Uber closes down 7.6% on its first day of trading after raising $8.1B in its IPO, which valued the company at about $82.4B
- Uber debuted Friday on the New York Stock Exchange at $42 per share, trading under the symbol “UBER.” — Uber dropped 7.6% on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange Friday.
Facebook sues Rankwave, a South Korean data analytics company with apps on Facebook, says Rankwave didn't cooperate with efforts to verify policy compliance
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Profile of Garrett Camp, the Uber co-founder who envisioned the idea of private cars for hire with an app and whose stake in Uber is now worth ~$3.7B
> “Some of his former colleagues at Uber say his most severe lapse was allowing Kalanick's power to go unchecked.” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Mark Milian / @markmilian : Some wonderful details in @...
SEC approves the creation of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, or LTSE, a Silicon Valley-based national securities exchange proposed by Eric Ries
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Friday approved a new stock exchange that is the brainchild of a Silicon Valley entrepreneur …
GitHub unveils GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that supports npm, Maven, RubyGems, NuGet, and Docker, available today in limited beta
Today, we're excited to introduce GitHub Package Registry, a package management service that makes it easy to publish public or private packages next to your source code.
Benchmark made billions on an early-stage Uber investment, but it isn't clear if late-stage investors like SoftBank or Saudi Arabia's PIF made serious profit
We've known practically since Uber started dispatching rides that one day it would make a lot of people very rich.
Tech activists are protesting Palantir's work with ICE by mass flagging “issues” with the company's most popular Github repositories
Tech activists continue to organize and win across many of the industry's biggest firms—and increasingly the online spaces tech workers gather …
Internal docs show Windows 10 is now active on 825M+ devices, SwiftKey has 159M+ MAUs, and that the mobile versions of Edge have been downloaded 4.5M times
According to internal documentation viewed by Thurrott.com, Windows 10 is now active on over 825 million devices worldwide.
SnapAV, a manufacturer of home networking equipment for integrators, to acquire Control4, a home automation platform, for $680M
maybe PR Newswire : Shareholder Alert: Ademi & O'Reilly, LLP Investigates whether Control4 Corporation has obtained … Roma Christian / Channel News : Control4 & SnapAV Merger Shakes Up Market Commerci...
In its lawsuit against Rankwave, Facebook alleges Rankwave misused Facebook data outside of the apps where it was collected and refused to comply with an audit
Facebook might have another Cambridge Analytica on its hands. In a late Friday news dump, — TechCrunch has attained a copy …
Amazon has been mistakenly taking down ads with religious content, causing some sellers of religious products to lose sales
KEY POINTS — Amazon told some sellers that it is now blocking ads containing language about religion, after updating its ad policy.
The dark web is tiny and unreliable: analysis of 55K onion domains on the Tor network finds only 8,400 had a live site, with many having poor up times
Click here to download the complete analysis as a PDF. — Key Findings — The collection of onion sites that is sometimes called … Tweets: @webbreacher Tweets: Micah / @webbreacher : The #DarkWeb". L...
Netflix publishes its first top-10 lists of most-watched content on its platform in the UK, says it will start posting the lists every week in the country
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TiVo announces plans to split its IP licensing and video products businesses to increase odds of finding a buyer
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Google replacing “Works with Nest” with “Works with Google Assistant” for privacy reasons could lead to a future with fewer compatible smart home devices
There was a lot of news … Brad Moon / InvestorPlace : Google Axes ‘Works With Nest’ — Here's What to Know Bruce Brown / Digital Trends : Best Buy drops the price of the Google Home Hub and throws in a...
Beats Powerbeats Pro review: very comfortable and steady in the ear with great battery life, rich sound, and good bass, but not very discreet outside the gym
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Algorithms used to take down “terrorist” videos are deleting evidence of war crimes and could hinder efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice
Algorithms that take down “terrorist” videos could hamstring efforts to bring human-rights abusers to justice. — Journalist based in Rome Tweets: @mbogen , @eff , @danteramos , @eff , and @jake_hanr...
Q&A with Melinda Gates on why the tech industry must embrace women's empowerment, how we can get more women and people of color to enter tech, and more
FOR ALMOST 20 years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission to make the world better. When she and her husband launched the Bill … Tweets: @wired , @wired , @caitlin__kelly , and @emilydreyfuss Tweets: ...
A look at the super app trend in India, where companies like Paytm, Ola, and Amazon are increasingly bundling a range of new services into their apps
Companies like Paytm and Amazon bundle other services to give users an all-in-one experience — Truecaller, an app that helps users screen strangers … Tweets: @amitranjan and @alanmamedi Tweets: Amit...
How YouTube's Content ID system lets rightsholders hijack global revenue from legit videos covered by fair use, and what one channel CEO says needs to change
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Tinder is preparing to launch a Tinder Lite version of its dating app for emerging markets
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Tweets: @mgsiegler and @levynews Tweets: M.G. Siegler / @mgsiegler : I think we just hit peak “lite” app. The next trend is going to be making your apps as big and as bloat...
Inside Amazon's acquisition of PillPack as it prepares to take on CVS, Walgreens, and others in the $500B-a-year prescription drug market
Christina Farr / CNBC : Tweets: @eugenekim222 , @kellan , @drugchannels , @chrissyfarr , @chrissyfarr , @libertyrpf , @mattrosoff , @jordannovet , and @chrissyfarr . Thanks: @mattrosoff Tweets: Eugen...
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