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    • Google is touting an increased focus on privacy and is making privacy settings slightly easier to find, but those settings remain very confusing for users (Lauren Goode/Wired)

    Lauren Goode / Wired: Google is touting an increased focus on privacy and is making privacy settings slightly easier to find, but those settings remain very confusing for users  —  IT’S GOOGLE’S BIG privacy pivot, according to Google.  —  On Tuesday, The New York Times ran an op-ed about privacy written … Google is touting

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    • Tencent’s Chinese PUBG dupe has enemies who wave after you shoot them

    Tencent revealed this week it would be pulling its test version of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds from the Chinese market. Instead, it’s going to publish a similar but more, um, approachable app called “Game for Peace.” Tencent announced it was pulling back the test version of PUBG it’d released to Chinese gamers. Shortly thereafter, it announced the release of Game for Peace. According

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    • Reali, a flat fee real estate startup with an AI tool to predict home buying chances at various offers, expands Series B to $29M, bringing total raised to ~$40M (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)

    Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Reali, a flat fee real estate startup with an AI tool to predict home buying chances at various offers, expands Series B to $29M, bringing total raised to ~$40M  —  Reali, a real estate startup facilitating transactions between property buyers and sellers, today announced that it’s expanded … Reali, a flat

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    • ArchiveSocial, which provides social media archiving software to government agencies, raises a $53M growth equity investment from Level Equity (Dustin Haisler/Government Technology)

    Dustin Haisler / Government Technology: ArchiveSocial, which provides social media archiving software to government agencies, raises a $53M growth equity investment from Level Equity  —  Note: The parent company of Government Technology is an early-stage investor in ArchiveSocial through e.Republic Ventures. ArchiveSocial, which provides social media archiving software to government agencies, raises a M growth

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    • Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, raising $8.1B and valuing the company at about $82.4B (New York Times)

    New York Times: Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, raising $8.1B and valuing the company at about $82.4B  —  The biggest Silicon Valley initial public offering in years turned out to be less lofty than expected.  —  Uber priced its public offering on Thursday at

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    • Dropbox Q1: revenue of $385.6M, up 22% YoY, net loss of $7.7M, 13.2M paid users, up from 11.5M YoY, avg revenue per paying user of $121.04, up from $114.30 YoY (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)

    Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet: Dropbox Q1: revenue of $385.6M, up 22% YoY, net loss of $7.7M, 13.2M paid users, up from 11.5M YoY, avg revenue per paying user of $121.04, up from $114.30 YoY  —  The company said average revenue per paying user was $121.04, compared to $110.79 for the same period last year. Dropbox

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    • SEC filing: Uber settles with "a large majority" of 60K+ US drivers who filed arbitration demands over their employment status, plans $146M-$170M for payouts (Caroline Spiezio/Law.com)

    Caroline Spiezio / Law.com: SEC filing: Uber settles with “a large majority” of 60K+ US drivers who filed arbitration demands over their employment status, plans $146M-$170M for payouts  —  Uber is setting aside at least $146 million to pay drivers over misclassification concerns. SEC filing: Uber settles with "a large majority" of 60K+ US drivers

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    • Sources: Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, valuing the company at about $82B (Wall Street Journal)

    Wall Street Journal: Sources: Uber prices its IPO at $45 per share, near the low end of its expected range, valuing the company at about $82B  —  Ride-hailing company commands a valuation of about $82 billion  —  Uber Technologies Inc. priced its initial public offering at $45 a share, according to people familiar … Sources:

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