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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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| 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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USV Blog, The Reformed Broker, CNBC, Points and Figures, and CoinDesk
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| 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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| Nellie Bowles / New York Times: |
Backlash against the push for gender equality in tech grows among some men who see it as “a witch hunt” — After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is growing against the women in tech movement. “It's a witch hunt,” they say.
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Fortune. Tweets: @sarahlerner, @susanthesquark, @ekp, @anildash, @choire, @jackiehluo, @ana_m_medina, @puiwingtam, @johnolilly, and @lessien
| 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 … | 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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| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
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Tweets: @dkhos, @oliverturner, @wesstreeting, @ericnewcomer, @ericnewcomer, and @benedictevans
| Francesco Guarascio / Reuters: |
EU Commission draft report urges EU to proceed with tax overhaul to prevent digital firms from paying less tax in Europe by routing profits to low-tax countries — BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said the EU should proceed with an overhaul of taxes on digital firms even if the rest …
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| 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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Imagination Technologies, The Verge, Reuters, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Telegraph, BBC, and AnandTech
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
RIAA: 30M+ pay for streaming, which now accounts for 62% of US music biz; streaming revenue up 48% in first half of 2017 to $2.5B, digital downloads down 24% — Spotify, Apple Music and other services have 30 million U.S. subscribers, and streaming revenue is up 48 percent so far this year.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines — Twitter today has nearly four times as many monthly active users outside the U.S. as it does in its home market — 260 million versus 68 million — and this week it quietly launched a new app in an effort to boost those numbers further.
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Engadget and Android Police
| 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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Communications …, ZDNet, DxOMark, CNET, Forbes, Tech Times, International Business Times, BetaNews, TechCrunch, Reuters, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Phandroid, TechConnect, AppleInsider, InvestorPlace, BGR, The Next Web, MacDailyNews, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, Droid Life, iDownloadBlog.com, Softpedia News, AppAdvice.com, Cult of Mac, MacStories, Digital Photography Review, and AppleInsider
Tweets: @mkbhd and @johnpaczkowski
| 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 … | 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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Wired, Washington Post, and Om Malik
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