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Uber—and its execs—hit with fines in France for illegal taxi service

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Uber has been hit with a €800,000 fine for running an illegal transport service and breaking privacy laws in France.

The penalty was dished out to the ride-sharing app by a French court on Thursday. Additionally, Uber’s EMEA director Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal—the company’s boss in France—were slapped with fines of €30,000, and €20,000...

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Report: Amazon to launch standalone music streaming service, challenging Spotify and Apple
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Amazon Prime Music.

Amazon, the e-commerce giant that continues to redefine what it means to be “an everything store,” is reportedly launching a stand-alone music streaming service.

According to Reuters, Amazon will offer the service for $ 9.99 per month, matching Spotify’s current price. The Seattle tech titan is finalizing deals with labels, the report says.

Amazon already...

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T-Mobile beats AT&T and Verizon in customer service ratings

T-Mobile CEO John Legere. (credit: T-Mobile)

T-Mobile USA leads the four major wireless carriers in customer satisfaction, having moved ahead of AT&T and Verizon Wireless in the past year, according to an American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) report released today.

Wireless carriers overall outperformed home Internet and subscription TV providers, a reflection of the greater competition in the mobile...

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Frontier: Fewer than 30,000 customers lost service in Verizon transition

"Less than one percent" of Verizon customers who were switched over to Frontier Communications suffered service outages after the transition, according to Frontier.

But with more than 3 million customers being forced to switch providers, that could put the total number of customers who suffered outages at nearly 30,000. What isn't clear is how many people still lack service.

Frontier closed its acquisition of Verizon's FiOS and DSL...

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