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Uber closes down 7.6% on its first day of trading after raising $8.1B in its IPO, which valued the company at about $82.4B — - Uber debuted Friday on the New York Stock Exchange at $42 per share, trading under the symbol “UBER.” — Uber dropped 7.6% on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Profile of Garrett Camp, the Uber co-founder who envisioned the idea of private cars for hire with an app and whose stake in Uber is now worth ~$3.7B — Garrett Camp envisioned cities full of private cars for hire with an app. Travis Kalanick took it from there, and they both became wealthy beyond imagination.
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| Heather Somerville / Reuters: |
SEC approves the creation of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, a Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange proposed by Eric Ries — SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new stock exchange that is the brainchild of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur …
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| Chris Velazco / Engadget: |
Lyft is testing longer-term car rentals with a small group of customers in San Francisco — Between offering on-demand rides and peppering cities with electric scooters, Lyft has been pushing hard to minimize the need to actually own a car. Now, the company is exploring yet another … | Stewart Clarke / Variety: |
Netflix publishes its first top-10 lists of most-watched content on its platform in the UK, says it will start posting the lists every week in the country — Netflix took a step toward greater transparency Thursday, at least in the U.K., by publishing its first top-10 lists of most-watched content …
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GitHub unveils GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker, available today in limited beta — Today, we're excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code.
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| Casey Newton / The Interface: |
Chris Hughes' op-ed reflects a consensus among early Facebook executives that the company is too large, too powerful, and too deleterious to society's health — Thanks to everyone who wrote with warm wishes about jury duty. Sadly, I was not called upon to serve my democracy.
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| Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet: |
Google says that all Chromebooks launched this year will be Linux-ready right out of the box — Google has announced that all new Chromebook devices will be Linux ready. — At Google I/O in Mountain View, Google quietly let slip that “all devices [Chromebook] launched this year will be Linux-ready right out of the box.”| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Google says it will create a dedicated placement beneath the search bar for AMP Stories in mobile search results, starting with the travel category — At Google's annual I/O developer conference in San Francisco, the company gave an update on AMP Stories, an open source library … | Daniel Frankel / Multichannel News: |
TiVo announces plans to split its IP licensing and video products businesses to increase odds of finding a buyer — Company says separating units will help odds of finding a buyer — As expected, TiVo has announced plans to split its IP licensing and video products businesses as the company looks to sell its assets.
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| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Inside Amazon's acquisition of PillPack as it prepares to take on CVS, Walgreens, and others in the $500B-a-year prescription drug market — It was May 2018, and PillPack CEO TJ Parker was in Seattle to meet with a small contingent from Amazon. — Suitors had been swarming around his online pharmacy …
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Binance says it is significantly increasing its security, revamping its API, 2FA, and withdrawal validation, hopes to resume withdrawals and deposits next week — I would like to share some updates on the security incident. We understand the situation is tough for our community.
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| U.S. Department of Justice: |
US DoJ announces a China-based hacking group has been indicted for a series of computer intrusions including the 2015 Anthem hack which affected ~78.8M people — A federal grand jury returned an indictment unsealed today in Indianapolis, Indiana, charging a Chinese national as part …
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| Jessica Romero / Facebook: |
Facebook sues Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics company with apps on Facebook, says Rankwave didn't cooperate with efforts to verify policy compliance — Today Facebook filed a lawsuit in California state court against Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics company that ran apps on the Facebook platform.
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Researchers say flaws in a popular GPS tracker, used with elderly or kids, can reveal real-time location and remotely activate its microphone, suggest recall — A popular GPS tracker — used as a panic alarm for elderly patients, to monitor kids, and track vehicles — contains security flaws …
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