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| James Surowiecki / MIT Technology Review: |
Google Fiber has pushed ISPs to improve broadband speeds in many markets, a result the FCC's National Broadband Plan failed to achieve — Broadband Speeds Are Improving in Many Places. Too Bad It Took Google to Make It Happen. — It's too often said that some event “changed everything” in technology.
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Wall Street Journal
| Shane Harris / The Daily Beast: |
OPM hackers obtained details more damaging than previously reported, including potentially humiliating “adjudication information” on federal workers — Hackers Stole Secrets of U.S. Government Workers' Sex Lives — Infidelity. Sexual fetishes. Drug abuse. Crushing debt.
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Newsweek, Computing and Fox News
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| Karen Weise / Bloomberg Business: |
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 … | Pew Internet: |
US Internet adoption patterns by age, class, race, and urban vs. rural over the last 15 years — Americans' Internet Access: 2000-2015 — As internet use nears saturation for some groups, a look at patterns of adoption — Main Findings — The Pew Research Center's unit studying …
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Digital Trends, USA Today and CIO.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
How Paris is confronting Airbnb's impact on housing after becoming the company's largest market — Paris Confronts Airbnb's Rapid Growth — City of Light brags about Airbnb but ramps up inspections of listings, as residents turn to tourist rentals — PARIS— Xavier Fouquerand is among the most prolific hosts on Airbnb Inc.| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Reddit's stance on policing behavior and not ideas is irresponsible because an echo chamber of hateful ideas can incite barbaric behavior — Reddit Is An Incubator Of Hate — Reddit's decision to police “behavior, not ideas” isn't just foolish — it's reckless.
Tweets: @startupljackson
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Some on-demand companies hire employees, not contractors, to provide a higher quality service — Start-Ups Finding the Best Employees Are Actually Employed — When Ron Johnson was pitching his idea for an e-commerce delivery company to venture capitalists last year … | 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.| 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
| 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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PC Magazine and Ars Technica
| 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 … | Gillian Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial launches online bank MYbank to challenge Tencent's WeBank in China — Alibaba Affiliate Launches Online Bank Despite Regulatory Hurdles — MYbank offers microloans for businesses and consumers but users can't open bank accounts yet
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Alizila, Financial Times, ZDNet, Asia Times, Reuters, e27, TechCrunch and ValueWalk
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