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Facebook executives joined a meeting at 4.30 a.m. to try and kill an embarrassing lawsuit

British millionaire Martin Lewis is suing Facebook for defamation after scammers used his image in thousands of fake ads for bitcoin schemes. He said the meetin

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This $4,000 iPhone X has its own solar battery — and the first one will be mailed to Elon Musk

The iPhone X Tesla, made by Russian accessories maker Caviar, starts at more than $4,000, is plated in carbon and gold, and has a built-in solar battery to char

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Warren Buffett would love to own '100 percent' of Apple — and now he's the company's 2nd largest shareholder

In Tuesday’s filing, Berkshire Hathaway also reported higher stakes in Bank of New York Mellon Co, Delta Air Lines Inc, Monsanto and US Bancorp, and lower stake

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This ex Goldman Sachs banker is the newest general partner at Greylock Partners, and she sees more $10 billion software companies on the horizon

BI PRIME: Facebook and Dropbox investor Greylock Partners doubles down on cybersecurity and Software as a Service startups with its promotion of Sarah Guo to ge

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Gmail can now autocomplete entire emails with a new feature called Smart Compose — here's how to turn it on

One of the best announcements that came out of this year's Google I/O was a new feature for Gmail called Smart Compose, which lets Gmail autocomplete entire mes

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Why a 39-year-old quit his job running one of Google's most fun divisions and took a huge pay cut to launch a startup

David Ripert was perfectly happy at Google. But after six years leading what might be one of the company's most fun divisions, YouTube Space, he's given it up t

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A massive Chinese ride-sharing service removed passenger attractiveness ratings after a woman was killed

Chinese ride-sharing giant Didi Chuxing is trying to make its Hitch cab service safer for users, after a 21-year-old female passenger using the app was allegedl

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Both of these 21-year-old twins landed full-time jobs at Apple — here's how it happened, and their best interview advice

Twins Cameron and Tyler Haberman, 21, just graduated from UC Berkeley and are both headed to work in finance at Apple. Here's their best advice for nailing a jo

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App Store discovery is climbing after the iOS 11 redesign

Apple’s revamped iOS 11 App Store is already having a significant impact on app discovery, according to new data from Sensor Tower. Apple’s App Store received a

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Tencent's business is about as big as Facebook's thanks to its stronghold in China

Tencent’s social media platforms are to China as Facebook’s are to the rest of the world and yet the companies are similar in their financial outputs.

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