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Dick Costolo to step down as Twitter CEO, will remain on board; Jack Dorsey to become interim CEO effective July 1 — Twitter Initiates CEO Transition — Dick Costolo to Step Down as CEO on July 1 and Continue on Board of Directors Co-Founder and Chairman Jack Dorsey to Become Interim CEO …
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See also Mediagazer| Kristen Scholer / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter shares jumped about 10% on news of CEO Dick Costolo stepping down — Twitter Soars on News CEO Dick Costolo is Stepping Down — Shares of Twitter Inc. are rallying on news CEO Dick Costolo is stepping down. — The social media site's stock shot up about 10% … | Paul Ford / Bloomberg Business: |
Code: what it is, how it's evolved, and why it matters for all businesses — What Is Code? — You are an educated, successful person capable of abstract thought. A VP doing an SVP's job. Your office, appointed with decent furniture and a healthy amount of natural light filtered through vertical blinds … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Oculus unveils its consumer Rift VR headset — Oculus Unveils Consumer Rift Headset With Wireless Xbox One Controller — This is no developer kit. Oculus today gave the world the first look at its consumer virtual reality headset. It ships with a small, table-top camera on a stand …
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| Euan Rocha / Reuters: |
Sources: BlackBerry considering Android for upcoming smartphone as it moves focus to software and device management — Exclusive: BlackBerry may put Android system on new device: sources — BlackBerry (BB.TO) is considering equipping an upcoming smartphone with Google Inc.'s (GOOGL.O) …
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| Android Police: |
Early look at Hangouts 4.0 for Android: cleaner UI, new status option, still no tablet layout — An Exclusive Early Look At Hangouts 4.0 — Liam loves Android, design, user experience, and travel. He doesn't love ill-proportioned letter forms, advertisements made entirely of stock photography, and writing biographical snippets.
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| Aga Guzik / Skype Blogs: |
Skype to retire modern Windows touch app on July 7, to retain single desktop app for keyboard, mouse, and touch — A More Efficient Skype Experience for Your PC — At Skype we want to help you do more together with the people you care about by delivering the best possible experiences to the devices you use.| Nivedita Bhattacharjee / Reuters: |
iPhone maker Foxconn in talks to build first Apple plant in India — Foxconn Technology is in talks to manufacture Apple's iPhone in India, government officials said, in a move that could lower prices in the world's No.3 smartphone market where the U.S. firm trails Samsung Electronics and local players.| Ken Dilanian / Associated Press: |
Federal worker union says Social Security Numbers and other data on all federal employees stolen in hack of Office of Personnel Management — Union: Hackers have personnel data on every federal employee — WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal employee union says hackers stole personnel data …
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| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Video ad tech company TubeMogul raises $82.9M in secondary stock market offering — TubeMogul CEO on $83 million raise: The ad tech market may be hurting, but we're not — Video ad tech company TubeMogul has just raised $82.9 million in a secondary market offering.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Twitter will increase DM character limit from 140 to 10,000 in July — Get ready to receive Twitter direct messages that are a lot longer. — Twitter announced today that DMs will no longer be capped at 140 characters. Now they will be limited to 10,000 characters.
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Tweets: @panzer, @miriamgottfried, @joannastern and @cwarzel
See also Mediagazer| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
2015 could be the slowest year for VC-backed tech IPOs since financial crisis; only seven VC-backed tech companies have gone public this year — Something is rotting under Silicon Valley — I spent a good chunk of last week in Silicon Valley, speaking to venture capitalists who mostly wanted … | Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FTC takes first action against a fraudulent Kickstarter campaign, after cancelled board game fails to refund backers — FTC Takes First Action Against a Fraudulent Kickstarter Campaign — It's not okay to raise thousands of dollars through Kickstarter and keep the money without producing anything …
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| Jeff John Roberts / Fortune: |
Court refuses to halt FCC rules, net neutrality rules go into effect on Friday — In a victory for the Federal Communications Commission, a Washington appeals court on Thursday refused to grant a request by the telecom industry to suspend “net neutrality” rules that are scheduled to go into effect tomorrow.
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FCC.gov, Los Angeles Times, Techdirt, Washington Post, CNET, Washington Post, ABC News, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Verge, The Hill, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, InfoWorld, Motherboard and New York Times. Tweets: @karlbode
| Carmel DeAmicis / Re/code: |
Greylock Partners hires its first female investment partner, Pinterest product manager Sarah Tavel — Greylock Just Hired Its First Female Investment Partner — The product manager who oversaw Pinterest's search tool, Sarah Tavel, is headed to Greylock.
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Kevin Rose's Watchville merging with wristwatch enthusiast site HODINKEE; combined company raising $3.6M from True Ventures as Rose becomes NYC-based CEO — Kevin Rose Moves On From Silicon Valley to Watches — For some start-up founders, once you get the bug to create your own companies, it is hard to stop.
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HODINKEE, TickTocking, Medium, The Next Web, Summer Tomato and Business Insider
Tweets: @marshallk, @edzitron and @ow
| EU Press Room: |
Antitrust: Commission opens formal investigation into Amazon's e-book distribution arrangements — The European Commission has opened a formal antitrust investigation into certain business practices by Amazon in the distribution of electronic books ("e-books").
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Slides for Android and iOS now lets you stream presentations to your TV via Chromecast and AirPlay — Google today updated Google Slides for Android and iOS with streaming support via Chromecast and AirPlay. You can download the new app now directly from Google Play and Apple's App Store.Sponsor Posts
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F5:
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Securing AI models and agents in the enterprise — The new AI stack creates a highly dynamic attack surface, and traditional controls aren't keeping up. F5's recent acquisition will bring advanced AI guardrails to enterprise apps.
Zoho:
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