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Sources: Benchmark's Bill Gurley led the effort to build support among fellow Uber investors for a demand that Travis Kalanick resign — The plot to oust Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick began almost the moment he announced last week that he was taking a temporary break from the celebrated technology company caught up in scandals.
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Benchmark confirms Bill Gurley will leave Uber's board of directors, to be replaced by fellow partner Matt Cohler — Benchmark partner Bill Gurley is in talks to leave Uber Technologies Inc.'s board of directors, two people familiar with the matter said. — If he decides to go …
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Tweets: @mikeisaac, @dannysullivan, and @sallyshin
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources: how the pressure on Travis Kalanick played out in the days and hours leading to his resignation — Travis Kalanick's final hours as Uber's chief executive played out in a private room in a downtown Chicago hotel on Tuesday. — There, Mr. Kalanick, who was on a trip …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Possible Kalanick replacements at Uber: YouTube's Susan Wojcicki, ex-Ford CEO Alan Mulally, ex-eBay CEO John Donahoe; sources say Sandberg to stay at Facebook — The embattled ride-hail company needs a no-nonsense executive with some form of experience with distributed networks.
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Tweets: @gc, @alexjamesfitz, @nickstatt, and @rustyk5
| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Uber's crisis was a failure of oversight and shows founders should be constrained by lieutenants, mentors, and a forceful board of directors — Travis Kalanick's spectacular rise and fall at Uber contains many lessons for the technology industry. But one lesson should rise above the others …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap adds Snap Map to Snapchat, offering global view of friends' locations in Bitmoji form, accessed by zooming out of default camera view — Snapchat's next big feature wants to get you to meet up with friends in real life rather than just watching each other's lives on your phones.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources: Snapchat quietly acquired social mapping startup Zenly last month for $250M to $350M; Zenly to continue running independently — Snapchat's newest feature, Snap Map, is based on its latest acquisition, social mapping startup Zenly. TechCrunch has learned that Snapchat has bought Zenly …
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Sources: Apple seeks to reduce the 58% share of revenue labels get on Apple Music; labels may agree if subscriptions expand and other criteria are met — Labels' deals with Apple expire in the next couple weeks — Apple Inc. is seeking to reduce record labels' share of revenue from streaming …
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9to5Mac, The Verge, Patently Apple, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Engadget, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, CNET, Axios, iPhone in Canada Blog, Seeking Alpha, and Insanely Great Mac. Tweets: @lucas_shaw
| Kaitlyn Tiffany / The Verge: |
Tumblr, known for its activism on internet issues like net neutrality and the SOPA/PIPA fight, may change to be less outspoken, now that it's owned by Verizon — One of the open internet's fiercest defenders has a new boss — In 2014, Tumblr was on the front lines of the battle for net neutrality.
Tweets: @lhfang, @karlbode, @waltmossberg, @javi, @kait_tiffany, @slaughlin, and @reckless
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Periscope debuts Super Hearts, which viewers can buy in-app using virtual coins starting at $0.99, earning creators a monthly pay-out — Periscope has a new revenue stream and a new way to attract the best live video content to its Twitter-owned app. Today Periscope launches Super Hearts …
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Tweets: @periscopeco, @joshconstine, and @joshconstine
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Spotify now lets users build group playlists with their friends in Facebook Messenger — Spotify is excited to introduce Group Playlists for Messenger, a new experience for creating playlists with friends on a messaging app they already know and love. — With Group Playlists for Messenger … | Gerry Doyle / New York Times: |
Toshiba says it's chosen a Japanese consortium to buy its microchip business, overlooking US-based Western Digital; full details of the deal expected next week — HONG KONG — As Toshiba, the embattled technology giant, battles for survival, it has turned to a group led by the Japanese government … Sponsor Posts
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Ask an Expert: How to effectively recover stuck TDS refunds with reduced TDS reconciliation time — The 26AS/Form 168 gets updated quarterly and often gets checked only during the time of ITR filing.
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