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Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says the company is on track for a 2019 IPO; source says the company has not started interviewing banks — - Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi told CNBC that the ride-hailing company is on track to go public in 2019. — The company is in a “good position” …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that the company is in discussions to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network — “It's up to them.” — Speaking today at the Code Conference, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says that his company is in “discussions” to have Waymo self-driving cars added to its network.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Google's Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL coming in fall, will keep single rear camera; Pixel 3 XL has two front cameras and near edge-to-edge display with notch — - Company is said to talk with Foxconn as potential manufacturer — More predictive version of Android software coming next year
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| Rani Molla / Recode: |
Mary Meeker's annual internet trends: e-commerce sales grow, time online rises, and smartphone shipments stagnate as average selling price drops — Here's a first look at the most highly anticipated slide deck in Silicon Valley. — It's that time of year again, when Mary Meeker unloads …
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| Richard Lai / Engadget: |
Xiaomi announces 6.21-inch Mi 8 Explorer Edition flagship with Snapdragon 845, 6GB RAM, 3D face scanner, transparent back, and dual-frequency GPS for ~$420 — Xiaomi may have already released the Mi Mix 2S earlier this year, but it's actually kept its true 2018 flagship, the Mi 8 …
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| Bloomberg: |
SenseTime has raised $620M at a valuation of over $4.5B from Fidelity International, Silver Lake, others, after raising $600M in April at around $3B valuation — - Fidelity, Tiger lead another round for China's SenseTime — The outfit says the latest funding values it at $4.5 billion
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| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: electronics maker Monster files for an ICO, aims to raise $300M, plans to sell “monster money tokens” to build an e-commerce site for its products — Monster Products, Inc. has been losing money for years, but a $300 million initial coin offering (ICO) may be what it takes to turn the company around.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google launches Neighbourly, a Q&A app for sharing local community knowledge in India, available as a beta in Mumbai — Google is increasing its focus on India after it released a new social app that's aimed at building neighborhood communities within cities in the country.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google has launched its popular Android storage management app Files Go in China via four third-party app stores operated by Tencent, Xiaomi, Huawei, and Baidu — Google has continued its slow and steady China strategy after it launched Files Go, a files management service for Android devices.| Shirin Ghaffary / Recode: |
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says experience economy will be a “massive business”, envisions a global travel community with lines of business beyond home rentals — Chesky's vision? To be a “global travel community.” — Most people think of Airbnb as a real estate rental business … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Hulu CEO says its internet pay-TV service Hulu With Live TV has signed up 800K subscribers since its launch over a year ago — Hulu, in a little over a year since launching its $40 monthly internet-streaming “skinny bundle,” has signed up 800,000 customers for the service, according to CEO Randy Freer.| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer.com: |
Ubiquitous code repository project Git patches two flaws, including one letting an attacker execute code on systems that recursively cloned a malicious Git repo — The developers behind Git and various companies providing Git repository hosting services have pushed out a fix to patch … | Shoko Oda / Bloomberg: |
Profile of NewsDigest, a popular news app in Japan, which employs no journalists and uses AI and social media monitoring to generate stories and spot fake news — - Japan millennial made newsroom using artificial intelligence — NewsDigest is one of most popular news apps in Japan| Bradley Chambers / 9to5Mac: |
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says Apple has been rejecting its app updates globally since Russia banned Telegram in April — The popular messaging app, Telegram, hasn't seen an App Store update since late March. It now appears that ever since Russian authorities ruled that the app was illegal in the country …
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The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Cult of Mac, Firstpost, and PiunikaWeb. Tweets: @durov
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25B into GM's Cruise self-driving program, with plans to commercialize such vehicles next year — General Motors on Thursday announced that SoftBank Vision Fund will invest $2.25 billion into its self-driving program, with plans to commercialize such vehicles next year.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Zynga buys Turkey-based mobile game studio Gram Games for $250M in cash; its 77 employees will stay on and operate as an independent studio inside Zynga — Zynga has acquired 1010 mobile game maker Gram Games for $250 million in cash plus other considerations.| Andrew Wallenstein / Variety: |
CEO Daniel Ek talks about Spotify's content policy, its direct-listing IPO, and removing R. Kelly's music from its playlists, at Code Conference — Spotify CEO Daniel Ek admitted his company fumbled the deployment of a new content policy that sparked considerable controversy within the music industry.| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Government investigation finds 73% of federal agencies at risk of being unable to detect data access attempts, 84% fail at encrypting data at rest, more — The Office of Management and Budget reports that the federal government is a shambles — cybersecurity-wise, anyway.
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| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
AWS' cloud graph database product Amazon Neptune is generally available in both US East regions, US West (Oregon), and EU (Ireland), more coming later this year — After showing it off last year at AWS re:Invent 2017, Amazon Web Services announced Wednesday that its new cloud graph database …
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| Bobby Allyn / NPR: |
Advertisers use smartphone location info to send personal injury lawyer ads during and after ER visits, target Planned Parenthood visitors with pro-life ads — Patients sitting in emergency rooms, chiropractors, and pain clinics in the Philadelphia area may start noticing the kind …
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