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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 — G is for Google — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one.”
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Thanks:@sparkszilla| 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: |
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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 it's opening up its own best-performing ad units … | Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
Facebook is working on a Twitter-like app that lets publishers send mobile breaking news alerts to the masses — Facebook is working on a stand-alone mobile news application that seems to be part of its Facebook for Business initiative. — This product, which sounds similar to Twitter …
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
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 … | 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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| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
Researchers hack a Corvette's brakes via an insurance dongle used in many modern vehicles to monitor speed, location; affected systems are receiving OTA updates — Hackers Cut a Corvette's Brakes Via a Common Car Gadget — Car hacking demos like last month's over-the-internet hijacking …
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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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| 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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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 … | 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.| Tom Maxwell / 9to5Google: |
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 … Sponsor Posts
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