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History shows the best time for startups to out-innovate incumbents in tech is when incumbents have achieved extreme product-market-fit and seem unassailable — One of the most interesting challenges in building an enterprise startup is navigating around, through, under, or over the big tech companies.
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| Washington Post: |
Sources: years after FBI began tracking Russian disinformation efforts and US intelligence agencies drew up counter operations, the US still equivocates — The first email arrived in the inbox of CounterPunch, a left-leaning American news and opinion website, at 3:26 a.m. — the middle of the day in Moscow.
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| Mike Butcher / TechCrunch: |
SingularityNET raises $36M in 60 seconds in an ICO to build out its decentralized blockchain-based marketplace for AI algorithms — SingularityNET — an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI — has raised a lot of money in its token sale.
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| Bloomberg: |
Baidu is suing its former autonomous driving chief Wang Jing and his startup JingChi for alleged intellectual property theft — Search giant targets exec's startup JingChi in new lawsuit — Legal action has parallels with Waymo's suit against Uber — Baidu Inc. is suing …
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CNET, TechNode, CHINAdaily, Caixin Global, TheDrive, Brinkwire, Financial Times, MIT Technology Review, and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @amir
| Lisa W. Foderaro / New York Times: |
As residential neighborhoods near highways struggle with the traffic sent by navigation apps like Waze, Leonia, NJ is closing 60 of its streets to outsiders — LEONIA, N.J. — It is bumper to bumper as far as the eye can see, the kind of soul-sucking traffic jam that afflicts highways the way bad food afflicts rest stops.| Lauren Smiley / Wired: |
How CareCoach uses remote contractors, customized software, and avatars on a tablet to watch over, interact with, and help provide care for the elderly — ARLYN ANDERSON GRASPED her father's hand and presented him with the choice. “A nursing home would be safer, Dad,” she told him, relaying the doctors' advice.
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| Leslie Hook / Financial Times: |
Uber's new COO Barney Hartford talks about his plans to make Uber more efficient by reigning in promotions and discounts, reducing ride drop rates — Uber's newly appointed chief operating officer, Barney Harford, is planning to reduce costs and “bring a dose of financial discipline” …
Tweets: @financialtimes, @raju, and @lesliehook
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
In 2017, YouTube's business grew while its public image suffered after lacking protections against hate speech and disturbing kids' videos — Will YouTube's mounting scandals ever slow the business down? — 2017 was a wild year for YouTube. It continued to extend its dominance …
Tweets: @loudmouthjulia
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Passport, provider of backend management software for public transport systems, raises $43M Series C from Bain Capital Ventures — Passport, company that's managing much of the technical aspects of how people pay to use public transportation resources in cities like London, Miami and Los Angeles, has just raised $43 million.| George Avalos / Mercury News: |
Google unveils proposal for 1M+ square feet of new offices in Sunnyvale, which the company says could accommodate 4,500 employees by 2021 at the earliest — SUNNYVALE — Google on Wednesday unveiled its plans for a striking new development in Sunnyvale's Moffett Park, where thousands …
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| Ben Blanchard / Reuters: |
Xinhua state news agency: China has closed 13K+ websites for breaking the law since 2015, suspended 10M+ telecom accounts lacking real names over last 5 years — BEIJING (Reuters) - China has closed more than 13,000 websites since the beginning of 2015 for breaking the law or other rules … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
CNN ends its daily Snapchat news show, The Update, launched just four months ago, saying it couldn't make enough money from advertising — CNN is ending its daily Snapchat news show, “The Update,” launched just four months ago — after concluding, at least for now, that it couldn't make money …
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