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| Susan Wojcicki / Fortune: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends firing of memo writer, says she's faced gender-based slights throughout her career — Yesterday, after reading the news, my daughter asked me a question. “Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?”
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| Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: |
James Damore says he filed complaint with National Labor Relations Board before being fired by Google, claims he was subjected to “coercive statements” — MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A 28-year-old former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products raises $300M from Tencent, Amazon, and others, says Best Buy and Amazon will be its retail launch partners in the US — Startup founded by Google Android's creator has raised $300 million in funding; plans to release $699 titanium-encased smartphone
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| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Following Mobileye acquisition, Intel will build fleet of 100 fully autonomous (Level 4) cars to test in US, Israel, Europe; first cars coming by year's end — The chipmaker just closed its deal to buy auto-visual startup Mobileye — Fresh off its acquisition of auto-visual company Mobileye …
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| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Anker unveils the $35 Eufy Genie, a small Alexa-enabled speaker that is $15 cheaper than the $50 Echo Dot; Bluetooth version coming soon for $40 — The Genie is an Alexa-enabled smart speaker that'll sell for just $35. It's the newest gadget in Anker's Eufy range of smart home products …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook uses AI and expands human review processes to identify misleading ads and posts that use “cloaking” to disguise true link destinations — “Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it's actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders …
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| Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed: |
Airbnb starts deactivating accounts of some people booking rentals to attend “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, citing community rules — The rally is set to take place in a Virginia park where earlier this year white supremacists gathered with torches to protest the removal of a Confederate statue.| David McCabe / Axios: |
Techdirt receives $250K+ from a group of backers, including Craig Newmark, to support its legal battle with Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims he invented email — An eclectic group is financially backing TechDirt, a tech news site being sued for libel by the same lawyer who who helped take down Gawker.| Mark Harris / Wired: |
How Palantir made an opaque surveillance network with data from police departments and gov't agencies, locking in clients amid complaints of low transparency — When Sergeant Lee DeBrabander marked a case confidential in the Long Beach drug squad's Palantir data analysis system in November 2014 … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Birchbox has held acquisition talks with several retailers, including Walmart — The startup received a $15 million lifeline from investors in 2016. — Birchbox has recently been discussing a potential sale with several retailers, multiple sources told Recode.
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| The Walt Disney Company: |
Disney will pay $1.58B to acquire additional 42% stake in BAMTech, making it a majority stakeholder — The Walt Disney Company announced today that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018 …
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Tweets: @yadingoid, @recode, @edmundlee, and @backlon
| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
Internet Archive appears to be blocked by Indian government; Indian Department of Telecom, Ministry of Electronics & Info Tech not responding to firm's queries — Update 2: Chris Butler, Office Manager at the Internet Archive, responding to a query from MediaNama, saying that their attempts …
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| Ali Jordan / Thoughts: |
Eric Schmidt's Innovations Endeavors has merged with Israeli venture firm Marker LLC — We are pleased to announce the merger of venture capital firms Innovation Endeavors and Marker LLC. The combined entity will be named Innovation Endeavors. — With offices in Herzliya, Israel …
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