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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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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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| Michael Grothaus / Fast Company: |
In an SEC filing, Snap says its Chief Strategy Officer, Imran Khan, will be stepping down — In an SEC filing, the company said its chief strategy officer, Imran Khan, will be stepping down. On the Form 8-K, Snap revealed: … As the filing states, Khan is apparently not leaving Snap over any disagreements with the company.
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TechCrunch, Bloomberg, SEC-Show, Wall Street Journal, and Reuters
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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 … | Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Evaneos, which connects tourists with a list of local travel agencies to book personalized trips, raises $81M Series D led by Partech and Level Equity — Online travel marketplace Evaneos announced it has raised $81 million in venture capital as the Paris-based company seeks to push outside Europe.
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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: @arunikashyap, @buzzfeedben, @riptari, @sub8u, @rmac18, @pranavdixit, @jasonleopold, and @buzzfeednews
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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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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
| Wall Street Journal: |
How China is trying to catch up with the West in mobile communication technologies as its government makes the 5G a strategic priority for carriers and vendors — At stake are billions of dollars in royalties, a head start in developing new technologies and national security
Tweets: @joshchin
| 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.| Christopher A. Bail / New York Times: |
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