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Google walkout organizers share their demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, and harassment transparency report — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
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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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A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk 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.
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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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| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Flickr says it will no longer require users to sign in with their Yahoo accounts and ends 1TB storage for free accounts, limiting them to 1000 photos or videos — Flickr announced a handful of updates to its platform and business model today — the first major changes since SmugMug acquired …
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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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| 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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| 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 …
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| Brian Wheeler / BBC: |
UK government to launch an Android app to let EU citizens apply to remain in UK after Brexit; the app doesn't work on iOS because it can't access the 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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| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Apple's newly unveiled products start at higher price points, with the 2018 Macbook Air 128GB model starting 20% higher, continuing Apple's push into higher ASP — When Apple launched the iPhone X, it did more than just change the design language of the iPhone: it also offered a whole new pricing level.| 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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| 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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| 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, SiliconANGLE, Silicon Valley Business …, 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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| Ina Fried / Axios: |
More than 50 companies, including Apple, Amazon, Google, Intel, and Microsoft, sign a letter opposing Trump admin'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.| 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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The Verge, The Economic Times, USA Today, Engadget, Android Police, CNET, Mashable, XDA Developers, Pocket-lint, BetaNews, TalkAndroid.com, NewsX, Entrackr, Moneycontrol, The Financial Express, and The Next Web. Tweets: @mattnavarra
| 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, Bitcoinist.com, NewsBTC, CryptoGlobe, and CCN
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
DOJ charges three Taiwanese individuals, Chinese state-owned chip maker Fujian Jinhua, and Taiwanese firm UMC with stealing trade secrets from chipmaker Micron — Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced a new Department of Justice initiative on Thursday, designed to address Chinese cyberattacks and corporate spying on US companies.
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| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
How delivery drivers for Amazon Flex, who are contractors, are missing out on the $15/hour pay increase, as a study says drivers earn $11/hour after expenses — The gig economy is getting the Jeff Bezos treatment. Interviews with contract workers suggest the pay doesn't live up to promises.
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