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A look at Travis Kalanick's risk taking, from his early startups to Uber, which once led Tim Cook to threaten Kalanick with app removal for breaking store rules — Travis Kalanick's drive to win in life has led to a pattern of risk-taking that has put his ride-hailing company on the brink of implosion.
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How H-1B visa program has become a gateway for companies to replace US tech staff with foreign workers earning less and receiving fewer benefits — In the summer of 2014, Craig Diangelo thought he was on the path to an easy retirement. A veteran of the tech industry, Diangelo got his start as a Cobalt programmer in the 1970s.| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
Russian hacker Roman Seleznev sentenced to 27 years for theft, sale of 2M+ CC numbers resulting in $170M+ in losses, the longest hacking-related sentence in US — Federal prosecutors have yet to capture or convict the foreign computer criminals believed to be behind the hackings of big retailers like Target and Neiman Marcus.| Nick Pappageorge / CB Insights: |
Amazon building new business pillars in AI, next-gen logistics, and enterprise cloud, a deep dive into firms's M&A, investment, jobs, patent, other data shows — Seattle-based Amazon is doubling down on AWS and its AI assistant, Alexa. It's seeking to become the central provider for AI-as-a-service.| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
CyberGRX, a startup that vets third-party suppliers on their cybersecurity practices, raises $20M Series B led by Bessemer — CyberGRX believes it has solved a security problem that has long vexed many companies: How to ensure that third-party suppliers don't provide a way for hackers to attack their networks?
| Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: |
As MakeSpace announces $30M Series C, a look at the logistics tech underlying the on-demand storage service — Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5 million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington D.C … | Ari Levy / CNBC: |
Groq, a stealth startup founded by Google Tensor Processing Unit project engineers and Chamath Palihapitiya, has raised $10.3M — Google has slowly been pulling back the curtain on homegrown silicon that could define the future of machine learning and artificial intelligence.
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| Caroline O'Donovan / BuzzFeed: |
Waymo filing: during deposition this week, Uber engineer “was forced to admit” that Uber was working on a second, more Waymo-like Lidar and hid it from court — An Uber self-driving Volvo drives in Pittsburgh Friday, March 17, 2017. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple hired two executives who worked on satellites at Google, held talks with Boeing about investment or partnership in Boeing's satellite venture — The iPhone maker has recruited a pair of top Google satellite executives for a new hardware team, according to people familiar with the matter.
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| Duncan Riley / SiliconANGLE: |
Machine learning data management startup SafeGraph raises $16M Series A from IDG Ventures and 100+ high-profile individual investors — San Francisco-based machine learning data management startup SafeGraph Inc. has raised a $16 million funding round led by IDG Ventures USA but including …
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| Ben Fox Rubin / CNET: |
Verizon delays Bixby Amazon shopping feature in Samsung Galaxy S8 — A new camera feature on the Galaxy S8 that recognizes bar codes and products was delayed on Verizon phones. — The Samsung Galaxy S8 launched today, but Verizon customers won't be getting the phone's full experience just yet.
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Engadget, The Verge, 512tech, Ubergizmo, PhoneDog.com, 9to5Google, Android Central, GeekWire, and Fortune. Thanks:@benfoxrubin
| Alexandra Vaidos / Softpedia News: |
IHS estimates Samsung's Galaxy S8, which retails starting at $720, costs $307.50 to manufacture, $43.34 more than it cost to make the Galaxy S7 last year — The Galaxy S8 bill of materials reaches $301.60 — Samsung's Galaxy S8 is more expensive than last year's Galaxy S7 …
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