Apple ordered to stop iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus sales in Beijing, as regulator finds it violated design patent; Apple says devices are still on sale during appeal
Intellectual property regulator rules the design is too similar to a Chinese phone — BEIJING—Beijing's intellectual property regulator …
Sources: Due to objections from Apple and others, Unicode did not approve a suggested rifle emoji in the latest Unicode 9 update coming this June
You can currently purchase a semi-automatic rifle in a major U.S. city in just seven minutes, but don't expect to text someone a rifle emoji anytime soon.
Hacker siphoned $50M+ worth of Ether from The DAO project; the funds are frozen as Ethereum project leaders debate code change to recover the lost Ether
A hacker appears to have moved digital money worth more than $50 million from an experimental virtual currency project that recently raised …
The “theft” of Ethereum from the DAO violated the DAO's intent, but not its smart contract, exposing tensions between blockchain idealism and real world systems
There's a fairly incredible trial going on in London right now. The Libyan Investment Authority is suing Goldman Sachs …
Yahoo sells 48.6-acre Santa Clara site for $250M to LeEco, a Chinese company planning US video streaming service and smartphone launches later this year
Chinese tech company LeEco has completed the acquisition of Yahoo's nearly 50-acre development site in Santa Clara …
Snapchat is launching Real Life, a post-per-day digital publication about living with technology, on June 27, with Nathan Jurgenson as editor in chief
Snapchat doesn't just care about video. — The company is behind a new online magazine called Real Life, which will publish roughly …
Acer alerts 34,500 customers of its online store between May 2015 and April 2016 that hackers have stolen their credit card data
It's not known how many online store users are affected. — Acer has quietly informed the California attorney general that its online store was attacked by hackers.
As pay TV provider group releases “Ditch the Box” proposal to FCC, Google-backed group calls it a delay tactic
A trade group backed by Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) and Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) has derided the pay-TV industry's counter-proposal to an FCC plan to open cable …
Behind the scenes at Tumblr after the Yahoo acquisition: new competition, a $240M writedown in February, and an uncertain future
After Marissa Mayer promised ‘not to screw it up’ — Marissa Mayer was running late. This time, it wasn't for a dinner with skeptical advertisers nor …
Twitch files lawsuit against seven makers of “view-bots, follow-bots, chat-impersonation bots” designed to artificially inflate the viewer and follower counts
The legal hammer is being dropped on seven of the most prolific bot-makers. — Twitch has filed a lawsuit …
How Marissa Mayer's spending at Yahoo to spur growth, in defiance of deals with activist investors to cut costs, led to auction of core assets, board shakeup
Embattled CEO failed to produce pledged savings, plunged deeper into turnaround; more room in the parking lot
Asus announces ZenPad Z8 7.9-inch tablet for $250, with Snapdragon 650 SoC, exclusive to Verizon, available for pre-order now, shipping June 23
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Interview with Medium's Ev Williams on corporate web consolidation, the open web, and centralized platforms
To a certain kind of nerd, Ev Williams is the Forrest Gump of internet media. Williams helped write the software that made us call blogs blogs. He founded a podcast company years before most people ...
Google opens dedicated machine learning research center in Zurich to focus on machine intelligence, natural language processing, and machine perception
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Ammon, Idaho piloting open access fiber network project the lets residents sign up for an ISP - or switch ISPs - almost instantly, via city-operated website
Municipal fiber network will let customers switch ISPs in seconds. Tweets: Aryeh Goretsky / @goretsky : This is how it should work, no more monopolies: Municipal fiber network will let customers switc...
Uber says it has reached profitability in all of its developed markets, claims China accounts for one third of its daily trips
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Snapchat acknowledges it may have copied artists' works for its filters
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A detailed report of a penetration test Palantir conducted; firm says issues are now resolved
Saturday, June 18, 2016 Tweets: Tony Arcieri / @bascule : I strongly dislike @Palantir, but @BuzzFeed poking fun at them over Red Team results misses the point of Red Teams: http://twitter.com/... @mz...
Oracle posts revenue of $10.59B, beating estimates, with total cloud revenue up 49% YoY to $859M while profit rose to $2.81B
cloud up 50% Oracle : Q4 FY16 SaaS and PaaS Revenues Were Up 66%, and Up 68% in Constant Currency Dan Burrows / InvestorPlace : Oracle Corporation (ORCL): Cloud Computing Growth Is the Key Barb Darrow...
Kickstarter paid dividends to its shareholders this spring, an unusual move for a non-public VC-backed startup
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Salesforce was a rival suitor for LinkedIn, says Benioff; sources say LinkedIn reached out to Microsoft
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Marc Andreessen forecasts a surge in M&A in tech in 2016 and 2017, is seeing more M&A in the pipeline than in last four years
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Nonprofit Crisis Text Line counseling service receives $23.8M in grants, led by Reid Hoffman with Steve Ballmer, Pierre Omidyar, others participating
Leena Rao / Fortune : Tweets: @melindagates and @omidyarnetwork Tweets: Melinda Gates / @melindagates : Proud to support @nancylublin's important work to reach young people in crisis through @CrisisT...
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