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Walmart tells some tech providers not to use Amazon Web Services if they want Walmart's business — Wal-Mart is telling some technology companies that if they want its business, they can't run applications for the retailer on Amazon's leading cloud-computing service, Amazon Web Services.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Sources: Matt Mazzeo, formerly of Lowercase Capital, quits Binary Capital weeks after quietly joining as its third partner; Justin Caldbeck formally resigns — We have some updates on the situation at Binary Capital, the San Francisco-based venture capital firm whose co-founding partner … | Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
With rising competition and no real moat, Uber may find it hard to live up to its $68B valuation, even if it can overhaul its corporate culture — The hard truth for Uber's next CEO is that it might be more taxi company than tech giant — Memo to Uber Technologies' next chief executive … | Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Sources: Pandora founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down, will likely stay until a replacement is found — The streaming music giant doesn't have a replacement for its founder lined up. — Pandora co-founder and CEO Tim Westergren plans to step down as the streaming music company's leader … | Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
ZeniMax vs Oculus lawsuit continues as ZeniMax asks for $500M more in damages and lawyer fees, while Oculus argues that the jury verdict should be thrown out — After trial victory, company also ups damage demand from $500 million to $1 billion — Earlier this year, ZeniMax won …
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Profile of Starsky Robotics, which hires truckers to train and eventually remotely control semi-autonomous trucks — Just before Stefan Seltz-Axmacher offers a job to an engineer at Starsky Robotics Inc., a driverless trucking startup in San Francisco, he gives them the talk.
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Sources: Pearl Automation, self-driving kit startup founded by ex-Apple engineers that raised $50M, shuts down after poor sales of its wireless rear-view camera — Pearl Automation, an automotive startup founded by former Apple engineers, has decided to shut down, Axios has learned from multiple sources.
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Sources: Facebook courts talent agencies as it prepares to debut TV-quality shows by late summer with budgets of up to $3M/episode, as well as short-form videos — Facebook is talking to Hollywood studios and agencies about producing TV-quality shows with an eye toward launching original programming … | Robert Hackett / Fortune: |
A behind-the-scenes look at how Google's Project Zero, known for its hard-nosed vulnerability disclosure policy, got started and has evolved over time — Brash. Controversial. A guard against rising digital threats around the globe. Google's Project Zero is securing the Internet on its own terms.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft Teams gets new features for education users: School Data Sync, OneNote Class Notebooks, education app integration, and assignment management — Microsoft today updated Microsoft Teams with four classroom features “designed to help schools achieve more together.”
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How a network of dummy online stores pretending to sell household goods is used to hide internet gambling payments from regulators and card issuers — A network of dummy online stores offering household goods has been used as a front for internet gambling payments, a Reuters examination has found.
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| Nathaniel Popper / New York Times: |
65 projects have raised $522M in ICOs this year, according to Smith + Crown; investors should be aware of the unregulated nature and potential for abuse in ICOs — A new crop of technology entrepreneurs is forgoing the usual routes to raising money. The entrepreneurs are not pitching …
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