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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
London transport authority says Uber not “fit and proper” to hold license, cites “Greyball” software, will not renew on Sept. 30; Uber can operate during appeal — Uber has lost its licence to operate in London, the capital's transport regulator has said.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Responding to London license revocation, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi in leaked memo to employees says “there is a high cost to a bad reputation”, promises change — Uber chief says the company must act with integrity — Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sent a sobering …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook settles with shareholders, abandons the plan to issue non-voting shares — Facebook has dropped plans to create a new class of non-voting shares that would have protected CEO Mark Zuckerberg's control of the company even as he sells 99% of his shares.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @alexeheath, @pierre, @lexnfx, @alexeheath, and @alexeheath. Thanks:@businessinsider
| David Cardinal / DxOMark: |
DxOMark gives the iPhone 8 Plus camera a score of 94, the highest ever, 4 points above the Google Pixel and HTC U11; video score of 89 is below Pixel's 91 — The Apple iPhone 8 Plus has a main camera system truly worthy of a flagship phone. Similar to the iPhone 7 Plus, it features two cameras …
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| Reuters: |
Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint reach “major breakthrough” in merger talks, could sign deal by end of October; Deutsche Telekom will own majority stake — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) is close to agreeing tentative terms on a deal to merge with peer Sprint Corp (S.N) …
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| Dylan Byers / CNNMoney: |
Two Democratic senators seek co-sponsors for bill requiring digital platforms with 1M+ users to keep public files of all political $10K+ ad buys — How Facebook plans to fight election interference — Amid growing concern over Facebook's sale of political ads to Russians …
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @nytpolitics, @mikeisaac, @puiwingtam, @nytmedia, @anildash, @caseynewton, and @cjcmichel
| Tim Swanson / Great Wall of Numbers: |
How shady exchange and ICO practices, conflicts of interest in journalism, and other serious issues in cryptocurrencies are largely ignored by the media — [Note: I neither own nor have any trading position on any cryptocurrency. I was not compensated by any party to write this.| Ben Lang / Road to VR: |
Intel Scraps Plans to Launch Project Alloy Reference Headset, Pursuing Other VR R&D — Intel is scrapping plans to launch the Project Alloy headset as an open reference design, citing lack of partner interest. — Intel revealed Project Alloy, an x86-based standalone VR headset …
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| Deborah Bach / Microsoft: |
Microsoft, Facebook, and Telxius complete 160Tbps Marea cable, the highest-capacity subsea cable across the Atlantic — People and organizations rely on global networks every day to provide access to internet and cloud technology. Those systems enable tasks both simple and complex …
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ZDNet, The Official Microsoft Blog, GeekWire, On MSFT, Neowin, The Register, and MSPoweruser
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says 4K iTunes content cannot be downloaded, only streamed, and that the VP9 codec, which is used by 4K YouTube videos, is not supported on Apple TV 4K — Apple has updated its iTunes Store on iOS devices and the Apple TV with plenty of 4K movies ahead of the launch of the Apple TV 4K …
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to start cutting 5,000 jobs, or about 10% of its staff, by the end of this year — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planning to cut about 10 percent of its staff, or at least 5,000 workers, according to people familiar with the matter … | Washington Post: |
Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that their election systems were targeted by Russian government hackers during 2016 election — (Amber Arnold/Wisconsin State Journal/AP) — The Department of Homeland Security contacted election officials in 21 states Friday to notify …
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