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Multiple accusations of unwanted physical advances by Dave McClure surface, as 500 Startups partner Elizabeth Yin resigns over lack of internal transparency — An email circulated to 500 Startups staffers by its Mountain View accelerator lead and partner Elizabeth Yin makes several claims …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Dave McClure resigns as a general partner of 500 Startups, following admission of inappropriate behavior toward women; he had already stepped down from CEO role — Dave McClure has resigned as a general partner of funds managed by 500 Startups, the seed investment group he founded in 2010, Axios has learned.
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| Timothy W. Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Samsung is developing a voice-activated smart speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, internally code-named Vega — Samsung is developing a voice-activated speaker powered by its digital assistant Bixby, joining a proliferating arms race in tabletop devices against the likes of Amazon, Alphabet, Apple and Microsoft.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US privacy suit alleging Facebook tracked logged out users is dismissed; judge ruled users failed to show economic harm or a reasonable expectation of privacy — A U.S. judge has dismissed nationwide litigation accusing Facebook Inc (FB.O) of tracking users' internet activity even after they logged out of the social media website.
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| Jay Greene / Wall Street Journal: |
Microsoft reorganizes global sales group to focus on cloud services, according to internal email; source says the move will lead to layoffs in the thousands — Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.10% reorganized its global sales group Monday to focus on cloud services, and a person familiar with the plans …
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Mark Pincus, Reid Hoffman launch Win the Future to rethink the Democratic Party; project's site will put political topics up for a vote, crowdsource proposals — It's called Win the Future, and Pincus is even courting potential WTF candidates like the frontman of '90s rock band Third Eye Blind.| StreetInsider.com: |
KGI's iPhone predictions: OLED iPhone won't have fingerprint recognition, supports 3D sensing for facial recognition, all models have 64GB, 256GB options, more — Find out which companies are about to raise their dividend well before the news hits the Street with StreetInsider.com's Dividend Insider Elite.
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
Preorders open for Token, a $249 ring with fingerprint reader and NFC for payments or logins; launch partners include MasterCard, Microsoft, Visa, HID — Smart rings aren't a novel idea — there are plenty of fitness tracking, notification-sending, payment or even protective finger ornaments around.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's Joe Belfiore says Windows 10 Timeline feature will be delayed until after Fall Creators Update — Microsoft revealed its new Timeline feature of Windows 10 earlier this year, noting it would arrive in the upcoming Fall Creators Update. Timeline is designed to allow Windows 10 users …
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| Sijia Jiang / Reuters: |
China's Tencent to impose play time and spending limits for kids on a top-grossing game Honour of Kings, after receiving complaints about game's addictiveness — Tencent Holdings, China's biggest gaming and social media firm by revenue, said it will limit play time for some young users of … | Sam Shead / Business Insider: |
UK's data protection watchdog rules that Google DeepMind's first deal with the NHS failed to comply with data protection law — The UK's data protection watchdog has ruled that a deal between DeepMind and an NHS trust “failed to comply with data protection law.”
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| Amie Tsang / New York Times: |
Adviser to top EU court rules against Uber in French case, says Uber should be treated as a taxi service; Uber says it will await final ruling later this year — LONDON — Uber suffered a blow to its expansion plans in Europe on Tuesday after a senior adviser to the region's highest court …
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