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June 23, 2017, 6:20 PM

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Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:

Google to stop scanning Gmail email content to target ads, will use other user info it has for ad targeting — The move is designed to ease concerns of enterprise customers — Diane Greene pushes ad change to chase Microsoft in enterprise — Google is stopping one of the most controversial …

Reid Hoffman / LinkedIn:

The tech industry should treat sexual harrassment of founders by VCs much like HR departments treat workplace abuses — Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor. — I don't often write immediate reactions to recent news. However, after reading an article published …

More: The Information, The Information, Pando, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and Fortune

Dan Primack / Axios:

After reports of sexual harassment, Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, apologizes for behavior, says he'll seek counseling — Venture capitalist Justin Caldbeck is taking an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital, the Silicon Valley firm he co-founded …

Tweets: @reidhoffman, @gaberivera, @ktbenner, @hypatiadotca, and @kieransnyder

Dan Primack / Axios:

A number of female founders allege unwanted sexual advances and harassment by Binary Capital's Justin Caldbeck — “What do you know about a VC named Justin Caldbeck?” — That was the question a (now former) colleague asked last year, at the end of an unrelated conversation.

More: Recode, Pando, The New York Observer, Silicon Valley Business …, and Fast Company

Tweets: @msuster, @theinformation, @mat, @joshk, @sarahfrier, @leenarao, @cindygallop, @kennethn, @susanthesquark, @johnolilly, @ashleymayer, @panzer, @jguynn, @btaylor, @alexia, @mdudas, @ow, @fmanjoo, @stanfordash, @danprimack, @ryanlawler, @bijan, and @karaswisher

Evan Blass / VentureBeat:

Source: Samsung Galaxy Note8 to come with 6.3" display, dual 12MP cameras, and 6GB of RAM, launches in second half of September, will retail for €999 — EXCLUSIVE: — Samsung is making preparations to launch its most expensive cellphone yet, telling partners that its Galaxy Note8 will retail for €999.

More: 9to5Google, BGR, Engadget, CNET, Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Tom's Guide, Phandroid, Droid Life, AndroidGuys, TmoNews, Neowin, PhoneDog.com, Android Beat, Android and Me, and SlashGear

Casey Newton / The Verge:

Instagram is testing “favorites”, editable lists allowing users to share posts with a limited group of friends — Reinventing the friends list — Instagram has begun testing a way to share posts with a more limited group of friends. Called favorites, the feature attempts …

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, Engadget, The Next Web, PhoneDog.com, Refinery29, Seeking Alpha, iDownloadBlog.com, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, and Fortune

Tweets: @kevinweil, @benedictevans, @bijanstephen, @mims, and @joshelman

Peter Kafka / Recode:

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? …

Reuters:

Firms like Cisco, IBM are acceding to Russia's demands to review source code of security products, raising fears knowledge gained can be used for cyberattacks — Western technology companies, including Cisco, IBM and SAP, are acceding to demands by Moscow for access to closely guarded product …

More: CRN, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, The Daily Caller, ValueWalk, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @ericgarland

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 …

More: Breitbart, Ars Technica, TechSpot, theWHIR.com, PSFK, Search Engine Land, Engadget, DataBreaches.net, Consumerist, BBC, The Verge, 9to5Google, and Seeking Alpha

Tweets: @pranavdixit and @mhbergen

Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed:

Facebook removed 30+ pages run from Macedonia over past two months citing TOS violations; publishers had assumed they were safe after paying for ads — Over 30 Facebook pages being run from Macedonia have been removed by Facebook in the past two months.

Tweets: @niemanlab, @buzzfeedben, @rkapkap, @davidmackau, @craigsilverman, @mattmittenthal, @miriamelder, and @jimwaterson

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Algorithmia, a marketplace for algorithms, functions and machine-learning models, raises $10.5M Series A led by Google's new AI fund — About a month ago, word spread that Google had quietly launched a new fund for investing into AI companies. Now this fund has made its first (or at least its first public) investment.

More: VentureBeat, GeekWire, Wired, and The Seattle Times. Tweets: @alexia

Eyal Hertzog / The Bancor Protocol:

Bancor says a post questioning its purpose and code fundamentally misunderstands the network, and that all Bancor code is open, audited, and rigorously tested — Below you'll find a line by line response from the Bancor team to the “Bancor is Flawed” article by Professor Emin Gün Sirer.

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