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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google revamps consumer storage plans, now called Google One, adds $3/month tier for 200 GB, drops 2 TB price to $10/month, 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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| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Uber will no longer require mandatory arbitration for individual claims of sexual assault or harassment by riders, drivers, or employees — In a surprise move, Uber said on Tuesday it is changing its long-standing policy of mandatory arbitration to exempt employees, drivers, and riders in cases of sexual harassment and assault.
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| New Scientist: |
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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| Wall Street Journal: |
Kaspersky says it will relocate some core operations from Russia to Switzerland and will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company will set up a new data center in Zurich by late 2019 — Russian antivirus-software company Kaspersky Labs …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, Kaspersky Lab official blog, Axios, BetaNews, VentureBeat, Fortune, and Reuters. Tweets: @e_kaspersky
| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
Tim Cook says he urged President Trump to fix the DACA immigration issue in a recent White House meeting, and told him tariffs were the wrong approach to China — - Cook urged fixing DACA immigration issue in Trump meeting — Apple ups buybacks because stock is ‘good value,’ Cook says
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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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| 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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| 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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Engadget, TechCrunch, Washington Post, Axios, The Seattle Times, Recode, KOMO, New York Times, CNNMoney, Bloomberg, CNBC, The Seattle Times, Fortune, Washington Times, Denver Post, and KING-TV. Tweets: @byrosenberg
| 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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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Coinbase launches Coinbase Custody, a service for safekeeping of cryptocurrencies aimed at Wall Street financial institutions — Another indication that the finance industry and the crypto community could use each other's help. — The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is making … | Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Online grocery delivery service Good Eggs raises $50M led by Benchmark, aims to expand throughout the West Coast next year — Good Eggs, the food delivery service that promises “absurdly fresh” groceries and meal kits, has raised $50 million in new funding.
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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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Fortune, The Register, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Engadget, Vanity Fair, Ubergizmo, TalkAndroid.com, CNET, TechSpot, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Forbes, Fedscoop, Android Authority, reddit.com, Android Central, and Axios
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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 … | Daisuke Wakabayashi / New York Times: |
The trio trying to strengthen data privacy rights with California Consumer Privacy Act: a real estate developer, an ex-CIA analyst, and a finance industry exec — OAKLAND, Calif. — The staging ground for one of the biggest regulatory fights facing the technology industry is far removed … | 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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| 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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Tweets: @danprimack, @scottmaustin, @benedictevans, @pkedrosky, and @garrytan
| 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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Tubefilter, Business Insider, IGN, TechCrunch, Axios, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @ballmatthew and @chris_ciaccia
| 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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Engadget, MSPoweruser, Ars Technica, TalkAndroid.com, Android Central, and Ubergizmo
| 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 … | 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
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Tweets: @thestalwart, @mdudas, and @alistairmbarr
| 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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