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A look at Option Impact, a salary database accessible to VCs and their startups, based on anonymized salary info from about 2,600 companies — WHEN STEVE, A thirtysomething engineer, launched a software company in San Francisco a few years ago, he and his cofounder faced the daunting task of hiring a team …
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| Financial Times: |
Sources: alongside GV, Alphabet will invest directly in Lime, as part of the $300M round the on-demand scooter startup is raising at $1.1B post-money valuation — Alphabet is joining a $300m funding round for electric scooter start-up Lime, adding to an increasingly complex web of deals in transport and … | Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica: |
Shiva Ayyadurai, who claims to have invented email, has appealed a federal judge's decision that dismissed his libel suit against Techdirt in 2017 — Tech news site says Shiva Ayyadurai is a “fake,” he says it “disregarded” the truth. — Lawyers representing the Massachusetts man …
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Sources: Xiaomi scuttled plans to sell Shanghai CDRs alongside Hong Kong IPO and halved the amount raised due to more stringent demands from regulators in China — - Regulators in China said to insist on meeting local rules — Authorities want tech giants to list on domestic exchanges| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
WhatsApp launches a new group setting that allows only administrators to send messages to a group — WhatsApp today announced a new control for group administrators to limit activity so that they are the only member of the group who can send messages. WhatsApp groups can include up to 256 participants.
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| Charlie Savage / New York Times: |
NSA says it is deleting all phone records acquired since 2015 under FISA because of a technical glitch that resulted in some unauthorized data collection — WASHINGTON — The National Security Agency has purged hundreds of millions of records logging phone calls and texts that it had gathered …
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Blue light, prevalent in modern UIs, is aesthetically pleasing, but poses health risks; designers should switch to deep red/orange as the military did long ago — The cold blue light of modern touchscreens may be aesthetically pleasing, but it poses health problems.| Daniel Duane / Wired: |
How huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM curriculum, and gadgets everywhere failed to overhaul systemic problems in a San Francisco public middle school — Huge contributions from tech titans, a STEM-packed curriculum, gadgets everywhere: Willie Brown Middle School was supposed to set the bar.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Sources: Microsoft is working on a pocketable Surface device, codenamed Andromeda, with a wraparound display that bridges the gap of the hinge when fully opened — A new and disruptive dual-screen device to blur the lines between mobile and PC — Microsoft has been working on a new mysterious Surface device for at least two years.
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Cedar, a service that uses data analysis to help health organizations personalize the billing experience for patients, raises $36M Series B led by Kinnevik — Understanding bills should be simple and straightforward but unfortunately, that is not always the case, especially when dealing with medical bills.| Rick Merritt / EE Times: |
DARPA to invest $100M over the next four years to create the equivalent of a silicon compiler aimed at significantly lowering the barriers to design chips — Two programs aim to craft ‘silicon compiler’ — SAN JOSE, Calif. — The U.S. will pour $100 million into two research programs …
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| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
Match says Tinder swipes and images sent between its app and servers are now encrypted and swipe data is now the same size, fixing flaws disclosed in January — Your digital dating life is a lot less vulnerable to hackers as a result of security updates from Tinder.
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