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Europe Agrees EU-Wide Net Neutrality Rules And End To Mobile Roaming Fees
European politicians have agreed to end mobile roaming charges in the region by mid 2017, with significant cuts to fees by next summer. MEPs also voted to bring in EU-wide net neutrality rules. More U.K. Spectrum Will Be Auctioned Next Year To Push Towards 5G
U.K. telecoms regulator Ofcom has published details for a forthcoming spectrum auction, early next year, that will see bidders shelling out for the equivalent of around three-quarters of the spectrum released in the last major U.K. spectrum sale. Android Probe Has “High Priority”, Says Europe’s Antitrust Chief
Europe’s Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, has couched a probe of the Android OS as “high priority” for EU regulators. Investigations into other aspects of the company’s operations are also being prioritized, she said, speaking in an interview with the WSJ. Read More
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Google Says It Will Not De-List Entire Sites For Copyright Violations
In an open letter to the Office and Management and Budget’s Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator, Google announced today that it opposes the practice of removing entire sites from search results.
Google’s letter is in response to a public solicitation by Daniel H. Marti, the United States Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator. In early September, the United… Read More
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Everything You Need To Know About The DraftKings/FanDuel Scandal
It’s been a crazy few weeks in the world of daily fantasy sports. What originally started as a data leak from DraftKings has now morphed into a federal investigation and total ban across the state of Nevada. Feel like you don’t know the story? You’re not alone. Read on to get caught up on the insanity that is daily fantasy sports. Read More
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Fixed, The App That Fixes Your Parking Tickets, Gets Blocked In San Francisco, Oakland & L.A.
Fixed, a mobile app that fights parking tickets and other traffic citations on users’ behalf, has had its parking ticket operations blocked in three of its top cities, San Francisco, Oakland and L.A. after the cities increased the measures they were taking to block Fixed from accessing their parking ticket websites. The company confirms it has suspended parking ticket operations in all… Read More
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Oakland To Tech: Please Don’t Screw This Up Like Last Time
A few weeks ago, I was having lunch with Darrell Jones III, who heads up business development at Clef, at the southern restaurant Pican a few blocks away from the Oakland building that 3,000 Uber workers are slated to move into by 2017. Jones, who is half-black and half-Filipino and grew up partly on the North Side of Chicago, makes a point of being a patron at mostly black-owned businesses in… Read More
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Zumper: One-Third Of San Francisco’s Rent Is Attributable To VC Funding
Well, this is sure provoke to some debate. Zumper, a venture-backed startup that focuses on creating a more efficient and transparent apartment rental marketplace, ran a study of housing costs in tech hubs across the United States. They’re arguing that one-third of San Francisco’s rents are attributable to venture capital funding. Last year, venture firms invested $49 billion… Read More
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Why Southeast Asia Is Leading The World’s Most Disruptive Mobile Business Models
Earlier this summer, more than 35,000 industry leaders gathered at Mobile World Congress Shanghai 2015 to discuss the future of mobile, making it the largest-ever mobile-focused event in Asia. I was joined by peers from Netflix, Line, Ola Cabs, Flipkart and Twitter to discuss future business models for the mobile Internet. Most of this discussion steered towards China and India, but I was there… Read More
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An Inside Look At The First-Ever White House Demo Day
Yesterday, President Barack Obama invited 30 companies to the White House (on his birthday, no less) to participate in the first-ever White House Demo Day. The purpose of the event was to accelerate diversity in the U.S. tech sector, and as a supporter of that very goal, TechCrunch showed up to hear what the president had to say. If you want to read our full coverage of the event, check out… Read More
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