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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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Read the emails that Dick Costolo and Jack Dorsey sent to Twitter staff announcing CEO change — Read Dick Costolo's Goodbye to Twitter and Jack Dorsey's Hello — Shortly after 1 p.m. in San Francisco on Thursday, Dick Costolo told his staff, and the world, that he would be stepping down at Twitter in a surprise announcement.
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Interview with Dick Costolo and Jack Dorsey on Twitter's CEO transition: Dorsey doesn't deny interest in becoming full-time CEO — I just interviewed Twitter's Jack Dorsey and Dick Costolo — here's what they had to say — In something of a surprise, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo announced … | 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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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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Office of Personnel Management hacker breach is far worse than first believed, was exposed during sales demo by security company — Why The OPM Breach Is Such a Security and Privacy Debacle — If it's not already a maxim, it should be: Every big hack discovered will eventually prove to be more serious than first believed.
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French privacy watchdog demands Google make right to be forgotten delistings global, gives 15 days to comply — Google Must Expand Privacy Delistings, Says French Watchdog — The French data protection watchdog has ordered Google to widen its implementation of the so-called European 'right … | Mike Shields / Wall Street Journal: |
Ad Tech Firms Find Venture Capital Funding Is Running Dry — It's a tough time to be raising money if you have the words “ad” and “tech” close together in your business plan. — Executives in the advertising technology sector and venture capitalists who are versed in the space say the climate … | 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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Leaked Kalanick email: Uber nears 1M trips/day in China, plans investment of over $1B there in 2015 and a new round of funding specifically for UberChina — Uber nears 1m trips every day in China — Uber drivers are making close to 1m trips every day in China, almost … | Georgia Wells / Wall Street Journal: |
Dating apps and sites growing but profits remain elusive — The Dating Business: Love on the Rocks — Tinder's success helps fuel explosion of dating apps and sites, as it gets harder to turn a profit in the matchmaking game — Like bunnies, dating apps have shown a knack for proliferation.
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| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
OpenSSL Patches Five Flaws, Adds Protection Against Logjam Attack — The OpenSSL project has patched several moderate- and low-severity security vulnerabilities and also has added protection against the Logjam attack in new releases of the software. — Most of the vulnerabilities fixed …
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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
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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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| 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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