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Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack, which organizes and delivers drugs to consumers and is licensed in 50 states; PillPack has raised $117.8M in funding — - PillPack packages, organizes and delivers drugs. It sends consumers packages with the specific number of medications they're supposed to take at specific times.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Amazon acquired PillPack in a deal valued at just under $1B; PillPack had been in acquisition talks with Walmart, which was outbid by Amazon — A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition …
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Sources: Apple is considering a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service, and magazine articles — Apple is considering creating a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service and magazine articles …
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| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Norwegian agency report: Facebook and Google manipulate users to share personal data using “dark patterns” despite GDPR; Windows 10 gets a more favorable rating — Despite the new GDPR regulation entering into effect across Europe, Facebook and Google are manipulating users … | David Carnoy / CNET: |
Amazon introduces Show Mode in its Fire HD tablets via a software update that turns them into an Echo Show for a hands-free Alexa experience — Amazon wants you to think of your Fire tablet as not just a tablet but a full-fledged Alexa-enabled device — or more precisely, a slimmed down Echo Show.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sling TV raises core package price by $5 to $25/month, introduces free content, and a la carte channel subscriptions — Sling TV, the first to deliver an over-the-top TV service aimed at cord cutters, is shaking up its business. The company announced today it's raising the base price … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and wants to enlist entrepreneurs and small business owners to start their own delivery service networks — Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and promising to support a new wave of small business owners with the launch … | Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Kroger, the US's largest supermarket chain, teams up with Nuro, a two-year-old self-driving startup, to launch driverless delivery service later this fall — Kroger is teaming up with Nuro, a startup founded by two veterans of Google's self-driving team — Kroger, the nation's largest …
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Apple and Samsung settle seven-year long patent fight over copying the iPhone; terms of the settlement were not disclosed — Apple and Samsung have finally put an end to their long-running patent battle whose central question was whether Samsung copied the iPhone.
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Google leads $22M Series A in feature phone OS KaiOS, which powers over 40M phones made by OEMs including Nokia, Micromax, and Alcatel — Google is turning startup investor to further its goal of putting Google services like search, maps, and its voice assistant front and center for the next billion internet users in emerging markets.
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| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Sonos Beam review: the Alexa integration works well, but music sound quality is average for a $400 device, and Google Assistant support has not yet arrived — Exactly what it says it'll do — It's extremely tempting to overthink the Sonos Beam — it's the first really new product …
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Sources: LG Display will soon become Apple's second supplier for OLED iPhone, initially supplying between 2M and 4M units — Apple Inc. will soon land a second supplier for the organic light-emitting diode screens used in high-end iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter …
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Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre owe former partner Steven Lamar $25.2M in Beats headphones royalties, a jury in Los Angeles decided Wednesday — LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Wednesday found that Dr. Dre, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and their headphone company Beats Electronics LLC owe a former partner $25.2 million in royalties.
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| Tom Korosec / Bloomberg: |
Judge cuts ZeniMax's Oculus win in half to $250M and rejects request to ban sales of Oculus headsets — - ZeniMax loses request for court order banning Oculus sales — Mark Zuckerberg made early bet on virtual reality headsets — Facebook Inc. won a ruling that halved …
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Instagram Lite for Android appears on the Google Play Store at 573KB in size, which is 1/55th the size of Instagram's 32MB main app — Instagram's future growth depends on the developing world, so it's built a version of its app just for them. “Instagram Lite” for Android appeared today … | Jeff Engel / Xconomy: |
Catalog Technologies, which is based at the Harvard Life Lab, emerges from stealth with $9M in funding to help commercialize its DNA-based data storage method — The practice of encoding data in DNA molecules could be inching closer to graduating from research labs to finding practical commercial use.| Washington Post: |
A look at Facebook's struggle with differentiating between legitimate political campaigns and disinformation ahead of the Mexican election next week — By Elizabeth Dwoskin June 22 Email the author — MEXICO CITY — This spring, a doctored image claiming that the wife … | Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Exactis, a marketing and data aggregation firm, allegedly exposed a database of ~340M individual records with phone numbers, addresses, more on a public server — YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of the marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis. But it may well have heard of you.
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK-based market intelligence company Signal Media, which uses AI for media monitoring, raises $16M Series B led by GMG Ventures — Signal Media has closed a $16 million Series B funding round for an AI-fueled approach to media monitoring and b2b market intelligence.| Pavel Alpeyev / Bloomberg: |
Chat app Line will open a crypto exchange next month in Singapore, which will be available in 15 languages to users worldwide except those in US and Japan — - Bitbox will open in July and handle more than 30 virtual coins — Service will be available worldwide, except in Japan and U.S.
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