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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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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's extended family, including six relatives who found success as entrepreneurs and execs across SV after emigrating from Iran — SAN FRANCISCO — At first blush, the choice of Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi to lead Uber may seem a little odd.
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| Julie Bort / Business Insider: |
Profile of Uber board's pick for CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, who has been Expedia's CEO for 12 years and was CFO at Barry Diller's IAC prior to running Expedia — In a move that surprised the tech industry, Uber on Sunday offered its CEO job to a man who wasn't on anyone's radar: Expedia's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| DisplayMate: |
Note8's display earns DisplayMate's highest-ever A+ grade, is 22% brighter than Galaxy S8's with peak brightness of 1,200 nits and an expanded color gamut — Introduction The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …
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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.
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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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| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Six firms including Akamai, Cloudflare, Google team up to disrupt WireX botnet, which 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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