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Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice president for business and second in command at the ride-hailing company, announces his departure in email to employees — SAN FRANCISCO — Emil Michael, Uber's senior vice president for business and second in command at the ride-hailing company …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Emil Michael believes a weak board and lax legal team at Uber, plus his friendship with Travis Kalanick, led to his ouster, not scandals — Emil Michael is replaced by David Richter as business head — CEO Travis Kalanick may take leave after series of scandals| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Uber adds Nestlé executive and Alibaba board member Wan Ling Martello to its board, after Holder probe recommended more independent directors — Company adds Martello, a Nestle exec and Alibaba board member — Independent probe recommended more independent directors| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers say Crash Override, which took down Ukraine's power grid, is the only known malware to have attacked physical infrastructure other than Stuxnet — AT MIDNIGHT, A week before last Christmas, hackers struck an electric transmission station north of the city of Kiev …
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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
iPad Pro 10.5-inch review: great tablet camera, lower latency with Apple Pencil, and excellent battery life, but iOS 11 still three months away — More RAM, great screen, and better keyboard will all shine... once iOS 11 is out. — Nothing Apple has done in the last three years has reversed …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Zelle, the real-time Venmo competitor backed by 30+ US banks, arrives this month embedded in apps of participating banks; standalone app coming later this year — The U.S. banking industry's answer to Venmo has now arrived. Starting this month, a new, person-to-person payments network called Zelle …
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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Sleep monitoring startup Hello, which raised $40M+, to shut down, has laid off most employees and is seeking a buyer for its remaining assets — Hello, a sleep monitor maker that raised over $40 million in venture capital, has laid off most of its employees and is seeking a buyer for its remaining assets, Axios has learned.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Facebook is building feature to let users subscribe to news publications, expected by end of year; talks ongoing around payment model, Instant Articles — Facebook may soon help its users do something unfamiliar on the platform: pay for news by building a feature that would allow users … | Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
The Essential Phone will launch as a Sprint exclusive but will also be available to purchase unlocked from Essential's website — NEW YORK—The Essential phone that is the brainchild of Android co-founder Andy Rubin doesn't have a launch date beyond the vague promise of late summer.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Bancor, a platform for launching blockchain tokens, raises ~$150M in largest-ever ICO — An initial coin offering (ICO) for a blockchain project called Bancor has set a new industry record, raising approximately $153m in ether, the native currency on the ethereum blockchain, as part of a crowdsale that concluded today.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat officially launches self-serve Ad Manager tool to make buying ads easier and a Certified Partners program that gives extra training to ad tech partners — To beat Facebook and Google's duopoly, Snapchat needs advertisers to build and buy campaigns with confidence.
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