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Microsoft promises improvements after backlash over Skype's Snapchat-esque redesign on Android and iOS, to restore native sharing and the status icon — Ever since Microsoft radically redesigned Skype to look more like Snapchat, the video chatting app's rating has plummeted to an average of just 1 star in some regions.
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BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault — Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The lawsuit also implicates the performance management …
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Sources: dark web market AlphaBay shut down by law enforcement in US, Canada, and Thailand; one alleged operator found hanged in Thailand prison after arrest — Site allegedly sold counterfeit credit cards, illegal drugs — An online marketplace that sold illegal goods on the so-called Dark Web …
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Sources: Benchmark, other Uber shareholders have discussed selling some shares to SoftBank; Benchmark initiated the effort to sell stock before the CEO's ouster — Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, have discussed selling some of their shares … | Business Insider: |
Source: Snap had acquisition talks with AdRoll, which is borderline profitable and on pace for $300M 2017 revenue; Snap actively looking at other ad tech firms — Snapchat is shopping for ad tech companies to help bolster its appeal to marketers, a process that led the company … | Steve Kovach / Business Insider: |
Essential's VP of marketing, Brian Wallace, and head of communication, Andy Fouché, have both left the company recently before it has launched a product — Essential, the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin, has lost one of its top executives, just over a month after it announced its first major product.
Tweets: @caseynewton, @richardkerris, and @dcurtis
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OpenGov, a small startup partly owned by the Kushner family through Thrive Capital, got a seat alongside tech giants at White House roundtable in June — Venture-capital firm run by Kushner's brother partly owns OpenGov, whose CEO last month attended summit with Donald Trump, leaders of Apple, Amazon, Microsoft
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Facebook tests a built-in animated GIF creator in the camera section of its iOS app, which lets you add GIFs to your Facebook story or post them on your profile — No matter if you pronounce it Gif or Jif, I think we call all get behind the addition of a new GIF mode in the Facebook camera.| Marc Schneider / Billboard: |
Warner Music Group acquires core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including website and app, but not ticketing functions — Warner Music Group has acquired many of the core assets of concert discovery platform Songkick, including its website and app, along with the trademark.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Google Play Music's New Release Radio, previously an exclusive for Samsung users, now available to all; station is based on users' listening history — Google has officially announced New Release Radio, a station on Google Play Music that provides users with a daily selection of new songs … | Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
Tezos blockchain project raises $232M worth of bitcoin and ether in largest ICO to date — The Tezos blockchain project has completed its initial coin offering, or ICO, bringing in a record-smashing $232m-worth of bitcoin and ether. — At close, Tezos had netted 65,536 BTC …
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US tech firms censoring products in India to avoid offending socially conservative users, receiving bad PR, and controversy, but alienating some liberals — For a Bollywood movie, Gaurav Dhingra's Angry Indian Goddesses was decidedly un-Bollywood. There were no song-and-dance sequences … Sponsor Posts
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