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Benchmark sues Kalanick, wants to invalidate 2016 decision to expand board with 3 seats for Kalanick appointees, which would also remove Kalanick from board — The battle between Benchmark Capital and Travis Kalanick just went nuclear, with the venture capital firm suing the former Uber CEO for fraud …
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Snap reports Q2 revenue of $182M vs. $186.8M expected, DAUs grow 7.3M vs. 8M expected, reaching 173M, and loss grows to $443M; stock down 16%+ after hours — Snapchat's parent hurt by intensifying competition from larger rival Facebook — Snap Inc. on Thursday said its loss nearly quadrupled …
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Snap Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2017 Results — VENICE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Snap Inc. (NYSE: SNAP) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2017.
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Fired Google engineer James Damore defended his controversial memo in Bloomberg TV interview, says company execs smeared him — James Damore defends his controversial memo on Bloomberg TV — The former Google engineer, whose controversial memo has triggered a nationwide debate …
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Uber rolls out out in-app messaging so drivers and riders don't have to share phone numbers; messages to the driver are also read aloud — :Thumbs-up emoji: — It was always a bit weird to wait for your Uber driver and then suddenly receive a text from an unknown number. “Where are you?”
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Sources: Amazon is seeking to partner with US venue owners to sell event tickets — NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) is seeking to partner with U.S. venue owners to sell event tickets, four sources have told Reuters, a move that could loosen Ticketmaster's powerful grip on the lucrative ticketing business.
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Memo: SoundCloud asks investors to approve reorganization proposal, if accepted, new $170M round will close Friday at pre-money valuation of $150M — Tomorrow is do or die for SoundCloud, the struggling streaming music company that recently laid off 40% of its staff despite having raised over $230 million in venture capital.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils Windows 10 Pro for Workstations, aimed at server-grade PC hardware, expected to arrive this fall — Microsoft is officially unveiling Windows 10 Pro for Workstations today. While the operating system was originally rumored back in June, Microsoft is providing the full details on the special edition today.
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Consumer Reports pulls its recommendations of Microsoft Surface devices after an issue with their “predicted reliability” based on an annual subscriber survey — NEW YORK— Consumer Reports has removed its coveted “recommendation” designation for four Microsoft Surface laptops it had previously blessed with such status.
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| Mark Walton / Ars Technica: |
AMD Threadripper 1950X review: the High End Desktop platform to beat, better than Skylake-X in almost every way, but needs robust cooling setup and power supply — Cheaper, faster, and more feature-rich than Skylake-X—what's not to love? — If Ryzen was a polite, if firm way of telling …
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Kaspersky Lab to drop its antitrust complaint after Microsoft agrees to make changes to Windows 10 with better visibility, help with compatibility reviews, more — Kaspersky is withdrawing its European antitrust complaint against Microsoft today. The software giant has agreed to make changes … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
DeepMind and Blizzard release SC2LE, a toolkit which includes an API, for AI research in real-time strategy game StarCraft II — What can computers learn from playing video games? Quite a lot actually — Teaching computers to play games has always been a useful (if somewhat crude) measure of their intelligence.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft debuts open source Coco Framework to address limitations of enterprise blockchain by making it more scalable, governable, and confidential — Microsoft is working to address some of the current limitations of enterprise blockchain with a new cross-platform framework designed … | Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase raises $100M Series D at a $1.6B post-money valuation; round was led by IVP with participation from Spark Capital, Greylock Partners, and more — Coinbase has had a pretty crazy six months. — It may be hard to remember, but at the beginning of 2017 the cryptocurrency world was a different place.
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