court ruling, we at Google want to encourage debate on where the public interest lies in restricting web searches| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
SoundCloud in licensing talks with major labels, may give each revenue split and a 3-5% stakes at $500-600M valuation — SoundCloud Said to Near Deals With Record Labels — The largest record labels are closing in on a deal for a stake in buzzy digital-music service SoundCloud Ltd. …
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How to Miss By a Mile: An Alternative Look at Uber's Potential Market Size — On June 18, Aswath Damodaran, a finance professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, published an article on FiveThirtyEight titled “Uber Isn't Worth $17 Billion.” This post was a shortened version of a more detailed post …
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Lyft hit with restraining orders from NY Attorney General, Taxi Commission — The service was set to give free rides to locals starting this week — The New York Attorney General and the Taxi and Limousine Commission filed temporary restraining orders against ridesharing company Lift today …
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FCC Approves Controversial $2 Billion School Wi-Fi Plan — Schools will soon be able to apply for grants from a $2 billion fund to help pay for Wi-Fi networks in schools under a plan approved Friday by federal regulators. — The Federal Communications Commission voted to set aside funds … | Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo: Apple's sapphire-covered ‘iWatch’ to enter mass production in November — Noted analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, who has provided relatively accurate information on future Apple product plans in the past (but frequent misses on timing), has issued a new report today indicating … | Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Amazon sidesteps French ban on free shipping by charging a penny — France's “anti-Amazon” law prohibiting free shipping and discounts has now gone into effect, and Amazon quickly announced that it had conformed — technically. Though it no longer ships books for free, it only charges 0.01 euro … | Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Salesforce Buys Big Data Startup RelateIQ For Up To $390M — The motto at Salesforce.com seems to be if you can't beat them, buy them. This time the exact target of Salesforce.com's $390 million desires is the scrappy startup RelateIQ, which uses searches of unstructured data from email …
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Google Maps for iOS adds mapped search results and Gmail appointments, more — Google today updated its Maps application for iPhone and iPad to version 3.2 introducing new features and improvements. — The latest version of Google Maps now supports viewing search results with descriptions directly on the map view.
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Vidyo raises $20M Series E to bring video apps to Internet of Things, total funding now $139M — Vidyo Raises Still More Money for Video Ambitions — Vidyo CEO Ofer Shapiro says his company has been taking in revenue for six years, enough time for many companies to start funding operations with sales alone.
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Amazon takes on Azure with identity syncing service Cognito and Amazon Mobile Analytics — Amazon takes aim at Microsoft Azure with new Mobile Services push — Amazon wants make it easier for mobile app developers to integrate cloud services into their apps.
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