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Uber's new in-app emergency button that lets riders call 911 assistance goes live across the US — Dial 911 directly from the app — In April, Uber announced that it would be adding a direct way for riders to call 911 within its app, in an effort to boost its flagging safety reputation.
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TechCrunch, TODAY.com, Mashable, 9to5Mac, CNET, New York Magazine, MSPoweruser, and NBC Bay Area
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Sources: Alibaba's fintech affiliate Ant Financial has raised $10B, valuing the firm at $150B, up from ~$60B valuation after April 2016 fundraising round — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Ant Financial Services Group, operator of China's biggest online payment platform by market share, Alipay … | Eleanor Ainge Roy / The Guardian: |
Papua New Guinea will ban Facebook for a month in a bid to crack down on fake users and study how fake news and pornography spreads — Analysts will explore how fake news and pornography spreads, and assess whether country needs its own version of the platform
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Post Courier, BuzzFeed, BBC, The Hill, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, CNET, ABC, Axios, Business Insider, Fast Company, WIRED UK, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @lcmoser, @jimwaterson, @heldavidson, @anneapplebaum, @justinpickard, and @schuetze_k
| Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeed: |
Apple finally adds stereo pairing to HomePod, four months after its release, as part of iOS 11.4 update that includes AirPlay 2 with multi-room streaming — The HomePod smart speaker will finally do what Apple promised it would be able do nearly a year ago: play in multiple rooms simultaneously and in stereo mode.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
French startup Comet, a marketplace for tech and data freelancers, raises $12.8M Series A led by Daphni — French startup Comet (not to be confused with Zyl, which was formerly named Comet) is building a marketplace of talented tech and data freelancers as well as companies that are looking …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Private equity firm KKR to acquire BMC Software for an undisclosed sum, 5 years after a Bain Capital, Golden Gate Capital-led investor group bought it for $6.9B — Private equity firm KKR is broadening its technology reach as it acquires BMC Software from a Bain Capital and Golden Gate Capital led investor group.
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Axios, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Reuters, and StreetInsider.com
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
DHS moving forward on plans to rescind International Entrepreneur Rule, which would have let immigrant founders of startups stay in the US for up to five years — After nearly a year of protest and litigation, the Department of Homeland Security finally announced late last week …
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Federal Register, Silicon Valley Business …, Silicon Republic, San Francisco Chronicle, and GeekWire
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Creators of cryptocurrency trading app Taylor, which recently completed an ICO, claim a hacker stole around $1.35M of Ether from company funds — The creators of the Taylor cryptocurrency trading app claim that an unidentified hacker has stolen around $1.35 million worth of Ether from the company's wallets.
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Taylor, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Taylor, Taylor, Coingeek, CCN, DataBreaches.net, Coinjournal, and The Merkle. Tweets: @chrismessina
| David J. Lynch / Washington Post: |
White House says it's proceeding with $50B in tariffs on Chinese exports, list coming June 15, and will impose new limits on Chinese investment in US tech firms — President Trump said Tuesday that he would proceed with tariffs on $50 billion in Chinese imports and introduce new limits …
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Politico, New York Times, Axios, and CNBC
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London launches contactless payment system for street performers with payments firm iZettle and Busk In London, an organization supporting street performers — London has introduced a contactless payment scheme for buskers in what the organisers claim is a world first.
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Sky News, The Verge, ZDNet, 9to5Mac, Fortune, Mashable, Press Association, TechCrunch, Firstpost, Digital Trends, CNET, ABC, Daily Mail, TechRadar.com, Daily Express, euronews, Forbes, City A.M., Fin24, The Independent, Finextra Research Headlines, NFC World, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @mayoroflondon, @skynews, @im_nsp, and @sadiqkhan
| Gray Chapman / BuzzFeed: |
How animal shelters and rescue organizations are successfully using social media to promote less desirable dogs, helping save their lives by finding them homes — In the age of the viral doggo, shelters and rescue organizations are recognizing the need to hop aboard the meme train — or risk getting left behind.| Wall Street Journal: |
US tech founders are increasingly wresting control from VC backers and extracting huge pay packages tied to going public compared to their non-tech peers — Silicon Valley financiers are losing leverage to star entrepreneurs — Founders of highflying startups are increasingly wresting control … | Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Big tech industry groups claim EU's new ePrivacy Regulation will limit growth online; the law has been delayed after being slated to go into effect this month — The new European data privacy legislation is so stringent that it could kill off data-driven online services and chill innovations …
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Business Insider, MIT Technology Review, Axios, AdExchanger, and Lawfare
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