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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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| 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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| 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.
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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
| Bloomberg: |
Amazon partners with Olo, ordering platform for 200 restaurant brands with about 40K US locations, in an effort to boost Amazon Restaurants delivery service — Company teams up with mobile-ordering and pay platform Olo — Amazon.com Inc. may soon bring Shake Shack burgers and Chipotle burritos …
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| 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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The Official Microsoft Blog, ZDNet, GeekWire, On MSFT, Neowin, The Register, and MSPoweruser
| Tim Bradshaw / Financial Times: |
Imagination Technologies agrees to sell to China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge for £550M; its US-based MIPS unit sold to Tallwood VC for $65M — Imagination Technologies has agreed a sale to China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge in a deal valuing the British chipmaker at about £550m.
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| Adrianne Jeffries / The Outline: |
W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects — The organization that sets standards for the web just failed to beat back a stupid, greedy technology. — This week the World Wide Web Consortium …
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