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techmeme

Updated: less than an hour ago

Tongcheng-eLong, a Tencent-backed online Chinese travel company, raises $180M in its Hong Kong IPO after pricing sale near the bottom of the marketed range (Crystal Tse/Bloomberg)
In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says he will stay on as Facebook's chairman, defends COO Sheryl Sandberg, reiterates Facebook's potential as a force for good (Seth Fiegerman/CNN)
In a leaked internal memo, Facebook's outgoing head of public policy, Elliot Schrage, takes responsibility for the hiring of PR firm Definers (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)
Source: Apple quietly bought Silk Labs, a startup that makes lightweight AI software for consumer hardware, earlier this year; PitchBook: Silk Labs raised ~$4M (Aaron Tilley/The Information)
While Facebook says human trafficking on its site is not allowed, it took weeks to remove a viral post that led to the auction of a child bride in South Sudan (Reuters)
Uber partners with MV Transportation, a paratransit service provider, to improve access to wheelchair-friendly rides in six North American markets (Megan Rose Dickey/TechCrunch)
Critics argue that the FCC should classify text messaging as a telecommunications service so that phone companies can't discriminate against messages (Colin Lecher/The Verge)
To help block robocalls and spam texts, the FCC proposes classifying text messaging as an information service and making a database of reassigned phone numbers (Jon Fingas/Engadget)
Design software company Autodesk says it is acquiring PlanGrid, a provider of cloud-based construction software, for $875M (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
Amazon opens up Alexa Mobile Accessory Kit to wearable makers, and Qualcomm debuts a $299 Smart Headset, an Amazon-approved reference design for Alexa on the go (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)

digital trends

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lifehacker

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