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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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| 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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| 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, Firstpost, bit-tech.net, Neowin, and CNET. 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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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
YouTube says creators posting videos harmful to users may lose their monetization options and eligibility to be recommended on the platform — After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it's prepared …
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| 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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| 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) … | 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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| 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, Los Angeles Times, Tubefilter, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, Realscreen, and The Wrap. Tweets: @koblin
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
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