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Source: Uber looked at buying bike-rental startup Motivate before Lyft did but walked away over union issues and the risk city contracts could be in jeopardy — - An Uber-Motivate deal could have locked in a considerable bike-sharing advantage over Lyft for the ride-hailing pioneer.
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Google says Cloud COO Diane Bryant has left the company, less than a year after joining from Intel, where she had been for 32 years — Google Cloud chief operating officer Diane Bryant has left the company after less than a year. — “We are grateful for the contributions she made while at Google …
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| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon expands its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with a second, larger store, also in Seattle, which it says will open in fall 2018 — Amazon is expanding its checkout-free Amazon Go retail concept with another location in the company's backyard, GeekWire has learned.| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Melbourne-based international payments startup Airwallex raises $80M Series B led by Tencent and Sequoia China — Airwallex, a three-year-old fintech startup focused on international payments for SMEs and businesses, is putting itself on the map after it raised an $80 million Series B round.| Sam Levin / The Guardian: |
In trial against Six4Three, Facebook argues it's a publisher with the free speech right to take away access to data but also claims protection under Article 230 — In its defense against a former app startup, Facebook is contradicting its long-held claim to be simply a neutral platform| Kim Bhasin / Bloomberg: |
Inside Instagram's master class for marketing executives from fashion and beauty companies, where they learn to sell products on its platform — It's the first day of class at Instagram. Students check in at two security desks and sign non-disclosure agreements before heading up to the photo-sharing app's Manhattan offices.| Axios: |
All charges against ex-Vungle CEO Zain Jaffer have been dismissed at the request of San Mateo DA, who said prescribed drugs from multiple doctors were at fault — Last fall we reported that tech entrepreneur Zain Jaffer was arrested on a variety of awful charges, including sexual assault of his own child.
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US provides ZTE temporary authorization through August 1 to continue supporting equipment and consumer devices already deployed — So it can update phones and other equipment — The US Commerce Department has temporarily lifted a portion of the ban on ZTE that all-but shut down the company almost three months ago.
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| Sam Rutherford / Gizmodo: |
Samsung says it's aware of reports from some phone owners that its Messages texting app randomly sent photos to their contacts without permission — Sending pictures to others is one of the most basic functions of a smartphone, but when your phone's texting app starts randomly pushing …
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| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Israel-based startup ThetaRay raises $30M Series B to grow its AI-powered cybersecurity business, bringing total raised to around $60M — ThetaRay, a big data analytics company based in Hod HaSharon, Israel, today announced that it raised more than $30 million in a funding round led …
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| Paresh Dave / Reuters: |
Sources say Google's delay in joining a consortium of ad tech companies has complicated its members' GDPR compliance efforts — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google's delayed entry into a consortium of advertising technology companies has spoiled the members' push to comply with a new European privacy law …
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A Chinese court temporarily bans Micron chip sales in the country, with patent ruling in favor of Taiwanese rival UMC; Micron says no injunction has been served — A Chinese court temporarily banned Micron Technology Inc. chip sales, cutting the U.S. company off from the world's largest …
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