Samsung unveiled its flagship Galaxy Note 9, which looks nearly identical to its S9 predecessor but boasts a bigger screen, a huge battery and a more powerful S Pen. Available for preorder today, and in stores Aug. 24, the Note 9 comes in two configurations, starting at $999. Our sister site The Verge had some hands-on time with the device and said the 6.4-inch Infinity Display is âphenomenal to look at,â but it âstill feels like a giant phone in your hand.â Not at all coincidentally, viral game sensation [Fortnite is available on select Samsung Android phones now](, including the Galaxy Note 9. [Your move, Apple](.
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Samsung also announced a long-term partnership with Spotify, including support for its forthcoming [Galaxy Home smart speaker](. Spotify is now part of the setup experience on Samsung devices â it will come preloaded on the Galaxy Note 9, for instance â and will also become the default music option for Bixby, Samsungâs voice assistant.
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk gave the week a jolt with his tweeted proposal to take the company private at $420 a share. It still isn't clear if that number is a troll or if Tesla has committed financing, but Teslaâs board of directors is taking Muskâs offer seriously and plans to meet with advisors next week to explore the buyout â and it may tell Musk to recuse himself from the process. Musk holds about 20 percent of Tesla, which right now has a market cap around $59.3 billion; taking the company private at $420 a share would value it around $71 billion.
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Speaking of Tesla, its senior VP of engineering Doug Field has gone back to Apple, where he has reportedly joined the company's self-driving car project, codenamed Project Titan. Before Tesla, Field was Apple's VP of Mac hardware engineering. This suggests Apple's ambitions for the future of mobility may be more than the [dampened expectations]( of late.
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Tribune Media called off the proposed $3.9 billion deal for Sinclair Broadcast Group to purchase Tribune. Tribune also filed suit against Sinclair â the largest U.S. broadcast station owner, with 192 stations â over allegations of material breach of contract, claiming it took too long and was too aggressive in its dealings with regulators. The collapse of the merger â hatched 15 months ago and backed by President Trump â potentially ends Sinclairâs hopes of building a national conservative-leaning TV powerhouse that might have rivaled Fox News.
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When Indra Nooyi steps down as PepsiCoâs CEO after 12 years in the role, her departure will leave only 23 women â less than 5 percent â with top jobs at companies in the S&P 500 stock index. Nooyiâs departure comes as part of a trend: In recent months, Denise Morrison of Campbell Soup Company, Margo Georgiadis of Mattel, Meg Whitman of Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Irene Rosenfeld of Mondelez, have left their jobs. Thatâs a 20 percent drop in the number of female CEOs. Nooyiâs replacement will be Ramon Laguarta, a two-decade veteran of the company, and, also, a man.
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A new report suggests that receiving personal âsnail mailâ makes millennials feel âspecial.â The U.S. Postal Service â which has been hobbled by the rise of the internet, and lost $2.7 billion last year alone â sees that trend as a chance to stage a turnaround.
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[WeWork is still growing phenomenally â and losing a lot of money.](
But revenue growth is accelerating, according to the office-sharing startupâs second-quarter earnings report.
[The âTrump bumpâ in the New York Timesâ subscription growth is over.](
Almost 40 percent of new digital subscriptions are for crosswords and cooking.
[Gaming chat app Discord will start selling games to its 150 million users.](
on the latest episode of Recode Media, Discord CEO Jason Citron said that for now, at least, it wants to be a âneighborhood game storeâ â so, no big games like Fortnite.
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