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Sources: former General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt is now favored by a majority of Uber's board to become CEO; a vote is likely in the next two weeks — Sources said a board vote is expected within two weeks. — Former General Electric chairman Jeff Immelt has become the frontrunner candidate …
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| Ramin Setoodeh / Variety: |
In interview, Netflix's Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says the streaming service will spend $7B on original content in 2018 — For a soft-spoken man, Ted Sarandos makes a lot of thunderous news. Just consider the headlines he's generated over the last week alone with a succession of game-changing deals.| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google is rolling out autoplaying AI-generated silent 6-second previews for videos in search results, while on Wi-Fi in Android Chrome and Google apps — Google announced a major update to its mobile search results pages today. Whenever your query brings up a video, Google will now show … | Andrew Liptak / The Verge: |
Alleged press render of completely redesigned Nest thermostat leaks, the first redesign since it launched in 2011 — The company has been rumored to be working on a cheaper version — The Nest Learning Thermostat is now in its third generation, and aside from software updates … | Ken Schwencke / ProPublica: |
The Daily Stormer is back online with free support from BitMitigate, whose founder says he believes in free speech, and wants to promote his company — The neo-Nazi site The Daily Stormer was back online Friday with help from a small company whose founder said he wanted to defend free speech …
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Essential Phone review: edge-to-edge screen is great, good performance and battery life, but has a mediocre camera, an unproven module system, and no 3.5mm jack — An arcane artifact from an unrealized future — Even though it was announced less than three months ago at the Code Conference …
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| Ryne Hager / Android Police: |
Google will livestream official Android O launch on August 21st; teaser file name suggests it will be called Oreo — Today it has been revealed that Android O, the next major version of Google's operating system, will be “touching down” (and likely shown off) on August 21st at 2:40 PM ET via a livestreamed event from New York City.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Tencent reports $15.7B Q2 revenues and a record quarterly profit of $2.7B, up 70% YoY, as company's mobile game revenue tops PC, propelled by Honour of Kings — Tencent, Asia's highest valued technology company, posted a record quarterly profit of $2.7 billion (18.2 billion RMB) thanks to explosive growth from mobile games.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
US court of appeals rules online ToS are binding irrespective of whether users read them, no matter how long or hard to read companies like Uber make them — Federal court finds online agreements are binding, regardless of whether customers read or understand them
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| Anousha Sakoui / Bloomberg: |
Sources: movie studios, including Warner Bros. and Universal Pictures, in talks with Apple, Comcast to offer movie rentals within weeks of theatrical release — Studios are said focused on project despite exhibitor pushback — Theater chains are said to seek 10 years of revenue split
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| Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg: |
Bill Gates' stake in Microsoft dipped to around 1.3% after $4.6B stock gift to Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in June, his largest stock donation since 2000 — World's richest person reduces Microsoft stake to 1.3 percent — Value of his charitable donations surpasses $50 billion| David McCabe / Axios: |
US lawmakers and advocates on both the left and right are increasingly calling for regulating Google, Facebook, and Amazon — Tech behemoths Google, Facebook and Amazon are feeling the heat from the far-left and the far-right, and even the center is starting to fold.Sponsor Posts
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