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Square Executive Resigns Amid Sexual-Harassment Claims — Square Inc. said its chief operating officer Keith Rabois resigned from the mobile payments company on Thursday, amid accusations from a Square employee of sexual harassment. — A New York attorney, Steven Berger …
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Tweets: @emilychangtv, @pkafka and @evelynrusli
| Keith Rabois / Untitled: |
A note from Keith — Yesterday I resigned from Square, and I want to take the opportunity to explain to you why. — The past few days have been the toughest, saddest, most frightening, and emotionally draining of my life. They have deeply affected me, both personally and professionally.
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Tweets: @acocotas, @danprimack, @obrien, @triciad and @shontelaylay
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Square COO Keith Rabois Departs Company — In a major exec departure, Square COO Keith Rabois will be leaving the company the San Francisco payments company. — Square gave no other information about the sudden management change, but sources said disagreements between Rabois and CEO …
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Tweets: @evelynrusli, @wsj, @om, @karaswisher, @delk, @eghosao and @rabois
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Is Done Giving Its Precious Social Graph To Competitors — Of all Facebook's data sets, it's the social graph that's truly unique. It's spent nine years getting you to confirm who you know, and apparently it's sick of handing over your friend list to competitors.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Clarifies Ban On Apps That Use Its Data To Replicate Its Features Or Don't Share Back — After shutting down data access to several competing apps, Facebook today made two major clarifications to its Platform Policy, banning apps that use its data but make it easy for users to share … | Bloomberg: |
Yahoo's Mayer Sees Future in Personalized, Mobile Web — Yahoo's Mayer: Personalization Is Future of Search — Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer said the company is working on technology that will personalize content from the Web and feed it to people on their mobile devices.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer To Bring Company Back To Its Roots: “It's The Web Ordered For You” — Yahoo plans to compete on mobile by way of partnerships, not hardware or operating systems, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer told Bloomberg at the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland … | Tim Carmody / The Verge: |
CNET forbidden from reviewing Aereo following CBS-Dish controversy — Editorial policy after CES Awards nightmare leads to fancy footwork by news team — This week, live-TV startup Aereo released an update to its Roku app, adding a new visual interface and enabling full control with the Roku remote.
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JIMROMENESKO.COM, Techdirt, CNET, PandoDaily, Daring Fireball, Poynter and Geek News Central. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Chris Ziegler / The Verge: |
Verizon sells 39 spectrum licenses to AT&T for $1.9b, but what does it mean? — Today's blockbuster spectrum deal might tell the tale of shifting strategies for two wireless giants — Besides being the most closely-matched competitors in the bizarre, controversial American wireless industry …
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Verizon Wireless, The Next Web, Reuters, BGR, DSLreports, Washington Post, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, NYT Bits, Know Your Cell and WebProNews
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| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
iPad 5 Set for October Debut with Design Similar to iPad Mini? iPhone 5S and Lower-Cost iPhone Moving Forward — iLounge's Jeremy Horwitz has filed a new report offering a few new details on the fifth-generation iPad, as well as on Apple's work toward future iPhone models.
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| Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo: |
Woz Says Kutcher's Steve Jobs Movie Scene Is “Totally Wrong” — The first scene from iJOBS—the biopic on Steve Jobs starring Ashton Kutcher—may be pretty decent, but it never happened. Not even close, according to Steve Wozniak, who says they “never had such interaction and roles.”| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
BitTorrent is working on a personal file syncing app to compete with Dropbox — BitTorrent Inc. is working on an application called Sync that uses P2P technology to sync your files between your devices. The company announced the pre-Alpha test of Sync on its blog Thursday … | Alexis Santos / Engadget: |
YouTube Capture now supports 1080p uploads, Google Currents goes 2.0 on iOS — Updates to both YouTube Capture and Google Currents on iOS have just hit Cupertino's App Store, bringing with them a handful of functionality and UI updates. Mountain View bumped YouTube Capture to version 1.1 …
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
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An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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