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TPG partner David Bonderman resigns from Uber board after making disparaging remark about women at Uber meeting following Holder report — SAN FRANCISCO — David Bonderman, an Uber board member and partner at private equity firm TPG, is resigning from the board of the ride-hailing company …
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As Travis Kalanick takes leave, the company will strip him of some duties and appoint an independent chair to limit his influence, according to Holder report — Travis Kalanick will hand off some duties to COO, chair — He plans to take a leave without disclosing return date
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Report on Uber recommends board oversight committee, reevaluated cultural values, reducing alcohol use at work events, prohibiting boss-employee relationships — On February 19, 2017, Susan Fowler, a former engineer at Uber Technologies, Inc. ("Uber"), published a blog post detailing allegations …
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
Travis Kalanick says that he is taking leave from Uber for an undetermined time to deal with family tragedy, in email to employees — It will be for an undetermined amount of time. — Uber CEO Travis Kalanick will be taking some time away from the company to grieve his mother, according to a company-wide email he just sent out.
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| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
In wake of WannaCry, Microsoft fixes 3 flaws affecting unsupported OSes including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that it initially said it wouldn't patch — The company previously said it would not fix three outstanding exploits, but reversed course following the ransomware attack in May.
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| Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Charles Thacker, one of the lead designers of the Xerox Alto, co-inventor of Ethernet, and recipient of the Turing award in 2009, dies at 74 — Every computer we use today owes a debt to the legendary and influential machine. — Charles Thacker, one of the lead hardware designers on the Xerox Alto …
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Google Play debuts Android Excellence curated collections that showcase top apps and games — At WWDC this month, Apple introduced an entirely revamped App Storethat puts a much greater focus on editorial, with plans for stories about the apps, how to's, interviews, and more … | Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Mozilla launches Firefox 54 with Electrolysis tech which uses up to four processes to run content across tabs and lays foundation for sandboxing — Mozilla hopes a new phase of its Electrolysis project will bring you back to its browser by making it faster and better able to resist crashes.| Christine Hall / Data Center Knowledge: |
Microsoft joins open source PaaS project Cloud Foundry Foundation as a gold member — The Cloud Foundry Summit Silicon Valley opened in Santa Clara, California, today with announcements by the Cloud Foundry Foundation of a new certification for developers as well as a new member, Microsoft.
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Amazon launches Prime Reload, offering 2% back on purchases funded through debit cards — Amazon today is launching a new perk for Prime members that will give them cash back on purchases - even if they're not paying for items using an Amazon cashback credit card.
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The New York Times begins using Alphabet's machine-learning powered Jigsaw to weed out toxic comments, increasing the number of articles that allow comments — Comments have seen better days. — In the last few years, several news organizations — NPR, Reuters and Recode, among them … | Bloomberg: |
Sources: Russian cyberattack on US electoral system hit voter databases and software systems in total of 39 states, prompting direct message from Obama to Putin — Hackers said to take measure of voting systems, databases — A ‘red phone’ warning to the Kremlin from Obama White House
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