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| Evelyn M. Rusli / Wall Street Journal: |
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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| 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: @danprimack, @acocotas, @georgezachary, @danprimack, @ronp, @danprimack, @joshelman, @shontelaylay, @triciad and @obrien
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Exclusive Interview: Keith Rabois Talks About Sexual Harassment Claim, Becoming a “Distraction” at Square and What's Next — Sitting in front of a spectacular view of San Francisco at his home this afternoon, former Square COO Keith Rabois looks spent. — He is just recovering from a bout … | Jim Romenesko: |
At CNET, ‘morale is plummeting and people are pissed off’ — A disclosure attached to a CNET story posted on Thursday. — There had been hints around CNET that the edict might be overturned. During a meeting last Friday, Reviews editor-in-chief Lindsey Turrentine sounded optimistic.
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Tweets: @inafried and @futureboy
See also Mediagazer| 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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Techi.com, Daring Fireball, CNET, PandoDaily and Geek News Central. Tweets: @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Next-Gen Video Format H.265 Is Approved, Paving The Way For High-Quality Video On Low-Bandwidth Networks — The ITU has approved a new video format that could bring 4k video to future broadband networks, while also making streaming HD video available even on bandwidth-constrained mobile networks.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Adds ‘App Store Notes’ to Featured Apps — Apple has quietly added a new notes feature to its curated apps in the iOS App Store. Apps chosen for Editor's Choice and App of the Week now come with App Store Notes, which offer a quick description of the app.
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AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN
| Declan McCullagh / CNET: |
Swartz didn't face prison until feds took over case, report says — The late Internet activist was facing a stern warning from local prosecutors. But then the U.S. Attorney's office, run by Carmen Ortiz, chose to make an example of Aaron Swartz, a new report says.
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Media Nation, Boston Herald, Techdirt, Daring Fireball and ij.org
| 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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Business Insider, Digital Media Wire, memeburn, GigaOM, Daring Fireball and bizjournals
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Twitter's value estimated at $9B after BlackRock buys stock from early employees, report indicates — Today the Financial Times reported a unique deal that will see several of early Twitter employees sell stock at a valuation of more than $9 billion to a fund managed by the BlackRock group.
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Financial Times, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, CNET, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, Business Insider, Reuters, TechCrunch and Telegraph
Tweets: @danprimack, @joshconstine, @pkafka and @danprimack
| Matt Brian / The Next Web: |
Google finally makes it easy to enable WebGL support in latest Chrome for Android beta — When it comes to Chrome, Google has done a stellar job keeping its desktop and Android browsers closely connected, bringing new features to its mobile app to better support popular Web technologies.
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Google+, Ubergizmo, Engadget, CNET, Android Community, Ars Technica, Liliputing and Softpedia News
| Dante D'Orazio / The Verge: |
RIM pulls out stops for BlackBerry 10 with Super Bowl ad, suggests new tablet is on the way — It looks like RIM is going to try and take advantage of the Super Bowl to draw attention to it brand new operating system, Blackberry 10. The Super Bowl, on February 3rd, comes just four days …
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AllThingsD, CNET, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Gotta Be Mobile, SlashGear and Engadget
| 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, Reuters, The Next Web, BGR, DSLreports, Policy Blog, AllThingsD, 9to5Mac, NYT Bits, WebProNews and Know Your Cell
| Nick Turner / Bloomberg: |
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“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).
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