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Lyft is buying the core operations of Motivate, parent of CitiBike; the business will be renamed Lyft Bikes and keep contracts with NYC and seven other cities — Lyft competes with Uber for ride-hailing customers. Now it is following its rival into bike-sharing, as the companies move …
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| Facebook: |
Facebook says it's notifying ~800,000 users who were hit by a bug in Facebook and Messenger from May 29 to June 5 that unblocked some people they had blocked — Starting today we are notifying over 800,000 users about a bug in Facebook and Messenger that unblocked some people they had blocked.
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Tweets: @facebook and @mattrosoff
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service now throttles personal hotspot usage on its “unlimited” plan to 600kbps and caps videos at 480p quality unless users pay extra — Comcast's Xfinity Mobile service is imposing new speed limits on video watching and personal hotspot usage …
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The Verge, reddit.com, FierceWireless, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Android Authority, Engadget, KnowTechie, BGR, 9to5Mac, Ubergizmo, and Fortune
Tweets: @fark, @omgdadno, and @johnlegere
| Annie Gowen / Washington Post: |
Mob lynchings fueled by WhatsApp messages continue to sweep India as authorities struggle to combat fake news; five were killed by a rumor-driven mob on Sunday — NEW DELHI — Five people were killed by a mob in India on Sunday after rumors spread on social media that they were child traffickers …
Tweets: @karlbode, @caseynewton, @anniegowen, @rama_rajeswari, @anniegowen, and @mhbergen
| Reuters: |
HTC plans to cut around a quarter of its global workforce, or 1,500 jobs, at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan; layoffs will be completed by the end of September — TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit …
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Engadget, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, Mashable, CRN, Digital Trends, CNET, Android Authority, Inquirer, Ubergizmo, Android Beat, Road to VR, SlashGear, Android Central, Android Police, 9to5Google, Android and Me, UploadVR, Fortune, and reddit.com
Tweets: @samsonellis and @somospostpc
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram rolls out its “all caught up” feature; sources: Facebook and Instagram are developing Do Not Disturb features to let users better manage notifications — Instagram is turning the Time Well Spent philosophy into features to help users avoid endless scrolling and distraction by notifications.
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| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Makers of email software like Return Path and Edison Software let their employees read users' email, a practice they say is covered by user agreements — Software developers scan hundreds of millions of emails of users who sign up for email-based services — Google said a year ago … | Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Dell announces it will become a public company again by subsuming its tracking stock DVMT in a cash and share-swap deal worth $21.7B — - Dell to offer DVMT shareholders Dell stock or cash buyout — Total deal size comes to $21.7 billion, Dell to list on NYSE
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Dell Technologies, The Verge, eWeek, Financial Times, Engadget, Light Reading, Dell Technologies …, CNET, ZDNet, Associated Press, Reuters, The Register, AppleInsider, TechSpot, Silicon Valley Business …, iDownloadBlog.com, Wall Street Journal, SiliconANGLE, Windows Central, Axios, MacDailyNews, CNBC, and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @financialtimes
| Neer Varshney / The Next Web: |
Coinbase's cryptocurrency custodial service for institutional customers, Coinbase Custody, announced in November 2017, is now open for business — Coinbase's cryptocurrency custody service is officially open for business, the company announced on its blog today.
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The Coinbase Blog, SiliconANGLE, Bitsonline, Bitcoin Magazine, SludgeFeed, and CryptoGlobe. Tweets: @coinbase
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook rolls out changes to some APIs, shutting down some while adding restrictions and mandatory app reviews to others, in wake of Cambridge Analytica — Following the Cambridge Analytica data misuse scandal and the more recent discovery of a Facebook app that had been leaking data on 120 million users …
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Facebook, ZDNet, Engadget, ProgrammableWeb.com, and Slate
| Kirsten Korosec / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Anthony Levandowski, the entrepreneur at the heart of the Uber/Waymo trial, is involved with Kache.ai, an autonomous trucking company still in stealth — This is a comeback story. Or at least the first chapter to one. — Anthony Levandowski, the former Google engineer … | Washington Post: |
Sources: DOJ probe into Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal has broadened to focus on the actions and statements of the firm; FBI, SEC, and FTC also involved — A federal investigation into Facebook's sharing of data with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica has broadened to focus …
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The Verge, CNET, and Washington Post
| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Tesla's SVP of engineering Doug Field is officially leaving the company, after Tesla characterized his initial departure in May as a “leave of absence” — Doug Field's departure is latest of several high-level executive exits in the last two years
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Tesla, Inc., The Verge, Business Insider, Axios, Bloomberg, and CNBC
| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Facebook to buy London-based natural language processing startup Bloomsbury AI whose team and tech it plans to use to combat fake news and other issues — Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot …
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The Next Web, Business Insider, CNBC, Telegraph, MIT Technology Review, and Neowin
| NASDAQ.com: |
Norway-based Opera Limited, maker of the Opera browser, filed for US IPO on Friday to raise up to $115M, says it booked $148M in sales in 12 months ending 3/18 — Opera Limited, a leading provider of web browsers and digital content discovery platforms, filed on Friday with the SEC to raise …
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