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Benchmark sues Kalanick, wants to invalidate 2016 decision to expand board with 3 seats for Kalanick appointees, which would also remove Kalanick from board — The battle between Benchmark Capital and Travis Kalanick just went nuclear, with the venture capital firm suing the former Uber CEO for fraud … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Snap reports Q2 revenue of $182M vs. $186.8M expected, DAUs grow 7.3M vs. 8M expected, reaching 173M, and loss grows to $443M; stock down 13% after hours — Snapchat's parent hurt by intensifying competition from larger rival Facebook — Snap Inc. on Thursday said its loss nearly quadrupled …
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Snap Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2017 Results — VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017.
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Uber rolls out out in-app messaging so drivers and riders don't have to share phone numbers; messages to the driver are also read aloud — :Thumbs-up emoji: — It was always a bit weird to wait for your Uber driver and then suddenly receive a text from an unknown number. “Where are you?”| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Consumer Reports pulls its recommendations of Microsoft Surface devices after an issue with their “predicted reliability” based on an annual subscriber survey — NEW YORK— Consumer Reports has removed its coveted “recommendation” designation for four Microsoft Surface laptops it had previously blessed with such status.
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Kaspersky Lab to drop its antitrust complaint after Microsoft agrees to make changes to Windows 10 with better visibility, help with compatibility reviews, more — Kaspersky is withdrawing its European antitrust complaint against Microsoft today. The software giant has agreed to make changes … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Memo: SoundCloud has asked investors for $170M at a pre-money valuation of $150M; if rejected, CEO says the firm won't be able “to continue as a going concern” — Tomorrow is do or die for SoundCloud, the struggling streaming music company that recently laid off 40% … | Bloomberg: |
Fired Google engineer James Damore defended his controversial memo in Bloomberg TV interview, says company execs smeared him — James Damore defends his controversial memo on Bloomberg TV — The former Google engineer, whose controversial memo has triggered a nationwide debate …
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DeepMind and Blizzard release SC2LE, a toolkit which includes an API, for AI research in real-time strategy game StarCraft II — What can computers learn from playing video games? Quite a lot actually — Teaching computers to play games has always been a useful (if somewhat crude) measure of their intelligence.| Reuters: |
Sources: Amazon is seeking to partner with US venue owners to sell event tickets — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is seeking to partner with U.S. venue owners to sell event tickets, four sources have told Reuters, a move that could loosen Ticketmaster's powerful grip on the lucrative ticketing business.
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AMD Threadripper 1950X review: the High End Desktop platform to beat, better than Skylake-X in almost every way, but needs robust cooling setup and power supply — Cheaper, faster, and more feature-rich than Skylake-X—what's not to love? — If Ryzen was a polite, if firm way of telling …
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Microsoft debuts open source Coco Framework to address limitations of enterprise blockchain by making it more scalable, governable, and confidential — Microsoft is working to address some of the current limitations of enterprise blockchain with a new cross-platform framework designed … | Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase raises $100M Series D at a $1.6B post-money valuation; round was led by IVP with participation from Spark Capital, Greylock Partners, and more — Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months. — It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place.
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