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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
After reports of sexual harassment, Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, apologizes for behavior, says he'll seek counseling — Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck is taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the Silicon Valley firm he co-founded …
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| Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn: |
The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses — Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor. — I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news. However, after reading an article published …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
A number of female founders allege unwanted sexual advances and harassment by Binary Capital's Justin Caldbeck — “What do you know about a VC named Justin Caldbeck?” — That was the question a (now former) colleague asked last year, at the end of an unrelated conversation.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google to stop scanning Gmail email content to target ads, will use other user info it has for ad targeting — The move is designed to ease concerns of enterprise customers — Diane Greene pushes ad change to chase Microsoft in enterprise — Google is stopping one of the most controversial …
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase is reimbursing losses caused by Wednesday's Ethereum flash crash, when prices briefly dropped from $320 to as low as $0.10 on the GDAX exchange — Earlier this week, GDAX, the digital currency exchange run by Coinbase experienced a flash crash in its USD - Ethereum market.
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| Chris Williams / The Register: |
Heaps of Windows 10 internal builds, private source code leak online — Unreleased 64-bit ARM versions, Server editions among dumped data — Exclusive A massive trove of Microsoft's internal Windows operating system builds and chunks of its core source code have leaked online.
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| Evan Blass / VentureBeat: |
Source: Samsung Galaxy Note8 to come with 6.3" display, dual 12MP cameras, and 6GB of RAM, launches in second half of September, will retail for €999 — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is making preparations to launch its most expensive cellphone yet, telling partners that its Galaxy Note8 will retail for €999.
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9to5Google, Engadget, Fone Arena, Tech Times, International Business Times, BGR, CNET, TechSpot, Tom's Guide, TalkAndroid.com, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Android and Me, Android Authority, TmoNews, AndroidGuys, PhoneDog.com, TechCrunch, Android Beat, Phandroid, Neowin, Android Police, and Droid Life. Tweets: @dannysullivan
| Geoff Weiss / Tubefilter: |
Facebook Is Launching A Standalone App Exclusively For Video Creators — Facebook is set to launch a standalone app for video creators later this year, the company's product director, Daniel Danker, announced during a presentation entitled The Future of Facebook Video this morning at VidCon.
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| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Todoist developer unveils Twist, a Slack competitor which focuses on asynchronous communication by organizing all team conversations into threads — When Slack implemented threaded conversations, it seemed like the holy grail for internal communications. Slack finally lets you talk about multiple things in separate conversations.| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Instagram is testing “favorites”, editable lists allowing users to share posts with a limited group of friends — Reinventing the friends list — Instagram has begun testing a way to share posts with a more limited group of friends. Called favorites, the feature attempts …
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9to5Mac, Social Media Today, CNET, PhoneDog.com, Engadget, Refinery29, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, The Next Web, MacRumors, Seeking Alpha, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android and Me, and Fortune
Tweets: @kevinweil, @bijanstephen, @mims, @joshelman, and @benedictevans
| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Venmo is testing its own physical debit card — Plastic is so hot right now. — Venmo has been testing its own version of a physical debit card that would allow people who use its app to make purchases in brick-and-mortar stores using money stored in their Venmo account, according to multiple sources.
Tweets: @emilydreyfuss
| Wall Street Journal: |
Vice Media raises $450M from TPG at a $5.7B valuation, will use some of the funds to create a new mobile subscription service — Vice Media has secured a $450 million investment from private-equity firm TPG, as the youth-focused digital media company looks to step up its spending …
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