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Google walkout organizers share demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, a harassment transparency report, more — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
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| BuzzFeed News: |
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment — Groups of Google employees are staging walkouts at offices across the world in protest at how sexual misconduct allegations are handled by the company.
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| New York Times: |
A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, as employees around the world walked out in protest on Thursday — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture.| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Flickr says it will end 1TB storage for free accounts and delete all but the most recent 1,000 photos or videos if users don't upgrade to Pro by February 2019 — Flickr was purchased in April by professional photo hosting service SmugMug, and today, the first major changes under the new ownership have been announced.
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| Micah Singleton / The Verge: |
Sonos says it is delaying support for Google Assistant, announced in 2017 and slated for the Sonos One in 2018, until 2019 — ‘The reality is that we need a bit more time to get the experience right’ — Sonos is delaying support for Google Assistant until 2019, the company announced in a blog post today.
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service — Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia …
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| Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal: |
Recode to be folded into Vox.com starting early next year with no expected layoffs; current EIC Dan Frommer will be replaced by Jason del Rey in the interim — Editor in Chief Dan Frommer to depart; no staff cuts are planned as a result of the combination, Vox said
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Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs; stock down 6%+ — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify (SPOT.N), the world's most popular paid music streaming service …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Geekbench results for the new iPad Pro show single-core and multi-core performance is on par with some 2018 MacBook Pro i7 models — A series of benchmark results have shown up on Geekbench for the new iPad Pro, and its new eight-core A12X Bionic chip is truly a powerhouse.
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Trusted Reviews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, Business Insider, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
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| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
No federal rules regulate Facebook political ads; efforts like Honest Ads Act stalled after company launched its own rules and Sen. McConnell questioned bill — Both Congress and the Federal Election Commission have ideas, but they're moving too slowly — In recent days … | Ina Fried / Axios: |
Over 50 companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, sign letter opposing Trump administration's efforts to roll back transgender rights — More than 50 companies, many of them tech firms, have signed a letter opposing any effort by the Trump Administration to roll back transgender rights.
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CNBC, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge, CNET, Cult of Mac, and Slashdot
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| Brian Wheeler / BBC: |
UK government to launch an Android app letting EU citizens apply to remain in UK after Brexit; iOS version doesn't fully work because it can't access NFC chip — The UK government is preparing to launch a smartphone app to make it as easy as possible for EU citizens to apply to remain …
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Dapper Labs, which develops consumer blockchain collectible cats CryptoKitties, raises $15M led by Venrock, its second round in 2018 after launching in February — The CryptoKitties just keep on multiplying. Dapper Labs, the company behind the consumer blockchain collectible cats, has raised $15 million in a new round of funding.
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CoinDesk, Bloomberg, The Block, GamesIndustry.biz, and AVC
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| Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg: |
Facebook open sources its Horizon tools, used to optimize Messenger, video, and notification features, available on GitHub — - Company allows free use of reinforcement learning platform — Move follows similar open source efforts from DeepMind, OpenAI
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Graph database startup Neo4j raises $80M Series E led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, bringing its total raised to $160M — Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market …
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VentureBeat, PR Newswire, Crunchbase News, Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, The Register, and Reuters. Thanks:@tjones0691
| Jordan Novet / CNBC: |
HashiCorp, which helps companies manage cloud infrastructure, raises $100M, led by IVP, at a $1.9B valuation and says its tools have 45M downloads — It's been a big year for open-source software. Microsoft bought GitHub. IBM bought Red Hat. Elastic went public. Cloudera and Hortonworks merged.
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GlobeNewswire News Room, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, GeekWire, FinSMEs, Going Long, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @avibryant. Thanks:@mattrosoff
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
DeepMap, which builds HD maps for autonomous vehicles, raises $60M+ Series B at a post-money valuation of at least $450M — As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is creating high-definition maps to help …
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GlobeNewswire News Room and DeepMap, Inc.
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces Uber Pro, a new rewards program for high performing drivers, rolling out first in Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, and Phoenix — Part of a broader effort to improve relations with drivers (and discourage them from driving for Lyft) — Uber drivers who maintain high ratings …
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Uber Newsroom, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, Forbes, and Mashable
| Yogita Khatri / CoinDesk: |
South Korea's Bithumb partners with crypto crowdfunding platform seriesOne to launch a regulated security token exchange in US — South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb has teamed up with crowdfunding platform seriesOne to launch a complaint security token exchange in the U.S.
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Yonhap News Agency, NewsBTC, CryptoGlobe, CCN, and Bitcoinist.com
| NDTV Gadgets 360: |
WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its Status section, but declined to provide a timeline — Clearing the air on Facebook's monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service's Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “Status” feature.
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Engadget, The Verge, The Economic Times, USA Today, Android Police, Mashable, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, BetaNews, CNET, TalkAndroid.com, TechSpot, NewsX, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, The Financial Express, and The Next Web. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| Katie Roof / Wall Street Journal: |
Source and filing: Zume, which runs delivery trucks with robots that prepare pizza, raises $375M from SoftBank and plans for $375M more at a $2.25B valuation — Newest funding calls for two tranches of $375 million, and one is already completed — Zume Inc. is in the process of raising …
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