Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh (Justine Coyne/Pittsburgh Business Times)

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• Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh (Justine Coyne/Pittsburgh Business Times)
• Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
• Google bans porn from its ad network (Chris Morris/CNBC)
• Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
• Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
• Thanks To "Right To Be Forgotten," Google Now Censors The Press In The EU (Danny Sullivan/Marketing Land)
• How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe (Nick Summers/Businessweek)
• Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter (Kashmir Hill/Forbes)
• Mobile will snag 9.8% of ad spending by end of year, surpassing newspapers, magazines, radio (eMarketer)
• CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod "Slasher" Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Daily Dot)
• Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott/SuperSite for Windows)
• Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more (Chance Miller/9to5Google)
• More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior (Farhad Manjoo/New York Times)
• Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones (Kevin Fitchard/Gigaom)
• ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Development, Bakes In Linaro Support (Joel Hruska/HotHardware.com News)

Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh (Justine Coyne/Pittsburgh Business Times) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 10:55 PM PDT Justine Coyne / Pittsburgh Business Times: Uber, Lyft ordered to cease operations in Pittsburgh  —  Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. have been issued a cease-and-desist order and must immediately stop operations in Pittsburgh.  —  In an order granted Tuesday, Judges Mary D. Long and Jeffrey A. Watson said the companies cannot operate until …

Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 09:30 PM PDT Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Microsoft surrenders the 23 domains it recently confiscated from No-IP  —  Order restored to universe as Microsoft surrenders confiscated No-IP domains  —  Microsoft has surrendered the 23 domain names it confiscated from dynamic domain hosting service No-IP.com, a move that begins the process …

Google bans porn from its ad network (Chris Morris/CNBC) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:45 PM PDT Chris Morris / CNBC: Google bans porn from its ad network  —  Google is getting out of the porn advertising business.  The changes, which went into effect late Monday, prohibit any promotion of most sexually themed sites, specifically those that feature “graphic sexual acts with intent to arouse including sex acts such as masturbation.”

Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 08:00 PM PDT Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: Goldman says client data leaked, wants Google to delete email  —  (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc said a contractor emailed confidential client data to a stranger's Gmail account by mistake, and the bank has asked a U.S. judge to order Google Inc to delete the email to avert a “needless and massive” breach of privacy.

Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:15 PM PDT Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: Thieves in Brazil use malware to hijack online payments, steal billions in aggregate  —  Brazilian ‘Boleto’ Bandits Bilk Billions  —  With the eyes of the world trained on Brazil for the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it seems a fitting time to spotlight a growing form of computer fraud that's giving Brazilian banks …

Thanks To "Right To Be Forgotten," Google Now Censors The Press In The EU (Danny Sullivan/Marketing Land) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 07:10 PM PDT Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: Thanks To “Right To Be Forgotten,” Google Now Censors The Press In The EU  —  The EU's Right To Be Forgotten removals have been happening for about a week on Google, and now news publications are discovering the fallout.  For some searches, you can't find their news stories relating to certain people.

How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe (Nick Summers/Businessweek) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:35 PM PDT Nick Summers / Businessweek: How Tinder, created by a team of five, mythologized its founding story and excluded plaintiff Whitney Wolfe  —  Tinder's Forgotten Woman: Whitney Wolfe, Sexism, and Startup Creation Myths  —  Whitney Wolfe, a former vice president for marketing at Tinder, the wildly popular hookup facilitation app …

Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter (Kashmir Hill/Forbes) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 06:30 PM PDT Kashmir Hill / Forbes: Profile of Del Harvey, Twitter's VP of trust and safety who deals with the worst of Twitter  —  Meet Del Harvey, Twitter's Troll Patrol  —  The gala on a recent Thursday evening was typical boom-time San Francisco glitz.  Attendees from Google , Yahoo and Facebook traded in jeans and hoodies …

Mobile will snag 9.8% of ad spending by end of year, surpassing newspapers, magazines, radio (eMarketer) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:55 PM PDT eMarketer: Mobile will snag 9.8% of ad spending by end of year, surpassing newspapers, magazines, radio  —  Total US Ad Spending to See Largest Increase Since 2004  —  Mobile advertising leads growth; will surpass radio, magazines and newspapers this year  —  Total media ad spending in the US …

CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod "Slasher" Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging (Patrick Howell O'Neill/Daily Dot) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:20 PM PDT Patrick Howell O'Neill / Daily Dot: CBS esports site OnGamers fires first employee and senior editor Rod “Slasher” Breslau after Reddit bans the site for vote-rigging  —  Reddit ban leaves esports site OnGamers fighting for survival  —  In November, CBS Interactive's flagship esports news site launched with big ambitions.

Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone (Paul Thurrott/SuperSite for Windows) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 05:00 PM PDT Paul Thurrott / SuperSite for Windows: Microsoft to launch cross platform fitness wristband this fall, will work with Android, iPhone and Windows Phone  —  Microsoft + Wearables  —  Yes, it's real.  It's just not a watch  —  Everyone's doing it, it seems.  Samsung jumped in first.  Google formalized it on Android just this past week.

Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more (Chance Miller/9to5Google) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 04:25 PM PDT Chance Miller / 9to5Google: Google Play Services 5.0 now available with Android Wear support, security enhancements, more  —  Google today announced that a major update to Play Services is now rolled out, bumping it from version 4.4 to 5.0.  Many of the details in this update were announced at Google I/O last week …

More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior (Farhad Manjoo/New York Times) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:50 PM PDT Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: More experiments on social media users could provide us insights into human behavior  —  A Bright Side to Facebook's Experiments on Its Users  —  Facebook's disclosure last week that it had tinkered with about 700,000 users' news feeds as part of a psychology experiment conducted …

Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones (Kevin Fitchard/Gigaom) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:45 PM PDT Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom: Qualcomm buys Wilocity to put gigabit wireless connections in smartphones  —  Qualcomm confirmed on Wednesday that it is buying gigabit wireless specialist Wilocity in a move that puts the mobile chipmaker firmly behind the new WiGig standard.  At some point next year, we will start seeing …

ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Development, Bakes In Linaro Support (Joel Hruska/HotHardware.com News) Posted: 02 Jul 2014 03:15 PM PDT Joel Hruska / HotHardware.com News: ARM Launches Juno Reference Platform For 64-bit Android Development, Bakes In Linaro Support  —  One of the trickiest aspects to launching a major new platform update is the chicken and egg problem.  Without any hardware to test on or take advantage of, developers are leery of committing to supporting new hardware features.

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