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| John Voorhees / MacStories: |
Apple announces it's reducing affiliate commissions on apps and in-app purchases from 7% to 2.5% starting May 1 — Today, Apple announced that it is reducing the commissions it pays on apps and In-App Purchases from 7% to 2.5% effective May 1st. The iTunes Affiliate Program pays a commission …
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AppleInsider, TechCrunch, iMore, International Business Times, Daring Fireball, Slashdot, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @reneritchie
| Matthew Hughes / The Next Web: |
Atlassian's messaging platform HipChat hacked over weekend: names, email addresses, and hashed passwords may have been exposed — Over the weekend, an unknown intruder broke into HipChat, the Atlassian-owned team communication platform, and made off with a significant amount of data.
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HipChat Blog, ZDNet, PCWorld, VentureBeat, The Register, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, and International Business Times. Tweets: @hipchat
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Xiaomi-backed Yi Technology debuts Yi Halo, a $17K 17-camera VR rig made in partnership with Google that can shoot stereoscopic video in 8K resolution at 30FPS — Plus a promising new 360-degree consumer camera from Yi Technology — Chinese company Yi Technology has made a name for itself …
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Google, Engadget, 9to5Google, Fast Company, Android Central, VRFocus, Android Police, Phandroid, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, BGR, UploadVR, Tubefilter, TechSpot, International Business Times, Variety, Yahoo! Finance, 9to5Google, and CNET. Tweets: @claybavor
| Selina Wang / Bloomberg: |
Source: Square acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak, which had raised ~$74M in total funding, for less than $3M — Company pays less than $3 million for small team of engineers — The deal is a sign of the once high-flying app's decline — Square Inc. acquired the engineering team of Yik Yak …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Neowin, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @caseynewton and @kantrowitz
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft says it will start integrating Dynamics 365 for Sales with LinkedIn's Sales Navigator in July and announces new HR app called Dynamics 365 for Talent — Microsoft is rolling out a new talent-management application, staking out a space in human-capital management …
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The Official Microsoft Blog, Reuters, SiliconBeat, LinkedIn, TechCrunch, CIO.com, Petri, MSPoweruser, Forbes, GeekWire, and Adweek. Tweets: @satyanadella
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn says it now has 500M members in 200 countries, up from 467M in October 2016; it has 9M+ companies and 10M+ jobs listed — Now that LinkedIn is a part of Microsoft (after closing its $26.2 billion acquisition in December), the social networking site for the working world no longer reports earnings …
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Official LinkedIn Blog, LinkedIn Newsroom, iPhone in Canada Blog, Adweek, Fortune, Softpedia News, Mashable, Windows Central, VatorNews, The Next Web, CNET, SiliconANGLE, TheStreet, BetaNews, Forbes, TechSpot, On MSFT, VentureBeat, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @kantrowitz and @adamsinger
| Laura Hazard Owen / Nieman Lab: |
Jimmy Wales launches Wikitribune, a crowdfunded news site that will use journalists to write and volunteers to fact check in effort to combat fake news — The crowd-funded news platform aims to combat fake news by combining professional journalism with volunteer fact checking: “news by the people and for the people.”
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The Guardian, TechCrunch, Business Insider, WIRED UK, LJ INFOdocket, BuzzMachine, and Softpedia News. Tweets: @ia
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
Unroll.me CEO says it's “heartbreaking” that users are upset Unroll.me sold their anonymized email data to Uber — Sorry not sorry. — That's the tone of the apology posted by Unroll.me, an email decluttering service which takes a look at the subscriptions clogging up your inbox …
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Unroll.Me Blog, SiliconANGLE, Daring Fireball, Wired, ZDNet, The Register, The Intercept, Gizmodo, CNNMoney, New York Times, MarketWatch, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, Yahoo! Finance, The Verge, Medium, Softpedia News, The Guardian, Slate, BBC, Ars Technica, Lifehacker, East Bay Times, Digg, The Daily Dot, CNBC, miamiherald, and CNET
Tweets: @wbm312, @waxpancake, @samfbiddle, @gaberivera, @unrollme, @seldo, and @ashk4n
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon has created a team for self-driving tech, which focuses not on building vehicles but on how to leverage them — Group could help retailer deliver packages quickly as it builds out its supply chain and logistics network — Amazon.com Inc. AMZN -.39% has created a team focused …
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Engadget, SiliconANGLE, SlashGear, Business Insider, USA Today, International Business Times, Quartz, GeekWire, Consumerist, TechCrunch, and Pocket-lint. Tweets: @wsjbusiness
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon launches Subscribe with Amazon, a marketplace for digital subscriptions in development since last year — Amazon has made headway in the subscription business with its Subscribe & Save feature for consumers, which offers discounted pricing on products if you agree to buy on a recurring basis.
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Business Wire, GeekWire, Ubergizmo, Android Police, and SiliconANGLE
| Ginny Marvin / Marketing Land: |
Google adding TV ad inventory to DoubleClick Bid Manager, letting advertisers measure video campaigns across digital media and linear TV — In a new test, advertisers will be able to buy linear TV spots programmatically via DBM. — To allow advertisers to buy and compare video ad performance … | Roger Cheng / CNET: |
T-Mobile reports net income of $698M, up 46% YoY, and says it gained 914K post-paid customers in Q1, amid Verizon's loss of 289K post-paid customers — The carrier's move to eliminate all options except for its T-Mobile One unlimited data plan didn't slow its momentum down.
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T-Mobile, Newsroom, ZDNet, PhoneDog.com, Reuters, Fortune, BGR, GeekWire, and TmoNews
Tweets: @rogerwcheng, @rogerwcheng, and @rogerwcheng
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