Venmo fare-splitting is coming to the Uber app

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There’s finally a way to split the check for rides and food in the Uber app — all without paying that extra fee.

On Thursday, the San Francisco-based ride-sharing company announced a partnership with Venmo that integrates the popular payment system into the Uber app. This arrangement sidesteps the current in-app split-ride fee.

“With so many of our riders and eaters already turning to Venmo as a way to pay a friend back for that last ride or meal, we’re proud to have built a seamless, easy-to-use connection between our apps,” Marco Mahrus, Uber’s head of payment partnerships, said in a statement. Read more…

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Apple is trying to rely less on Samsung by having LG make some of its iPhone OLED screens

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Apple will now rely on two of its biggest competitors to help build its iPhones.

The tech giant is working with LG — as opposed to just Samsung — to have the company begin making some of its OLED screens, according to Bloomberg.

The new partnership, if true, is particularly interesting because LG’s organic light-emitting diode (aka OLED) phone screens have received mediocre-quality reviews, even though its television OLED screens have been lauded.

The iPhone X was the first Apple phone to incorporate OLED screens, and a report released last month said that Apple plans to use OLED screens for all its 2019 iPhone models. Read more…

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Lawmakers send bipartisan letter to Google asking it to end partnership with Huawei

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Lawmakers from the Senate and House sent a letter today to Google boss Sundar Pichai asking him to reconsider the company’s relationship with Chinese smartphone company Huawei.
The letter argued that the relationship posed a seriou…

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