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Source: over 1,000 Uber employees sign letter to board demanding that Travis Kalanick return “in an operational role” because he's “critical” to future success — More than one thousand current Uber employees have signed a letter to the company's board of directors …
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Sources: Uber hires law firm O'Melveny & Myers to investigate handling of Indian rape victim medical records, with partial focus on whether bribes were involved — Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] has hired a law firm to investigate how it obtained the medical records of an Indian woman who was raped by an Uber driver in 2014.| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
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Sources: Tesla talking to music labels about creating its own streaming service to be bundled with its cars, starting with a Pandora-like offering — Why not work directly with Spotify, Apple and others? Good question. — Put this one in the “You can do that, but why would you want to do that? …
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| Susan Wojcicki / YouTube Blog: |
YouTube CEO says 1.5B logged-in viewers visit per month, and users spend 1 hour+ per day watching video on mobile devices — I just got off stage after a great conversation with Rhett and Link at VidCon, where we announced a number of exciting new updates.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates mission statement to “give people power to build community, bring the world closer together”, from “making the world more open and connected” — “Making the world more open and connected” had one fundamental flaw: it didn't push for any specific positive outcome from more connection.
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| Kang-Xing Jin / Facebook: |
Facebook introduces new group admin tools, including group analytics, scheduled posts, membership request filtering, more — Today we hosted our first-ever Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago with hundreds of group admins where we announced new features to support their communities on Facebook.
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| Nicole Perlroth / New York Times: |
How Golan Ben-Oni, CIO of US telecom firm IDT Corporation, discovered and is drawing attention to NSA-made DoublePulsar, a more potent sister tool to WannaCry — NEWARK — There have been times over the last two months when Golan Ben-Oni has felt like a voice in the wilderness.
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| Mark Bergen / Bloomberg: |
Google starts removing “confidential, personal medical records of private people” from search results — Google quietly added a new category of information Thursday — Health joins financial data, revenge porn as banned subjects — Alphabet Inc.'s Google has quietly decided … | Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
Google announces new VR180 video standard, showing half a 360-degree view, and partners with Yi, Lenovo, and LG for new cameras — Google is launching a new, more limited cinematic VR format that it hopes will be almost as accessible as regular YouTube videos.
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| Dana Hull / Bloomberg: |
Waymo hires ex-Tesla director of hardware engineering, Satish Jeyachandran, to lead its hardware team — Jeyanchandran was Tesla's director of hardware engineering — High-profile hire is latest in Silicon Valley talent war — Waymo has hired Satish Jeyachandran …
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| Jeff Baumgartner / Multichannel News: |
Sling TV expands access of its cloud DVR service to iOS and Windows 10 devices, priced at $5 per month for 50 hours of storage — AirTV also receives updates for the Sling TV user interface … Sling TV confirmed that it has expanded access of its Cloud DVR service to iOS devices, the new Dish AirTV Player, and on Windows 10.
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| Kent Walker / Google: |
Google says current laws underpinning digital evidence gathering are outdated, proposes new legal framework for cross-border data handling — Editor's note: This is an abbreviated version of a speech Kent delivered today at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.Sponsor Posts
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