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| Tucker Higgins / CNBC: |
US Supreme Court rules against Apple, allowing iPhone users to sue the company for alleged App Store monopolization; Apple stock is down 5%+ — KEY POINTS — The Supreme Court, ruling 5-4, allows iPhone users to pursue their antitrust lawsuit against Apple in a case involving its signature electronic marketplace, the App Store.
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| Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon has added machines that automate boxing up customer orders at a handful of warehouses; they pack ~700 boxes per hour, 4-5x the rate of a human — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc is rolling out machines to automate a job held by thousands of its workers: boxing up customer orders.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Amazon expands its Delivery Service Partner program, incentivizes Amazon employees with $10K and three months' pay to start their own delivery businesses — Following news of Amazon's plans to reduce Prime shipping down to one day, the company this morning announced an expansion …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
Facebook raises pay for content moderation contractors to $22/hr in SF, NYC, DC; $20/hr in Seattle; and $18/hr in other metros; says minimum wage is not enough — Social-media giant says current minimum wage isn't enough in expensive areas such as Silicon Valley
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| Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Microsoft launches Ion, an open source decentralized identity tool on bitcoin blockchain; source: Ion to shift from bitcoin's testnet to mainnet later this year — Microsoft is launching the first decentralized infrastructure implementation by a major tech company that is built directly on the bitcoin blockchain.
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| Bloomberg: |
Dara Khosrowshahi, in an email to staff Monday, acknowledged Uber's rocky trading debut, noting Facebook and Amazon's initial post-IPO difficulties — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, in an email to staff Monday, acknowledged Uber's rocky trading debut, while at the same time saying …
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| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Flexa launches Spedn app to let users pay for goods in physical stores with cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, ether, bitcoin cash, and the gemini dollar — Accepted at GameStop, Nordstrom, Whole Foods, and more — A new payment network called Flexa is launching today that'll let you spend cryptocurrencies in physical stores.
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Fortune, Flexa, CoinDesk, CNET, CryptoSlate, Bitcoin Magazine, NullTX, VentureBeat, Cointelegraph, The Block, CryptoNinjas, and Messari Crypto
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| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Uber pilots a new PIN feature at the Portland Airport that gives riders a one-time 6-digit PIN in an effort to speed up pickup times and reduce congestion — Uber is piloting a new PIN feature at the Portland International Airport that will give riders a one-time six-digit numeric code … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter inadvertently shared location data of some iOS users with an ad partner, says it refuses to reveal duration of leak, the name of ad partner, more — Twitter on Monday afternoon disclosed a bug that resulted in an account's location data being shared in certain conditions with a Twitter partner … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases iOS 12.3 with an overhauled TV app that includes the new Channels service, curated collections, and personalized recommendations — Apple today released iOS 12.3, the third major update to the iOS 12 operating system that first launched in September 2018. iOS 12.3 comes …
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
MailChimp to launch a marketing platform for SMBs and introduce four-tiered pricing, says it now has 11M customers and is on track for $700M in revenue in 2019 — Mailchimp, a bootstrapped startup out of Atlanta, Georgia, is known best as a popular tool for organizations to manage …
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Mailchimp, Marketing Land, ZDNet, and Fast Company
Tweets: @benchestnut, @gasmark8, @ckneumann, and @sameerpatel
| Elad Gil / Elad Blog: |
As online markets have grown 10X in the last two decades, more $1B-$10B+ software startups will exist, and startups can grow faster than ever — Over the last few years the number of people and businesses online has ballooned. Spend on the Internet has grown rapidly as you can now reach billions …
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| Davey Alba / BuzzFeed News: |
How DataCamp tried to cover up an allegation of sexual misconduct against its CEO for over a year before a community of data scientists forced the truth out — “Sexual misconduct happens everywhere. But DataCamp was dealing with a community with abnormally high standards and support for each other."
Tweets: @topepos, @daveyalba, @daveyalba, @hrbrmstr, @paldhous, and @daveyalba
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
Microsoft to spend $100M+ over 5 years to open its first development centers in Africa to hire engineers to work on cloud, AI tech, and more — Sites in Nairobi, Lagos will recruit engineers for cloud, AI — Microsoft Corp. plans to spend more than $100 million over five years to open … | Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Boost Mobile, a Sprint-owned MVNO that reportedly had 15M customers in 2018, says customer accounts have been broken into, declines to say how many are affected — Boost Mobile, a virtual mobile network owned by Sprint, has confirmed hackers have broken into an unknown number of customer accounts.
Tweets: @techcrunch
| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Slack updates financials, estimates revenue of $133.8M to $134.8M for the quarter ending April 30, up from $80.9M YoY, and a net loss of $39M, up from $26.3M — KEY POINTS — The company brought in estimated revenue of about $134 million, with a net loss of around $39 million, for the three months ending April 30.
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TechCrunch, ZDNet, and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @cloud_opinion, @cnbc, @alex, @stevekovach, and @jordannovet
| Bloomberg: |
The Chinese owner of Grindr, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co., says it is required to sell the popular dating app by June 2020 under an agreement with US officials — The Chinese owner of Grindr is required to sell the popular gay-dating app by June 2020 under an agreement with U.S. officials …
Tweets: @lisaabramowicz1
| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Lenovo announces a HoloLens-competitor for enterprises called ThinkReality, with an Android-based compute box that can work with devices like Oculus Rift — Lenovo is continuing its expansion into new, unexpected categories outside of its PC business and today the company announced it's launching … | Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Chat app Discord says it now has 250M registered users and 56M MAU — You may never have heard of Discord, but you might soon. — The chat app built initially for gamers has been steadily expanding outside that world as it's increasingly used by YouTube personalities, podcasters, hackers and more.
Tweets: @domsplaying
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