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Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quits after less than two months on the job; claims loss of confidence in the direction of the company — Reddit Chief Engineer Bethanye Blount Quits After Less Than Two Months on the Job — Reddit's chief engineer Bethanye Blount quit just days … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Former Reddit CEO says Alexis Ohanian responsible for firing that touched off Reddit revolt, noting a “stunning lack of leadership” in letting Pao take the heat — Details Emerge About Victoria Taylor's Dismissal at Reddit — Over the last week, the circumstances surrounding …
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Mozilla blocks all versions of Adobe Flash in Firefox — Mozilla has added all versions of Adobe Flash up to the most recent version 18.0.0.203 to the Firefox blocklist. — Security researchers have discovered vulnerabilities in recent versions of Adobe Flash that have not been patched yet by Adobe but are exploited in the wild.
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Facebook's security chief Alex Stamos says it's time for Adobe to announce the end-of-life date for Flash — Facebook's security chief calls for Adobe Flash to be killed off — Poor old Adobe Flash. Hardly anybody seems to love it. — And this isn't a new phenomenon.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Facebook testing Moneypenny, a personal assistant inside Messenger that consults real people for help researching and ordering products, among other tasks — Facebook is working on a digital assistant named Moneypenny to help you find and buy products — Facebook Messenger is getting …
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| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
Apple Pay launches in UK with 250K stores, 8 banks participating — Nine months after its release in the U.S., Apple Pay became available to iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and Apple Watch users in the UK on Tuesday, local time, with support from more than 250,000 retail locations and eight major banks.
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Thanks:@mikeycampbell81| Sarah Buhr / TechCrunch: |
Forrester: Tablet Sales Have Plateaued But There's A Future In Business — As iPhone revenue soars, Apple's iPad sales dropped 18 percent year-over-year in the final quarter of 2014 and has now hit a plateau, according to a new study from Forrester Research. — Even the new iPad Air didn't help.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
Microsoft unveils GigJam, a Cortana driven, cross-platform, realtime and asynchronous business collaboration app — Microsoft's New GigJam Collaboration App Deconstructs Tasks Into “Molecules Of Work” — Got a project? GigJam lets you share information on the fly—and hide what's private—on computers, tablets, and phones.
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TechNet Blogs, PCWorld, Redmond, ZDNet, OnWindows, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, BetaNews, GeekWire, VentureBeat, WinBeta and The Fire Hose. Thanks:@mariedomingo
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Nokia may bring back mobile phones, but only through brand-licensing model, and not earlier than Q4 2016 because of Microsoft agreement — Nokia comments on media speculation about mobile devices — The following has been posted by Robert Morlino, spokesman for Nokia Technologies
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| Eva Dou / Wall Street Journal: |
State-Owned Chinese Chip Maker Tsinghua Unigroup Makes $23 Billion Bid for Micron — If Micron accepts, deal would be biggest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company — BEIJING—China's Tsinghua Unigroup Ltd. has submitted a bid to buy out U.S. memory chip maker Micron Technology Inc. for $23 billion … | Frédéric Filloux / Monday Note: |
News sites are getting slower, the New York Times takes 4 mins and 2MB of data download to view one story — News Sites Are Fatter and Slower Than Ever — An analysis of download times highlights how poorly designed news sites are. That's more evidence of poor implementation of ads... and a strong case for ad blockers.
Tweets: @filloux
| Douglas MacMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Snapchat adjusts its design to bring more visibility to “Discover” section for news and ads — Snapchat Redesign Puts Spotlight on ‘Discover’ News Portal — Snapchat on Monday changed the layout of its app to bring more visibility to its “Discover” section for news articles and ads.
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See also Mediagazer| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hillary Clinton Says On-Demand Economy Raises Hard Questions About Workplace Protections — “This on-demand, or so-called ‘gig economy’, is creating exciting opportunities and unleashing innovation. But it's also raising hard questions about workplace protections and what a good job will look …
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