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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources detail 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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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
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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| Washington Post: |
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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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference — The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor. — It was Lao Tzu who said that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
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| Kate Holton / Reuters: |
Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale after dispute with Apple over licensing rights, says “it has received interest from a number of parties” — Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), the British company in dispute with its biggest customer Apple (AAPL.O) over licensing rights …
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| Claire Zillman / Fortune: |
Facebook introduces new privacy tools to combat catfishing and guard profile photos from being misused, in India now and other countries soon — Facebook on Wednesday is unveiling new features that it hopes will make women in India feel safer on its platform.| Bloomberg: |
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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| Lora Kolodny / CNBC: |
Sources: White House meeting Thursday on drones, 5G wireless to be attended by AirMap, Microsoft, AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, GE, Honeywell, NEA, and Lightspeed — - Tomorrow's tech summit at the White House will feature companies specializing in 5G wireless and drone technology| 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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Tweets: @0mgould, @ginnypottermfc, @lucyeverleigh, @chrismaddern, @alex, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @hunterwalk, @abdulajet, and @kerrymflynn
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Interviews with key Microsoft staff shed light on its AI strategy, utilizing Cortana and chatbots, and the firm's plans to compete with Facebook and Google — Yoshua Bengio has never been one to take sides. As one of the three intellects who shaped the deep learning that now dominates … | Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Yahoo's News Digest app, which delivered news updates twice daily, to shut down June 30 — Under former CEO Marissa Mayer, Yahoo failed to build anything truly exciting over the past five years - except for a single truly notable app, Yahoo News Digest. Now, under the reign of its new owner Verizon …
Tweets: @danfrakes, @dangraziano, @chris_ciaccia, and @harrymccracken
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Bixby Voice beta hands-on: appears to lack knowledge base, struggles with text messages, but interacts well with third-party apps, works best on local tasks — You'll be tapping 'Let's improve' a lot — The Bixby button on the side of Samsung's fantastic Galaxy S8 is finally getting its most important feature: voice support.
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