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Disney will pay $1.58B to acquire additional 42% stake in BAMTech, making it a majority stakeholder — The Walt Disney Company announced today that it has agreed to acquire majority ownership of BAMTech, LLC and will launch its ESPN-branded multi-sport video streaming service in early 2018 …
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Disney to end Netflix film distribution deal in 2019, will launch ESPN streaming service in 2018 and Disney streaming services in 2019 — Disney will end its distribution deal with Netflix and launch its own streaming service, the company announced today. It intends to launch the service in 2019.
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| Ryan Nakashima / Associated Press: |
James Damore says he filed complaint with National Labor Relations Board before being fired by Google, claims he was subjected to “coercive statements” — MENLO PARK, Calif. (AP) — A former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences …
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: “iPhone 8” to debut same day as other iPhones in mid-September and come in black, silver, gold; Apple can produce 2M-4M this quarter, 45M-50M by year's end — Rumors about an “iPhone 8” delay may have been unfounded, as analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of KGI Securities indicated …
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| Madeline Buxton / Refinery29: |
Instagram tests letting you add a guest to your Live video, rolling out as a trial today with a full release expected in the coming months — Double the people, double the fun? That's what Instagram is banking on with its latest update, which will give you the chance to go Live with a friend … | Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
Spotify comes to Xbox One, as Microsoft rolls out new Xbox Live homepage that offers more customization with Fluent Design — Xbox Live is getting a new look. — Microsoft is rolling out a redesigned homepage for Xbox Live that gives users more control over what they see.
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| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Cruise is running an autonomous ride hailing service for employees in SF 16+ hours a day seven days a week, to expand fleet by 100+ cars over next few months — Cruise, the self-driving startup acquired by GM last year, is already operating a complete autonomous ride hailing service in San Francisco for its employees.
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Study of 450+ websites, associated Facebook pages, and their owners reveals inner workings of partisan pages: FB is kingmaker, right-wing's more prolific, more — How ideologues, opportunists, growth hackers, and internet marketers built a massive new universe of partisan news on the web and on Facebook.| Susan Heavey / Reuters: |
US ITC to review Qualcomm's complaints about Apple iPhone patents, sets date for completing its investigation within the next 45 days — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. trade officials have agreed to investigate Qualcomm Inc's allegations that Apple Inc infringed on patents with its iPhone7 and other devices …
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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber plans to close or sell most of its US car-leasing division to stem unsustainably high losses, just two years after starting the business — Move by the ride-hailing company is due to unsustainably high losses — Uber Technologies Inc. plans to wind down its U.S. subprime car-leasing division …
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| Alex Heath / Business Insider: |
Facebook has killed Lifestage, the Snapchat-like dedicated social networking app for high schoolers it had released last year — Facebook has killed Lifestage, the standalone app it released almost one year ago as a dedicated social network for high schoolers.
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| Samuel Gibbs / The Guardian: |
HBO hackers demand a multimillion-dollar ransom and release emails, scripts, and personal phone numbers of GoT stars in latest dump of stolen data — Group tells company CEO to pay multimillion-dollar ransom or else risk 1.5TB of shows and confidential corporate data being released online
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Microsoft disables security certificates from Chinese CA WoSign and its StartCom subsidiary because of bad practices, joining Apple, Google, and Mozilla — Microsoft has joined Apple, Google, and Mozilla in disabling security certificates from Chinese company WoSign and its StartCom subsidiary.
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