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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In open letter to Uber employees, Benchmark says it warned Kalanick over a month ago it was preparing litigation and hints of damning findings in Holder report — The VC firm sent a letter to Uber employees to explain why it sued Kalanick and the company. — Benchmark Capital sent a letter …
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| New York Times: |
Sources: Uber board mulls offers from SoftBank and a Dragoneer-led coalition to buy from shareholders at discount from last valuation, plus a Pishevar-led offer — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's board has voted to move forward on proposals by two investment groups to buy shares in the ride-hailing service …
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| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
GoDaddy tells neo-Nazi site Daily Stormer it violated its ToS and to find a new domain provider, after it posted an obscene article about Charlottesville victim — White supremacist site the Daily Stormer needs to find another domain provider after getting the boot from GoDaddy.
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| Jim Finkle / Reuters: |
Daily Stormer domain now hosted by Google, after GoDaddy kicked it off, “whois” search shows — TORONTO (Reuters) - Neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer moved its domain registration to Google after hosting firm GoDaddy said it would sever ties with the site that promoted Saturday's deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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| Scott Scrivens / Android Police: |
Google Assistant, Voice Search, Gboard, and the Cloud Speech API add support for 30 more languages — Speech recognition is one of the most powerful aspects of many Google products, particularly in the Google app where both Voice Search and the Assistant rely heavily on being able to understand what we're saying.| Ruth David / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Angry Birds maker Rovio is planning an IPO as early as next month that could raise about $400M and value the company at about $2B — Rovio is said to plan a share listing as soon as next month — Games maker is searching for growth after Angry Birds success
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| Martin Brinkmann / gHacks Technology News: |
Opera discontinues Opera Max, the data-saving Android app released in 2013, says it had a “substantially different value proposition than our browser products” — Opera Software announced the decision to discontinue Opera Max, an application for Android designed to save bandwidth and improve privacy today.
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Opera Mobile, Android Police, AndroidGuys, Android Police, BetaNews, Gotechster, and Neowin
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AMD's Radeon RX Vega 64 review: on average neck-and-neck with the NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 1080 in gaming performance but is less power efficient — We've seen the architecture. We've seen the teasers. We've seen the Frontier. And we've seen the specifications.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on iOS that includes its own link in the app's main navigation, with the feature in testing on Android — Facebook is rolling out a “Trending News” section on mobile that includes its own link in the app's main navigation.| Danny Palmer / ZDNet: |
Over 1,000 Android apps, including 3 in the Play Store, found to be distributing SonicSpy spyware that silently records audio, takes photos, and makes calls — Three fake messaging apps in the Google Play Store discovered to be distributing stealthy data-stealing SonicSpy malware … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Swift and LLVM creator Chris Lattner joins Google Brain following his Tesla Autopilot stint — One of the key creators behind Apple programming language Swift, Chris Lattner, is on the move again. After a short six month stay at Tesla, which he joined last year from Apple to act as VP …
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| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft memo: Surface Book return rate hit 17% in late-'15; source: Intel was made scapegoat for Surface Book problems, as other OEMs handled Skylake's issues — Thurrott.com has seen an internal Microsoft memo that indicates that the software giant is readying a broader campaign to undercut …
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