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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In email to employees, Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says “Travis is not returning as CEO” — Camp sent an email to employees on Monday afternoon. — Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp told employees that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech firms rethink products, expecting the next billion internet users to prefer voice, video, and images to text given lower literacy rates in developing areas — Tech companies are rethinking products for the developing world, creating new winners and losers
Tweets: @cpearl42, @caro_milanesi, @mhbergen, @wsj, @wsjbusiness, @philizzo, @ericbellmanwsj, and @natbullard
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube rolls out chat to all its Android and iOS users, includes group messaging for up to 30 users — YouTube today rolled out the ability to share videos with contacts directly in its mobile app for Android and iOS. Users can chat about shared videos using text, react with emoji …
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| Brian Reigh / Android Authority: |
Photos of LG's unreleased V30 phablet leak in partner-run competition, showing small bezels and no secondary screen ticker that the previous models had — Not only can we see LG's upcoming phablet from every angle, but we also have photo and video samples from its dual-lens camera. — See also:
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| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
19 brands in over a dozen categories found to be owned by Amazon despite no up front disclosure, oftentimes selling alongside Amazon's generic house brands — When you go to Amazon.com, what are you looking for? Products from the brands you recognize, or perhaps just the cheapest ones—assuming the ratings aren't terrible?| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company is interested in investing in Uber or Lyft, amid reports Uber board is mulling sale of stock to SoftBank and others — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), a prolific investor in global technology startups, reported a sharp rise …
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| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel finalizes specs of Core i9-7980XE: 18-cores, 2.6GHz clock speed with 4.4GHz Turbo Boost, 24.75MB L3 Cache, 165W TDP; priced at $1999, ships September 25 — When Intel launched its new high-end desktop platform a few weeks ago, we were provided with Core-X CPUs from quad cores …
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| Netflix Media Center: |
In first acquisition for the streaming giant, Netflix buys comic book publisher Millarworld, the company behind the Kingsman franchise — Comics Legend Mark Millar Joins Forces With the Leading Global Internet Entertainment Platform to Blow Minds Everywhere. — Hollywood Ca.| Bloomberg: |
France to propose new rules for “real taxation” of tech firms operating in the EU next month, encouraging Germany and others to work with them — Finance Minister Le Maire to set out proposal in September — Le Maire also renews call for euro-area tax harmonization
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| William Turton / The Outline: |
Sam Altman's project The United Slate aims to help elect ~five candidates in California aligned with its 10 left-leaning policy goals but isn't set up as a PAC — The conscience of liberal venture capitalist Sam Altman. — Sam Altman, 32, is sitting here in a Y Combinator conference room … Thanks:@williamturton
| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
UK government proposes Data Protection Bill that includes new “right to be forgotten” legislation for users and fines for companies that breach users' privacy — Google and Facebook could face fines stretching into billions of pounds if they breach users' privacy under a new law.
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Tweets: @mikebutcher and @goodallgiles
| GSMArena.com: |
Alleged Google Pixel 2 picture leaks, shows front stereo speakers, the lack of a 3.5 mm headphone jack — A tipster sent us a photo of what's allegedly the Google Pixel 2. It's clearly an early dev unit with all those stickers on the back. But that's not the interesting part our eyes … Sponsor Posts
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