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| Satya Nadella / Microsoft: |
Satya Nadella email to employees on aligning engineering to strategy — As we approach a new fiscal year, I'd like to share with you how we are aligning our structure to our strategy and the changes to our Senior Leadership Team. — Over the past year, I have said that Microsoft aspires …
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft's head of phones, Jo Harlow, has also left the company — Former Nokia executive Jo Harlow is leaving Microsoft. Harlow moved to Microsoft alongside former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop when the company acquired Nokia's phone business. Both are now leaving the software giant as part …
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Tweets: @joannastern, @tomwarren, @joannastern, @maryjofoley and @alex
| Nimrod Tamir / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Trends now delivers real-time popular searches and trending stories; News Lab team will publish curated datasets to Github — A new window into our world with real-time trends — Every journey we take on the web is unique. Yet looked at together, the questions and topics we search … | Katy Steinmetz / TIME: |
Why the California Ruling on Uber Should Frighten the Sharing Economy — This week a ruling from the California Labor Commission was made public because popular ride-sourcing company Uber appealed it. A San Francisco-based driver named Barbara Ann Berwick brought a case alleging that she is an employee … | New York Times: |
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Tweets: @polly, @grellas, @sacca, @jswatz, @startupljackson, @startupljackson, @startupljackson, @rabois, @semil and @alex
| Matt Rogers / Nest: |
Redesigned Nest app adds several new features, a simplified UI, and support for Nest Cam — One home. One app. — The Nest product people use most isn't the thermostat on the wall, the smoke alarm on the ceiling, or the camera on the mantle. It's the Nest app.
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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
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| Darren Pauli / The Register: |
Researchers: Major security flaws in iOS and OS X allow keychain, browser, and app password theft, reported to Apple in October 2014, no fix yet — Apple CORED: Boffins reveal password-killer 0-days for iOS and OS X — Keychains raided, sandboxes busted, passwords p0wned, but Apple silent for six months
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Tweets: @thefederman and @micahflee
| TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker's Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions — Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he's wanted to change: American democracy.
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TechCrunch, Brigade Blog, Ars Technica, Washington Post, Politico, ReadWrite, Tech Times, tech.co, The Technology Chronicles, The Next Web, Techonomy and Mashable. Tweets: @startupljackson
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Many unicorns may fail, but as a group they are likely undervalued — Unicorns — The entire point of the name “Unicorn”, first coined by Aileen Lee in November 2013, is to describe something very rare: “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion … | Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb projects $900M+ revenue in 2015 as it readies to close $1B round valuing it at $24B — The Secret Math of Airbnb's $24 Billion Valuation — Home-rental site's revenue projected to triple this year to more than $900 million — As it raises $1 billion in new funding …
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Business Insider, TheJournal.ie, SiliconANGLE and Fortune
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Acquires Machine Learning Startup Whetlab — Twitter announced today that it has acquired Cambridge-based machine learning startup Whetlab in an effort to accelerate the company's own in-house efforts on the matter. Deal terms were not immediately available, but Twitter will gain …
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| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web — Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.
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| Carlos Tejada / Wall Street Journal: |
Qihoo Gets $9 Billion Buyout Offer From CEO — Bid for Internet company is latest in push by executives to take their Chinese firms private — BEIJING—China's buyout wave has reached a new, $9 billion high. — Internet-services provider Qihoo 360 Technology Co. said Wednesday it received … | Julia Greenberg / Wired: |
LinkedIn's new Pulse app uses human editors and algorithms to deliver personalized news; Pulse to list reason for showing specific content above stories — LinkedIn Brings Back Human Editors to Tailor News to You — At some point soon after you wake up, you probably check the news.
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| Michael J. de la Merced / New York Times: |
Fitbit prices IPO at $20/share, above top of its earlier heightened range, valuing the company about $4.1B ahead of NYSE debut Thursday — Fitbit Prices I.P.O. at $20 a Share, Above Top of Its Range — When Fitbit begins trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday, it will do so at a healthy valuation.
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| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Oculus Rift and Touch hands-on: light, easy to wear, unobtrusive cable, audio similar to prototype, finger tracking unrefined, but shared play natural, engaging — Hands-on: Reaching out and touching someone with Oculus' Touch controllers — Plus, we give our first impressions of the finalized consumer Rift headset.| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling — FCC's new net-neutrality rules went into effect Friday — The Federal Communications Commission's new net-neutrality rules are already having an effect. — Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Snapchat says its Live Stories, which include multiple ads costing around 2 cents per view for advertisers, are viewed on average by 20M people per day — Snapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live Stories — Snapchat built a brand out of disappearing photos … Sponsor Posts
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