Amazon to acquire online pharmacy PillPack, which organizes and delivers drugs to consumers and is licensed in 50 states; PillPack has raised $117.8M in funding
- PillPack packages, organizes and delivers drugs. It sends consumers packages with the specific number of medications they're supposed to take at specific times.
Apple and Samsung settle seven-year long patent fight over copying the iPhone; terms of the settlement were not disclosed
Apple and Samsung have finally put an end to their long-running patent battle whose central question was whether Samsung copied the iPhone.
Sources: Apple is considering a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service, and magazine articles
Apple is considering creating a single subscription offering that would encompass its original TV shows, music service and magazine articles …
Amazon introduces Show Mode in its Fire HD tablets via a software update that turns them into an Echo Show for a hands-free Alexa experience
The new Show Mode creates a hands-free Alexa experience for Fire tablets. Plus, there's a new Show Mode Charging Dock that automatically switches your Fire tablet into Show Mode.
Norwegian agency report: Facebook and Google manipulate users to share personal data using “dark patterns” despite GDPR; Windows 10 gets a more favorable rating
Despite the new GDPR regulation entering into effect across Europe, Facebook and Google are manipulating users …
Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and wants to enlist entrepreneurs and small business owners to start their own delivery service networks
Amazon is expanding further into package delivery and promising to support a new wave of small business owners with the launch …
Sources: Amazon acquired PillPack in a deal valued at just under $1B; PillPack had been in acquisition talks with Walmart, which was outbid by Amazon
A week after appointing a CEO for its healthcare joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan, Amazon today announced an acquisition …
Sources: LG Display will soon become Apple's second supplier for OLED iPhone, initially supplying between 2M and 4M units
Apple Inc. will soon land a second supplier for the organic light-emitting diode screens used in high-end iPhones, according to people familiar with the matter …
Instagram Lite for Android appears on the Google Play Store at 573KB in size, which is 1/55th the size of Instagram's 32MB main app
Instagram's future growth depends on the developing world, so it's built a version of its app just for them. “Instagram Lite” for Android appeared today …
Jimmy Iovine and Dr. Dre owe former partner Steven Lamar $25.2M in Beats headphones royalties, a jury in Los Angeles decided Wednesday
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury on Wednesday found that Dr. Dre, music mogul Jimmy Iovine and their headphone company Beats Electronics LLC owe a former partner $25.2 million in royalties.
Sling TV raises core package price by $5 to $25/month, introduces free content, and a la carte channel subscriptions
Sling TV, the first to deliver an over-the-top TV service aimed at cord cutters, is shaking up its business. The company announced today it's raising the base price …
Kroger, the US's largest supermarket chain, teams up with Nuro, a two-year-old self-driving startup, to launch driverless delivery service later this fall
Kroger is teaming up with Nuro, a startup founded by two veterans of Google's self-driving team — Kroger, the nation's largest …
Exactis, a marketing and data aggregation firm, allegedly exposed a database of ~340M individual records with phone numbers, addresses, more on a public server
YOU'VE PROBABLY NEVER heard of the marketing and data aggregation firm Exactis. But it may well have heard of you.
Google leads $22M Series A in feature phone OS KaiOS, which powers over 40M phones made by OEMs including Nokia, Micromax, and Alcatel
Google is turning startup investor to further its goal of putting Google services like search, maps, and its voice assistant front and center for the next billion internet users in emerging markets.
Sonos Beam review: the Alexa integration works well, but music sound quality is average for a $400 device, and Google Assistant support has not yet arrived
Exactly what it says it'll do — It's extremely tempting to overthink the Sonos Beam — it's the first really new product …
Judge cuts ZeniMax's Oculus win in half to $250M and rejects request to ban sales of Oculus headsets
- ZeniMax loses request for court order banning Oculus sales — Mark Zuckerberg made early bet on virtual reality headsets — Facebook Inc. won a ruling that halved …
Survey of 4,594 US adults: 72% say it's likely social media firms censor opposing political views; 43% say firms support liberal views over conservative views
A majority of Republicans say technology firms support the views of liberals over conservatives and that social media platforms censor political viewpoints.
A look at Facebook's struggle with differentiating between legitimate political campaigns and disinformation ahead of the Mexican election next week
By Elizabeth Dwoskin June 22 Email the author — MEXICO CITY — This spring, a doctored image claiming that the wife …
Catalog Technologies, which is based at the Harvard Life Lab, emerges from stealth with $9M in funding to help commercialize its DNA-based data storage method
The practice of encoding data in DNA molecules could be inching closer to graduating from research labs to finding practical commercial use.
Google says its fix for a Google Home and Chromecast outage has rolled out and users can reboot devices to get the fix now
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Coinbase CEO debuts Givecrypto.org to provide direct funding in cryptocurrencies to people in need, says fund has raised $3.5M, aims to raise $1B over two years
Yesterday, Brian Armstrong, the founder … Rebecca Campbell / NewsBTC : This Is How Coinbase's CEO Aims to End Poverty with GiveCrypto Charity Brian Armstrong / GiveCrypto.org : We're hiring an Executi...
Enterprise threat management company Preempt Security raises $17.5M Series B from ClearSky, Intel Capital, and others
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff rejects employee petition to cut ties with US Customs and Border Protection, says its software isn't part of agency's border policy
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Facebook updates Stories with Like, Haha, Wow, Sad, Angry, and Love emoji reactions and two interactive stickers, offers group replies via Messenger thread
but only temporarily Richard Nieva / CNET : Facebook Stories adds group chat and reactions Andy Meek / BGR : Now you can block TV spoilers and annoying political rants on Facebook Facebook : Facebook ...
Chat app Line will open a crypto exchange next month in Singapore, which will be available in 15 languages to users worldwide except those in US and Japan
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Times Internet, the digital arm of Indian media firm Times Group, buys a majority stake in video app MX Player for ~$140M to get into streaming
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Trump says he'll use CFIUS, whose authority would be enhanced by new legislation, to control investment deals, instead of China-specific investment restrictions
Google opens its human-sounding Duplex AI to a small group of “trusted testers” and businesses that have opted in to receiving calls from Duplex
Google's Duplex AI Proves Its Powers and Limitations Heather Kelly / CNNMoney : Google's eerily human phone bot is ready for the real world Firstpost : Google demos Duplex in new Assistant ad showing ...
YouTube starts rolling out its picture-in-picture mode, previously available only to YouTube Red/Premium users, to all users in US running Android Oreo or above
George Burduli / XDA Developers :
DOJ says first nationwide undercover operation targeting darknet vendors has resulted in arrests of 35 people suspected of selling illicit goods on the darknet
Steven Musil / CNET :
BitSight, which rates the security practices of 1,200+ firms, raises $60M Series D at an estimated $600M valuation led by Warburg Pincus
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Kik, which raised $100M in an ICO for its Kin cryptocurrency, says some users can now earn Kin in its app via quizzes, tutorials, and polls to spend on themes
Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk :
Google is taking more steps to curb trolling and ad hominem attacks on internal message boards, passing new rules and empowering forum moderators
Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal :
Elgato to rebrand itself as Eve Systems to focus on Apple HomeKit accessories; Corsair to purchase the Elgato name and its game accessory division
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Sources: Facebook's probe of its platform's developers finds that some developers who took large chunks of data are out of business and some won't cooperate
Deepa Seetharaman / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @rebeccaballhaus and @rmac18 Tweets: Rebecca Ballhaus / @rebeccaballhaus : Three months in, Facebook's internal probe into the potential misuse of us...
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