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| Fred Wilson / AVC: |
Current draft of Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting, which would have a devastating effect on equity compensation in startups — The current draft of the Senate Tax Reform Bill would tax stock options and RSUs upon vesting.
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| Qualcomm: |
Qualcomm's Board of Directors unanimously rejects Broadcom's unsolicited $103B offer — Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) ("Qualcomm" or the “Company") today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously rejected the unsolicited proposal announced by Broadcom Limited ("Broadcom") on November 6, 2017.
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| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
KGI: three iPhones with iPhone X form factor slated for late-2018, including 6.1" model with a lower-resolution LCD screen, as well as 5.8" and 6.5" OLED models — Apple has three new iPhone models in the pipeline for a late 2018 launch, two of which will be the company's biggest handsets ever …
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
Steve Jurvetson is leaving Draper Fisher Jurveston in wake of an investigation into sexual harassment, is “on leave of absence” from boards of Tesla and SpaceX — The high-profile entrepreneur helped start Draper Fisher Jurveston. — Famed venture capitalist Steve Jurvetson …
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| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Missouri AG launches probe into Google's practices including user data collection, use of other sites' content, and if search results favor its own services — Investigation includes whether Google unfairly favors its content in search results — Missouri's attorney general has launched … | Garett Sloane / Ad Age: |
Sources: Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported version of its Prime video streaming service and is considering giving content creators their own channels — Amazon is developing a free, ad-supported complement to its Prime streaming video service, according to people familiar with its plans.| Amie Tsang / New York Times: |
Lyft to launch in Toronto next month, its first market outside the US — The ride-hailing company Lyft, a major rival to Uber in the United States, is moving to gain ground internationally. — Lyft announced on Monday that it would be offering services in Toronto in time for the holiday season.
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| Claire Zillman / Fortune: |
Female VCs from Sequoia, Cowboy, Benchmark, and others launch Female Founder Office Hours, a series of events at which investors will advise women entrepreneurs — The female investors of venture capital are expanding their dinner party, so to speak. — Jess Lee, the former CEO … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook kills off Messenger Day stories feature, replacing it with Facebook Stories inside Messenger, and kills off Facebook Direct ephemeral messaging — Facebook is cleaning up the redundancy in its Snapchat Stories clones. Today Facebook is killing off the Messenger Day brand and merging …
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| Kurt Schlosser / GeekWire: |
Amazon lands global television rights for The Lord of the Rings, with a multi-season commitment, to debut exclusively on Prime Video — “The Lord of the Rings,” the celebrated fantasy book series by J.R.R. Tolkien that became a worldwide film phenomenon is now headed to the small screen …
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| Karissa Bell / Mashable: |
A look at Reddit Chat, which is slated to eventually replace Reddit's PMs entirely, currently in beta and will launch alongside full site redesign in Q1 2018 — Reddit is about to make one of its biggest changes yet. — The site will soon launch a new instant messaging feature called Reddit Chat.| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Some Pixel 2 XL owners report the edges of touchscreen are unresponsive to touch input; Google says it's investigating, will address it in upcoming OTA update — The Google Pixel 2 XL is a fantastic smartphone, but the issues with it just keep rolling in, specifically relating to the display.
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