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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
In email to employees, Uber board member and co-founder Garrett Camp says “Travis is not returning as CEO” — Camp sent an email to employees on Monday afternoon. — Uber co-founder and board member Garrett Camp told employees that the company's former CEO Travis Kalanick …
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Bloomberg, Quartz, The Hill, Business Insider, USA Today, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Engadget, Axios, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @teddyschleifer
| Eric Bellman / Wall Street Journal: |
Tech firms rethink products, expecting the next billion internet users to prefer voice, video, and images to text given lower literacy rates in developing areas — Tech companies are rethinking products for the developing world, creating new winners and losers
Tweets: @cpearl42, @wsjbusiness, @philizzo, @ericbellmanwsj, @natbullard, @caro_milanesi, @mhbergen, and @wsj
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
YouTube rolls out chat to all its Android and iOS users, includes group messaging for up to 30 users — YouTube today rolled out the ability to share videos with contacts directly in its mobile app for Android and iOS. Users can chat about shared videos using text, react with emoji …
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YouTube Blog, The Verge, Digital Trends, BetaNews, Engadget, TechCrunch, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @247ls, @epro, @teamyoutube, and @waltmossberg
| Sam Nussey / Reuters: |
SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son says the company is interested in investing in Uber or Lyft, amid reports Uber board is mulling sale of stock to SoftBank and others — TOKYO (Reuters) - SoftBank Group Corp (9984.T), a prolific investor in global technology startups, reported a sharp rise …
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Fortune, Recode, TechCrunch, Wall Street Journal, CNNMoney, Financial Times, Axios, TechCrunch, TheStreet, Bloomberg, Seeking Alpha, and PE Hub Blog
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| Netflix Media Center: |
In first acquisition for the streaming giant, Netflix buys comic book publisher Millarworld, the company behind the Kingsman franchise — Comics Legend Mark Millar Joins Forces With the Leading Global Internet Entertainment Platform to Blow Minds Everywhere. — Hollywood Ca.| Ian Cutress / AnandTech: |
Intel finalizes specs of Core i9-7980XE: 18-cores, 2.6GHz clock speed with 4.4GHz Turbo Boost, 24.75MB L3 Cache, 165W TDP; priced at $1999, ships September 25 — When Intel launched its new high-end desktop platform a few weeks ago, we were provided with Core-X CPUs from quad cores …
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Intel Newsroom, Engadget, PCWorld, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, TechRadar.com, and Hardware Secrets. Tweets: @9to5mac. Thanks:@iancutress
| Alexander J Martin / Sky News: |
UK government proposes Data Protection Bill that includes new “right to be forgotten” legislation for users and fines for companies that breach users' privacy — Google and Facebook could face fines stretching into billions of pounds if they breach users' privacy under a new law.
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GOV.UK, Security, Privacy & …, The Guardian, ZDNet, BBC, GeekWire, CNNMoney, RT, computing.co.uk, Sputnik International, Daily Mail, men, Tom's Hardware, Sky News, Engadget, Daily Express, Naked Security, WIRED UK, Mirror.co.uk, The Guardian, The Next Web, The Independent, UKTN, CNBC, City A.M., ITV, The Sun, and Business Insider
Tweets: @mikebutcher and @goodallgiles
| Brendan Koerner / Wired: |
How a Russian hacking team reverse-engineers slot machine pseudorandom generators, then sends agents to casinos to beat machine's odds, blackmail manufacturers — LATE LAST AUTUMN, a Russian mathematician and programmer named Alex decided he'd had enough of running his eight-year-old business.
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Schneier on Security. Tweets: @kevinmitnick, @wired, @codelancer, @stevesilberman, @nzkoz, @emilydreyfuss, and @nxthompson
| Bloomberg: |
France to propose new rules for “real taxation” of tech firms operating in the EU next month, encouraging Germany and others to work with them — Finance Minister Le Maire to set out proposal in September — Le Maire also renews call for euro-area tax harmonization
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9to5Mac, Engadget, MacRumors, Quartz, Cult of Mac, Fortune, Patently Apple, and MacDailyNews
| Brian Reigh / Android Authority: |
Photos of LG's unreleased V30 phablet leak in partner-run competition, showing small bezels and no secondary screen ticker that the previous models had — Not only can we see LG's upcoming phablet from every angle, but we also have photo and video samples from its dual-lens camera. — See also:
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Gizmodo, Droid Life, Engadget, Android Police, 9to5Google, and The Verge
| Mike Murphy / Quartz: |
19 brands in over a dozen categories found to be owned by Amazon despite no up front disclosure, oftentimes selling alongside Amazon's generic house brands — When you go to Amazon.com, what are you looking for? Products from the brands you recognize, or perhaps just the cheapest ones—assuming the ratings aren't terrible?| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
US appeals court rules against patent troll Personal Audio, affirming its podcasting patent is invalid — A year after taking up the case, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled in favor of the Electronic Frontier Foundation in its challenge against podcasting patent troll, Personal Audio.Sponsor Posts
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