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A look at the internal backlash at Google over its handling of sexual harassment claims, with 1,500+ employees planning to walk out in protest on Thursday — SAN FRANCISCO — Google is struggling to contain a growing internal backlash over its handling of sexual harassment and its workplace culture.| BuzzFeed News: |
Google workers from Singapore, Japan, Israel, the UK, Ireland, India, and the US staged a walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment — Groups of Google employees are staging walkouts at offices across the world in protest at how sexual misconduct allegations are handled by the company.
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| The Cut: |
Google walkout organizers share their demands: end pay inequality and forced arbitration, better sexual misconduct reporting, and harassment transparency report — Last week, the New York Times published an article about Google's history of harassment, discrimination, support for abusers …
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Sources: Apple held preliminary talks with radio broadcaster iHeartMedia about an equity stake or a marketing partnership to boost its music streaming service — Apple is turning to traditional broadcasting to boost its streaming service, exploring a tie-up with iHeartMedia …
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Spotify meets expectations in Q3 with revenue of €1.35B, up 31% YoY, adds 4M premium subscribers for a total of 87M, and reports 191M total MAUs; stock down 6%+ — LONDON/STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Spotify (SPOT.N), the world's most popular paid music streaming service …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Recode announces partnership with Vox with a planned relaunch of the site on Vox.com early next year and a shift to broader tech coverage — More of the same and more of the different — So here's the deal — I think I can say with a modicum of humility (hard for me, I know!) …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Graph database startup Neo4j raises $80M Series E led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital, bringing its total raised to $160M — Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market …
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| Brian Wheeler / BBC: |
UK government to launch an Android app to let EU citizens apply to remain in UK after Brexit; the app doesn't work on iOS because it can't access the NFC chip — The UK government is preparing to launch a smartphone app to make it as easy as possible for EU citizens to apply to remain … | William Gallagher / AppleInsider: |
The new MacBook Air, which has muddled Apple's laptop lineup, is now remarkably compelling when compared to both the MacBook and the base 13-inch MacBook Pro — This latest portable does not slot neatly into Apple's existing Mac portable range —the mix of power and price mean we can expect to see other models change or even die.| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
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WhatsApp's VP Chris Daniels confirms WhatsApp will put ads in its Status section, but declined to provide a timeline — Clearing the air on Facebook's monetisation efforts towards WhatsApp, the mobile messaging service's Vice President Chris Daniels on Wednesday said the company is going to put advertisements in its “Status” feature.| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Xiaomi sends cease and desist letter to Lyft, saying it will pursue legal action if Lyft continues to modify scooters originally manufactured by Xiaomi — Xiaomi, the electric scooter manufacturer that a handful of the shared electric scooter services in the U.S. (like ones from Lyft … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it's testing a home screen toggle to switch between latest and top tweets timelines with a small number of iOS users; toggle previously in settings — Twitter is digging one of its most important new features out of its settings and putting it within easy reach.
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| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit posts a net loss of $2.1M in Q3, down from $113.4M a year ago, on revenue of $393.6M, as smartwatches accounted for 49% of company's total revenue — Fitbit is slowly righting its financial ship, courtesy of a successful push into smartwatch category.| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google announces account security updates, including requiring JavaScript be enabled when using a Google sign-in page in order to run a risk assessment — October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month and Google is announcing a slew of new features related to the sign-in process and account usage.
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| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Report: the cost to acquire a customer for subscription-based apps is $86.99, down 46.4% YoY, with engagement for subscription-based apps up 32% YoY — Mobile users are embracing the subscription model, with considerable momentum gained from last year, according to the Mobile App Engagement Index produced … | Kara Swisher / New York Times: |
Social platforms and Silicon Valley Funders operate with sloppy disregard of the consequences of hate speech, unwilling to lose users and hurt their bottom line — This is what the internet has come to: thugs like Mohammed bin Salman funding tech companies to host the vitriol of thugs like Cesar Sayoc and Robert Bowers.| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
An outline of various bills and proposals in US Congress related to data privacy and protection that have emerged after the Cambridge Analytica scandal — In April, Mark Zuckerberg was called before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees to take responsibility for Cambridge Analytica.| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber announces Uber Pro, a new rewards program for high performing drivers, rolling out first in Seattle, Chicago, New Orleans, and Phoenix — Part of a broader effort to improve relations with drivers (and discourage them from driving for Lyft) — Uber drivers who maintain high ratings …
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Twitter's spam reporting tool now lets users specify more details, like if the account is fake, using unrelated hashtags, or sharing malicious links — Twitter is adding more nuance to its spam reporting tools, the company announced today. Instead of simply flagging a tweet as posting spam …
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