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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Sources detail how the pressure on Travis Kalanick played out in the days and hours leading to his resignation — Travis Kalanick's final hours as Uber's chief executive played out in a private room in a downtown Chicago hotel on Tuesday. — There, Mr. Kalanick, who was on a trip …
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| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Source: over 1,000 Uber employees sign letter to board demanding that Travis Kalanick return “in an operational role” because he's “critical” to future success — More than one thousand current Uber employees have signed a letter to the company's board of directors …
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
With her blog post about toxic bro-culture at Uber, Susan Fowler proved that one person can make a difference — The former engineer took a big swing at the car-hailing giant, and did us all an even bigger favor. — It was Lao Tzu who said that “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”| Washington Post: |
Sources: Benchmark's Bill Gurley led the effort to build support among fellow Uber investors for a demand that Travis Kalanick resign — The plot to oust Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick began almost the moment he announced last week that he was taking a temporary break from the celebrated technology company caught up in scandals.
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| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Benchmark confirms Bill Gurley will leave Uber's board of directors, to be replaced by fellow partner Matt Cohler — Benchmark partner Bill Gurley is in talks to leave Uber Technologies Inc.'s board of directors, two people familiar with the matter said. — If he decides to go …
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
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| Johana Bhuiyan / Recode: |
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| Kate Holton / Reuters: |
Imagination Technologies puts itself up for sale after dispute with Apple over licensing rights, says “it has received interest from a number of parties” — Imagination Technologies (IMG.L), the British company in dispute with its biggest customer Apple (AAPL.O) over licensing rights …
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| Claire Zillman / Fortune: |
Facebook introduces new privacy tools to combat catfishing and guard profile photos from being misused, in India now and other countries soon — Facebook on Wednesday is unveiling new features that it hopes will make women in India feel safer on its platform.
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook updates mission statement to “give people power to build community, bring the world closer together”, from “making the world more open and connected” — “Making the world more open and connected” had one fundamental flaw: it didn't push for any specific positive outcome from more connection.
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Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @dcurtis, @sarahfrier, @darth, and @mgsiegler. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Kang-Xing Jin / Facebook: |
Facebook introduces new group admin tools, including group analytics, scheduled posts, membership request filtering, more — Today we hosted our first-ever Facebook Communities Summit in Chicago with hundreds of group admins where we announced new features to support their communities on Facebook.
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| Tony Romm / Recode: |
Executives for wireless and drone firms, including AT&T and PrecisionHawk, lobby Trump to cut down on regulations in White House meeting — For the likes of AT&T and PrecisionHawk, the face time with the president offered a chance to push their agendas.
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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple seeks to reduce the 58% share of revenue labels get on Apple Music; labels may agree if subscriptions expand and other criteria are met — Labels' deals with Apple expire in the next couple weeks — Apple Inc. is seeking to reduce record labels' share of revenue from streaming …
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| Massimo Calabresi / TIME: |
Sources: US election hacking was more extensive than previously known, including theft of voter records and at least one successful alteration of voter data — The hacking of state and local election databases in 2016 was more extensive than previously reported, including at least … Sponsor Posts
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