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Sources say Twitter's list of outside CEO candidates is lacking, pointing to Dorsey or Bain, with Bain in lead because of Dorsey's Square commitment — Adam Bain Is Soooo Nice, Jack Dorsey's Hamlet Act and Other Things You Need to Know About the Twitter CEO Search
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| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter added just 2M MAUs in Q2, excluding “SMS Fast Followers” — Twitter Asks for More Time to Fix Things — And Freaks Out Wall Street — Twitter added just two million new core users last quarter, and while it also beat Wall Street revenue estimates, investors still aren't buying the Twitter story.| Fletcher Babb / VentureBeat: |
Twitter's director of product management Todd Jackson departs for Dropbox, while head of growth Christian Oestlien moves to YouTube — Twitter's heads of Growth, Product are gone — Just a few minutes into Twitter's quarterly earnings report, we've already seen two major departures.
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| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 10 review: a great fix to the problems of Windows 8 with the new Start menu, Cortana, and more, but bugs linger and Edge browser lacks extensions — Windows 10 review — Looking back at Windows 8, it's easy to see where Microsoft went wrong. It was a giant bet on touch-based computing …
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| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows 10: fine for laptops but not desktops, OS lacks functionality and apps, best to wait for more features and new machines, expected in fall — Review: Goodbye, Windows 8; hello, Windows 10 — Here's my 'non-reviewer's review' of Windows 10 after using it for a week.| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Amazon unveils a proposal for drone-only airspace that would allow for high-speed delivery — Amazon provides new details on its plan for a drone superhighway in the sky — When I arrived in San Jose last night, the newspaper on the front desk at the hotel had this headline splashed across …
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Nokia's Ozo is a 360 degree VR camera for professionals with fast low-res rendering for rapid playback, price expected to be in the mid-five figures — Nokia reveals Ozo, a futuristic new camera for filming virtual reality — Microsoft bought Nokia's handset business in 2013, two big questions hovered above all.
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Motorola unveils $399 Motorola X Style with Universal LTE in US, $299 Moto X Play globally, and an upgraded, waterproof, and customizable $179 Moto G — Motorola doubles down on Moto X with Style, Play, updates Moto G — The Moto X Style will be known as the Pure Edition in the US, and will be sold directly to consumers.
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Investors pour $16M into Tripping, a vacation rental search engine — Tripping.com has raised $16 million in Series B financing. The company also hit an inventory record of more than 5 million property listings. — Steadfast Venture Capital, an early-stage investment firm in New York City, led the round.| Steve Lohr / New York Times: |
Coding bootcamps to graduate 16K students in 2015, up from 6,740 in 2014, almost one-third as many as all US Computer Science departments — As Tech Booms, Workers Turn to Coding for Career Change — SAN FRANCISCO — After Paul Minton graduated from college, he worked as a waiter, but always felt he should do more.
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| Stacey Higginbotham / Fortune: |
Intel and Micron unveil new storage chip called 3D Xpoint that's 1,000 times faster than flash memory, doesn't use transistors, and is already in production — Intel and Micron team up to launch a new class of computer memory — The decade-long partnership between Intel and Micron to build better NAND … | Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Citrix aims to simplify, unload GoTo business as CEO retires — Citrix's second quarter showed improvement, but the company is evaluating multiple alternatives as it reaches a deal with activist investor Elliott Management. — Citrix said it is reviewing plans for its GoTo family of products … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Amazon Takes On Product Hunt, Shopify With Launchpad, An All-In-One Marketing And Sales Portal — Product Hunt has made a splash as a new place for startups to market new products, Shopify offers a way for them to easily start selling their products online, and Shyp takes the pain … | Yuliya Chernova / Wall Street Journal: |
Expensify launches venture arm for strategic investments in business travel, payments, and finance startups using part of their recently raised $17M — Expensify Launches Venture Arm With Part of $17M New Round — One company can't pursue all of the good ideas in its industry …
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