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| Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press: |
Facebook to shut down Trending after four years and tests new features, including a breaking news label that publishers can add to stories and Today In section — Facebook is shutting down its sometimes-problematic “trending” news section after four years.
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| Dan Rys / Billboard: |
Spotify updates its hateful content and conduct policy, says it will no longer use the provision that led to removal of R. Kelly and XXXTentacion from playlists — Three weeks after Spotify announced a new policy regarding hate content and hateful conduct on its service …
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newsroom.spotify.com, CNET, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Engadget, Axios, CNBC, The Guardian, and Music Business Worldwide
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| The Information: |
Sources: Lyft has agreed to acquire the bike-sharing startup Motivate, likely for $250M or more — Lyft has agreed to buy Motivate, which runs some of the biggest U.S. bike-share programs, according to two people briefed about the deal. The acquisition, which is likely to be worth $250 million or more …
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Tweets: @jason_rowley, @eliotwb, @vogon, @dylanljmartin, and @amir
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple is working on a new ad network for app promotion, in talks with Snap, Pinterest, others to distribute its search ads for apps — Increasing ad sales could help offset slowing iPhone growth, but effort would face stiff competition from Google and Facebook| Patrick Collinson / The Guardian: |
Visa says it is experiencing a service disruption preventing some Visa transactions in Europe from being processed — Card giant confirms it is suffering an outage and is investigating the cause — Visa's payment network has crashed across the UK and Europe, sparking chaos as transactions are failing or being denied.
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BleepingComputer.com, The Independent, Sky News, Bitsonline, Metro.co.uk, BBC, Independent.ie, Dailystar.co.uk, and PaymentsSource
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| Jeremy Burge / Emojipedia: |
Unicode Consortium announces that 2018 emojis are coming on June 5, proposes adding flamingo, white heart, diving mask, Hindu temple, more to 2019 emoji — Unicode 11.0 arrives on June 5, 2018. This signals the date which companies can begin supporting the new emojis.
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Tweets: @mgsiegler and @ow
| SV Angel: |
SV Angel no longer raising funds for seed rounds; Ron and Topher Conway will invest their personal money at $25K-$100K per company and co-manage existing funds — The investing ecosystem has gone through significant changes over the last 10 years. When we started SV Angel, there were just a handful of funds investing in seed rounds.
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| Jaikumar Vijayan / eWeek: |
Google says Pixel 2 encryption feature prevents even an attacker with highly-privileged access to the device from accessing data without the owner's cooperation — An encryption feature available with Google Pixel 2 smartphones ensures even an attacker with highly-privileged access to a mobile device won't be able to access data.
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft announces an update for Microsoft Launcher for Android letting parents track kids' location, and MSN Kids, a new curated news website for children — Microsoft is launching an update to its Android launcher today that gives parents the ability to track their kids' location.
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Windows Experience Blog, The Verge, Axios, Technology Personalized, BetaNews, CNET, ZDNet, Windows Experience Blog, Neowin, SlashGear, Android Police, Engadget, Thurrott.com, On MSFT, Thurrott.com, Windows Central, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @microsoft and @joebelfiore
| Makiko Yamazaki / Reuters: |
Toshiba says it has concluded the $18B sale of its microchip unit to a consortium led by Bain Capital — TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Friday it had completed the $18 billion sale of its chip unit to a consortium led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital.
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AppleInsider and Patently Apple
| Tom Simonite / Wired: |
Interview with United States Digital Service head Matt Cutts, an ex-Googler, on the unit's work, and projects he highlights while working under Trump — THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION doesn't hold much regard for asylum seekers or projects started by President Obama.| Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: |
Apple declines invitation to EU lawmaker's hearing on tax evasion, saying it does not want to prejudice its challenge to the EU order over back taxes to Ireland — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - IPhone maker Apple has turned down an invitation to an EU lawmakers' hearing, saying it does not want to prejudice …
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AppleInsider, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, and MacDailyNews
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