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Google creates holding company called Alphabet with Larry Page as CEO; Sundar Pichai now CEO of Google, other subsidiaries will have own CEOs — Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure — G is for Google. — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company.
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| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
The Invention Of Alphabet Is The Ultimate Larry Page Move — When a coworker shared the news that Google was creating a new holding company called Alphabet and splitting off all its non-core activities from the Google brand, I reacted in the only rational way: I wondered for a nanosecond if it was a wonderfully wacky hoax.| Steven Levy / Backchannel: |
Buried in the Wordplay: Life Sciences Graduates From Google X — Buried in the Alphabet announcement was a significant piece of news: one of the new portfolio companies in Larry Page's Scrabble game is Life Sciences. Until yesterday, the medical research operation had been one of the major … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
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Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network — Facebook's making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it's going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that its opening up its own best performing ad units … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Source: StumbleUpon to lay off about 70 of its 100 employees this week after failing to raise new round — StumbleUpon lays off dozens after failing to raise new round, source says — EXCLUSIVE: — Content discovery company StumbleUpon was unable to secure additional venture capital funding …
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Firefox 40 arrives with Windows 10 support, expanded malware protection, and new Android navigation gestures — Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
Zirtual, a virtual assistant startup that raised $5.5M, dissolved overnight and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning — A startup blew up overnight and laid off its 400 employees via email with no warning — In the middle of the night, a startup that had raised $5.5 million dissolved and disappeared.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
CurrentC-backer Rite Aid to reverse its stance, start accepting Apple Pay, as well as Google Wallet and Android Pay — CurrentC backer Rite Aid will soon start accepting Apple Pay after initially blocking it — [Update: Statement from CVS below the fold...]
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Sources: Google to launch affiliate program for Google Play, initially for movies and music, apps and hardware to come later — Exclusive: Google planning an affiliate program for Google Play, starting with Movies & Music — Google is working on launching an affiliate program … | Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Lenovo announces laptops with new mobile Xeon processors starting at $1599, available Q4 2015 — Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips — Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations.| New York Times: |
Nine charged in SEC insider trading case that alleges Business Wire, PR Newswire, others were hacked over a five year period, leaking over 150K press releases — Nine Charged in Insider Trading Case Tied to Hackers — Federal authorities announced on Tuesday that they had broken …
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Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr ask to file amicus brief in movie studio suit against MovieTube, which seeks broad site-blocking SOPA-like power — Tech Giants to Hollywood: Stop Trying to Resurrect SOPA — Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr file a brief with the MPAA … Sponsor Posts
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