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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Current draft of Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting, which would have a devastating effect on equity compensation in startups — The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting.
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| Qualcomm: |
Qualcomm's Board of Directors unanimously rejects Broadcom's unsolicited $103B offer — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) ("Qualcomm" or the “Company") today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal announced by Broadcom Limited ("Broadcom") on November 6, 2017.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: three iPhones with iPhone X form factor slated for late-2018, including 6.1" model with a lower-resolution LCD screen, as well as 5.8" and 6.5" OLED models — Apple has three new iPhone models in the pipeline for a late 2018 launch, two of which will be the company's biggest handsets ever …
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| Amie Tsang / New York Times: |
Lyft to launch in Toronto next month, its first market outside the US — The ride-hailing company Lyft, a major rival to Uber in the United States, is moving to gain ground internationally. — Lyft announced on Monday that it would be offering services in Toronto in time for the holiday season.
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Missouri AG launches probe into Google's practices including user data collection, use of other sites' content, and if search results favor its own services — Investigation includes whether Google unfairly favors its content in search results — Missouri's attorney general has launched …
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| Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported version of its Prime video streaming service and is considering giving content creators their own channels — Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported complement to its Prime streaming video service, according to people familiar with its plans.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Mining begins of Bitcoin Gold, a fork of Bitcoin that aims to thwart specialized mining chips — The newest fork of the bitcoin blockchain is officially live after a rocky start. — Developers for the project, dubbed bitcoin gold, published software for the breakaway cryptocurrency today, releasing the code on GitHub as well.| Claire Zillman / Fortune: |
Female VCs from Sequoia, Cowboy, Benchmark, and others launch Female Founder Office Hours, a series of events at which investors will advise women entrepreneurs — The female investors of venture capital are expanding their dinner party, so to speak. — Jess Lee, the former CEO … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
As part of a broader effort to diversify its revenue streams outside of streaming, Spotify is now selling beauty products through its partnership with Merchbar — Spotify, the $16 billion digital music “startup” that is hotly tipped for an IPO, continues to lay the groundwork to diversify its platform beyond basic streaming.
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| Katie Roof / TechCrunch: |
Uber says it's entered into an agreement with a consortium led by SoftBank and Dragoneer on a potential investment — The paperwork's done! The long-anticipated SoftBank Group investment into Uber has been agreed upon, a spokesperson confirms to TechCrunch. — We've been provided the following statement.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
YouTube decided to treat jihadist recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki as it treats terrorist organizations, removing most of his videos, including his mainstream lectures — WASHINGTON — For eight years, the jihadist propaganda of Anwar al-Awlaki has helped shape a generation of American terrorists …
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| Christina Larson / Foreign Policy: |
Facebook, blamed for unintended consequences of the service in nations like Myanmar, says “product and integrity research team” is headed to SE Asia this month — Zuckerberg needs to stop courting Beijing and start paying attention to the countries where Facebook matters.
Facebook: Christina Larson. Tweets: @carnage4life, @mattocko, @_danielsinclair, @kenroth, and @foreignpolicy
| New York Times: |
Inside NSA's Tailored Access Operations group and the investigation into Shadow Brokers, whose hack of NSA now considered much more damaging than Snowden leak — A serial leak of the agency's cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses and civilians worldwide.
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Bloomberg. Tweets: @nils_gilman, @e_kaspersky, @schreckreports, @kenroth, @susan_hennessey, @nicoleperlroth, @da_667, @nytimes, and @nytimes
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