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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
In first appearance before Uber staff, Khosrowshahi says timeline for Uber IPO is 18-36 months, and he wants to bring in a chairman to be his partner on board — In first appearance before ride-hailing firm's employees, Dara Khosrowshahi says timeline for IPO between 18 to 36 months
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| JP Mangalindan / Yahoo! Finance: |
Leaked audio of Dara Khosrowshahi talking to Uber employees on his decision to become CEO, Daniel Ek's involvement, interactions with board members, more — The above video features audio of former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick introducing his successor, Expedia CEO Dara Khosrowshahi.| Todd Bishop / GeekWire: |
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
LG launches flagship V30 phone with a 6-inch QHD OLED display, Snapdragon 835, 16MP and 13MP dual rear cameras, and voice, face, or fingerprint unlock — During its IFA 2017 event today, LG unveiled the LG V30. This is the phone LG hopes will take on Samsung's Galaxy Note8 and Apple's iPhone 8.
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Hands-on with LG V30: the phone the G6 should have been, feels polished and focused with snappy performance, clean design, and is great for video shooting — Despite all its resources and technical know-how, LG has always felt like an also-ran in a race dominated by Apple and Samsung.| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Nest unveils Thermostat E with a new design, a simpler interface, lower $169 price, and almost all the same features, shipping tomorrow — Nest is debuting a new version of its thermostat today, the first truly different model since the product was introduced in 2011.
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| Alex Webb / Bloomberg: |
Sources: 17 automotive engineers left Apple for self-driving car startup Zoox after Apple pared back its autonomous car ambitions — Startup grabs specialists in areas like braking, suspension — Apple working on self-driving systems rather than its own car| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Judge sends Benchmark's lawsuit against Travis Kalanick to arbitration, allowing the former Uber CEO to avoid a potentially damaging deposition — Kalanick will likely avoid a deposition and the case will proceed quietly and quickly. — A judge granted former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Instagram says some high-profile accounts have been breached, exposing phone numbers and email addresses via a bug in the API, now fixed — Instagram said at least one hacker was able to steal personal information from high-profile user accounts, blaming the breach on a bug in its system that has now been fixed.| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Andy Rubin apologizes for email, misconfigured as a group message, sent to Essential customers requesting personal info, like DOB, to which ~70 replied — There's a difference between scrappy and sloppy — Last night, some customers who had preordered an Essential phone received …
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| Expedia, Inc.: |
Expedia names CFO Mark Okerstrom as its new CEO, replacing Dara Khosrowshahi, who left for Uber — Expedia, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXPE) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the appointment of Mark Okerstrom, currently Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Operations …
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
How YouTube started using Google Brain's AI to improve video recommendations in 2015, which now drive 70% of videos' watch time — Google Brain gave YouTube new life — Sometime late last year, as I was playing a video game named Dishonored 2, I did a routine YouTube search about how to beat a tricky section of the game.
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| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
FDA recalls around 465,000 St. Jude Medical pacemaker models in US, many implanted in patients, for firmware patching of vulnerabilities; OTA fix not an option — Heart patients will have to visit their doctors to have their pacemakers patched for the “voluntary” recall — but there are risks.
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| Joe Maring / 9to5Google: |
Samsung debuts $199 Gear Fit2 Pro fitness tracker with built-in GPS and Gear Sport smartwatch with round 1.2" AMOLED screen and Tizen UI, pricing TBD — Samsung held a press conference in Berlin today ahead of the official opening of IFA 2017, and unveiled its two new wearables that we've … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
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