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London transport authority says Uber not “fit and proper” to hold license, cites “Greyball” software, will not renew on Sept. 30; Uber can operate during appeal — Uber has lost its licence to operate in London, the capital's transport regulator has said.
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Sources: T-Mobile, Sprint reach “major breakthrough” in merger talks, could sign deal by end of October; Deutsche Telekom will own majority stake — (Reuters) - T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) is close to agreeing tentative terms on a deal to merge with peer Sprint Corp (S.N) … | Colin Stretch / Facebook: |
Facebook says it will hand over information on Russia-linked ads bought during 2016 election campaign to Congressional investigators — Two weeks ago, we announced we had found more than 3,000 ads addressing social and political issues that ran in the US between 2015 and 2017 and that appear …
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Facebook will make Pages disclose who paid for political ads and let users see all current ads from that advertiser, rolling out over the coming months — I just went live a minute ago. Here's what I said: — Today is my first day back in the office after taking parental leave.
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| Brian Womack / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Hewlett Packard Enterprise plans to start cutting 5,000 jobs, or about 10% of its staff, by the end of this year — Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. is planning to cut about 10 percent of its staff, or at least 5,000 workers, according to people familiar with the matter … | Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple says 4K iTunes content cannot be downloaded, only streamed, and that the VP9 codec, which is used by 4K YouTube videos, is not supported on Apple TV 4K — Apple has updated its iTunes Store on iOS devices and the Apple TV with plenty of 4K movies ahead of the launch of the Apple TV 4K … | Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
SEC: MongoDB files for IPO, reports loss of $45.8M on revenue of ~$68M in 6 months ending July 31 — MongoDB, a database software company based in New York, has filed to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission as it continues to burn a ton of cash despite its revenue almost doubling year-over-year.
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Inside Amazon's Indian operation: 124% YoY revenue growth, rapid storage growth to 41 fulfillment centers, and intense rivalry with Flipkart ahead of Diwali — Festival of Diwali is India's biggest shopping season — Amazon and rival Flipkart have competing sales this week| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
Chinese search giant Baidu announces $1.52B autonomous driving fund to invest in 100 projects over three years — BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese search engine Baidu Inc (BIDU.O) announced a 10 billion yuan ($1.52 billion) autonomous driving fund on Thursday as part of a wider plan to speed … | Maciej Cegłowski / Idle Words: |
When Amazon's “frequently bought together” engine grouped potassium nitrate with sulfur and more, reporters misleadingly implied site was aiding bomb makers — On September 18, the British Channel 4 ran a news segment with the headline, ‘Potentially deadly bomb ingredients are ‘frequently bought together’ on Amazon.’
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Sources: Benchmark has told Uber investors it's unlikely to sell any shares to the Softbank consortium, complicating its proposed ~$10B investment in Uber — Benchmark representative was only Uber director to vote against deal terms to SoftBank — As Uber Technologies Inc. works to finalize … | Instagram Blog: |
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