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Airbnb cancels reservations and reportedly pulls ~80% of listings in Japan before June 15 deadline of home-sharing law, will create $10M fund to repay travelers — Heading to Japan next week? You should probably double-check your Airbnb rental, because it might be cancelled.
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Yahoo will shut down Yahoo Messenger on July 17, marking the end of an era that began with Yahoo Pager back in 1998 — It's the end of an era for Yahoo Messenger, one of the first instant messaging apps on the market. Today, Oath (which also owns TechCrunch) announced that it would be winding …
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China hacked a US Navy contractor early this year and stole 614GB of classified data, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for US submarines — Chinese government hackers have compromised the computers of a Navy contractor, stealing massive amounts of highly sensitive data related … | Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
After Lyft has reportedly agreed to acquire Motivate for $250M, source says Uber is considering its own bid for the bike-sharing startup — Uber is considering a takeover offer for Motivate, the bike-share company behind such programs as CitiBike in New York and Ford GoBike in San Francisco, Axios has learned.
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Facebook let some partners to access users' friend data after it shut off access to most devs in 2015; sources: partners included Nissan and RBC Capital Markets — Special deals gave a small number of companies access to data after shutting off access for other developers| Verizon Communications Inc.: |
Verizon names CTO Hans Vestberg CEO effective August 1, 2018, replacing current CEO Lowell McAdam — Hans Vestberg, Executive Vice President and President of Global Networks and Chief Technology Officer, named CEO, effective August 1, 2018 — Lowell McAdam to serve as Executive Chairman …
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Former Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix appeared before UK Parliament on Wednesday, responding to questions with denials, defiance, and thinly veiled anger — The disgraced tech maven appeared before U.K. Parliament on Wednesday. It did not go well.
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Bad Robot, J.J. Abrams' media production company to partner with Tencent to form a gaming company, Bad Robot Games, to make games for PC, console, and mobile — Bad Robot, the media production company headed by famed nostalgia-lord J.J. Abrams, is expanding into the games industry with help from Chinese tech conglomerate Tencent.| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Snap to make Bitmoji's Friendmoji characters available outside of Snapchat app on iOS, letting you send stickers directly in the Messages app — Snapchat is expanding the use of its Bitmoji characters — specifically “Friendmojis” — for iOS users in the coming days.
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Engadget, 9to5Mac, Mashable, Digital Trends, and iPhone in Canada Blog
| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Block.one has raised $4B via ICO, but its EOS blockchain platform missed planned June 2 launch, is plagued by bugs, poor governance, and fears of centralization — In a year-long initial coin offering (ICO), Block.one raised $4 billion for its blockchain and smart contracts platform EOS.
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Business Insider, CoinDesk, and NewsBTC
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Sources: Spotify offers several hundred thousand dollar advances and 50/50 per stream revenue share to music managers and indie acts for direct licensing — Spotify has offered advances to a number of managers and indie acts in exchange for licensing their music directly to the streaming service, sources tell Billboard.| Henry Grabar / Slate: |
Real estate startups have not disrupted the agent model, and some depend on it, despite a sense that the internet should make selling a house easier and cheaper — Because the one thing startups can't disrupt is the real estate agent. — This article is part of Update or Die …
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