10 things in tech you need to know today, September 17

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Samsung executive will attend the upcoming Moon-Kim
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Good morning! This is the tech news you need to know this Monday.

1.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his wife are buying Time Magazine
for $190 million. The announcement comes just
eight months after Meredith Corp., publisher of several popular
print publications, completed its purchase of
Time.

2.
Some Amazon employees are reportedly accepting cash bribes from
online sellers to delete negative product
reviews. The practice, which is especially
common in China, has reportedly resulted in an internal
investigation.

3.
Facebook
is advertising a new position for a human rights policy
director whose job it will be to coordinate an effort to combat
human rights abuses on the platform. Facebook has
previously come under fire for failing to address hate speech
propagated by its platform in Myanmar. 

4.
Amazon says it will announce the location of its second
headquarters by the end of 2018. Amazon CEO
Jeff Bezos said that the company would announce the location of
its second headquarters by the end of the year.

5.
Acclaimed tech investor Mary Meeker is leaving Kleiner Perkins to
start her own fund, and she’s taking her team with
her. She reportedly disagreed with others at Kleiner
Perkins over its investment strategy — as well as less material
issues like where to hold the annual office Christmas
party. 

6.
A Samsung executive will travel to North Korea to join the
Moon-Kim summit. Vice Chairman Jay Y Lee will be
part of the delegation accompanying President Moon Jae-in to
Pyongyang later this week. 

7.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos criticized Donald Trump for calling the
press the “enemy of the people,” saying it’s dangerous to
demonize the media. Bezos said that elected
officials have to get used to and even welcome the fact that they
are subject to media scrutiny.

8. Go-Jek,
Indonesia’s most valuable startup, is reportedly in talks to
raise $2 billion in funding. The motorbike hailing
company is planning to expand into southeast Asia, Bloomberg
reports.

9.

Jeff Bezos says all his best decisions involved intuition and
gut, not analysis. He also repeated a previous
mantra that Amazon’s secret sauce is “obsessive compulsive” focus
on the consumer, rather than its competitors.

10.
Linus Torvalds, the famously grouchy creator of Linux, has
apologised for his behaviour and admitted that he is not an
“emotionally empathetic” person. In an email to the
Linux Kernel Mailing List, Torvalds said he would take a break
from development while he worked on his issues.

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