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November 18, 2019, 5:45 PM

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Lauren Feiner / CNBC:
T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert to succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020  —  - T-Mobile President and COO Mike Sievert will succeed John Legere as CEO on May 1, 2020, the company announced Monday.  — CNBC's David Faber reported in July that Sievert was expected …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Google Stadia review: works well and has a clearer picture than early rivals but 4K games do not look 4K, tons of features are missing, and it feels like a beta  —  Google Stadia works.  —  That's what you came here to find out, and I won't bury the lede: on Tuesday, November 19th …
Raymond Zhong / New York Times:
Musical.ly founder Alex Zhu, who now heads TikTok, claims that TikTok doesn't share data with China or ByteDance and doesn't censor videos at China's behest  —  Alex Zhu, the head of the Chinese-owned viral video app, is trying to assuage Washington's fears.  “I am quite optimistic,” he said.
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Margaret Harding McGill / Axios:
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley debuts a bill aimed at US companies' data storage practices in countries like China and Russia, which would impact companies like Apple  —  Republican Sen. Josh Hawley, a prominent big tech critic, will introduce legislation Monday meant to protect Americans' online data …
Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica:
Facebook launches Oculus Link software for Oculus Quest in beta, allowing users to access Rift PC games using a USB-C cable  —  Beta for this wired-VR update is now live; official Oculus Link cable coming soon.  —  Oculus Quest owners, your chance to dive into the world of PC-VR gaming has begun.
Todd Haselton / CNBC:
Apple announces press event on December 2 in NYC, says the event will be focused on “honoring our favorite apps and games of 2019”  —  Apple just announced a press event that it will hold a special press event at 4 p.m. ET on Dec. 2 in New York City.
Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch:
Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta, who joined from Google in 2015, says he is leaving the company  —  Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta announced today he is leaving the company.  Gupta's last day will be December 13, he wrote in a note to Uber's product team today.
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Olivia Solon / NBC News:
Inside Facebook's efforts to fight revenge porn using AI and a 25-person team; source: Facebook gets about 500K reports of revenge porn per month  —  The Facebook team tasked with fighting nonconsensual intimate images spoke for the first time about their research, early missteps and hopes for AI.
Colin Lecher / The Verge:
Filings show that the US Commerce Department is giving Huawei another reprieve of three months before the US ban takes effect, now slated for February 16, 2020  —  Yet another delay  —  Huawei has been given yet another reprieve from the Trump administration's ban on its products …
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to “Follow” Local Guides, which will surface their recommendations to their followers  —  Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that's more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users.
Financial Times:
Investigation finds that, once adjusted for duplicate and fake accounts, Facebook users grew 7% in the past two years, rather than 18% as calculated by Facebook  —  At first glance, Amy Dowd's Facebook account appears perfectly normal.  There is a smiling profile picture of a young woman surrounded …
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Israeli ride-hailing service Gett to shut down operations in NYC, known there as Juno, says Lyft will take on its 15,000 enterprise clients starting next year  —  Gett, the ridesharing company backed by Volkswagen and valued at around $1.5 billion, is putting the brakes on a major part of its growth strategy.
More: Mashable and AxiosThanks:@ingridlunden

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