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Marcus Hutchins, who helped stop WannaCry, arrested by FBI after Def Con; DoJ indictment accuses him of helping spread Kronos banking trojan in 2014-2015 — Marcus Hutchins arrested over his alleged role in creating Kronos malware targeting banks — Marcus Hutchins, the 23-year-old British …
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Emails and interviews show Uber bought 1,000+ faulty Hondas, which were subject to recall, in Singapore and leased them to drivers; one vehicle caught fire — Chasing breakneck growth, the ride-hailing giant bought Honda SUVs in Singapore subject to a recall—then one caught fire
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Sources: Google was interested in buying Snap for $30B+ in early 2016, around Snap's Series F; source says Snap talked with Google about buyout just before IPO — We keep hearing that Google floated an offer of at least $30 billion to buy Snap in early 2016.
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Yelp says GrubHub is acquiring its Eat24 delivery service for $287.5M; reports Q2 revenue of $208.9M, up 20% YoY; stock up 18%+ after hours — Two huge pieces of news today from Yelp, the company that shows up first in your Google search for a restaurant: first, GrubHub …
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Facebook to display “related articles” for popular stories, including ones flagged as false by fact checkers, to combat misinformation, after months of testing — Social-media giant will display related articles to limit the damage of false news without censoring posts| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google says it will rank better-performing apps, like those that use less battery or crash less often, higher in the Play Store — Google today announced it's rolling out a change to its Play Store so that better-performing apps - meaning those that experience fewer crashes and those that don't drain …
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Inside Patreon, which has 50K active creators, 1M+ patrons, is set to process $150M in 2017, and supports a myriad of people that otherwise may not get funding — In 2013, Peter Hollens was an aspiring a cappella singer surviving, in his words, by living on ramen in someone else's house.
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| John Herrman / New York Times: |
YouTube has emerged as the new conservative talk radio for a younger generation of right-wing extremists like Paul Joseph Watson and Stefan Molyneux — In June, Zack Exley, a political organizer and a fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy, published a report on … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
Greylock COO Tom Frangione out, source says due to “inappropriate” consensual relationship, just weeks after partner Reid Hoffman proposed a “Decency Pledge” — Tom Frangione has stepped down as chief operating officer of Greylock Partners, after the Silicon Valley …
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Mamoon Hamid, co-founder of Social Capital, joins Kleiner Perkins as a general partner — - Venture firm Kleiner Perkins just poached Mamoon Hamid from Social Capital, a 6-year-old venture fund he co-founded. — The move follows a spate of departures at Kleiner Perkins over the last week … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Uber expands Uber Freight beyond Texas to California, Arizona, Chicago, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and updates driver's app — Uber Freight, the on-demand trucking service created by Uber and introduced earlier this year, is expanding from its initial market of Texas to areas in California … | TechCrunch: |
GoPro beats Q2 targets with $297M revenue, up 34% YoY, vs. $269M expected, as the company commits to fixing software, supply chain issues — Aug 3, 2017, 1:29 pmAug 3, 2017, 2:30 pm — GoPro is flying high and mighty after releasing its 2017 second-quarter earnings.
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