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| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Uber settles Waymo suit, pledges not to use Waymo's trade secrets; Waymo to get 0.34% stake in Uber which sources say would be worth ~$245M at $72B valuation — Under settlement, Uber also will give Waymo equity worth about $245 million — Uber Technologies Inc. agreed to settle a lawsuit …
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Waymo asked for $500M and outside monitor review of Uber's self-driving software to settle, Uber initially rejected the deal, agreed to reduced amount — Waymo won main goal to get outside review of Uber's software — New Uber leaders decided not to fight someone else's battle
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Tweets: @stevekovach, @kateconger, @rmac18, and @rmac18
| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
The way Khosrowshahi led Waymo settlement efforts reveals his tactics to fix Uber's reputation: expressions of regret accompanied by conciliation and compromise — SAN FRANCISCO — For weeks, Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber's chief executive, and some of his lieutenants had worked behind the scenes …
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Gizmodo, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Verge, TechCrunch, The Register, The Verge, Digital Trends, Digital Trends, and Recode. Tweets: @reckless
| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / Motherboard: |
Sources in iPhone jailbreaking community describe how iBoot source code was leaked by low level Apple employee and say that more code has been stolen — On Wednesday, an anonymous person published the proprietary source code of a core and fundamental component of the iPhone's operating system.
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MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, The Verge, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Mac Observer, SlashGear, BBC, International Business Times, O'Grady's PowerPage, bit-tech.net, Firstpost, CNET, and Neowin. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Laura Stevens / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon to launch “Shipping with Amazon”, a delivery service for businesses, starting with third-party merchants and rolling out in LA within weeks — The company is preparing to begin the offering in Los Angeles with its ‘third-party merchants’ and then roll it out more broadly
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CNET, TheStreet, Washington Post, Adweek, Fortune, BGR, Axios, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, GeekWire, ValueWalk, 9to5Toys, The Next Web, PYMNTS.com, SiliconANGLE, Digital Commerce 360, AppleInsider, USA Today, TechCrunch, SlashGear, Business Insider, ZDNet, Tom's Guide, The Verge, Retail Dive, Mashable, TechSpot, Gizmodo, socalTECH.com, Seeking Alpha, and CNBC
Tweets: @libshipwreck, @mdudas, @brentbeshore, @matthewstoller, @timsteno, @richard_florida, @smulpuru, and @jyarow
| BBC: |
Russia arrests scientists who tried to mine Bitcoin on a supercomputer at a top-secret nuclear research facility where USSR's first atomic bomb was produced — Russian security officers have arrested several scientists working at a top-secret Russian nuclear warhead facility for allegedly mining crypto-currencies.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Austin-based Think3 announces $1B private equity fund to buy SaaS companies and finance those companies' founders to launch new startups — We all know about the unicorns of the startup world — fast-growing companies that appear to be on the road (or have already arrived at) … | James Vincent / The Verge: |
YouTube temporarily suspends ads on Logan Paul's channels citing “recent pattern of behavior”, after multiple controversial posts since the suicide victim video — It's only a temporary suspension though — Has controversial YouTuber Logan Paul changed? It seems YouTube doesn't think so.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
VLC 3.0 launches on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, Android TV, Apple TV, Chrome OS, supports hardware decoding for 4K, 8K video, 360-degree video, more — VideoLAN today launched version 3.0 of its media player across all major desktop and mobile platforms: Windows (ARM, x86, x64) …
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Android dev blog, BGR, 9to5Google, Windows Central, The Next Web, Engadget, SlashGear, The Verge, Droid Life, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, Lifehacker, On MSFT, PCWorld, and CNET. Tweets: @whatthebit
| John Koblin / New York Times: |
Amazon names NBC Entertainment President Jennifer Salke as new head of Amazon Studios; Salke succeeds Roy Price, who resigned amid sexual harassment allegations — The NBC Entertainment executive Jennifer Salke was named the new head of Amazon Studios on Friday, ending a nearly four-month search …
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Wall Street Journal, CNET, GeekWire, NBC News, Variety, Deadline, TechCrunch, Engadget, IndieWire, Reuters, Vanity Fair, The Wrap, Los Angeles Times, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, and Realscreen. Tweets: @koblin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Viacom to launch streaming service by September with content it has removed from Hulu, Netflix, is talking to US mobile carriers to distribute its TV channels — Viacom Inc. plans to launch an ad-supported streaming-video service by September that will offer shows and other content from across … | Paul Sandle / Reuters: |
Facebook will award $10M in grants to people creating and leading communities, with up to $1M grants for 5 leaders and $50K for 100 more — LONDON (Reuters) - Facebook (FB.O) launched a community leadership program on Friday that will award $10 million in total to more than 100 people …
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