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Gist::Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch : Nielsen Music Mid-Year Report: on-demand audio streams in the US grew 31.6% YoY to 507.7B in the first half of 2019   —  Music streaming services have already delivered a new high of half a trillion (507.7 billion) on-demand streams in the first half of 2019, according to Nielsen's mid-year Music Report released this week. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business (Leigh Cuen/CoinDesk)

Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk : TaTaTu, after raising $575M from royals and celebs in a private 2018 ICO for its blockchain-based Netflix-like service, now says it is not a blockchain business   —  What started as a $575 million token sale is now a rewards program for watching videos.  —  TaTaTu's initial coin offering … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::Splyt, which wants to bring international roaming to ride-hailing apps and already allows Alipay users to book Grab rides, raises $8M Series A from Grab, others (Jon Russell/TechCrunch)

Jon Russell / TechCrunch : Splyt, which wants to bring international roaming to ride-hailing apps and already allows Alipay users to book Grab rides, raises $8M Series A from Grab, others   —  The vision of a universal global ride-hailing service is over.  Uber's decision to exit markets like China … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Tipp, Cats and Treaty avoid upsets

There were no upsets in Saturday's Liberty Insurance Senior Camogie Championship action, though underdogs Waterford, Offaly and Wexford made life difficult for Tipperary, Kilkenny and Limerick respectively. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Lashley six ahead in Detroit

Nate Lashley continued to take advantage of his last-minute entry into the Rocket Mortgage Classic by increasing his lead heading into the final round in Michigan. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Gist::SV Academy, a startup that provides free 12-week training programs to help people get tech-based sales jobs, raises $9.5M Series A led by Owl Ventures (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)

Connie Loizos / TechCrunch : SV Academy, a startup that provides free 12-week training programs to help people get tech-based sales jobs, raises $9.5M Series A led by Owl Ventures   —  When you live in Silicon Valley, it feels like nearly everyone works in tech and that entry into the industry is wide open. Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Google finance head joins Postmates board ahead of anticipated IPO

Google’s vice president of finance, has joined Postmates’ board of directors, the latest sign that the on-demand food delivery startup is prepping to take the company public. Postmates announced Friday that Kristin Reinke, vice president of Finance at Google, will join the San Francisco startup as an independent director. Reinke has been with Google since 2005. Prior to Google, Reinke was at Oracle for eight years. Reinke also serves on the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Economic Advisory Council. Her skill set will come in handy as Postmates creeps towards an IPO. Earlier this year, the company lined up a  $100 million pre-IPO financing that valued the business at $1.85 billion. Postmates is backed by Tiger Global, BlackRock, Spark Capital, Uncork Capital, Founders Fund, Slow Ventures and others. Spark Capital’s Nabeel Hyatt tweeted the news earlier Friday. Happy to welcome Kristin to the board of @Postmates . Great times ahead. https://t.co/nEqu3A2YkE — Nabeel
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Some Googlers plan to break off and protest their employer at the San Francisco Pride parade over LGBTQ+ issues (GOOG, GOOGL)

The San Francisco Pride Board of Directors will allow Google employees who wish to protest the company's LGBTQ+ policies to march as part of an official presence at Sunday's parade.  Google employees had called on the board to ban Google's official contingent to the Pride parade, but that request was denied.  Earlier this week, employees learned that protesting against the company's LGBTQ+ policies while a part of its official parade contingent would be considered a violation of Google's communications policy. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories. Googlers who want to protest their employer's LGBTQ+ policies at this weekend's San Francisco Pride Parade will now have the opportunity to do so.  According to a  Medium post on Friday from the group " Ban Google From Pride," the SF Pride Board of Directors will allow Google employees to march in the parade in an official capacity as guests of an existing group, known as the
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SpaceX aims to provide commercial Starship launches by 2021

SpaceX is only getting started launching Falcon Heavy commercial missions, but it already has its eyes on the next prize – launching Starship. Now, we know that it’s hoping to start commercial service for this next-generation, fully reusable rocket by 2021, according to SpaceX Vice President of Commercial Sales Jonathan Hofeller. Hofeller was speaking at a conference in Indonesia (via SpaceNews ), and noted that the private space launch company is currently talking to three different telecom companies about selecting which will be the first mission aboard the new spacecraft. Starship, formerly knowns as ‘BFR’ or ‘Big Falcon Rocket’) is currently in development at two separate SpaceX facilities, one in Texas and one in Florida, in what amounts to an internal company ‘bake-off’ to see which team can delivery the better solution faster. An engineering show-down of this kind is not uncommon among tech companies, and often produces results from both efforts that complement or enhance what
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Gist::Parent company of Jack'd, a gay dating app with 6M+ users, settles complaint over flaw that had exposed private user photos on a public server for over a year (Adi Robertson/The Verge)

Adi Robertson / The Verge : Parent company of Jack'd, a gay dating app with 6M+ users, settles complaint over flaw that had exposed private user photos on a public server for over a year   —  New York's attorney general has settled a complaint over gay, bisexual, and queer dating app Jack'd, whose parent company left … Get Articles and ICO whitepapers written by Williams Alfred Onen
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Facebook quietly elevated its top advertising exec to chief revenue officer, and it shows how rapidly the company is trying to diversify its revenue

Facebook has been shaking up its advertising leadership lately, with broader roles that oversee multiple apps and types of advertisers. Facebook's David Fischer, formerly VP of business and marketing partnerships, is now chief revenue officer of the social network. The changes reflect how Facebook is under pressure to diversify its revenue away from Facebook's flagship app and addresses the company's move towards privacy. Click here for more BI Prime stories. Facebook is giving its head advertising exec more oversight into growing revenue across all of its properties. Facebook's top advertising exec David Fischer was bumped up to the role of chief revenue officer in March, in a move that was not publicly announced. Fischer was previously VP of business and marketing partnerships and is a longtime Facebook exec that joined the company in 2010. Previously, he oversaw Google's North American advertising teams in addition to working with other departments like G
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As Jony Ive prepares to leave Apple, a Wall Street analyst says that he's 'clearly irreplaceable' and it's a 'major changing of the guard' (AAPL)

The announcement from Apple that Chief Design Ifficer Jony Ive was leaving the company surprised Wall Street. Dan Ives, managing director at Wedbush Securities, said that Ive is "clearly irreplaceable" because of his vision in designing the iMac, iPhone, and other products. Still, it "only adds to the current agita" around Apple, as it faces big challenges like the growing tech cold war with China and a push into the video streaming arena, he says.  Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories . When Apple announced that its long-time legendary design chief Jony Ive was leaving the company after 27 years, at least one analyst called it a "surprise to the Street" — which might account for the  $8 billion hit Apple took to its market cap after the news broke.  "Ive is leaving a hole in the company and is clearly irreplaceable as he has been one of the most important figures at Apple throughout the past few decades; from his iMac
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