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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Uber's board has voted to offer the CEO job to Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi — Sources close to one leading candidate, Meg Whitman, said she has not been informed as yet about a choice. — The board of Uber has apparently voted on some decision related to the next Uber CEO.
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| Anders Melin / Bloomberg: |
Dara Khosrowshahi had $184.4M of unvested Expedia options as of stock's Friday closing price — Khosrowshahi had $184 million of unvested Expedia options — ‘Stratospheric’ pay to lure CEO for turnaround: consultant — Uber Technologies Inc.'s new chief executive officer likely comes …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple expected to announce three new iPhones at an event on September 12, which may be held at the 1,000-seat Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park — Apple product event expected to include iPhone unveiling — Apple Inc. AAPL 0.27% has scheduled a product announcement event on Sept. 12 …
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| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
Microsoft says Steam VR, Minecraft, and Halo are coming to Windows Mixed Reality, provides more details about upcoming hardware for the holiday season — Daniel Rubino is executive editor of Windows Central. He has been covering Microsoft since 2009 back when this site was called WMExperts (and later Windows Phone Central).
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| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
| Bloomberg: |
Whole Foods' first day as an Amazon subsidiary: several items' prices drop, Echo put on sale — Internet giant bought upscale grocery chain for $13.7 billion — Some prices unchanged but favorites like avocados are cheaper — Amazon.com Inc. spent its first day as the owner of a brick …
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Facebook says Pages repeatedly sharing articles marked as false by 3rd-party fact-checkers won't be able to buy ads, but the bans won't necessarily be permanent — Facebook is continuing its crackdown on fake news. — The social network Monday announced Facebook Pages will no longer …
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| Britta O'Boyle / Pocket-lint: |
Fitbit announces $129 Flyer wireless headphones and $299 Ionic smartwatch with water resistance, GPS, Fitbit Pay, heart rate monitoring; both ship in October — Fitbit has announced its long-rumoured GPS smartwatch in the form of the Fitbit Ionic, alongside a pair of wireless Bluetooth headphones called Fitbit Flyer.| Dave Zatz / Zatz Not Funny!: |
FCC filing confirms Sonos speaker with far field microphones for voice control, says it will work with multiple voice platforms and music services — Well will you look at that... While the Sonos' April FCC filing turns out to be rather pedestrian a brand spanking new, though heavily redacted …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google to offer Play Protect branding for phones and tablets that follow Android security requirements, calling them “Certified Android devices” — To feature the Play Store and run Google's first-party apps, Android manufacturers have always had to meet certain requirements.
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| Chuq Von Rospach: |
By limiting Touch Bar to just MacBook Pros, Apple imperils developer support for the feature and forces users to pay for a niche technology with no future — A few weeks ago I bought my iMac 5K for the home office (which I love), and that meant shifting away from using my MacBook Pro …
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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Six firms including Akamai and Cloudflare team up to disrupt WireX botnet, which has compromised tens of thousands of Android devices and launched DDoS attacks — A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today.
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Android Police, The Akamai Blog, Ars Technica, and The Hill
| Nikhil Sonnad / Quartz: |
China issues new rules forbidding anonymous posts in online communities and discussion forums, effective October 1 — The Chinese government under president Xi Jinping is continuing to make life on the internet difficult for its potential detractors. Yesterday (Aug. 25) … Sponsor Posts
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