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Alibaba announces Jack Ma will remain executive chairman for a year, and CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman on September 10, 2019 — - Alibaba said on Monday that CEO Daniel Zhang will take over as chairman of the board in a year, succeeding current executive chairman Jack Ma.| Zen Soo / South China Morning Post: |
Profile of Alibaba CEO Daniel Zhang, who will succeed Jack Ma as Alibaba's chairman, and is best known for his roles as CEO of Taobao and president of Tmall.com — Among the 86,000 employees who work at Alibaba Group Holding, chief executive Daniel Zhang is not known as Daniel, or Mr. Zhang, or even boss.
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Axios, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, China Money Network, VentureBeat, Quartz, and South China Morning Post
| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Trend Micro apps including Dr. Unarchiver, the 12th most popular free app in Mac App Store, found to steal and upload sensitive info including browsing history — When you give an app access to your home directory on macOS, even if it's an app from the Mac App Store, you should think twice about doing it.
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Inquirer, The Eclectic Light Company, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, iPhone Hacks, and Digital Trends. Tweets: @privacyis1st
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Sources: Citigroup developed Digital Asset Receipts or DARs, similar to regulated ADRs, but for crypto, where bank holds asset and issues receipt for investor — - Citigroup has created what it's calling a Digital Asset Receipt or DAR, thought to be the most direct way to invest … | CNBC: |
Survey of 1,000+ C-level execs finds the majority view lack of access to software developers as a bigger threat to success than lack of access to capital — - A majority of companies say lack of access to software developers is a bigger threat to success than lack of access to capital.
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Stripe, Stripe, RTÉ, PYMNTS.com, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @martinsfp, @carlcarrie, @lopp, @edsim, and @carnage4life
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How WhatsApp's popularity in India has fundamentally changed communication norms, exacerbating misinformation sharing, as many only get news through the app — In July, residents of a rural Indian town saw rumors of child kidnappers on WhatsApp. Then they beat five strangers to death.
Tweets: @riptari, @arunikashyap, @buzzfeedben, @sub8u, @rmac18, @pranavdixit, @jasonleopold, and @buzzfeednews
| HBR.org: |
Google Fiber looks like a failure, but it changed the nature of competition in internet infrastructure and accelerated incumbent broadband investments by years — In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service …
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Axios
| Bennett Bennett / The Drum: |
Interview with Flipboard CEO Mike McCue on fake news, ad products, algorithms, inspiration, and having a strong identity — Flipboard, the news curation platform, has aggregated stories from The New York Times to Vanity Fair to The Drum on mobile and its web client for over eight years.| Erik Torenberg / atrium: |
An overview of the two narratives around crypto: crypto as money, and crypto as technology for decentralized control, and how these views differ but can coexist — One thing I've learned as an investor at Village Global and avid participant in the crypto community via Token Daily: say …
Tweets: @nickgrossman
| Dave Gershgorn / Quartz: |
California's governor signs a bill that replaces cash bail with an algorithmic system to calculate risk of flight or reoffending from October 2019 — Instead of leaving cash as collateral for freedom before a trial in court, those accused of crimes in California will be graded by an algorithm, starting in October 2019.
Tweets: @davegershgorn and @mediajustice
| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Skydio debuts a dev platform for its self-flying R1 drone, which is now mass-produced and priced at $2K, after R1 “Frontier Edition” debuted for $2,499 in April — Skydio launched their self-flying R1 drone a few months back, now the startup is launching a developer platform … | Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
As Apple readies new, bigger iPhones, Kantar says users with 6" and larger smartphone displays typically use 2X more apps than users with 5.5" screens — On Wednesday, the company will announce two new models with larger displays and an updated version of iPhone X with a faster processorSponsor Posts
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