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.
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 … Source: Wall Street Journal .
Some Git source code repositories, including at least 392 from GitHub, have been wiped and replaced with a ransom demand in a possible coordinated attack
Hacker wipes Git repos and asks for Bitcoin. Gives victims 10 days and threatens to release the code.
Bitfinex is trying to raise $1B via initial exchange offering of LEO tokens to provide liquidity as it seeks access to $850M it says were frozen by governments
Bitfinex will issue an initial exchange offering (IEO) that aims to raise $1 billion, according to an excerpt …
Jack Dorsey has emerged as a lifestyle guru in Silicon Valley, raising demand for near-infrared saunas, meditation retreats, cryotherapy spas, and fasting tools
The Twitter chief executive is tech's foremost manfluencer, guiding his followers toward optimum cognitive performance. Or, at least, hunger.
Coinbase says CTO Balaji Srinivasan is leaving; source: Srinivasan was not given enough freedom and had differing visions for the future product roadmap
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is parting ways with its CTO Balaji Srinivasan, who joined the firm as part of one of its largest acquisitions, The Block has learned.
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
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Researchers link 6 software supply chain attacks, including backdoors in CCleaner and Asus' software update tool, to a group of likely Chinese-speaking hackers
A software supply chain attack represents one of the most insidious forms of hacking. By breaking into a developer's network …
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.
YouTube says it will make all of its original content free this fall in a strategy that its CBO says is in opposition to what other media companies are doing
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Sources: Verizon is seeking a buyer for Tumblr as it tries to steady Verizon Media Group, which has struggled to meet revenue targets
Brands—they're just like us, only thirstier. Gabriela Barkho / Observer : Even a Pornhub Acquisition May Not Save Tumblr From Brink of Collapse Anthony Ha / TechCrunch : Daily Crunch: Facebook bans fa...
Dark web marketplace Wall Street Market, whose admins exit-scammed users of $14.2M+ in cryptocurrency, seized by German police and other international agencies
don't take this as something official. Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : Six days after Med3l1n leaked the IP address and the login creds for the WSM backend, the server showed the following errorhttps:...
Innisfil, Ontario, which in 2017 decided to subsidize Uber rides in lieu of a public bus system, has been forced to raise fares and cap rides as adoption grows
Innisfil, Ontario, decided to partially subsidize ride-hailing trips rather than pay for a public bus system. Tweets: @bdtetlow , @citylab , @grescoe , @citylab , @citylab , @humantransit , @sean_yyz ...
Amazon Marketplace lets sellers offer lithium-ion batteries and other products that can cause injuries, causing some to ask who is to blame when things go wrong
Nicholas Jones didn't think twice about purchasing a lithium-ion battery from Amazon in 2016. Tweets: @alanasemuels , @alanasemuels , @alanasemuels , and @elcush Tweets: @alanasemuels : Though Amazon ...
Sources: Google is rapidly adding retailers to Google Express, tests showing product recommendations and prices with an option to buy under YouTube videos
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A profile of Lemonade, a millenial-friendly discount insurance startup, which has raised $480M in five rounds, the last one at a $2B+ valuation, says source
In the summer of 2017, a Los Angeles man in his mid-20s put on a necklace, blond wig and makeup and made a cellphone video describing … Tweets: @forbes Tweets: @forbes : Using AI, a mobile app and oth...
Facebook is taking the same self-assured approach to safety that it has with products, but it is strange to see the company be so proud of cleaning its own mess
Watch enough Facebook product rollouts, and you'll notice a certain consistency. The presentation is always polished …
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