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Court dismisses the sex-abuse lawsuit against Michael Goguen, which was the reason the venture capitalist was fired from Sequoia Capital back in 2016 (Peter Blumberg/Bloomberg)

Peter Blumberg / Bloomberg: Court dismisses the sex-abuse lawsuit against Michael Goguen, which was the reason the venture capitalist was fired from Sequoia Capital back in 2016  —  The sex-abuse lawsuit that ended venture capitalist Michael Goguen’s 20-year career at Sequoia Capital was dismissed because his accuser … Court dismisses the sex-abuse lawsuit against Michael

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French court rules that European consumers can resell games they bought on Steam, just as they are able to resell packaged, physical games (Colin Campbell/Polygon)

Colin Campbell / Polygon: French court rules that European consumers can resell games they bought on Steam, just as they are able to resell packaged, physical games  —  Valve pledges to fight ruling  —  A French high court this week delivered a blow to Valve, ruling that European consumers are legally free … French court

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Twitter's controversial "Hide Replies" feature launches today in the US and Japan after earlier tests in Canada (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies” feature launches today in the US and Japan after earlier tests in Canada  —  Twitter’s controversial “Hide Replies” feature, aimed at civilizing conversations on its platform, is launching today in the U.S. and Japan after earlier tests in Canada. Twitter's controversial "Hide Replies" feature launches today in

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Mark Zuckerberg met with President Trump during his visit to Washington, where the Facebook CEO also met with a number of members of Congress (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg: Mark Zuckerberg met with President Trump during his visit to Washington, where the Facebook CEO also met with a number of members of Congress  —  – Senator Hawley urged Facebook to sell WhatsApp, Instagram  — CEO also pressed on privacy, independent content audits, bias Mark Zuckerberg met with President Trump during his visit to

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HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer survey platform, raises $25M Series A led by Verdane, bringing its total raised to $40M (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer survey platform, raises $25M Series A led by Verdane, bringing its total raised to $40M  —  Customer experience in they physical world has been getting a major infusion of tech in recent years.  We now have systems being built to replace cashiers … HappyOrNot, a Finland-based customer

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A Facebook employee has died in an apparent suicide at the company's Menlo Park headquarters; Facebook says it is cooperating with the police (Business Insider)

Business Insider: A Facebook employee has died in an apparent suicide at the company’s Menlo Park headquarters; Facebook says it is cooperating with the police  —  – A Facebook employee is dead by suicide after jumping from the fourth floor of an office building, police said.  — The individual was an adult male. A Facebook

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Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, closes up 39% on its first day of trading, after raising $648M in an IPO at a $7.8B valuation (Kenrick Cai/Forbes)

Kenrick Cai / Forbes: Datadog, an app performance monitoring and analytics platform, closes up 39% on its first day of trading, after raising $648M in an IPO at a $7.8B valuation  —  Shares of New York-based Datadog rose 39% to close at $37.55 after opening at $40.35 in the cloud company’s market debut Thursday. Datadog,

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