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Qualcomm Inc. lost a court bid to stall European Union regulators from imposing daily fines of 580,000 euros ($664,216) for failing to supply information for antitrust probes into the chip company’s sales tactics.
3. Major tech firms urge U.S. to retain net neutrality rules
A group representing major technology firms including Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Facebook Inc (FB.O) urged the U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Monday to abandon plans to reverse the landmark 2015 rules barring internet service providers from blocking or slowing consumer access to web content.
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A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
Today parent company Snap is facing questions about user growth and retention with all the moves Instagram is making to copy features as its declining stock price shows.
Hearst and other publishers that have channels in Discover section are still committed to the app considering it an important way to reach young audiences in a carefully curated environment and make money from their journalism.
Since November Instagram has let creators link out to external sites granting a longtime wish of publishers and giving it a leg up on Snapchat which followed with a similar feature on July.
A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
EssentialBrian Wallace profile on Essential the startup helmed by Android creator Andy Rubin has lost one of its top executives just over a month after it announced its first major product.
Andy Fouché who is listed as the company head of communications on its website left recently as well he told Business Insider in an email last month.
Rubin also teased at the Wired Business Conference in June that he like to launch some sort of connected car product but did provide any details beyond that.
A spokesman for the Qatari Embassy in Washington responded by drawing attention to a statement by that attorney general Ali Bin Fetais who said late last month that has evidence that certain iPhones originating from countries laying siege to Qatar were used in the.
Separately the United States warned Qatar to keep a tighter rein on wealthy individuals there who surreptitiously funded Islamist terror groups a charge that Washington has also made in the past against the Saudis and other gulf countries.
When the group released a list of demands for Qatar including shutting down Al Jazeera and expelling a number of people deemed terrorists the State Department suggested that they were unreasonable and that the terrorism funding issue was a smokescreen for regional grievances that should be resolved through mediation and negotiation.
The community has bitterly argued whether the cryptocurrency should evolve to appeal to mainstream corporations and become more attractive to traditional capital or fortify its position as a libertarian beacon whether it should act more as an asset like gold or as a payment system.
The unprecedented level of endorsement is partly prompted by anxiety of bitcoin losing its dominant status to ethereum a newer cryptocurrency whose popularity has soared thanks to its ability to run smart contracts and its more approach.
suggest a hard fork happen significantly faster than even the most minor of changes in recent history is irresponsible and dangerous said Matt Corallo a Core contributor and former of Blockstream which is among companies that stand to benefit from SegWit.
That mean that these services are exactly commodities each builds its own recommendation tools some experiment with routes to market with mobile operators for example and some try exclusive early access to new pop songs.
Prime has become a third pillar to business next to logistics and the ecommerce platform and Amazon is always looking for ways to add more perceived value to it preferably with no marginal cost TV content that it owns outright is exactly that.
A recurring story in the past was for a leading tech company to go to Hollywood announce its intention to buy lots of stuff and then turn pale at the first rate card it was shown and say really expensive.
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Thanks in part to net neutrality the open internet has grown to become an unrivaled source of choice competition innovation free expression and opportunity.
open internet ensures that both new and established services whether offered by an established internet company like Google a broadband provider or a small startup have the same ability to reach users on an equal playing field.
Google and many others are joining together to call on the FCC to preserve the open internet and we encourage you to act too.
June PTA coalition of tech companies including Amazon Reddit Vimeo and Kickstarter is mobilizing for a day of action to save net neutrality on July.
The day of action is a response to the FCC plans to dismantle key net neutrality rules including the classification of internet providers as common carriers something also known as Those rules which were enacted by the FCC in essentially treat internet and wireless providers like public utilities barring them from prioritizing any services on their networks.
In a wide coalition of startups and big companies joined together for a protest day against SOPA a controversial bill that eventually died in committee.
We often said that Stack Overflow is a place for everything that programmers want to do and talk about but we always wished that we could make it easier for teams of engineers to better support one another on the same site where they give so much to the public interests of programming.
It has always been difficult to accommodate folks that want to collaborate more closely in a manner that prevents them from clashing with what we built as conventional public Q A there are many kinds of questions that simply do work well in our shared body of knowledge.
I like to see a robust offering of communication channels Slack whatever else kids use these days for notifications so a team use of the product does ebb away because nobody goes check it for new content and you end up sending inane Hey I posted this question to get folks to go there.
ET Google operates a program to harness the brain power of university researchers to help sway opinion and public policy cultivating financial relationships with professors at campuses from Harvard University to the University of California Berkeley.
Over the past decade Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against regulatory challenges of its market dominance paying to for.
exactly the point we all agree that an open internet is critical for ensuring freedom of expression and a free flow of ideas and commerce in the United States and around the Recode reports that the company will air ads in DC this week as part of the effort.
Senior executive VP of external and legislative affairs Bob Quinn argues in AT post that the company supports the foundational elements of net neutrality even as it pushes back on the strong protections installed under the previous chairman Tom Wheeler.
T and other companies like Comcast and Verizon have waged an all out war on net neutrality protections because they want to be able to charge Internet users and startups extra fees and squeeze all of us for more money for less.
Under the Republican plan internet service providers would agree to voluntarily comply with net neutrality concepts and the Federal Trade Commission which currently has no authority to regulate the issue would protect consumer interests.
block throttle or discriminate against lawful content delivered over the internet and we are committed to continuing to manage our business and network with the goal of providing the best possible consumer experience Brian Roberts Comcast chief executive officer said in an April Roberts whose company has spent million during the past decade while lobbying the government on issues that include net neutrality said the Trump plans are simply trying to remove a over broadband investment decisions and T which has spent million during the last years while lobbying government agencies and Verizon which has dropped million also argue that they support the concept of net neutrality but not the rules that enforce companies were investigated by the Obama administration for violating the rules by allowing their own video services to exceed mobile data caps that were enforced on other content providers.
Facebook which boasts billion unique monthly users has spent almost two internet giants are joining about organizations in the Wednesday Day of Action to protest any rollback of net neutrality regulations.
Morgan Stanley analysts downgraded Snap on Tuesday a day after the shares fell below their IPO price of.
A team lead by analyst Brian Nowak downgraded the stock to equal weight from overweight and slashed their price target to from.
Previously the Morgan Stanley analyst expected Snap to report positive earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortization of in.
Snap lead initial public offering underwriter downgraded the company to a neutral and lowered its price target by to.
We move to neutral and will monitor four areas of innovation which could improve SNAP ad product and advertiser demand Nowak wrote.
Google Search YouTube Facebook and Twitter among others have all gone through growing pains as the key now is SNAP ability to execute and improve its ad offering Nowak said.
Hundreds of companies and organizations plan to participate in this Day of Action from giants such as Amazon Google Facebook and Netflix to Reddit Etsy PornHub Spotify and even some smaller internet service providers like Ting and Sonic.
The plan is reminiscent of a similar campaign in January when countless websites including Google Wikipedia and WIRED blacked out parts of their pages to raise awareness about a pair of draconian intellectual property reform bills known as SOPA and PIPA that Congress was debating at the time.
It was a crucial moment in the history of internet policy and proved that activists and web companies could mobilize the public to push back against harmful legislation and now the organizers behind the Day of Action are hoping to repeat that success.
Reuters Cybersecurity firm Symantec Corp is considering selling its website certification business in a deal that could fetch more than billion and extricate it from a feud with Alphabet Inc Google people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.
Chief Executive Officer Greg Clark has been transforming Mountain View Symantec by jettisoning units and spending billions of dollars on acquisitions.
It has been moving away from services that are more commoditized selling its data storage business Veritas in January to private equity firm Carlyle Group LP for billion.
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2. JP Morgan CEO says ops could be in several EU countries post-Brexit
JPMorgan Chase & Co Chief Executive Jamie Dimon (JPM.N) said on Tuesday the bank would probably use Frankfurt as the legal domicile of its European operations after Brexit, though jobs could be put elsewhere as well.
3. Snap shares fall further below $17 IPO price after underwriter Morgan Stanley downgrades the stock
Morgan Stanley downgraded shares of Snap just 5 months after the firm helped take the once hot media stock public.
4. Snap is spiraling after Morgan Stanley slashes its price target
The stock began trading at $24 in March, hit its record high a day later and then started slowly sliding to Tuesday, where shares are hitting new lows.
5. Sanofi to buy vaccines biotech group Protein Sciences
French drugmaker and healthcare group Sanofi is to buy privately-held U.S vaccines biotech company Protein Sciences for an initial amount of $650 million, as Sanofi steps up its acquisition program after recently missing two large deals.
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Global investments in oil and gas fields are likely to rebound modestly this year thanks to a sharp uptick in spending by U.S. shale producers, the International Energy Agency said in a report.
8. HSBC CEO confirms possible ‘hard’ Brexit plan to move 1,000 jobs to Paris
HSBC (HSBA.L) Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver confirmed on Tuesday possible plans to move 1,000 jobs from Britain to Paris in case of a so-called ‘hard’ Brexit, and said recent reforms from the French government would be positive, if enacted.
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Jio used the Aadhaar KYC process for authenticating users and this is something which all telecom operators are going to do following a DoT directive based on a flawed reading of a Supreme Court of India ruling.
A previous version of the website cached last month by Google shows a simple message back soon sic.
We have informed law enforcement agencies about the claims of the website and will follow through to ensure strict action is taken.
government has told telecommunications carriers to block access to virtual private networks by people familiar with the matter said thereby shutting a major window to the global internet.
In keeping with President Xi campaign the government now appears to be cracking down on loopholes around the Great Firewall a system that blocks information sources from Twitter and Facebook to news websites such as the New York Times and others.
unclear how the new directive may affect multinationals operating within the country which already have to contend with a Cybersecurity Law that imposes stringent requirements on the transfer of data and may give Beijing unprecedented access to their technology.
final but the current thinking is that it will support publications with metered paywalls and freemium models said a source familiar with the briefings.
These options would seem to accommodate metered publications including Facebook skeptic The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and The Economist which make a certain selection of articles free and put the rest behind a paywall.
The newspaper trade association News Media Alliance is leading an effort that seeks to let members negotiate collectively with Facebook and Google.
The decision announced by the federal government on Monday ahead of its official publication on Tuesday was quickly slammed by business leaders and organizations especially from the technology sector which has benefited heavily from founded by immigrants.
Continue reading the main story The policy being delayed by the Department of Homeland Security known as the International Entrepreneur Rule was to go into effect next week after being approved by President Obama in January during his final days in office.
The rule was enacted to give foreign entrepreneurs who received significant financial backing for new business ventures the ability to come temporarily to the United States to build their companies.
The decision announced by the federal government on Monday ahead of its official publication on Tuesday was quickly slammed by business leaders and organizations especially from the technology sector which has benefited heavily from founded by immigrants.
Continue reading the main story The policy being delayed by the Department of Homeland Security known as the International Entrepreneur Rule was to go into effect next week after being approved by President Obama in January during his final days in office.
The rule was enacted to give foreign entrepreneurs who received significant financial backing for new business ventures the ability to come temporarily to the United States to build their companies.
But it has across the spectrum of its membership bringing together competitors like The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post as well as scores of regional papers like The Star Tribune of Minneapolis which face the gravest threats.
Mark Thompson the chief executive of The New York Times Company told me that temperature is rising in terms of concern and in some cases anger about what seems like a very asymmetric disadvantageous relationship between the publishers and the very big digital.
Even if more help comes as promised the economic imbalance leaves the industry at the mercy of the generosity or immediate public relations imperatives Facebook and Google are on the way to holding nearly percent of the online advertising market according to eMarketer.
Most recently on June Germany passed a law that orders social media companies operating in the country to delete hate speech within hours of it being posted or face fines of up to million per instance.
The trend of courts applying social media laws worldwide could radically change what is allowed to be on the internet setting a troubling precedent.
a risk of a race to the bottom here says Vivek Krishnamurthy assistant director of Harvard Law Cyberlaw Clinic who specializes in international internet governance.
Citizenship and Immigration Services USCIS by sending correspondence to Samantha Deshommes Chief Regulatory Coordination Division Office of Policy and Strategy UCSIS DHS Massachusetts Avenue Washington DC.
The IE Final Rule amended DHS regulations to include criteria that would guide the implementation of the Secretary of Homeland Security discretionary parole authority as applied to international entrepreneurs.
observing that exceptions to notice and comment although construed narrowly are designed for where the policies promoted by public participation in rulemaking are outweighed by the countervailing considerations of effectiveness efficiency expedition and reduction in quotation marks omitted.
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In May, the apparel retailer said it was in “preliminary discussions with several parties,” warning there was no assurance the talks would result in a transaction.
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July of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain says Russia has to pay a price for its meddling in democratic elections.
After several large entertainment industry members signed on the took on a new kind of project now nearly four years old to standardize DRM giving the participants the advantage of its patent pooling user agreement without any risk of pesky enforcement.
After a perfunctory discussion they walked away from the negotiations and proceeded to ignore anyone at or on the web who disliked the idea of corporations getting to boss around librarians accessibility workers security researchers and innovators.
If you are a UI designer creating custom icons is often more trouble than worth since you probably already spent an inordinate amount of time dealing with a range of application states device sizes and UX guidelines.
If the GeoCities stage was the awkward teen years of the internet and today is the mature adult version that brief phase was the college period where it spread its wings smoked Parliament Lights while talking endlessly about Tarantino and tried to pull off a fedora.
In a lot of ways feels forever ago but close enough to today that a blog or message board from that time would still be mostly functional and recognizable not as clunky and weird as the old Space Jam site or a true antique.
Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina sifted through that downloaded GeoCities on a site called One Terabyte of Kilobyte making sense of what the early days of accessible personal websites looked like.
The Free Software Foundation FSF and its campaign Defective by Design have opposed EME since its inception because it infringes on Web users control of their own computers and weakens their security and privacy.
member organizations must take responsibility for the digital rights of Web users and appeal Tim disastrous decision said FSF campaigns manager Zak Rogoff.
top priorities should be user freedom privacy security interoperability and accessibility not helping Hollywood and streaming companies make their DRM more efficient.
If the GeoCities stage was the awkward teen years of the internet and today is the mature adult version that brief phase was the college period where it spread its wings smoked Parliament Lights while talking endlessly about Tarantino and tried to pull off a fedora.
In a lot of ways feels forever ago but close enough to today that a blog or message board from that time would still be mostly functional and recognizable not as clunky and weird as the old Space Jam site or a true antique.
Dragan Espenschied and Olia Lialina sifted through that downloaded GeoCities on a site called One Terabyte of Kilobyte making sense of what the early days of accessible personal websites looked like.
But it has across the spectrum of its membership bringing together competitors like The New York Times The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post as well as scores of regional papers like The Star Tribune of Minneapolis which face the gravest threats.
Mark Thompson the chief executive of The New York Times Company told me that temperature is rising in terms of concern and in some cases anger about what seems like a very asymmetric disadvantageous relationship between the publishers and the very big digital.
Even if more help comes as promised the economic imbalance leaves the industry at the mercy of the generosity or immediate public relations imperatives Facebook and Google are on the way to holding nearly percent of the online advertising market according to eMarketer.
Stripe hopes the integration will help boost its revenues by allowing clients to tap China vast consumer market where credit cards account for only a fraction of online spending the company said.
Founded by brothers John and Patrick Collison in Stripe provides technology that enables merchants in countries to accept payments online.
It is among the cohort of young fintech companies seeking to reinvent the payments landscape by taking better advantage of digital technologies to offer more financial services and products.
Jio used the Aadhaar KYC process for authenticating users and this is something which all telecom operators are going to do following a DoT directive based on a flawed reading of a Supreme Court of India ruling.
A previous version of the website cached last month by Google shows a simple message back soon sic.
We have informed law enforcement agencies about the claims of the website and will follow through to ensure strict action is taken.
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The latest analysis from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners CIRP pegs total Prime membership at million which is up percent from the quarter and double from two years ago.
While quarterly growth is slowing Amazon is still adding a substantial amount of new Prime members who end up spending per year on average with the site compared to for.
The online retail giant continuously adds new perks for members to induce more customers to sign up free shipping cloud storage streaming media and access to exclusive deals are just some of the benefits.
reducing our costs and continuing our revenue growth on our path to profitability and in control of independent future Alexander Ljung the chief executive and wrote in a blog post.
But it also faced pressure from the record labels to sign licensing deals and develop a paid subscription model to compete with Spotify and Apple Music.
In its latest financial report filed with British regulators late last year SoundCloud said that it had enough cash to meet its obligations only through September in March the company secured a million line of credit.
And in May Oculus head of computer vision Dov Katz was arrested for soliciting sex from an undercover police officer he thought was a girl.
And much like in video gaming where the use of is still relatively common despite the backlash against it it almost exclusively women who are hired as concierges at conferences and conventions encouraging people to come try on VR headsets.
After receiving several member complaints that the presence of Upload executives within the group violated the sanctity of the space we voted to remove said executives from the group Young and Duong told BuzzFeed News via email when asked in how they were addressing the fact that some members of Women in VR felt uncomfortable airing some of their issues with Upload in light of Duong friendship with Will Mason and his previous position on the board.
SoundCloud is cutting about percent of its staff in a move the digital music service says will give it a better financial footing to compete against larger rivals Spotify and Apple Inc.
SoundCloud has about million listeners who are drawn to its expansive library of songs dance mixes podcasts and other content uploaded by artists ranging from established stars to bedroom DJs.
While consumer adoption of streaming services has led the largest record labels to see sustained sales growth for the first time since the glory days of the CD the companies delivering the music online have struggled to make money.
Venture capitalists need to adopt formal policies to protect startup founders from sexual harassment assault and discrimination throughout the fundraising process.
We hope to see all VC firms draw from this template to formalize their own binding policies establish them with urgency and consistently with ejecting or punishing staff that violate them.
For more on how firms can ensure fair enforcement and how this cultural shift towards decency can avoid causing a chilling effect on fundraising for startups check out TechCrunch editor Josh accompanying The need for harassment policy Constine also coordinated compiled and edited the information contributed to this template.
Today it takes complex software and a specific skillset to create compelling VR and AR experiences.
So we developed Blocks a VR app for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift that lets you easily create beautiful objects in no time.
already seen amazing creations and use cases from modelers artists developers and even people with no modeling experience at from a robot that could star in a game to a skyline meant as a backdrop for a Tilt Brush sketch to some cacti made just for fun.
Microsoft announced a major reorganization on Wednesday that will include thousands of layoffs largely in sales.
Reports from last week suggested this was going to happen and that Microsoft was going to specifically focus on how it sells its product Azure.
WATCH Microsoft Surface Pro is here and it really expensive Clarification An earlier version of this story misstated the number of employees to suffer layoffs.
The reach of the online advertising campaign was such that potential Labour voters in marginal constituencies who verbally raised concerns about the NHS to a party activist on the doorstep would find their Facebook feed targeted with adverts warning about the state of the health service the following day.
The party wasted money advertising to voters in constituencies such as Labour MP Dennis Skinner Bolsover seat where the sources said Conservative HQ wrongly thought they had a realistic chance of winning in part due to a reliance on data provided by the US election campaigner Jim Messina.
Tory adverts obtained by BuzzFeed News also show how the party increasingly put online resources into fighting two regional battles holding off a Liberal Democrat comeback in southwest England and supporting Ruth Davidson Scottish Conservatives in key target seats.
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Since we used actual TechCrunch Disrupt transcripts as the basis for the audio files we redacted the dialogue for any startup specifics and standardized the clips to control for variations in quality and stage.
Armed with the knowledge that promotion has advantages over prevention informed entrepreneurs can recognize question orientation and frame their responses to benefit their startups.
By posing a balance of promotion and prevention questions to men and women investors grant all startups an equal chance to display their worthiness and may even improve their own decision making in the process.
The explosive allegations have brought the venture capital firm Caldbeck to the brink of collapse and have exposed the broader problem that men with wealth and influence are using their position to prey on women who are seeking funding and advice to build their careers and companies.
Alleged predatory behavior by a prominent venture capitalist has struck a cord on social media where women who have come forward have found deep support suggesting that the cone of silence that once protected perpetrators has cracked if not shattered.
I hope the industry continues to support women who speak up and shun men who do these things said entrepreneur Sarah Kunst who when discussing a possible job at Startups in received a message from McClure on Twitter that said in part I was getting confused figuring out whether to hire you or hit on you.
I had doubts publishing this but after talking to Sarah it is clear to me now that I just sit silently and trust that behavior will stop or that we can just file his misconduct under being This is about protecting other women who might otherwise be subjected to his future unwanted sexual advances.
After the meeting Khailee Dave and a few others including two other females decided to come over to my apartment to brainstorm about new Growth Distribution Accelerator Cerebro later rebranded as Distro Dojo and also a hashtag for MaGIC the organization that I was leading.
Separately they should survey their own partners associates and staff members on what behaviors they consider acceptable vs crossing boundaries and ask for admission of any wrong doings as a step to create awareness and as a reminder that there are severe consequences if they are caught violating company policy and abusing their position.
Today thrilled to announce our next phase the opening of first ever international AI research office in Edmonton Canada in close collaboration with the University of Alberta UAlberta.
We publish in major international journals including three Nature papers in the past two years while many of our team maintain professorships and supervise students at Cambridge Oxford Imperial College London as well as MIT and beyond.
In the UK we feel helped played an important role in encouraging and supporting the AI community to flourish from and universities to new organisations like the Turing Institute and we hope that we can contribute to the success of pioneering centres of research too.
China latest maneuvre in a sweeping crackdown on internet content has sent a chill through a diverse community of filmmakers bloggers media and educators who fear their sites could be shut down as Beijing tightens control.
On Friday an industry association circulated new regulations that at least two auditors will with immediate effect be required to check all audiovisual content posted online from films to micro movies documentaries sports educational material and animation to ensure they adhere to core socialist values.
The rules which affect social media giants like Weibo Corp as well as small platforms that have thrived in China buzzing creative online space are the latest step toughening oversight ahead of the Communist Party Congress later this year when President Xi Jinping is expected to consolidate power.
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You are expected to be the communicator and the nurturer whose primary function is to get everyone on the same page often at your own expense but you will be perceived as a serial compromiser with no backbone if you do that are supposed to be decisive but if you are you will be punished for not getting enough input from other people or being arrogant for not yourself.
clear that Sinha credits McClure with some of her early success and I believe her willingness to speak up on his behalf is coming from a place of bad faith.
But it adds little to the conversation because it has no bearing on the core problem which is that McClure harassed women who are not Sinha and this sort of behavior is enabled systemically in the tech industry.
ET Vantiv appeared to ward off Morgan Chase in the pursuit of payments processor Group PLC saying it had cinched a billion takeover deal.
The proposed combination if successful would create a payments processing giant with a combined market value of more than billion.
The tussle continues despite the fact that some of the desired data including whether individuals have voted in the past decade is set to become part of the public record separate from this situation.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach the commission vice chair has said SSNs could be used to determine how many people who are dead remain on voter rolls and whether they have recently voted for instance.
And EPIC explained that the Commission had already committed two egregious security directing state election officials to send voter records to an unsecure web site and proposing to publish partial SSNs that would enable identity theft and financial fraud.
