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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.
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| 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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| 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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Early data after GDPR shows Google and Facebook are drawing ad money by gathering users' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than competing services — Digital ad giants are gathering individuals' consent for targeted ads at far higher rates than many competing online-ad services, early data show| 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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| Megan Farokhmanesh / The Verge: |
Pew Research study of US teen internet usage finds 85% say they use YouTube, 72% use Instagram, 69% use Snapchat, while only 51% say they use Facebook — And Facebook continues to fall, according to Pew Research Center — Teenagers are more interested than ever in YouTube, home to the world's growing influencer and vlogger base.
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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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Tweets: @chengmingalpert, @jonrussell, and @ow
| 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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| 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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| Filip Piekniewski / Piekniewski's blog: |
Despite hype, there are some signs that interest around deep learning research has slowed inside big corporations, especially in the autonomous driving space — Deep learning has been at the forefront of the so called AI revolution for quite a few years now, and many people had believed …
Tweets: @ron_miller, @deeplearningldn, and @robinhanson
| 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| Swapna Krishna / Engadget: |
Non-profit USB Implementers Forum announces a new standard for braille displays developed in cooperation with Microsoft, Apple, and others — Accessibility is an increasingly important issue when it comes to tech; while new technology can certainly make it easier for people with accessibility issues … | 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 … | 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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| 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.| 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.| 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.| Anna Irrera / Reuters: |
Cryptocurrency startup Paxos, formerly bitcoin exchange itBit, raises $65M Series B to expand blockchain-based services and operate the exchange — NEW YORK (Reuters) - Blockchain and cryptocurrency startup Paxos has raised $65 million from investors including venture capital firms RRE Ventures …
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Data encryption startup Virtru raises $37M Series B led by Iconiq Capital — Virtru, the security startup that came out of research at the NSA, announced a $37 million Series B financing round today led by Iconiq Capital. — The company also announced the formation of Virtru Labs …
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