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After Kleiner trial, Ellen Pao talks about workplace sexism, changing hiring practices at Reddit, more — Ellen Pao Says Gender Issues Won't ‘Go Away’ After Kleiner Trial — In first interview since losing sexism case, Pao says too many 'women feel like there's no way to win'| NY Daily News: |
EXCLUSIVE: Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers — A Brooklyn woman scored a judge's approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. — In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing …
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Andy Rubin's hardware startup incubator, called Playground Global, has raised $48M — Ex-Google exec Andy Rubin raises $48 million for hardware incubator — Late last year, Android co-founder Andy Rubin left Google GOOG to launch what was described as a hardware incubator.
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LG may have accidentally revealed Apple's 8K iMac plans in a press release about display tech — Apple to release super-high resolution ‘iMac 8K’ later this year, display partner LG says — In a rather unusual reveal, a supposed “iMac 8K” has been outed in a press release that was published … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Replaces “Best Friends” With Friend Emojis, Adds Low-Light Camera — It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private way to see who you're closest to.
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Update for Windows 7 and 8.1 silently installs Windows 10 downloader — Microsoft has released an optional update that “enables additional capabilities for Windows Update notifications when new updates are available to the user”. We discovered the update is actually a downloader for Windows 10 …
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ZenPayroll raises $60 million from Google Capital, others — For the founders of ZenPayroll, a Silicon Valley startup that aims to automate the payroll process for businesses, it all started with family. Joshua Reeves, Edward Kim, and Tomer London each had close family members who managed people's paychecks.
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Tim Cook: Apple employees will get 50% off Apple Watch, 1000+ apps submitted — Apple CEO Tim Cook today sent out a memo to all employees ahead of the Apple Watch's retail try-on kickoff this Friday. Cook thanks employees who have worked on the Apple Watch by saying, “congratulations … | Cat Zakrzewski / TechCrunch: |
In Snowden interview, John Oliver makes surveillance debate relatable by avoiding civil liberty hypotheticals, focusing on NSA's ease of access to “dick pics” — John Oliver Just Changed The Surveillance Reform Debate — Remember Edward Snowden?
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Google Ventures-Backed Bitcoin Exchange Buttercoin Is Shutting Down — Buttercoin, a bitcoin exchange startup backed by Y Combinator and Google Ventures, is closing its doors this month after failing to raise new investment. — “Buttercoin will be turning off our service on April 10th at 11PM Pacific …
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Buttercoin, The Next Web, CoinDesk, bizjournals, Mashable, CoinBuzz, SiliconANGLE, CoinTelegraph, StreetWise Journal, InvestCorrectly.com, CryptoCoinsNews and Techcircle.in. Tweets: @shaig
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Jonah Becker, Who Just Left HTC, Joins Fitbit as Design Chief — Jonah Becker, who last week left Taiwanese phone maker HTC, is joining Fitbit as VP of industrial design. — In the newly created position, Becker will report to Fitbit CEO James Park. Before HTC, he was a partner …
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