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| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board — Brendan Eich, the well-known techie who has gotten swept up in a controversy about his support of California's anti-gay marriage law Proposition 8, is resigning as CEO of for-profit Mozilla Corporation and also from the board …
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| Brendan Eich: |
Brendan Eich on leaving Mozilla, taking a break and what's next — The Next Mission — Slides for the brief talk that I gave at a Harvard seminar on privacy and user data organized by John Taysom last week. — My talk was really more about the “network problem” than the “protocol problem”.
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| Jim Edwards / Business Insider: |
Not Everyone Is Happy That Mozilla's CEO Was Forced Out For His Anti-Gay Views — The resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, 1998 founder of the company that makes the Firefox Web browser, because he has anti-gay-marriage views is not sitting well with everybody.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft open sourcing more developer tech: .NET Compiler Platform, C#, Visual Basic, more — Microsoft open sources more of its .Net technologies — Summary: From the truth-is- stranger-than-fiction files, Microsoft — along with its mobile-dev tool partner Xamarin …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Why Is Facebook Page Reach Decreasing? More Competition And Limited Attention — Every Page on Facebook wants everything they post shown to everyone. But people only read a limited amount of News Feed per day. There simply isn't room for everything, and the competition for feed space is intensifying.
Tweets: @kazarnowicz and @joshconstine
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Speech Recognition Pioneer Novauris Bought By Apple, Team Now Works On Siri — Apple quietly acquired an automatic speech recognition (ASR) technology company called Novauris Technologies, which grew out of Dragon Systems R&D U.K. Ltd., the British research subsidiary of Dragon Systems, a well-known voice dictation pioneer.| Carol E. Lee / Wall Street Journal: |
White House calls Samsung out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama — Samsung Called Out on Ortiz's Selfie With Obama — The White House is pushing back against Samsung Electronics Co. for its promotion of a selfie that Red Sox slugger David Ortiz took with President Barack Obama earlier this week.
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| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google mulls offering wireless voice and data services in Fiber markets, talked with Sprint, Verizon about buying, reselling network access — Google Weighs a Plunge into Mobile Phone Services — After thrusting itself into competition with U.S. cable operators, Google is inching closer to competing with wireless carriers, too.
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| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Microsoft says Office iPad apps hit 12 million downloads a week after release — After announcing the release of the Office for iPad apps late last month, Microsoft announced today that the separate Word, Excel and PowerPoint apps for iPad have collectively reached 12 million downloads a week after release.
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Inquirer, AppleInsider, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, Seattle Times blogs, Engadget, Apple Gazette, TUAW, BGR, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, VentureBeat, Pocketnow, TechnoBuffalo, iDownloadBlog.com, Tech2 and Gotta Be Mobile. Tweets: @office
| Jacob Gershman / Wall Street Journal: |
In bid to trademark “Glass”, Google faces objections from USPTO — Google Is Having Trouble Trying to Trademark the Word ‘Glass’ — Google is trying to register the word “Glass” as a trademark for its computer-powered glasses. But so far, the company and the U.S. trademark office aren't seeing eye to eye.
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| Walter Frick / HBR.org: |
Founders under 35 are likely the majority among those who built billion-dollar businesses — How Old Are Silicon Valley's Top Founders? Here's the Data — Last week, The New Republic published a lengthy exploration of ageism in Silicon Valley, the idea that venture capitalists discriminate … | Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Facebook Explores Anonymity Features — Facebook spent years defining what it means to have an online identity. Now with the surge in popularity of anonymous social apps, Facebook may be spending next few figuring out how to deal with the complete opposite case.
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| Angus Loten / Wall Street Journal: |
Yelp Reviews Brew a Fight Over Free Speech vs. Fairness — Many Businesses Say Anonymity of Comments Is Unfair, Sue to Unmask Users — A closely watched Internet free-speech case is headed to the Virginia Supreme Court this month, with many businesses that live and die by online reviews rooting … | Al Jazeera English: |
Turkish court rules YouTube ban violates human rights, limits restrictions to 15 videos — Turkey court eases YouTube restrictions — Court limits restrictions to 15 videos after ruling that blanket ban on social-media site violated human rights. — A Turkish court has ruled … | Isla Binnie / Reuters: |
Google pays $1.4 million fine in Italy over StreetView concerns — (Reuters) - Google has paid a 1 million euro ($1.4 million) fine imposed by Italy's data protection watchdog over complaints that cars it used to record images on Italian streets in 2010 were not clearly recognizable, the regulator said on Thursday.
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| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Khosla VC Rabois Looks To Make Homes Easy To Sell In A Few Clicks — Keith Rabois, the former Square and PayPal executive who is now handling much of Khosla Ventures' consumer investments, has a new side gig. — He's co-founding a company under the codename Homerun that will make it easy to sell entire homes in a few clicks.
Tweets: @mdudas, @panzer and @hunterwalk
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Dropbox Promotes Sujay Jaswa to Financial Chief Ahead of IPO — Online-storage startup Dropbox Inc. has finally named a chief financial officer, a pivotal step towards planning its initial public offering. — The company has promoted Sujay Jaswa, a vice president who already ran …
Tweets: @scottmaustin
| Associated Press: |
“Cuban Twitter” heads to hearings in Congress — WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the U.S. government agency that secretly created a “Cuban Twitter” communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba is expected to testify next week before a senator who thinks the whole idea was “dumb, dumb, dumb.”| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
Facebook open sources code for managing A/B tests — A/B tests to determine which features or designs work best is a standard tool of the trade for any data scientist working on a web or mobile application. On Thursday, Facebook released a portion of its A/B testing code, called PlanOut … | Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch: |
Gina Bianchini's MightyBell, a social network for small groups, opens to the public — MightyBell Now Tolls For All — The group software space is getting hot. Between Google Groups, Facebook Groups, Yammer, Convo, Asana, newcomer Slack and more, a loose or tight-knit organization … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Nest Halts Sales Of Protect Smoke Alarm Over Safety Concerns About ‘Wave To Dismiss’ Feature — Nest CEO Tony Fadell has just issued a notice recommending users disable the Protect smoke alarm's ‘wave to dismiss’ feature. In testing, it was discovered that people could accidentally trigger the dismiss feature, delaying a smoke alarm.
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Twitter now shows emoji characters on the web — There's a good chance that some of your smartphone-toting friends use emoji to express themselves on Twitter — wouldn't it be nice to see those icons while you're surfing the web? As of today, you can. Twitter has updated its web client …
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| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Google: |
Google plans significant overhaul of many of its native and web apps in 'Google 2.0′/wearable push — Yesterday we got a look at a beta version of the upcoming Gmail app for Android which includes new Travel, Purchases, and Finance categories in addition to the Social, Promotions … Thanks:@justinkahnmusic
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