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A look at Dara Khosrowshahi's tenure as Uber prepares to go public; source: CEO decided Travis Kalanick isn't welcome on the NYSE balcony for next week's IPO — The C.E.O. wants to prove that the start-up has evolved past a raucous, and profligate, tech-bro culture. But Uber's past is simply not that far gone.
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| Mike Dudas / The Block: |
Report: Facebook seeks ~$1B from financial firms and e-commerce sites to back its stablecoin as it readies its payments network and rewards system for users — - Facebook is planning to launch a full payments network (rather than just remittances) and in discussions with payment networks Visa …
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| Jason Del Rey / Vox: |
An oral history of Amazon Prime, the internet's most successful membership program with 100M+ members worldwide and one of the main reasons behind Amazon's rise — An oral history of the subscription service that changed online shopping forever. — It's easy to forget now, but Amazon wasn't always the king of online shopping.
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| Chris Zacharias: |
A group of YouTube engineers warned IE6 users ten years ago, without permission, that the browser would not be supported, contributing to its demise — The bittersweet consequence of YouTube's incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: SoftBank is considering an IPO for its $100B Vision Fund and is negotiating with the sultanate of Oman for an investment of several billion in the fund — Vision Fund staff hustles to keep up with frantic pace of deal making by CEO Masayoshi Son — SoftBank Group Corp …
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| Priya Anand / The Information: |
Sources: Google is rapidly adding retailers to Google Express, tests showing product recommendations and prices with an option to buy under YouTube videos — Google has struggled for years to build an online shopping business that can seriously compete with Amazon.
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Stripe says its fifth engineering hub will be remote, to situate product development closer to customers, and it will hire 100+ remote engineers in 2019 — Stripe has engineering hubs in San Francisco, Seattle, Dublin, and Singapore. We are establishing a fifth hub that is less traditional but no less important: Remote.
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| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
Sources: Facebook told FTC it's ready for more privacy oversight like quarterly privacy safeguards reports approved by CEO, review of new products before launch — The concessions could accompany a multi-billion dollar fine from the Federal Trade Commission, which opened its probe last year.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Dark web marketplace Wall Street Market, whose admins exit-scammed users of $14.2M+ in cryptocurrency, seized by German police and other international agencies — Wall Street Market seized by law enforcement agencies from Germany, the US, the Netherlands, and Romania.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
Facebook is shutting down Bonfire, its Houseparty clone for group video chat, which the company had been testing outside US since the fall of 2017 — Guess that one didn't work out — Facebook is shutting down a clone of the group video chat app Houseparty, The Verge has learned.| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Vulnerability in Dell's pre-installed SupportAssist utility exposes Dell computers to remote hijacks if attacker can get on the same network with unpatched PC — Another security flaw in a vendor's bloatware apps puts users at risk. — A vulnerability in the Dell SupportAssist utility exposes Dell laptops …
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Facebook bans Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, Louis Farrakhan, and others from Facebook and Instagram, citing dangerous individuals and orgs policy — Milo Yiannopoulos and Louis Farrakhan have been banned as well — Facebook today removed Louis Farrakhan, Alex Jones …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft announces Azure SQL Database Edge, which will run on compute-constrained devices, and new AI, mixed reality, and IoT capabilities powered by Azure — A couple days ahead of Build 2019, Microsoft is showcasing some new AI, MR, IoT and blockchain capabilities powered by Azure …
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