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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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| 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 … | 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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| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Nest's security camera Cam allows streaming 1080p video at 30 FPS to iOS 8, Android 4 devices, costs $200, allows saving footage with subscription service Aware — Nest's first security camera is called the Cam — It's been almost a year to the day since Nest purchased Dropcam for $555 million …
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| 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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| 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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| New York Times: |
California Labor Commission rules Uber driver should be classified as an employee, not an independent contractor — California Says Uber Driver Is Employee, Not a Contractor — In what could prove to be a precedent-setting ruling for the sharing economy, California's Labor Commission …
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| 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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| 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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VentureBeat, MediaNama, Engadget, BetaBoston, PandoDaily, CIO.com, The Tech Portal, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, SiliconBeat, Benzinga, CNET, Opptrends, Re/code, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE and ZDNet. Tweets: @twittereng
| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Snapchat says its Live Stories are viewed on average by 20M people/day, and include 2-cent/10-second ads that can be sold to multiple sponsors — Snapchat Is Making Some Pretty Serious Money From Live Stories — Snapchat built a brand out of disappearing photos, but now it's building … | Rob Lewis / Techvibes: |
Intel acquires Canadian smart eyewear and heads-up display maker Recon Instruments for $175M — Confirmed: Vancouver's Recon Instruments Acquired by Intel for $175 Million — Where there's smoke, there's fire. — Three weeks ago Techvibes reported that Intel was acquiring Vancouver's Recon Instruments.
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| Christopher Williams / Telegraph: |
British Independent music labels balk at Apple's plans for free trial period, during which they would receive no royalties — Record labels attack Apple deals that would leave them ‘completely screwed’ — Independents claim they could be forced out of business by free trial …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Line Takes Aims At The U.S. Market With An Emoji Keyboard App For iOS — Japanese mobile messaging app Line has turned to keyboard apps as it looks to grow its presence in the U.S. and other parts of the world outside of Asia. — The company, which counts 205 million monthly active users … | 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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| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Judge tentatively sets Ellen Pao's court costs at $275,000 — less than one-third what Kleiner Perkins wanted — A San Francisco court judge tentatively ordered Ellen Pao to pay $275,966.63 in court costs to her former employer Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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| Amy Schatz / Re/code: |
FCC Fining AT&T $100 Million for Misleading Unlimited Data Plans — Federal Communications Commission officials announced plans Wednesday to fine AT&T $100 million for misleading subscribers about unlimited data plans. — It's the largest such fine the agency has ever proposed under rules … | 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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