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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: Uber has a program to identify enforcement officers and stealthily prevent them from successfully hailing cars, to help drivers avoid sanctions — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber has for years engaged in a worldwide program to deceive authorities in markets where its low-cost ride-hailing service …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Uber VP of product and growth Ed Baker has resigned after 3+ years; an anonymous email to Arianna Huffington and reporters included complaint about his conduct — His departure is tinged by allegations made about him to those investigating the ride-hailing company's loose culture.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
Snap joins other recent big exits for Lightspeed, which include Nutanix and AppDynamics; Lightspeed also invested early in MuleSoft, The Honest Company, Affirm — A decade ago, Lightspeed Venture Partners was an obscure firm investing in highly technical startups that were mostly unknown outside of Silicon Valley.
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| Andrew Ross Sorkin / CNBC: |
NBCUniversal invested $500M in Snap IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, making it the only US media company with a stake — NBCUniversal, a unit of Comcast and parent of CNBC, invested $500 million in Snap during its IPO as part of a strategic investment and partnership, according to sources.
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See also Mediagazer| Sean Gallagher / Ars Technica: |
Researchers uncover PowerShell Trojan that uses DNS queries to get its orders — Delivered by “secure” Word doc, pure PowerShell malware fetches commands from DNS TXT records. — Researchers at Cisco's Talos threat research group are publishing research today on a targeted attack delivered … | Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: |
Appeals court invalidates Smartflash patents that Apple was ordered to pay $533M for infringing — Massive verdict would have been largest ever for a non-practicing entity. — It looked like Smartflash LLC had Apple right where it wanted it after a jury awarded the patent-holding company $533 million … | Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Sources: Amazon is testing Alexa-powered devices that can make phone calls and act as intercoms, may launch new devices this year — Alexa is popular, but daily usage is key. — Amazon plans to unveil one or more new Alexa-powered devices this year that will allow people to initiate phone calls by voice …
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| Tim Peterson / Marketing Land: |
Facebook adds option for Messenger bots to provide persistent menu instead of text entry field, another move away from text-based conversations for chat bots — Messenger bots can prevent people from typing in text to reply and make them use non-native menu buttons instead.
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| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Apple's share of mobile devices shipped to schools has been surpassed by Microsoft and Google in recent years, as cheap Chromebooks and Windows laptops take off — Apple is losing its grip on American classrooms, which technology companies have long used to hook students on their brands for life.
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| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
JetSmarter, the “Uber for private jets”, wanted to charge a Verge reporter $2K if they didn't publish a positive story about their flight after service demo — We've seen plenty of aggressive requests from companies that want positive coverage, but perhaps none as absurd …
Tweets: @candicechoi, @benpopper, @chillmage, @davidmackau, @backlon, and @danawollman. See also Mediagazer
| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
White House taps Michael Kratsios, formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital, as deputy CTO — Peter Thiel has been at Donald Trump's side since the Republican National Convention, guiding the then-candidate on technology policy and brokering a meeting between him and top tech executives.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
GM's Maven car-sharing service launches monthly car rentals, with a Chevrolet Tahoe for $1.5K or Chevrolet Volt for $1.1K, including parking and insurance — Over a little more than a year, General Motors (GM) has seen growing interest in Maven, its on-demand ride-sharing service.Sponsor Posts
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