• But their emails. Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya gave her account of her meeting with Donald Trump Jr., reports of which have reignited suspicion of possible collusion between Trump's campaign and Moscow. She denied any connection to the Kremlin and insisted that she never had any dirt on Trump opponent Hillary Clinton. Yet when Trump Jr. later tweeted the email exchange that led to the sit-down, it revealed that Veselnitskaya was introduced as a "Russian government attorney" and that information she supposedly had "would incriminate Hillary...but is part of Russia and its government's support for Mr. Trump." • It gets worse. In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Dick Costolo, former Twitter CEO and now chief of fitness startup Chorus, said that the reality of the gender dynamics in the tech industry is "probably way worse than we've seen so far." Investors, he said, have perpetuated the problem: "The investors in some of these venture firms are simply ignoring it, or paying lip service to it and ignoring it, and funding some of these enterprises anyway." Bloomberg • Knowing your value is on the rise. Sometimes being insulted by the president pays off: Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski has landed a three-book deal with Weinstein Books, which published her 2011 title Knowing Your Value. The contract is reportedly valued "in the high six figures." New York Post • The trolls are winning. New data from the Pew Research Center shows that 41% of Americans have been personally subjected to harassing behavior online, up from 35% in 2014. Nearly half of respondents said that witnessing or experiencing online harassment has prompted them to change their behavior, including, in some cases, leaving an online service. Fortune • Another out at Uber. AG Gangadhar, the head of the Uber engineering department where Susan Fowler worked, has left the company. The ride-hailing startup says that his departure is unrelated to Fowler's claims, though, as director of the infrastructure engineering group, Gangadhar was among the managers Fowler referenced in her explosive blog post. Recode MOVERS AND SHAKERS: McKesson Corporation has appointed Robin Jacobsohn as head of Litigation. She was most recently general counsel at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. |