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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 …
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New Reddit CEO announces content policy update AMA on July 16, says some subreddits shouldn't exist and Reddit wasn't founded as “a bastion of free speech” — Content Policy update. AMA Thursday, July 16th, 1pm pst. — There has been a lot of discussion lately —on reddit …
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Google trims costs, curbs hiring as revenue growth slows and the company gets bigger and more complex to run — Google Takes Stricter Approach to Costs — As growth slows, staff additions ease and the firm looks for ways to be more efficient — Google Inc. is slowing down as it grows up.
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Exclusive: CEO Nadella talks Microsoft's mobile ambitions, Windows 10 strategy, HoloLens and more — Microsoft CEO talks about his thinking around product differentiation and being ahead of the curve in this Q&A with Microsoft watcher Mary Jo Foley. … MJF: You just got off the stage.
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| Abhijeet M. / SamMobile: |
Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ will be announced Aug. 12, on sale from Aug. 21 — Exclusive: Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge+ coming August 12, on sale from August 21 — Going by Samsung's usual launch schedule, the Galaxy Note 5 would be less than two months away from getting an official announcement at this point of time.
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| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
Google launches Eddystone, an open source, cross-platform Bluetooth LE beacon format — Meet Google's “Eddystone”—a flexible, open source iBeacon fighter — Google's cross-platform standard combines the best of iBeacon and The Physical Web. — Move over iBeacon—today Google is launching …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Match Group, subsidiary of Tinder and OkCupid owner IAC, buys PlentyOfFish for $575M — Match Group Buys PlentyOfFish For $575M To Bag More Singles — A spot of consolidation in the online dating space today, with Match Group, the subsidiary of Tinder and OkCupid owner IAC …
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Data shows 95% of 220K Google right to be forgotten requests are from ordinary citizens seeking privacy, not criminals, politicians, or public figures — Google accidentally reveals data on ‘right to be forgotten’ requests — Data shows 95% of Google privacy requests are from citizens …
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| Greg Sterling / Search Engine Land: |
Google About To Reopen Map Maker, Largely Outsourcing Moderation — After the recent rash of map vandalism and other map mischief that caused Google to shut down Map Maker, the company is getting ready to reopen it. Simultaneously Google is instituting a new moderation procedure that will rely …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
High-end computer simulations service company Rescale raises $6.4M, investors include Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Peter Thiel, others — Rescale Lands $6.4M From Who's Who of Investors — Rescale, a company that has developed a Platform as a Service …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Workday launches venture fund to invest in data science startups — Workday is betting that the next 10 years will be about data science for the enterprise and is playing the venture capital game accordingly. — Workday on Tuesday said it will launch a venture fund focused on data science and machine learning for enterprise use.
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| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter spikes more than 8% and then falls in response to a fake story about takeover offer, from a site designed to look like Bloomberg — Twitter Spikes and Falls on a Fake Story About a Fake Bid — Traders on Tuesday were once again forced to grapple-in real time- with the difference between what's real and what's fake.
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| Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
ZTE's Axon is a 5.5-inch unlocked phablet with 4GB of RAM for $450, available in US today as the Chinese company tries to make a name for itself in US market — ZTE's Axon is a 5.5-inch unlocked phablet for the US — During a press event in NYC today, ZTE took the wraps off of the Axon line of smartphones.| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
FanDuel raises $275M round led by KKR, source says at a valuation well over $1B — FanDuel Raises $275 Million, Births Unicorn — FanDuel, one of the two major players in the budding daily fantasy sports industry, has raised $275 million in new venture funding.
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