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Source: Uber board is meeting on Sunday to vote on Holder report recommendations, will also discuss Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away — Uber Technologies Inc's [UBER.UL] board will discuss Chief Executive Travis Kalanick temporarily stepping away from the embattled ride-hailing firm …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber Chief Business Officer Emil Michael is planning to resign as soon as Monday — Uber Technologies Inc. executive Emil Michael, one of Chief Executive Travis Kalanick's closest confidants, is planning to resign as soon as Monday amid an ongoing investigation into the company's workplace culture …
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CNNMoney, Recode, Bloomberg, Business Insider, Axios, and CNBC
Tweets: @harrymccracken, @karaswisher, @karaswisher, @sarahcuda, @eringriffith, @glennf, and @eliotwb
| Johnny Lin / Medium: |
How scammers use deceptive security apps and abuse search ads in the App Store to trick users into expensive subscriptions — It's far easier than you think. No luck or perseverance necessary. — At WWDC, Apple reported that they've paid out $70 billion to developers, with 30% of that ($21 billion!) in the last year.
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
How a hacking group used comments on Britney Spears' Instagram account to hide the location of their malware's command and control servers — Turla uses social media and clever programming techniques to cover its tracks. — A Russian-speaking hacking group that, for years … | Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon says it has loaned over $3B to more than 20K small businesses since launching the Amazon Lending program in 2011, $1B+ in the past 12 months — Amazon has been ramping up its small loans business, with the company announcing today that it has loaned more than $1 billion …
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
Apple launches Business Chat for iMessage in developer preview; Business Chat currently works with other customer service platforms like Salesforce and Nuance — Apple launched Business Chat for iMessage today in developer preview, company executives said onstage today at WWDC, the company's annual developer conference.
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Apple Developer, Digital Trends, Tech Times, TechCrunch, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, @ReadMultiplex, AppleInsider, What's next, Pocket-lint, @BrianRoemmele, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pocket-lint, and ZDNet. Tweets: @chrismessina
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Data shows Xbox Live users spend 19% of their time in Netflix and 7.6% in YouTube; just 1.5% of Xbox One time is spent in backwards compatible Xbox 360 games — Our follow-up to the Steam Gauge series samples statistics from millions of Gamertags. — For three years now … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Apple will finally offer basic analytics for podcasts, enabling podcast creators and advertisers to get significant listener feedback for the first time — Basic analytics are (finally) coming to Apple's podcast app in an upcoming refresh. It's a big deal.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
Silk Road now has numerous successors, mostly Asia-based; AlphaBay, now the leading dark web market, has 21k+ opioid listings, 4,100 for fentanyl, related drugs — Anonymous online sales are surging, and people are dying. Despite dozens of arrests, new merchants — many based in Asia — quickly pop up.
Tweets: @jonahnro
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Apple's new third-party ad tracker blocker in Safari will further entrench the dominance of Google and Facebook in web advertising — The brutal logic of online advertising — The internet is an ad-tracking machine. It's been true for long enough that we rarely talk about it anymore, but it bears repeating.
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Wired and AdExchanger
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
How the philanthropic efforts of tech billionaires like Marc Benioff, Reed Hastings, and Mark Zuckerberg are influencing America's schools — In San Francisco's public schools, Marc Benioff, the chief executive of Salesforce, is giving middle school principals $100,000 “innovation grants” … | Declan Walsh / New York Times: |
Egypt requested access to Uber's “Heaven” live rider data, preps bill requiring ride-hailing services put servers in Egypt and link customer data to government — CAIRO — As Uber sought this year to expand in Egypt, one of the most competitive ride-sharing markets … | Venessa Wong / BuzzFeed: |
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