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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo Talent Exodus Accelerates as Marissa Mayer's Turnaround Flounders — The departures of a number of high-profile executives at Yahoo has accelerated in recent months, so much so that many inside the company are becoming worried about strategy and execution of key initiatives aimed at turning around its core business.| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber looking to raise close to $1B in new venture capital at valuation of $60B-$70B — Uber Said to Plan Another $1 Billion in Fund-Raising — Just three months after raising an enormous sum of money from investors, Uber is at it again. — The ride-hailing service is planning …
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| Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon, Google, and Microsoft's strong earnings highlight the benefit of a head start in cloud services over legacy IT firms — The Cloud Is Raining Cash on Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — Each company's impressive earnings can be attributed to a shift in the industry that's punishing a slew of legacy firms.| Andrii Degeler / Ars Technica UK: |
Hands on with the modular smartphone Fairphone 2, which ships in December for €525 — Fairphone 2 hands-on: Modular phones are finally here — AMSTERDAM—With more and more similarly priced and specced Android smartphones arriving on the market, unique selling points are becoming increasingly rare.
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| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google CEO Sundar Pichai Brings in Less Egotistical Leadership — Bruno Bowden describes Google's top ranks in a very Google-y way. With stats. — “In leadership at Google, you have to be three-plus standard deviations better than normal in technical ability,” said Bowden …
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| Jonah Bromwich / New York Times: |
Inside the Unicode Consortium and how it decides which emojis to officially support — How Emojis Find Their Way to Phones — An obscure organization that standardizes the way punctuation marks and other text are represented by computer systems has in recent years found itself at the forefront …
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| Lizette Chapman / Wall Street Journal: |
Playful, founded by early Oculus backer Paul Bettner, raises $25M, announces VR-game Lucky's Tale, debuting with consumer launch of Oculus Rift in 2016 — Playful Raises $25 Million, Launches a Game for Oculus VR — Science-fiction enthusiast Paul Bettner had been dreaming of virtual reality … | Dan Graziano / CNET: |
Moov Now review: $100 wearable with 6-month battery life is useful for real-time workout coaching, less so for all-day activity tracking — Moov Now review: A personal workout coach on your wrist — The Moov is an activity tracker, but rather than counting metrics like steps and distance …
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Ars Technica, TrustedReviews, Alphr, Gigaom and BGR
| iFixit: |
Nexus 5X teardown shows many components are modular and can be replaced independently — Nexus 5X Teardown … Teardown — Teardowns provide a look inside a device and should not be used as disassembly instructions. — Featured Guide — This guide has been found to be exceptionally cool by the iFixit staff.| Bloomberg Business: |
Sources: Toshiba is close to selling its image sensor business to Sony for $165M — Toshiba Said Near $165 Million Sale of Sensor Business to Sony — Companies said to announce deal as early as next week — Toshiba selling assets after $1.3 billion accounting scandal
| Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot: |
DoJ says courts should require Apple to decrypt data on iOS devices because software is “licensed, not sold” to customers — DOJ dismisses Apple's arguments against decrypting iOS communications — The U.S. government rejected Apple's arguments in federal court …
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9to5Mac, Ars Technica, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Boing Boing and Engadget
| Semil Shah / Haywire: |
Y Combinator's and AngelList's recent announcements of large funds, while disruptive to traditional VC, are nonetheless good for the overall VC ecosystem — AngelList and Y Combinator Continue To Shake The Trees — They say that “bad things come in threes.”
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