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Sources: Uber board mulls offers from SoftBank and a Dragoneer-led coalition to buy from shareholders at discount from last valuation, plus a Pishevar-led offer — SAN FRANCISCO — Uber's board has voted to move forward on proposals by two investment groups to buy shares in the ride-hailing service … | Dan Primack / Axios: |
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| Protocol Labs: |
Protocol Labs explains 24hr+ halt of now-resumed Filecoin ICO, which may be biggest ever if the $52M token presale is included, handily beating Tezos' $232M — NOTICE: SALE REOPENS SAT, AUG 12 AT 11:00AM PDT Dear Filecoin Investors, and broader community, Wow! We are deeply humbled and grateful for your tremendous support.
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Tweets: @arrington, @minefilecoin, @libovness, @j_novack, and @coinlist
| Blair Hanley Frank / VentureBeat: |
OpenAI bot has defeated three top professional Dota 2 players in 1v1 play over the last week — An artificial intelligence has beaten one of the world's top Dota 2 players in single combat today. Danil Ishutin, better known by his gaming handle “Dendi,” threw in the towel in the middle …
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| Chris Burniske / cburniske: |
As bitcoin hovers around $4,000, a look at its previous boom and bust cycles, and thoughts about cryptoasset valuations — As the cryptoasset markets develop we'll see many booms and busts as enthusiasm waxes and wanes. Waxing and waning is all part of riding a rocket to the moon.
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| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Bitcoin passes $4,000 mark amid ICO frenzy and a slowdown in momentum behind Bitcoin Cash — What a day for Bitcoin. — 24 hours ago the cryptocurrency was trading below $3,700. About an hour ago it surged passed $4,000 and has no signs of stopping. It's now trading around $4,135.00.
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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Sources: Google buys Senosis Health, maker of smartphone apps that monitor health metrics — Shwetak Patel has struck again. — The University of Washington computer scientist has sold his newest Seattle startup company, Senosis Health, to Google, according to sources familiar with the deal.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Onavo Protect, VPN app bought in '13, gave Facebook app usage data that affected decisions like WhatsApp acquisition, adding Stories to Instagram, more — Information from data-security app shows company what people do on their phones beyond suite of firm's apps| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
“This Is Just Like GamerGate”: How The Pro-Trump Media Turned James Damore Into A Hero Overnight — A week ago, James Damore was anonymous. Now, the Google engineer who lost his job after he wrote a viral anti-diversity screed has become an icon of the alt-right, with more than 40,000 Twitter followers …
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Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @passantino, @juliacarriew, and @dmccabe
| Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
Baidu COO Qi Lu on company's and China's AI ambitions, Baidu's DuerOS natural language-based AI platform, why Alexa ecosystem is ahead of rivals in US, more — A company can have the best technology in the world. It can have the strongest talent. It can have the coolest product ideas.| Taylor Lorenz / Mic: |
Instagram feeds have become dominated by planned candids, dubbed “plandids”, which are usually posed but are supposed to appear effortless — Instagram used to be defined by its feed of stylized, perfectly posed images, but this summer a new trend has swept the platform: the “plandid.”
Tweets: @mikeelgan
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap's “Other” revenue fell from $8.3M in Q1 to $5.3M in Q2, signaling a decline in Spectacles sales — Snap's Spectacles sunglasses may prove to be more of a fad than a must-have device. Snap revealed during its call following weak Q2 earnings that it generated $5.4 million in …
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GSMArena.com and TheStreet
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Facebook discontinued its Groups app for Android and iOS; users will be unable to log in after September 1 — Facebook is paring down its collection of standalone apps. The company's experimental “teens-only” app Lifestage, designed to counteract Snapchat's threat, has been pulled from the App Store.
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