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GitHub begins full investigation, puts founder on leave after Julie Horvath's departure — Update on Julie Horvath's Departure — This weekend, GitHub employee Julie Horvath spoke publicly about negative experiences she had at GitHub that contributed to her resignation.
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Re/code and TechCrunch. Tweets: @johnj77, @anildash, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @glennf, @danadanger, @glennf, @mm, @nrrrdcore, @carnage4life, @nrrrdcore, @fmanjoo, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @nrrrdcore, @joshelman, @ashleymayer and @nrrrdcore
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Julie Ann Horvath Describes Sexism And Intimidation Behind Her GitHub Exit — The exit of engineer Julie Ann Horvath from programming network GitHub has sparked yet another conversation concerning women in technology and startups. Her claims that she faced a sexist internal culture …
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Re/code, The Verge, ReadWrite and Business Insider
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| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Before He Died, Steve Jobs Told Top Executives Apple Would Not Be Making A TV — Ever since Apple released the iPad, people have been speculating about what Apple would do next. — After revolutionizing the mobile phone with the iPhone, and the PC with the iPad, many expect Apple to revolutionize the TV.
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MacRumors, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, Webomatica, The Verge, SlashGear, CNET and Pocket-lint
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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Yahoo to Release New Flickr App and Web Design, Replacing Previous New One — In December of 2012, just six months after Marissa Mayer was hired as CEO of Yahoo, the company released version 2.0 of its Apple iPhone and iPad app for its photo-sharing Flickr with bigger, crisper photos, a cleaner design, filters and easier sharing.
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| Austin Hill / Medium: |
A broad examination of the technical and social issues surrounding anonymity apps — On your permanent record — Anonymity, pseudonymity, ephemerality & bears omfg! — Anonymity seems to be all the rage in Silicon Valley and startups lately. — Recently Whisper raised another $30 million …
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| Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
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Both Sides of the Table, Chris Saad, TechCrunch, Re/code, Hunter Walk and Medium
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
| Richard Padilla / MacRumors: |
Jony Ive Discusses Design Philosophy, Relationship with Steve Jobs, and Future of Apple in New Interview — In a lengthy interview with The Sunday Times (via 9To5Mac), Apple's Senior Vice President of Design Jonathan Ive discussed a number of topics including his philosophy on design and collaboration …
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The Sunday Times, 9to5Mac, The Verge, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, Engadget, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Pulse 2.0, Cult of Mac and SlashGear. Tweets: @ia
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Popcorn Time service for pirated movies refuses to stay shut down — Last week, a movie-watching service called Popcorn Time hit the internet — it promised a Netflix-like experience for any movie you might want to watch, but used the expansive network of pirated BitTorrent movies to deliver content to users.
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TorrentFreak, GitHub, TechCrunch, Pocket-lint, VentureBeat, Engadget and Daily Dot. Tweets: @zseward
| Enda Curran / Wall Street Journal: |
How Hong Kong Lost the Alibaba IPO — Exchange, Chinese E-Commerce Giant Fell Out Over a Rule — HONG KONG—Alibaba Group Holding Ltd.'s planned listing in New York is a blow to Hong Kong's stock exchange, which failed in an effort to change its rules so as to accommodate … | Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |
Inside The IPO Of Candy Crush Maker King Digital — The company behind the wildly popular mobile game Candy Crush, King Digital Entertainment, is going public. An updated F-1 filing indicates that it wants to raise up to $532.8 million at a valuation of $7.6 billion. The flotation is no small event.
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Mercury News, Forbes, Fox Business and Wall Street Journal
| David Román / Wall Street Journal: |
Vodafone to pay just over €7 billion for Ono after Ono shareholders agree to sell — MADRID— Vodafone Group PLC has reached an agreement with shareholders of Ono SA to buy the Spanish cable company for just over seven billion euros ($9.73 billion) including debt, people with knowledge of the deal said Sunday.
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ZDNet, The Register, Reuters and Bloomberg
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Ukrainian hackers claim they took down NATO websites ahead of secession vote — Ukrainian hackers are claiming responsibility for a cyberattack that brought down a pair of NATO websites today, in an act of protest against Western powers on the eve of a major vote that could see a portion of Ukraine handed over to Russia.
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Motherboard, Reuters, ZDNet, CNN, Reuters, RT, SecurityWeek, SlashGear and thedrum.com
| Gerry Shih / Reuters: |
Dick Costolo's first visit to China fuels speculation on Twitter's interest in the market — Twitter CEO Costolo to make first China visit — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc CEO Dick Costolo will meet Shanghai government officials, academics and students in his first visit to China …
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Engadget and The Next Web
| Jesse Lichtenstein / Atlanta Magazine: |
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