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Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW

sudshr47 March 16, 2019

In this week’s newsletter: The college admissions scandal engulfs TPG, Accel raises $2.5B for three funds and investing app Stash brings in $65M.

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U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents

sudshr47 March 16, 2019

Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has chalked up another small legal victory against Apple in another patent litigation suit. A jury in a U.S. federal court in San Diego found Friday that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31M for infringing three patents, per Reuters. Qualcomm has filed a number of patent suits against the iPhone maker in the […]

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XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses

sudshr47 March 15, 2019

As healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of fast, low-cost genetic testing. And few people are more familiar with the problems of today’s genetic diagnostics tools than Kalim Mir, the 52-year-old founder of XGenomes, who has spent his entire professional career studying the […]

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Apple ad focuses on iPhone’s most marketable feature — privacy

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Apple is airing a new ad spot in primetime today. Focused on privacy, the spot is visually cued, with no dialog and a simple tagline: Privacy. That’s iPhone. In a series of humorous vignettes, the message is driven home that sometimes you just want a little privacy. The spot has only one line of text […]

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How to watch Elon Musk unveil the Tesla Model Y

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Tesla is scheduled to reveal the Model Y — the next electric vehicle in electric automaker’s lineup — tonight at an event in Los Angeles after, not months, but years of teasers and hints from CEO Elon Musk . Tesla will live stream the Model Y unveiling event at 8 pm PT via its website. […]

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Former Dropbox exec Dennis Woodside joins Impossible Foods as its first President

sudshr47 March 14, 2019

Former Google and Dropbox executive Dennis Woodside has joined the meat replacement developer Impossible Foods as the company’s first President. Woodside, who previously shepherded Dropbox through its initial public offering, is a longtime technology executive who is making his first foray into the food business. The 25-year tech industry veteran most recently served as the […]

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The “splinternet” is already here

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and former Senior Vice President for Global Sales Operations for SAP. There is no question that the arrival of a fragmented and divided internet is now upon us. The “splinternet,” […]

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Uber said to be raising $1B at a $10B valuation for its self-driving car unit

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

The SoftBank Vision Fund is in talks to invest directly in Uber’s autonomous vehicle business, reports The Wall Street Journal.

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After FAA doubles down on 737 decision, Canada grounds the planes amid reports of complaints from U.S. pilots

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

After the Federal Aviation Administration issued a statement late yesterday doubling down on its decision to keep the Boeing 737 Max planes at the heart of two accident investigations flying, Canada has become the latest nation to ground the plane. “There are — and I hasten to say not conclusive — but there are similarities,” […]

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Google has quietly added DuckDuckGo as a search engine option for Chrome users in ~60 markets

sudshr47 March 13, 2019

In an update to the chromium engine, which underpins Google’s popular Chrome browser, the search giant has quietly updated the lists of default search engines it offers per market — expanding the choice of search product users can pick from in markets around the world. Most notably it’s expanded search engine lists to include pro-privacy […]

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Boeing is moving to address potential issues in new 737s as Europe bans its plane

sudshr47 March 12, 2019

In the wake of the second fatal crash in six months involving Boeing 737 Max 8 airplanes, the European Aviation and Safety Administration is grounding the planes as Boeing said it was taking additional steps to address an issue that may have contributed to the crash. On Sunday, a Boeing 737 Max 8 plane operated […]

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The next great debate will be about the role of tech in society and government

sudshr47 March 10, 2019

Tony Blair Contributor Share on Twitter Tony Blair is the Executive Chairman of the Institute for Global Change and former Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The Industrial Revolution dramatically re-ordered the sociology of politics. In the US, the Populist Party in the United States was founded as a force in opposition to capitalism, wary […]

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