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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Report: Magic Leap sold ~6,000 headsets in six months after release, compared to a goal of 100,000 in the first year, and recently laid off dozens of employees — And Google CEO Sundar Pichai reportedly left its board — Magic Leap's sales numbers reportedly haven't matched CEO Rony …
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| Caroline Spivack / Curbed NY: |
Report: Amazon leases 335K square feet of office space in NYC without any tax incentives, less than a year after pulling out of its larger HQ2 campus deal — The e-commerce titan remains interested in the Big Apple — Amazon has inked a lease in midtown Manhattan less than a year …
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| Steven Levy / Wired: |
A look at the mixed legacy of Alphabet's organizational structure, which sometimes led to the duplication of efforts among Google and Alphabet's other companies — With Larry Page and Sergey Brin stepping back (again!), Google CEO Sundar Pichai is now in charge of Alphabet—and its dysfunction.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Pichai's track record at Google over the past two years shows that Alphabet companies can be expected to either become more focused or get folded into Google — I've been thinking a lot about the Alphabet-Google (my colleague Kyle Wiggers prefers “Googlebet") news this week.
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| Jacob Pramuk / CNBC: |
Bernie Sanders unveils a “High-Speed Internet for All” plan with $150B to build publicly owned broadband networks, wants to break up ISPs like Comcast and AT&T — - Bernie Sanders announces a plan to expand rural broadband internet access and break up giant internet service providers.
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| Washington Post: |
In safety report, Uber says only 37% of the 464 rape cases during its US rides in 2017 and 2018 were reported to law enforcement — Buried inside Uber's inaugural safety report this week that detailed thousands of sexual assaults and more than 100 deaths was another staggering revelation …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool launched in 2015, from Facebook — New updates will be coming in 2020 — Adobe is acquiring Oculus Medium, a virtual reality sculpting tool originally revealed by the Facebook-owned VR company in 2015.
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| Allison Schiff / AdExchanger: |
Ogury, a Paris-based mobile ad network which also offers a GDPR and CCPA compliant consent management platform, raises $50M Series C — Mobile data company Ogury raised $50 million in Series C funding on Thursday with an eye on international expansion and consumer privacy-related R&D.
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| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Profile of VSCO, a photo-sharing app with a reported valuation of $550M, which is trending towards 4M paying users in 2020, up from 2M in late 2018 — No likes, no comments, no follower count — VSCO sells a sense of belonging — Long before Instagram toyed with removing “likes,” VSCO …
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| Financial Times: |
Survey of 6,154 people in China: 74% want the option to choose traditional ID methods over facial recognition, 84% want ability to review or delete their data — Most people would like to be able to choose traditional methods of identification over facial recognition technology …
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| Ari Levy / CNBC: |
SEC has rejected NYSE's proposal to allow companies going public through a direct listing to raise capital at the same time — - Last week, the New York Stock Exchange filed for a rule change that would allow companies in a direct listing to raise capital.| Scott Stein / CNET: |
Qualcomm unveils 5G-compatible Snapdragon XR2 to power standalone headsets, says it is working with Niantic Labs to develop a reference design for smart glasses — VR headsets take you places and AR headsets show you things in the real world that aren't really there.
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| David Cohen / Adweek: |
Foursquare CEO Jeff Glueck is leaving at the end of the year, to be replaced by David Shim, who joined Foursquare as president in June — Jeff Glueck is leaving after leading the company for 4 years — David Shim, who joined the location-based recommendation platform Foursquare as president in June … Sponsor Posts
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