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Uber tests wait-time fees and a shorter cancellation window in NYC, New Jersey, Dallas, and Phoenix, in response to driver complaints — Uber Tests New Rider Rules: Two Minutes to Cancel or Show Up...or Else — Pilot program to allow charges for customers making drivers wait or canceling rides late, addressing complaints
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| Tony Maglio / The Wrap: |
Rovi buys TiVo for $1.1B at $10.70 per share, will adopt TiVo brand as new company name — Rovi Buys TiVo for $1.1 Billion — Entertainment technology firm values original DVR company at $10.70 per share — Entertainment technology company Rovi has purchased original DVR service TiVo for $1.1 billion, or $10.70 per share.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft has launched an IFTTT-like automation tool called Flow — LEAKED: Microsoft is working on a new tool to help automate your life — Meet Microsoft Flow: A free way to connect all of your cloud services — including Slack, GitHub, Twitter, and Google Drive — together in new and novel ways.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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New Google Trips app is a smart assistant for your vacations, currently in beta testing — One of Inbox's most convenient features are Travel bundles that organize reservations and other related emails in an easy to read manner. Google is now testing (via Androidworld) … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Supreme Court approves change that will allow US judges to issue search warrants for computers located in any jurisdiction — U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power — The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a rule change that would allow U.S. judges …
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SiliconBeat, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, Motherboard, The Atlantic, MacNN, ZDNet, AppAdvice.com Latest, New York Times, Defense One, Petri, Digital Trends, Security Affairs, Patently Apple, Access Now, AppleInsider, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Neowin, Engadget and TechCrunch. Tweets: @digiphile. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat strikes a non-exclusive deal with NBC to show Olympics highlights in US via live stories and Discover channel curated by BuzzFeed — Snapchat Scores Unprecedented Deal With NBC to Showcase Olympics — Companies to share revenue from ads paired with content
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Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets — As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the orderandlengthof tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs …
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Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Next Web
| Susan Decker / Bloomberg: |
ITC judge rules that Jawbone patents in its case against Fitbit are invalid — Fitbit Wins Ruling Knocking Out Jawbone Patents at Trade Agency — Fitbit Inc. won a ruling that invalidated the last of the Jawbone Inc. patents that were the subject of a dispute at the U.S. International Trade Commission.| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
YouTube responds to music industry's complaints about low artist payments, says it is more like radio than Spotify — YouTube hits back at ‘noise’ around its music payouts — It's been a bruising month for YouTube as labels, music industry bodies and artists have attacked Google's video service …
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YouTube Creator Blog, RAIN News, Digital Music News, International Business Times, Tubefilter and hypebot. Tweets: @musically. See also Mediagazer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM raises its blockchain game with secure cloud services and Docker integration — Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied to a range of other services, from different kinds of …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
FTC is investigating Venmo over “deceptive or unfair practices”, PayPal's SEC filing shows — The FTC is investigating Venmo over ‘deceptive or unfair practices’ — Venmo, the hugely popular peer-to-peer payments service owned by PayPal, is under investigation by the Federal Trade Commission.| Li Yuan / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: China considers acquiring 1% stakes, taking board seats in country's major internet companies like Tencent and Baidu — China Wants to Own Small Stake in Web Firms — Chinese proposal calls for state to take 1% stakes in firms — The Chinese government's control over the Internet … Sponsor Posts
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