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Colin Lecher / The Verge:
Twitter says it's seeking proposals from experts to assess its “health” and whether it's fostering positive debate or enabling “abuse, spam, and manipulation”  —  Twitter, like other major tech companies, has faced a year of punishing criticism, as it's been roiled by misinformation …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Uber debuts Uber Health, a B2B ride-hailing platform for healthcare that allows hospitals and clinics to assign rides for patients from a centralized dashboard  —  Uber's launching a new business line called Uber Health on Thursday that will provide a ride-hailing platform available specifically …
Wall Street Journal:
Researchers: second-hand smartphones account for an increasing share of phone buys as upgrade cycle widens from 23 months in 2014 to estimated 33 months in 2019  —  Some shoppers are balking at new-phone price tags pushing $1,000 or features that don't impress
Theodore Schleifer / Recode:
DoorDash raises $535M Series D led by SoftBank, sources say at a post-money valuation of $1.4B, and says it will increase its headcount by 250 to ~800 this year  —  The challenge for the company will be to stay disciplined even as it sits on a huge stockpile of dollars.
Khadeeja Safdar / Wall Street Journal:
Best Buy will be closing all of its 250 mobile phone stores in the US by end of May, says sales from the mobile stores account for ~1% of company revenue  —  The electronics retailer, which will close all 250 Mobile stores by the end of May, said operating the small stores cost more than big-box locations
Kate Conger / Gizmodo:
Fired Google engineer who worked at the company for seven years files lawsuit against Google alleging “bro culture” led to repeated sexual harassment  —  Loretta Lee, a software engineer who worked at Google for seven years before being fired in February 2016 …
Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Nintendo is focusing on making accessories and increasing Switch supply, rather than updating its hardware, a year after it first went on sale  —  Seventeen million sets will have been sold by March 31  —  OSAKA, Japan— Nintendo Co. NTDOY .33% is looking to peripherals to lift …
Dr. Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:
DisplayMate: Samsung Galaxy S9 has the most innovative and high performance display we've ever tested, with highest absolute color accuracy and peak brightness  —  Introduction and Overview The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display …
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources detail what some describe as an unhappy work environment at Snap, where CEO Evan Spiegel retains tight control but has been empowering some executives  —  Employees won't get cash bonuses after missing internal goals  —  Spiegel said to be working to spread decision-making authority
Natalia Drozdiak / Wall Street Journal:
EU announces guidelines mandating that tech firms remove terror content within one hour of it being flagged by law enforcement or Europol  —  EU announces guidelines to tech giants for removing terror and other illegal content from their websites  —  BRUSSELS—The European Union on Thursday upped …
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: SEC increases scrutiny of ICOs, issuing “scores” of subpoenas and information requests to companies and advisers about structure of sales and pre-sales  —  Regulator issues subpoenas to parties engaged in booming market for initial coin offerings
Alex Knapp / Forbes:
Astranis raises $13.5M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz for a new geostationary satellite technology to provide broadband internet  —  Satellite startup Astranis announced Thursday that it has raised $13.5 million in a Series A round.  The round brings its total funding to $18 million.
Paris Martineau / The Outline:
After removing some conspiracy and pro-gun videos and channels, YouTube says it will reinstate videos that were removed in error by moderators  —  Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all.  —  The Future  —  Looks like that whole “content moderation” thing wasn't a joke after all.
Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Chinese authorities have asked Xiaomi to list shares on mainland alongside planned Hong Kong IPO; Xiaomi aims to raise $10B+ at $80B-$100B valuation  —  Xiaomi's initial public offering is expected to raise $10 billion in the second half of the year  —  China wants one of its biggest tech unicorns to go public at home.
BuzzFeed:
Many news reports blaming Russian Twitter bots, some of which are not Russian and others not bots, are based on a single source and are likely overblown  —  “I'm not convinced on this bot thing,” said one of the men behind the Russian bot thing.  —  By now you know the drill …

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From Mediagazer

Dade Hayes / Deadline:
David Ellison and other Skydance executives rang the NYSE opening bell Thursday, celebrating the WBD acquisition; SKYD shares rose 4.5% after a two-day slump

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Filing: Former WBD CEO David Zaslav will receive $606.1M for his WBD shares held as of October 6, including RSUs; he sold ~$200M in WBD stock since February

CNN:
A federal judge briefly extends access for CNN, MS Now, and Politico to the White House while he considers a longer-term ruling on President Trump's press ban

More News

Taylor Lorenz / The Daily Beast:
Vero's rise has put a spotlight on founder's past as an exec at his family's controversial construction firm and the social network's Russian development team
Recode:
Spotify's gross margin has grown from 16% to 21% from 2014 to 2017, but since it pays per stream, it still must figure out how to turn usage growth into profit

Earlier Picks

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Twitter begins rolling out its Bookmarks feature, which lets users privately save tweets to view later via a new share button, to all mobile users
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