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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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| 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, @puiwingtam, @johnolilly, @lessien, @choire, @jackiehluo, and @ana_m_medina
| 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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| 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 … | Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
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| 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, iDownloadBlog.com, Reuters, The Verge, AppleInsider, Telegraph, BBC, and AnandTech
| 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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| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike enters US with Washington DC launch, a month after rival Ofo launched in Seattle — Chinese bicycle-sharing giant Mobike has debuted in the US market with its entry into Washington, a month after rival Ofo launched its services in Seattle as the two companies vie for market share around the world.
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VentureBeat, Mobike, Washington Post, WTOP, China.org.cn, Xinhua News Agency, Curbed DC - All, Nikkei, TechNode, The Diplomat, and Engadget
| 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.| 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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| 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 … Sponsor Posts
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