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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google revamps consumer storage plans, now called Google One, adds $3/mo. tier for 200 GB, drops 2 TB plan price to $10/mo., and adds free product tech support — Google is revamping its consumer storage plans today by adding a new $2.99/month tier for 200 GB of storage and dropping the price …
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| Kate Conger / Gizmodo: |
Sources: about a dozen Google employees resign in protest over the firm's continued involvement in providing image classification AI to Pentagon's Project Maven — It's been nearly three months since many Google employees—and the public—learned about the company's decision …
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Investigation: data collected by Facebook quiz myPersonality was shared with researchers over insecure site, leaving 3M+ users' details vulnerable for 4 years — Data from millions of Facebook users who used a popular personality app, including their answers to intimate questionnaires …
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| Lily Katz / Bloomberg: |
At CoinDesk's Consensus crypto conference in NYC, with 100+ sponsors, Lamborghinis cruise the streets and gimmicks include staged protests by mock bankers — John Nouri makes a living renting out exotic cars for weddings, birthdays, bachelorette parties, and now ... Bitcoin conferences?
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| Monica Nickelsburg / GeekWire: |
Amazon says it is disappointed after Seattle passes smaller “head tax” on large companies to build affordable housing, resumes work on Block 18 office building — Updated below with Amazon statement. — The Seattle City Council unanimously passed a smaller version of the controversial …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: New Enterprise Associates to sell stakes in about 20 startups worth roughly $1B, in response to the slowdown in IPOs — New Enterprise Associates seeks to create new venture-capital firm that would buy its stakes in about 20 companies — New Enterprise Associates …
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Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @danprimack, @scottmaustin, @benedictevans, @pkedrosky, and @garrytan
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
As SCOTUS kills law that banned gambling on sports in most states, media firms with exposure to sports streaming events, including online betting firms, win big — Whoever had the over on DraftKings' boss Jason Robins and FanDuel chief executive Matt King being given a potential billion dollar windfall …
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
How LocationSmart, which has “direct connections” to major US carriers including AT&T and Verizon, sells millions of Americans' real-time phone location data — The company embroiled in a privacy row has “direct connections” to all major US wireless carriers, including AT&T … | Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Snapchat starts showing unskippable six-second ads in the middle of Shows; ads don't link to longer videos or e-commerce sites like its typical video ad unit — Snapchat viewers are seeing a new type of ad—ones they have to watch. — On Monday, the first forced-view ads …
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| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos says ~85% of new spending to go toward original content, plans to have about 1,000 originals total by the end of 2018 — Netflix is sharply steering its new content spending toward original projects, with around 85% of new spending going toward original TV shows …
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| Hannah Kuchler / Financial Times: |
How Eventbrite, a major ticketing and event management platform, grew its business through many acquisitions, including last year's $200M Ticketfly acquisition — Julia Hartz knows that when you buy companies, you buy people. Founders must be kept, employees embraced and customers comforted.| Jason Del Rey / Recode: |
Amazon says its board has adopted a “Rooney Rule” to increase board diversity, after its initial opposition sparked employee outrage — The company says it is merely formalizing a practice that was already in place. — Amazon said on Monday that it would adopt a policy whereby women … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Ripple announces the Xpring initiative, which aims to incentivize startups, through investments, grants, and incubation, into building an ecosystem around XRP — It's finally happening. Ripple is making a push to expand the use of the XRP cryptocurrency it created into new verticals …
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| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Offline support for Gmail on web now rolling out with support for search, delete, archive, and compose functions — The new Gmail launched with a slew of new features last month, and Google announced that more were on the way. While Smart Compose may have grabbed all the attention at I/O 2018 this week …
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| Tim Higgins / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Tesla engineers discussed adding eye tracking and better sensors to Autopilot to help alert drivers, were rejected over tech's ineffectiveness and cost — Executives rejected adding more tech warnings to inattentive drivers, due to concerns over effectiveness and costs
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| BBC: |
Xerox calls off its sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason; Fujifilm disputes Xerox's decision — Technology firm Xerox has ended its controversial sale to Japan's Fujifilm after reaching a deal with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Amazon tests display ad offering letting Amazon merchants purchase spots across other sites and apps, amid its move to stop buying Google shopping ads — - New service lets merchants run Amazon ads on other sites, apps — Amazon abruptly stopped buying Google shopping ads recently| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Uber users can now rate their trip mid-ride with categorized and written feedback, instead of having to wait for the end of the trip — “Last year was pretty hard, I'm not gonna lie,” says Peter Deng, Uber's head of rider experience. But as part of new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's push …
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Uber Newsroom, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, TechSpot, Droid Life, VentureBeat, Adweek, Engadget, and Fortune. Tweets: @joshconstine
| Leah Fessler / Quartz: |
Profile of Arlan Hamilton, founder and CEO of Backstage Capital, a fund which seeds investments in “underestimated” founders: women, people of color, and LGBTQ — In the tale we're sold of Silicon Valley, meritocracy flourishes. Those who grind the hardest, hone the best ideas … Sponsor Posts
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