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July 31, 2016, 7:25 PM
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Leslie Hook / Financial Times:
Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project  —  Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars.  —  The San Francisco-based transportation company …
Bruce Schneier / Schneier on Security:
Recent hacks indicate US election systems and voting machines could be targeted too; government must take urgent steps to secure them, and consider retaliation
Reuters:
Sources: Clinton campaign computer network hacked in addition to Democratic National Committee and Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
Jeffrey Rodman / Backchannel:
Polycom's co-founder Jeffrey Rodman recounts the early days of his $2B company  —  Polycom's co-founder on the best investment he ever made, and why thinking small is a big idea … was March of 1991 and Polycom co-founder Brian Hinman and I were on yet another urgent trip to buy components.
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Paul Ziobro / Wall Street Journal:
Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website  —  Retailer also to shutter Beauty.com as part of a broader plan to cut costs  —  Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc. on Thursday said it is shutting down two websites …
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Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek:
Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago  —  On July 27, 2015, news broke about Stagefright, a vulnerability in Android.  A year later, it's clear that Stagefright has had a major impact on the mobile security world …
Jonathan Vanian / Fortune:
Cisco cybersecurity report: 9.5K ransomware victims pay ransoms each month, the average ransom is about $300, generating up to $34M a year for hackers  —  Companies are still using outdated technology leaving them prone to cyber attacks, security researchers are losing their confidence …
Mustafa Al-Bassam / Motherboard:
British Spies Used a URL Shortener to Honeypot Arab Spring Dissidents  —  A shadowy unit of the British intelligence agency GCHQ tried to influence online activists during the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests and the 2011 democratic uprisings largely known as the Arab Spring …

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Winston Cho / The Hollywood Reporter:
The FTC bans noncompete clauses that restrict job switching, potentially complicating hiring in Hollywood as firms try to protect trade secrets and other info

Alexandra Bruell / Wall Street Journal:
An interview with NPR CEO Katherine Maher, who defends NPR and accuses critics of “bad faith distortion” of her past comments about the First Amendment

Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Apollo-backed US investment group Concord increases its bid for Hipgnosis Songs Fund, to $1.5B, just over the last offer from Blackstone

More News

Stephen Hall / 9to5Google:
Samsung Galaxy Note 7, new Gear VR specs and pics leak; Note 7 will have iris scanner, 5.7-inch QHD display, 4GB of RAM, 12 MP f/1.7 camera, 3500 mAh battery

Earlier Picks

Bloomberg:
IRS delivers a notice of deficiency for $3B-$5B to Facebook, claims Facebook undervalued assets transferred to Irish subsidiary in 2010
Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post:
Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Big data integrator Talend closes up 41% in Nasdaq debut, raising $94.5M in an IPO
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