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Sources: SoftBank urges WeWork to cancel IPO following cool reception from investors, amid fears it could affect SoftBank's Vision Fund fundraising efforts — SoftBank, the biggest outside shareholder in WeWork, is urging the lossmaking property group to shelve its hotly anticipated initial public offering …
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
Sources: the WeWork IPO is going forward as planned, with the roadshow set to kick off as soon as Monday — KEY POINTS — The roadshow for the We Co., the startup's parent company, is set to kick off as soon as Monday, sources say. — WeWork's roadshow flies in the face …
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| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Ahead of iOS 13, which will warn users of apps that collect location data in the background, Facebook publishes a blog post explaining how it uses location data — KEY POINTS — Facebook has published an informational blog post about how its app collects and uses background location data from smartphones.
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| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Attorneys general from every US state, excluding California and Alabama, as well as DC and Puerto Rico, launch an antitrust investigation into Google — KEY POINTS — Texas will lead a joint state investigation into Google over antitrust concerns, state Attorney General Ken Paxton announced Monday.
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Photos and videos on private Facebook and Instagram accounts can be shared publicly by followers via source URLs, even after Stories expire or media is deleted — Photos and videos posted to private accounts on Instagram and Facebook aren't as private as they might seem.
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| Megha Rajagopalan / BuzzFeed News: |
| Alex Sherman / CNBC: |
Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2B stake in AT&T, questions its M&A strategy and operational execution, calls for reassessing leadership team — KEY POINTS — Hedge fund Elliott Management takes a $3.2 billion stake in AT&T, questioning its M&A strategy and operational execution.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft unveils a redesigned To-Do app, now just called To Do, to look and feel more like Wunderlist, which it is set to replace — Microsoft encourages Wunderlist users to switch to its To-Do app — Microsoft is making some big tweaks to its To-Do app this week, with a redesign …
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Tweets: @christianreber, @daniel_rubino, @perte, @kfury, @mark_tweets39, @razvantugui, @microsofttodo, @rktic, @chrisfurniss, @tomwarren, and @tomwarren
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
900+ Amazon employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to protest Amazon's huge carbon footprint, demanding a commitment to get to zero emissions by 2030 — Nearly 1,000 employees have pledged to walk out September 20 to demand the company go to zero emissions by 2030.
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The Guardian, Wired, Medium, MIT Technology Review, TechSpot, CNN, Geek.com, The Seattle Times, Engadget, Gizmodo, Fast Company, The Daily Dot, bit-tech.net, Boing Boing, Mashable, CNET, and Vox. Tweets: @amznforclimate
| Mike Wheatley / SiliconANGLE: |
Adobe unveils Customer Journey Analytics, which draws on data from multiple enterprise systems to provide better perspectives on customers' brand engagement — Adobe Inc. today added a new tool to its Adobe Analytics offering that's meant to give companies more advanced insights into their customer's behavior.
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ZDNet, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, PCMag, and Adweek
| Georgina Torbet / Engadget: |
Polaroid Originals unveils Polaroid Labs, a device that prints photos directly from smartphone screens, goes on sale on October 10 for $130 in the US and Europe — There's something appealing about physical photos in the age of smartphone cameras. Sifting through images to find …
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CNET, The Verge, Digital Trends, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, and Mashable
| Bloomberg: |
EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager has been appointed to the additional position of EU vice president for digital, with broad oversight of tech policy issues — - Margrethe Vestager nominated as EU vice president for digital — As EU antitrust chief she's hit big tech with large penalties
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VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Fortune, EU Press Room, and Slashdot
Tweets: @jacknicas and @thestalwart
| Alex Danco: |
E-commerce and other internet companies can take cues from industries like retail and commercial aviation to build loyalty businesses — Each day on Tech Twitter, we get up in the morning, open up the website, and then go see what it is we're mad about. A few days ago, it was this:
Tweets: @nikillinit, @simoncarless, and @jhtscherck
| Sidney Fussell / The Atlantic: |
Researchers are increasingly using “digital exhaust”, passive social media and smartphone data, to conduct scientific health studies, such as for autism — Earlier this summer, a team at England's Keele University published a behavioral study on children with autism.
Tweets: @theatlantic
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