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Delhi Government bans Uber, says it is misleading customers — NEW DELHI: The Delhi Government has acted after the rape incident involving a 25-year-old woman in Delhi and has issued an order on Monday banning the services of Uber India in Delhi, saying it is misleading customers.
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| Sriram Krishnan / Medium: |
Uninformed reactions to the Uber rape case in India play to existing biases — In defense of Uber in India — It's pretty frustrating to follow the press coverage of Uber rape case in India on sides of the world. What is a terrible tragedy—the details are awful and stomach churning …
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YouTube offers some of its stars bonuses to post exclusively to the service for a limited time before posting to rivals — YouTube Offering Its Stars Bonuses — Google Inc.'s YouTube unit is racing to lock up its top stars as rival online video services court them aggressively.
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Google releases Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its IDE — After two years of development, Google today released Android Studio 1.0, the first stable version of its Integrated Development Environment (IDE) aimed at Android developers. You can download it right now for Windows … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Brings Graph Search To Mobile And Lets You Find Feed Posts By Keyword — Facebook is finally getting serious about search. Today it's challenging Google for finding answers and Twitter for checking real-time chatter with the launch of keyword search.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider: |
Amazon Has A Plan To Deliver Your Packages In Only One Hour If You Live In New York City — Amazon has been testing the idea of using bike messengers to help deliver packages within an hour in New York City, sources tell The Wall Street Journal. — The program — called Amazon Prime Now … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures Is A Fund For Investing In ‘World-Positive’ Startups — Serial entrepreneur Ev Williams has made a fortune over the years, and now wants to invest some of his riches into startups. But not just any startups — the co-founder of Blogger and Twitter is looking …
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| Casey Johnston / Ars Technica: |
To make CompSci more relevant and inclusive, we should add it to general curriculum in schools — To address tech's diversity woes, start with the vanishing Comp Sci classroom — In May 2014 at the all-girls Emma Willard School in upstate New York, nearly a third of the school's 300+ students …
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| Sabine Devins / The Local: |
German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks out against net neutrality, says internet needs a fast lane for some services — Merkel speaks out against net neutrality — Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for preferential services for certain providers on the web at her keynote speech at a conference in Berlin on Thursday.
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| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Forces Transmit to Remove Send to iCloud Drive Feature, Blocks All Share Sheet File Transfers in the Process — Panic's file management app Transmit made its way to iOS with the launch of iOS 8, bringing several useful capabilities that took advantage of iOS features, including …
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| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Vimeo starts offering 4K downloads, but shies away from streaming — Janko Roettgers — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Credit: Fer Gregory / Shutterstock — Vimeo-loving video producers can finally put that expensive Red camera to good use: Vimeo is now allowing Pro subscribers … | Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals: |
LendingClub hikes IPO target 17%, now hopes to raise up to $929M — LendingClub increased price targets on Monday for the IPO it plans this week, now saying it could raise nearly $929 million. — That's up nearly 17 percent from the targets set a week ago by the San Francisco-based peer-to-peer lender … | Quentyn Kennemer / Phandroid: |
[Update] Samsung Gear VR now available for $200 at Samsung.com and AT&T … Samsung has always listed December 2014 as the landing date for their virtual reality wearable Samsung Gear VR, and unless my calendar is bugged that window has arrived. While Samsung has yet to formally announce a solid date … Sponsor Posts
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