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| Susan Wojcicki / Fortune: |
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki defends firing of memo writer, says she's faced gender-based slights throughout her career — Yesterday, after reading the news, my daughter asked me a question. “Mom, is it true that there are biological reasons why there are fewer women in tech and leadership?”
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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 28-year-old former Google engineer who was fired over a memo he wrote about gender differences …
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| Rolfe Winkler / Wall Street Journal: |
Andy Rubin's Essential Products raises $300M from Tencent, Amazon, and others, says Best Buy and Amazon will be its retail launch partners in the US — Startup founded by Google Android's creator has raised $300 million in funding; plans to release $699 titanium-encased smartphone
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Tweets: @djtgallagher and @robotodd
| The Walt Disney Company: |
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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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
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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DSLreports, Recode, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, VentureBeat, Recode, Ubergizmo, Mashable, iPhone in Canada Blog, Walt Disney Company, TechCrunch, Axios, East Bay Times, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, Android Central, MacRumors, iMore, Business Insider, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, MacDailyNews, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @yadingoid, @recode, @edmundlee, @ianfortey, @backlon, @jowens510, @jowens510, and @patricknorton
| Michelle Broder Van Dyke / BuzzFeed: |
Airbnb starts deactivating accounts of some people booking rentals to attend “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA, citing community rules — The rally is set to take place in a Virginia park where earlier this year white supremacists gathered with torches to protest the removal of a Confederate statue.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook uses AI and expands human review processes to identify misleading ads and posts that use “cloaking” to disguise true link destinations — “Cloaking” sounds sci-fi, but it's actually a trick used today by spammers to show content moderators or search engine spiders …
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| Nikhil Pahwa / MediaNama: |
Internet Archive appears to be blocked by Indian government; Indian Department of Telecom, Ministry of Electronics & Info Tech not responding to firm's queries — Update 2: Chris Butler, Office Manager at the Internet Archive, responding to a query from MediaNama, saying that their attempts …
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Gizmodo, The Verge, India Today, BBC, Inquirer, International Business Times, The Next Web, Neowin, Fortune, Silicon Republic, The Economic Times, Beyond Search, NDTV Gadgets 360, and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @aruna_sekhar and @jackerhack
| Ali Jordan / Thoughts: |
Eric Schmidt's Innovations Endeavors has merged with Israeli venture firm Marker LLC — We are pleased to announce the merger of venture capital firms Innovation Endeavors and Marker LLC. The combined entity will be named Innovation Endeavors. — With offices in Herzliya, Israel …
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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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Windows Security, Neowin, Threatpost, MSPoweruser, and SecurityWeek
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Business intelligence and analytics firm Tableau acquires ClearGraph, a startup that analyzes enterprise data using natural language — Business intelligence and analytics firm Tableau today announced that it has acquired ClearGraph, a service that lets you query and visualize large amounts …
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The Register, ZDNet, GeekWire, Tableau Software, SiliconANGLE, and ClearGraph
| Shona Ghosh / Business Insider: |
UK enterprise software startup Huddle sold to San Francisco-based PE firm Turn/River after months of financial struggles, source says for about $89M — Enterprise software startup Huddle is selling to San Francisco-based private equity firm Turn/River, after months of financial struggles left … Sponsor Posts
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