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Sources: Goldman Sachs is in talks with Apple to offer financing to Apple gadget shoppers, using its retail point-of-sale financing arm Marcus — Wall Street firm would lend to shoppers buying expensive Apple gadgets — As Apple Inc.'s AAPL 4.18% investment bank, Goldman Sachs GS 3.85% Group Inc … | Abner Li / 9to5Google: |
Report: Google is developing a subscription game streaming service codenamed Yeti that could either work with Chromecast or a Google-made console — Besides Android apps and the Play Store, Google's current gaming efforts are particularly centered around video livestreams on YouTube and Daydream VR.| Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat is launching a tool to let TV networks pipe snippets of live broadcasts directly into the app, starting this Saturday with NBC's Olympics coverage — Deal could forge closer ties between traditional TV networks and Snapchat's parent company Snap Inc. — Georgia Wells and Benjamin Mullin
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| Olivia Zaleski / Bloomberg: |
Inside the battle among Airbnb investors and executives over whether to remain private or IPO; sources say founders and early employees cashed ~$350M of equity — Investors and executives disagreed over when to take the home-rental company public. The stay-private crowd is winning.
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Tweets: @jasonlk, @tomgara, @klendathucap, @sonyaellenmann, @jyarow, and @mims
| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed: |
Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content — Tumblrs run by Russian trolls generated hundreds of thousands of interactions with anti-Hillary Clinton, pro-Bernie Sanders content.
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Tweets: @jstrauss, @slpng_giants, @emilybell, @micahgrimes, and @kylegriffin1
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google Drive adds ability to comment on Office files, PDFs, and images in preview pane without having to convert them to Google formats — Google is launching an update to Google Drive today that will make it easier for teams and agencies to use a mix of G Suite and Microsoft Office while working with their colleagues and customers.
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| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
SoftBank's technology funds, the $100B Vision Fund and $6B Delta Fund, have already invested ~$40B of their $106B target; Vision Fund has invested in 26 firms — They said it couldn't be done. — Longtime Silicon Valley hands are still aghast that an investing firm can find …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Microsoft updates its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support, two years after releasing it for iPhone — Microsoft today updated its Cortana app for iOS with native iPad support. The design looks essentially the same as the iPhone version, but with an interface optimized …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Apple says a “processing error” meant ad spend and install data for Search Ad Basic users was sent to the wrong developers — Apple today apologized after sending incorrect information to some iOS developers using its Search Ads Basic service yesterday.
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Tweets: @louisdhauwe, @_patmurray, and @stroughtonsmith
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Streaming service ESPN Plus launching next month at $4.99/mo; sources say it won't have ESPN cable channels' content, which still requires ESPN subscription — How much would you pay for sports you weren't watching on TV? — Want to pay for a subscription to ESPN without paying for a subscription to other cable channels?
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TechCrunch, Digital Trends, CNBC, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Variety, Mashable, Axios, CNBC, Engadget, and Droid Life
Tweets: @soccermarketing and @xpangler
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
US DoJ charges 36 people tied to seven-year cyber-fraud ring that secured $530M+ from selling stolen identities, more; 13 arrested in total with five in the US — Prosecutors said the case is “one of the largest cyber-fraud prosecutions” ever carried out by the Justice Department.
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BBC, Reuters, and U.S. Department of Justice
Tweets: @nicoleperlroth, @howelloneill, and @howelloneill
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
New York-based Mirror raises $13M from Spark Capital and others for building an at-home mirror-like device that can stream live or on-demand fitness classes — The health club industry generates around $83 billion in revenue globally each year, according to figures from the International Health …
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TechCrunch, Business Wire, NewsCenter.io, StartupWorld, New York Business Journal, Inc.com, FinSMEs, and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @seamlessiot
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
UK government announces labor market reforms to aid gig economy workers, including ensuring holiday and sick pay and raising fines for employer mistreatment — The UK government has announced a package of labor market reforms to respond to changes in working patterns including those driven …
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BitMEX Research looks at the history of Ripple, its company disputes, and says the technology behind its distributed consensus system is essentially centralized — Abstract: In this piece, we briefly look over the history of Ripple and examine various disputes between the founders and partner companies … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Viacom confirms it has acquired online video conference VidCon and will run it as a standalone subsidiary — It's official: Viacom has announced the acquisition VidCon, host of the world's biggest conference dedicated to YouTube and online video. — Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
Social network Gab, popular with the far-right, says it raised $4.8M from 1,000+ investors on crowdfunding platform StartEngine and plans $10M ICO — Amid ongoing disputes about free speech and hate speech, “alternative” social network Gab says it has raised $4.8 million and is planning a $10 million initial coin offering (ICO).
Tweets: @shaig
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
Data from over 1.8M Uber drivers shows women earn $1.24/hour and $130/week less than men on average, in part because they drive slower and for fewer hours — Women drive slower than men, and for fewer hours — Men who drive for Uber earn roughly 7 percent more per hour than women …
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Uber Under the Hood, CNET, Recode, Freakonomics, The Register, MIT Technology Review, The Next Web, Slashdot, The Memo, Bloomberg, and Fortune
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
A pollster Facebook hired in April '17, who quit after 6 months, says his role was to measure Zuckerberg's approval ratings and track speeches amid US tour — Why Tavis McGinn quit after six months — Tavis McGinn applied for a job at Facebook last year hoping to work in market research.
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Silicon Valley Business …, SiliconANGLE, New York Magazine, Business Insider, and Axios
Tweets: @mims, @dnvolz, @officebeats, @willoremus, @kevinroose, @nitashatiku, @knguyen, @sarahfrier, @caseynewton, @geoffreyfowler, @dhh, and @caseynewton
| Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Netgear says it will spin off its Arlo security camera wing into a standalone business by the second half of 2018 and is planning an IPO for Arlo — Netgear announced this afternoon that it plans to spin off its Arlo wing into a standalone business. The networking hardware giant's board …
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NETGEAR, Inc., Digital Trends, SiliconANGLE, Multichannel News, The Register, Fortune, ZDNet, Engadget, and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @benbajarin
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