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The LinkedIn co-founder on "Blitzscaling" a company while mitigating risk

by David Brancaccio and Jonaki Mehta
Oct 10, 2018
Reid Hoffman discusses the unconventional advice he gives entrepreneurs that want to get big fast in his new book.
“The first that's scaling through the learning curve is frequently the first to scale and the one that essentially sets the ecosystem,” LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman says.
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Is the Google Plus data breach a threat to Google's business?

by Renata Sago
Oct 9, 2018
Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has announced new privacy measures that include shutting down its social network Google Plus. The decision comes after news this week that Google exposed the private data of hundreds of thousands of Google Plus users. We’re talking full names, email addresses, birth dates, profile photos and more. Google opted not to […]
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DOT loosens rules for driverless trucks

by Erika Beras
Oct 5, 2018
The Department of Transportation said in its new autonomous vehicle guidelines Thursday that a human driver doesn’t necessarily have to be in the driver’s seat of a commercial motor vehicle. That means an artificial intelligence system could potentially drive a truck. What could this mean for the trucking industry? Click the audio player above to hear the […]
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A misunderstood tech giant and the "nerds" who created it

by Kai Ryssdal and Phoebe Unterman
Oct 4, 2018
We're talking about Reddit. A new book takes a deep dive into the site's history and impact.
Alexis Ohanian, one of Reddit's co-founders, attends WORLDZ Cultural Marketing Summit 2017 in Los Angeles.
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What Honda's investment in GM means for self-driving cars

by Justin Ho
Oct 3, 2018
Autonomous cars made more interesting in a deal that's more Silicon Valley than Detroit.
The logo of U.S. carmaker General Motors, or GM, is visible on the front grille of a GM Hydrogen 4 fuel cell-powered car at a presentation by Opel and GM on November 26, 2008 in Berlin, Germany
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Apple: It's time to turn iMessage into a social network

by Molly Wood
Sep 27, 2018
The tech giant is sitting on the Facebook killer. When will it give iMessage to the world?
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A melting Arctic could be key to faster global internet

by Molly Wood
Sep 26, 2018
With the rise of big data, the internet of things and automated factories, existing internet infrastructure's getting clogged.
Jussi Pekka Joensuu, an adviser for Cinia, holds up a piece of internet sea cable at Cinia's offices in Helsinki. Most global internet communications travel on the 745,000 miles of sea cables buried beneath the ocean floor.
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This former political operative now helps tech companies wrangle government

by Molly Wood
Sep 24, 2018
Bradley Tusk's new book "The Fixer" is about breaking the rules while respecting regulation.
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Electric scooter riders zoom along on shifting regulations

by Jed Kim
Sep 21, 2018
The personal vehicles are gaining ground as riders navigate a patchwork of differing rules.
People ride Bird electric scooters along Venice Beach in August in Los Angeles.
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Android-powered infotainment coming to cars from Nissan, Renault, Mistsubishi

by Kimberly Adams
Sep 19, 2018
There was some big news this week in the auto and tech industries, which are increasingly overlapping. The world’s largest automotive partnership, the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance, which sold more than 10 million cars around the world last year, is going to start embedding Google’s Android operating system in its cars starting in 2021.  The promise for […]
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