Oprah Winfrey signs multiyear non-exclusive deal for new original programs with Apple; Winfrey is expected to have an on-screen role as host and interviewer
Oprah shares her secrets to success with graduates — Apple has signed Oprah Winfrey to a multiyear deal for new original programs.
Sources: Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than with pricier OLEDs in its fall lineup, plans to release at least one LCD model in 2019
Apple expects to sell more iPhones with LCD screens than pricey OLED models in its coming lineup: sources
Six current and former Fitbit employees have been charged in a federal indictment for possession of stolen trade secrets from now bankrupt rival Jawbone
The Fitbit and Jawbone trade secrets mess has been revived — US federal prosecutors charged six former and current Fitbit employees …
Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht's alleged right-hand man Roger Thomas Clark, also known as Variety Jones, extradited to US after 2.5+ years in Thai custody
Roger Thomas Clark had previously told Ars: “They don't have shit on me.” — The Department of Justice announced Friday …
AlphaPoint raises $15M Series A from Novogratz's Galaxy Digital to help build cryptoasset exchanges and digitize assets like gold and real estate via blockchain
Forbes Staff I cover enterprise adoption of blockchain and cryptocurrency. … Famed hedge fund trader and bitcoin evangelist …
JD.com's new Shanghai fulfillment center ships 200,000 orders per day and employs four people to service the robots
JD.com, a Chinese e-commerce gargantuan, has built a big new Shanghai fulfillment center that can organize, pack and ship 200,000 orders a day. It employs four people — all of whom service the robots...
Avalara, a Seattle-based sales tax automation cloud startup, closes up 87% on its first day of trading, after raising $180M in its IPO at $2B+ valuation
Forbes Staff Covering venture capital, software and startups — Wall Street's lovefest with cloud computing companies continued …
Samsung ordered to pay $400M by US federal jury for willful infringement on a patent for FinFET chip manufacturing technology owned by a South Korean university
- Dispute is over a way to make chips smaller, more efficient — University claimed Samsung used the technology without paying
rideOS raises $9M Series A led by Sequoia for its real-time routing and dispatch software for fleets of autonomous cars
A slew of companies have sprung up to make the smarts, sensors and other integral systems for self-driving cars. Here comes one to tell these cars where to go.
Source: Microsoft's HoloLens 2, slated for Q1 2019 launch, will be powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon XR1 chip
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UK court says union's appeal against ruling in a case against Deliveroo on employee classification can proceed, but only on limited right to unionize grounds
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Crown, a Match Group dating app made by a team of millennial women that lets users pick daily winners to chat with by a process of elimination, launches in LA
If you're already resentful of online dating culture and how it turned finding companionship into a game, you may not be quite ready for this …
Letting AT&T buy Time Warner was wrong since it conflated internet platforms with providers after the government made a weak case
Let's read 170 pages of dunking on Professor Carl Shapiro together — AT&T and Time Warner won a historic court victory this week … Tweets: @reckless Tweets: Nilay Patel / @reckless : I just wrote 50...
MetaFilter considers subscription-based and community-funded models as it discloses that it's running at an $8,000/month deficit in financial update
Important site updates, folks: — 1. The site is running at a significant deficit and we urgently need to make that up. Tweets: @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @joshmillard , @mikkelmari...
US-based Semiconductor Industry Association says that some US companies may end up paying tariffs on their own products because of Trump's $50B tariffs on China
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Intel says its XMM 7560 modem chip with support for CDMA networks is now in trial and mass production, while its XMM 8060 5G offering will be available in 2019
Mobile payments app Venmo starts reducing the functionality of Venmo.com website beginning with the discontinuation of the ability to pay and charge someone
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch :
Cellular standards organization 3GPP approves 5G standalone specifications, allowing for development of 5G products that don't depend on 4G
Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat :
Twitter loses bid to dismiss lawsuit by banned “white advocate” but judge says Twitter did not violate free speech rights or discriminate by banning accounts
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Xiaohuanggou, maker of smart garbage recycling machines that pay users cash based on the weight of the garbage, raises ~$164M Series A
Yimian Wu / China Money Network : Tweets: @tfadell Tweets: Tony Fadell / @tfadell : “Chinese State Council issued a plan to promote garbage classification & set a goal for the recycling rate in citie...
Goldman Sachs' private equity arm and Hearst Corp. acquire online coupon and deal-sharing company Slickdeals for $500M from Warburg Pincus
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