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Der Fahrdienst-Vermittler Uber hat laut Medienberichten den ersten Schritt zu einem Börsengang gemacht. Das Unternehmen aus San Francisco habe einen vertraulichen Antrag für eine Aktienplatzierung eingereicht, schrieben das „Wall Street Journal“, die „Financial Times“ und der Finanzdienst Bloomberg. Uber wollte dies am Samstag nicht kommentieren.

Im Jahr 1994 hat Jeff Bezos Amazon gegründet. Seither ist das Unternehmen zum Technik-Giganten mutiert — das wertvollste in dieser Woche — und hat ihm zum reichsten Mann der Neuzeit gemacht. 

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The voice app ecosystem is booming. In the US, the number of Alexa skills alone surpassed 25,000 in January 2018, up from just 7,000 the previous January, in categories ranging from music streaming services, to games, to connected home tools.See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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• Two subspecies of giraffes are now "critically endangered," according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. 
• Kordofan and Nubian giraffes live across East, Central, and West Africa and are at risk of being extinct.
• Illegal hunting as well as loss of habitat due to agriculture and mining are considered the biggest threats to giraffes.

THE WORLD’S TALLEST land mammal might be facing extinction. Two subspecies... Читать дальше...

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• Facebook and other social media companies are in crisis mode after contributing to civil unrest around the world.
• But if social companies wanted to, they could make meaningful changes fairly quickly.
• First, they could stop allowing their ad services to be used as experimental laboratories.
• Second, a policy banning dark money ads would address the use of impersonation and manipulative ad tactics.
• Finally, they could... Читать дальше...