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| Nathan Olivarez-Giles / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber tests wait-time fees and a shorter cancellation window in NYC, New Jersey, Dallas, and Phoenix, in response to driver complaints — Uber Tests New Rider Rules: Two Minutes to Cancel or Show Up...or Else — Pilot program to allow charges for customers making drivers wait or canceling rides late, addressing complaints
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| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft has launched an IFTTT-like automation tool called Flow — LEAKED: Microsoft is working on a new tool to help automate your life — Meet Microsoft Flow: A free way to connect all of your cloud services — including Slack, GitHub, Twitter, and Google Drive — together in new and novel ways.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Tony Maglio / The Wrap: |
Rovi buys TiVo for $1.1B at $10.70 per share, will adopt TiVo brand as new company name — Rovi Buys TiVo for $1.1 Billion — Entertainment technology firm values original DVR company at $10.70 per share — Entertainment technology company Rovi has purchased original DVR service TiVo for $1.1 billion, or $10.70 per share.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
New Google Trips app is a smart assistant for your vacations, currently in beta testing — One of Inbox's most convenient features are Travel bundles that organize reservations and other related emails in an easy to read manner. Google is now testing (via Androidworld) … | Dustin Volz / Reuters: |
Supreme Court approves change that will allow US judges to issue search warrants for computers located in any jurisdiction — U.S. high court approves rule change to expand FBI hacking power — The Supreme Court on Thursday approved a rule change that would allow U.S. judges …
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The Verge, SiliconBeat, Motherboard, U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, The Atlantic, New York Times, MacNN, ZDNet, Digital Trends, Defense One, Security Affairs, Petri, AppleInsider, Access Now, The Next Web, Patently Apple, PYMNTS.com, CNET, Neowin, Engadget, TechCrunch and The Intercept. Tweets: @digiphile. Thanks:@dnvolz
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter quietly retires Magic Recs, a DM bot that recommended viral accounts and Tweets — As Twitter tries out bigger things to spur growth activity — like changing the orderandlengthof tweets — it is turning away from others. Twitter has quietly retired Magic Recs …
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Gizmodo, VentureBeat, The Verge and The Next Web
| Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Snapchat strikes a non-exclusive deal with NBC to show Olympics highlights in US via live stories and Discover channel curated by BuzzFeed — Snapchat Scores Unprecedented Deal With NBC to Showcase Olympics — Companies to share revenue from ads paired with content
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The Verge, International Business Times, Re/code, VatorNews, Business Wire and Mashable
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ITC judge rules that Jawbone patents in its case against Fitbit are invalid — Fitbit Wins Ruling Knocking Out Jawbone Patents at Trade Agency — Fitbit Inc. won a ruling that invalidated the last of the Jawbone Inc. patents that were the subject of a dispute at the U.S. International Trade Commission.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Sources: HTC will make the next Nexus phones, likely codenamed Marlin and Sailfish — The Android rumor mill has decided: HTC will make the next Nexus phones — If you've been paying attention to Android rumors for the past month or so, you know that at this point it's a fait accompli …
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VentureBeat, Business Insider, Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, Ars Technica UK, Fone Arena, Phandroid, TechnoBuffalo, Tech Times, TalkAndroid.com, Android Authority, Digital Trends, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, BGR, Phandroid, International Business Times, TechConnect, Liliputing, Computerworld, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Droid Life, Gotta Be Mobile, Ars Technica UK and Fone Arena. Tweets: @evleaks
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM raises its blockchain game with secure cloud services and Docker integration — Bitcoin may still be the most famous application of blockchain technology, but the distributed, encrypted database architecture is now being applied to a range of other services, from different kinds of …
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IBM, InfoWorld, Reuters, NEWSBTC and SiliconANGLE
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play is now labelling which apps contain ads — Google has just made a change to its mobile application storefront, Google Play, which will help customers make better decisions about the apps they want to download: it's now displaying if an app contains advertisements.| Mark Hosenball / Reuters: |
Sources: FBI paid under $1M to unlock San Bernardino iPhone, can use technique on any iPhone 5c running iOS 9 without additional payment — FBI paid under $1 million to unlock San Bernardino iPhone: sources — The FBI paid under $1 million for the technique used to unlock the iPhone used …
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Digital Trends, SiliconBeat, emptywheel, InvestorPlace, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, Guardian, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, AppleInsider and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @hshaban, @erratarob and @ericgeller
| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
LinkedIn's ad revenue grew 29% YoY to $154.1M in Q1, propelled by sponsored content which accounted for $86.3M, growing 80% YoY — LinkedIn's sponsored content pivot helps ad revenue hit $154.1 million — LinkedIn's ad revenue grew by 29% in the first quarter of 2016 …
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