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August 24, 2015, 11:50 AM

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Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:
Apple, Facebook, Google, other tech stocks down sharply on China worries, while Tim Cook, in an email to Jim Cramer, says Apple is still growing in China  —  Facebook Down 12.1%, Apple Down 10%, Google Down 6.5%, Microsoft Down 5.8% As Stock Markets Plummet
Cam Bunton / 9to5Google:
LG G Pad II 10.1 announced: 2GB RAM, Snapdragon 800 chip and 7,400mAh battery in tow  —  LG has announced a brand new tablet ready to compete at the 10-inch screen size category, and by all accounts, it looks to be a decent piece of hardware.  The LG G Pad II 10.1 is going to make a full appearance at IFA in a couple of weeks.
Jillian D'Onfro / Business Insider:
How Udacity, profitable as of August, is using nanodegrees to drive student engagement and retention  —  The founder of Google's top secret project lab has a new plan to double the world's GDP (Goog)  —  More than seven years ago, Larry Page and Sergey Brin tapped Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun …
Thomas Ricker / The Verge:
Comparing gender and race diversity figures reported by Google, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Intel  —  How do tech's biggest companies compare on diversity?  —  Welcome to the second annual Verge Hack Week.  We're totally blowing up our site: we've given our reporters …
More: TechCrunchTweets: @stevesi
Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:
Netflix taps SoftBank to offer carrier billing for Japan launch, app will be pre-installed on phones  —  With Netflix's first foray into Asia a week away, the video-streaming giant has revealed how it plans to tackle what could prove a particularly tricky inaugural market for the company.
Christine Magee / TechCrunch:
Everything But The House Raises $30M To Move Estate Sales Online  —  Everything But The House (EBTH), an online estate sale marketplace, has pulled in $30 million in new funding to help people who are downsizing sell their stuff to bargain hunters and collectors around the world.
More: PE Hub Blog and FortuneThanks:@leesadalto
Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
Silicon Valley's perks arms race now includes parental leave, but tech companies are still not adequately addressing child care  —  The One Time Silicon Valley's Herd Mentality Comes In Handy  —  The perks arms race now includes parental leave along with on-site dry-cleaning and private chefs.
Tweets: @atotalmonet
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
European Commission asks companies for details about Google's ad contracts and scraping as it deepens its antitrust investigation  —  EU Deepens Antitrust Investigation Into Google's Practices  —  The EU is stepping up its investigation into allegations that Google abuses its dominance …
Dhawal Shah / TechCrunch:
How Coursera reached over 1M registered users in China by partnering with local companies and universities  —  How Coursera Cracked The Chinese Market  —  Coursera announced in July that they crossed 1 million registrations as China became their second largest market, overtaking India.
Tweets: @johndoerr

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