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GitHub founder Tom Preston-Werner resigns after investigation finds errors of judgment but no gender-based harassment — Results of the GitHub Investigation — Last month, a number of allegations were made against GitHub and some of its employees, including one of its co-founders, Tom Preston-Werner.| Tom Preston-Werner: |
Tom Preston-Werner moving on to an immersive computing startup, warns of action against “further false claims” — Farewell GitHub, Hello Immersive Computing — Today is my last day at GitHub. Recent events have given me a lot of time to reflect on what's important to me …
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| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Julie Ann Horvath and Theresa Preston-Werner respond as GitHub announces founder's resignation — A Beloved Silicon Valley Startup Is Under Fire For The Way A Female Employee Was Treated — The GitHub Fiasco, Explained — Last year, GitHub appeared to be the perfect Silicon Valley startup.| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Netflix to raise prices for new members $1-2 this quarter, existing members will stay at current pricing “for a generous time period” — Netflix will raise streaming prices for new members this quarter — New Netflix subscribers could soon be forced to pay a bit … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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| Kim Masters / Hollywood Reporter: |
Danny Boyle in Talks to Direct Steve Jobs Movie, Leonardo DiCaprio Eyed to Star (Exclusive) — Danny Boyle, left, and Leonardo DiCaprio — “The Beach” director is said to want to reteam with DiCaprio on the Aaron Sorkin-penned biopic of the iconic Apple co-founder.| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
AT&T copies Google, names 100 cities where it could offer gigabit fiber — Two months after Google announced that it will try to bring fiber Internet to 34 cities in nine metro areas, AT&T today said it will “expand its ultra-fast fiber network to up to 100 candidate cities and municipalities nationwide …
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| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Airbnb Scrubs Thousands Of Listings From ‘Bad Actor’ Hosts Ahead Of NY Subpoena Hearing — In preparation for oral arguments being held in its New York subpoena case tomorrow, Airbnb is eliminating dozens of listings on its site from hosts who have been accused of being bad actors and running illegal hotel operations on the platform.| Miriam Elder / BuzzFeed: |
CEO Of “Russian Facebook” Says He Was Fired And That The Social Network Is Now In The Hands Of Putin Allies — So ends the slow unravelling of independence at VKontakte, Russia's most popular social network. — VKontakte founder Pavel Durov in 2012. — Nadine Rupp / Getty Images
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Apple Interviewing Job Candidates for Mobile Payments Push — Apple has been interviewing senior payments industry executives to push ahead on a plan to build an electronic payments business, according to two people familiar with the process. — The company has been meeting with potential applicants … | Conor Friedersdorf / The Atlantic Online: |
Police used aircraft over Compton, CA in 2012 to capture hi-res zoomable surveillance video — Eyes Over Compton: How Police Spied on a Whole City — A sergeant in the L.A. County Sheriff's Department compared the experiment to Big Brother, even though he went ahead with it willingly.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google finally combines text and chat conversations in Hangouts — Google is crossing off a major complaint about Hangouts this week: the messaging app will finally merge your SMS and Hangouts conversations. Users can pick between Hangouts and SMS when sending a given message, but that's it.| Dan Levy / Bloomberg: |
LinkedIn to fully lease 26-floor tower in San Francisco with about 450K sq. ft. office space — LinkedIn Said to Fully Lease Tishman's San Francisco Tower — LinkedIn Corp. (LNKD) has agreed to fully lease a San Francisco office tower being built by Tishman Speyer Properties LP …
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| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Study: households spent 10% less at Amazon in states where online sales tax introduced — Amazon Sales Take a Hit in States With Online Tax — Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) is taking a hit in states that are collecting an online sales tax. — In one of the first efforts to quantify the impact …
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Netflix opposes Comcast-TWC merger over ‘anticompetitive’ concerns — Netflix has come out in opposition of Comcast's proposed purchase of Time Warner Cable, writing in a letter to shareholders that the merger would give the combined service provider “even more anticompetitive leverage” … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Apple Aims to Shrink Its Carbon Footprint With New Data Centers — On a stunning cloudless day in the Nevada desert, Lisa Jackson stands with her back to an array of advanced solar cells, peering across a low chain link fence at NV Energy's Fort Churchill Power Generating plant just a few hundred yards away.
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| John McDuling / Quartz: |
Why the music industry is trying—and failing—to crush Pandora — This year marks the 15th anniversary of the launch of Napster, the file sharing service that disrupted the music business and conditioned a generation of consumers to expect to be able to listen to their favorite songs for free.
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Microsoft to complete acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business on Friday — The Nokia Devices and Services acquisition close date — The following post is from Brad Smith, General Counsel & Executive Vice President, Legal & Corporate Affairs, Microsoft.
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Intel's next-gen Thunderbolt rumored to hit 40Gbps transfer speeds with new connector — In a purported presentation slide leaked to the Web on Monday, Intel outlines its next-generation Thunderbolt specification — “Alpine Ridge” — that will boast double the throughput of current Thunderbolt 2 interface …
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| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Samsung expert: Apple should get only $38.4M for infringement, not $2.2B — Assuming Samsung infringed Apple's five patents, Apple should receive $1.75 per device in royalties, not the $40 Apple has requested, a Samsung expert argues. Samsung rested its case after the expert testimony.
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