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Sources: Uber mulls Dragoneer-led and SoftBank offers to buy from shareholders at discount, Pishevar-led offer for 75% of Benchmark's stake at $68.5B valuation — 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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VentureBeat, Recode, The Rideshare Guy Blog …, Tech Times, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Verge, eWeek, Fortune, USA Today, and Vanity Fair
Tweets: @albertwenger and @mikeisaac
| 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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CNBC, Forbes, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, CoinDesk, plus.google.com, Cointelegraph.com News, plus.google.com, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @krogsgard
| 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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CoinSpeaker. Tweets: @cburniske, @cburniske, @cburniske, @cburniske, @cburniske, and @jon_choi_
| 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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SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch, The Verge, OpenAI Blog, Ubergizmo, IGN, WildML, 9to5Google, CNNMoney, Kotaku, Engadget, Fast Company, Tech Times, Fortune, GeekWire, Mashable, Business Insider, Neowin, SlashGear, The Hill, YouTube, Blue's News, The Register, Business Insider, VG247, and Quartz
Tweets: @elonmusk, @jasonbwlake, @gdb, and @xamat
| 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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Ars Technica, Wall Street Journal, Cointelegraph.com News, CoinDesk, Finance Magnates, Virtual Mining Bitcoin News, and The Next Web
Tweets: @arrington, @minefilecoin, @libovness, @j_novack, and @coinlist
| 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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Crooked Timber, Monday Note, Recode, Vox, The Guardian, Quora, Breitbart, Wall Street Journal, 512tech, The Atlantic, The Hill, USA Today, Washington Post, MacDailyNews, CNET, Business Insider, Tech Times, Fortune, The Daily Caller, Newser, SiliconBeat, and eWeek
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @passantino, @juliacarriew, and @dmccabe
| 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| 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
| 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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Engadget, Mashable, Gizmodo, The Verge, and Dice Insights
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap's “Other” revenue fell from $8.3M in Q1 to $5.3M in Q2, signalling 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
| 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.Thanks:@taylor_soper
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