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How Uber used its lobbying force, one of the largest and most successful in the US, to start operating legally in Portland — This Is How Uber Takes Over a City … Charlie Hales, the mayor of Portland, Ore., was running a zoning hearing last December when he missed a call on his cell from David Plouffe …
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| Josh Horwitz / Quartz: |
Evernote, LinkedIn, and Uber are succeeding in China by playing by the government's rules — A new wave of US internet companies is succeeding in China—by giving the government what it wants — Facebook found itself shut out from China in 2009. Twitter got blocked the same year.
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| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Profile of Dropbox COO Dennis Woodside, who's charged with making Dropbox a mature company — Dropbox is a $10 billion startup with serious growing pains — and this guy's in charge of saving it — See Also — Other tech companies tried to poach SurveyMonkey employees after former CEO Dave Goldberg's deathThanks:@mattrosoff
| David Michaels / Bloomberg Business: |
SEC allows startups raising up to $50M to tweet about stock or debt offering to gauge interest among potential investors — SEC Approves Tweeting by Startups to Test Investor Interest — Trying to figure out how many investors might want to fund your small business? Go ahead and tweet about it.
Tweets: @startupljackson and @peterpham
| Bloomberg Business: |
Uber launches UberBOAT ferry service in Istanbul with rides starting at 50 liras, about $19 — Uber Crosses Continents With Istanbul Water-Taxi Service — Ships pass along the Bosphorus strait past the Fatih Sultan Mehmet bridge between the continents of Europe, top, and Asia in Istanbul.
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| Jamal Eason / Android Developers Blog: |
Google to drop support for Android Developer Tools in Eclipse IDE to focus on developing Android Studio — An update on Eclipse Android Developer Tools — Over the past few years, our team has focused on improving the development experience for building Android apps with Android Studio.
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| Sheera Frenkel / BuzzFeed: |
The Yemeni Cyber Army is likely an Iranian government-run operation — Meet The Mysterious New Hacker Army Freaking Out The Middle East — SAN FRANCISCO — The first tweets appeared on April 14. The website of Al Hayat, a pro-Saudi newspaper, had been hacked, its front page replaced …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Intuit lays off 399 people, about 5% of the company's staff — Intuit Lays Off 399 Employees In Company Realignment — Intuit has confirmed to TechCrunch that it has laid off 399 people, or just under 5 percent of the company's roughly 8,000 employees, in a re-alignment of the company.| Peter Elkind / Fortune: |
Instead of hardening security defenses, Sony Pictures focused on offending North Koreans less, and was more afraid of security costs than risks — Sony Pictures: Inside the Hack of the Century, Part 2 — We will take “a merciless counter-measure.” — On June 17, leaked emails show … | Leena Rao / Fortune: |
Instacart lets some retailers collect personal data on customers if the user opts in, starting with Whole Foods — Instacart is asking its customers to do something new — Grocery delivery service Instacart recently premiered a new feature asking users to share their personal data and shopping histories with retailers.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Samsung will stop disabling Windows Update on its hardware, to issue a patch in a few days — Samsung will patch its software to stop disabling Windows Update ‘within a few days’ — On Tuesday night, news broke that Samsung's SW Update software was disabling Windows Update on at least some computers.
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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Fred Wilson is sick and tired of operating plans focused just on growth instead of reaching sustainable profitability — Profits vs Growth — One of the things I've always struggled with as an investor in high growth tech companies is the tension between getting profitable vs growing more quickly.
Tweets: @fredwilson, @fredwilson, @pkafka, @startupljackson, @rafat, @mdudas, @jessicalessin and @semil
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