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Uber CEO pick Dara Khosrowshahi had $184.4M of unvested Expedia options as of stock's Friday closing price — Khosrowshahi had $184 million of unvested Expedia options — ‘Stratospheric’ pay to lure CEO for turnaround: consultant — Uber Technologies Inc.'s new chief executive officer likely comes …
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Uber is pulling app feature allowing tracking of riders for up to five minutes after a trip — PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] is pulling a heavily criticized feature from its app that allowed it to track riders for up to five minutes after a trip …
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Sources: Apple expected to announce three new iPhones at an event on September 12, which may be held at the 1,000-seat Steve Jobs Theater at Apple Park — Apple product event expected to include iPhone unveiling — Apple Inc. AAPL 0.27% has scheduled a product announcement event on Sept. 12 …
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| Kerry Flynn / Mashable: |
Facebook says Pages repeatedly sharing articles marked as false by 3rd-party fact-checkers won't be able to buy ads, but the bans won't necessarily be permanent — Facebook is continuing its crackdown on fake news. — The social network Monday announced Facebook Pages will no longer …
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| DisplayMate: |
Note8's display earns DisplayMate's highest-ever A+ grade, is 22% brighter than Galaxy S8's with peak brightness of 1,200 nits and an expanded color gamut — Introduction The key element for a great Smartphone has always been a truly innovative and top performing display … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg: |
Michael Sayman, hired by Facebook as an 18 year old, leaves the company after three years to work for Google as a product manager for Assistant — Former intern to be a product manager working on Assistant — Sayman had helped social network understand teens and trends| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Six firms including Akamai, Cloudflare, Google team up to disrupt WireX botnet, which compromised tens of thousands of Android devices and launched DDoS attacks — A half dozen technology and security companies — some of them competitors — issued the exact same press release today.
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| Brittany Crocker / Knoxville News-Sentinel: |
Stormfront.org, the oldest white supremacist forum that has been online for about 20 years, has been suspended by its registrar Network Solutions — Stormfront, an international supremacist web forum, appears to have been seized by its website host, Network Solutions, LLC. — The forum disappeared Friday.| Jeremy C. Owens / MarketWatch: |
Western Digital buys assets of cloud storage firm Upthere after leading a $77M round in the company last year — Western Digital Corp. WDC, +0.34% announced Monday afternoon that it has acquired the assets of startup Upthere, an app-based cloud-storage offering meant to challenge services like Dropbox.
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| Nate Oh / AnandTech: |
Intel unveils Movidius Myriad X low-power vision processing unit (VPU) for AI acceleration in vision-based devices — Today, Intel subsidiary Movidius is announcing the Movidius Myriad X vision processing unit (VPU), a low-power system-on-chip (SoC) intended for deep learning and AI acceleration …
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Intel Newsroom, Intel Newsroom, EE Times, Tom's Hardware, Forbes, ZDNet, YouTube, Seeking Alpha, and Intel Newsroom
| Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Google to offer Play Protect branding for phones and tablets that follow Android security requirements, calling them “Certified Android devices” — To feature the Play Store and run Google's first-party apps, Android manufacturers have always had to meet certain requirements.
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Official Google India Blog, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, SiliconANGLE, and The Verge. Thanks:@technacity
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