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Tinder Founder Sean Rad Returns as CEO, Replacing Chris Payne — Sean Rad, the co-founder of Tinder, who was replaced as CEO in March, is returning to the job. — As part of the move, Chris Payne — the former eBay and Microsoft exec who was hired in March to give the company more experienced management — is leaving.
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| Allison Pohle / Boston.com: |
Facebook rescinded Harvard student's internship after he revealed privacy flaw, created Chrome extension to map people's locations when they used Messenger — Harvard student loses Facebook internship after pointing out privacy flaws — Three months ago, Harvard student Aran Khanna … | Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
NBCU invests $200M in Vox Media, pre-money valuation of $850M; will invest $200M in BuzzFeed — NBCUniversal Buys Big Chunks of Vox Media and BuzzFeed — Last week Re/code reported that NBCUniversal was investing in BuzzFeed and Vox Media. — Now those deals are done, and NBCU and Vox Media are announcing their deal today.
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Wall Street Journal, Ars Technica, NBCUniversal, New York Times, Politico, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, Tubefilter, The Digital Reader, The Awl, The Next Web, Variety, The Wrap, Hollywood Reporter, Broadcasting & Cable, Fortune, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Silicon Republic, Vox Media Marketing and Deadline
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Announcing General Availability of Google Cloud Dataflow and Cloud Pub/Sub — By the time you are done reading this blog post, Google Cloud Platform customers will have processed hundreds of millions of messages and analyzed thousands of terabytes of data utilizing Cloud Dataflow, Cloud Pub/Sub, and BigQuery.
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| Cam Bunton / 9to5Google: |
Xiaomi announces new flagship Redmi Note 2: Octa-core and full HD for $124 — Just days after releasing its last new phone, Xiaomi has announced yet another device with competitive specs at a very disruptive price point. Xiaomi calls it ‘the new monster’ and for good reason.| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Qualcomm details Snapdragon 820: Adreno 530 GPU 40% faster, consumes 40% less power than 430, supports HDMI 2.0 4K display at 60 FPS — Snapdragon 820 is official: A look at its GPU (and how much the chip matters) — Qualcomm introduces a new flagship by way of the Adreno 530 GPU and Spectra ISP.
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Facebook struggles to sell advertising in India — Facebook is trying to lure skeptical advertisers in India with features such as free email support for questions about advertising and advice on increasing sales in a bid to boost revenue from its second biggest market.
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| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Apple Pay Competitor CurrentC May Not Launch Until Next Year — Google and Samsung are gearing up to join Apple Pay in the battle to replace your wallet later this year, but another payments app backed by big retailers like Walmart may wait a little longer before entering primetime.
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Outlook.com preview gets new add-ins from Uber, PayPal, Evernote, and Boomerang as rollout expands — New Outlook partner add-ins and expanded rollout of Outlook.com preview — Earlier this year, we announced a preview of the new Outlook.com that lets you make the most of the moments that matter to you …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook plans to open Mentions, which houses Periscope competitor Live, to all verified profiles — Facebook Confirms Live Broadcasting Will Soon Open To Journalists And Verified Profiles — Facebook plans to open up its Periscope livestreaming competitor to more than just celebrities.| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Groupon cuts 20 jobs in its restaurant software unit Breadcrumb as founder Seth Harris leaves — Layoffs Hit Groupon's Restaurant Software Unit as Breadcrumb Founder Leaves — Earlier this year, Groupon considered spinning off its restaurant software business, Breadcrumb, as Re/code previously reported.
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| Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch: |
Niantic Labs, Maker Of Ingress, Spun Out Of Google As Its Own Company — The dust hasn't completely settled on Google's Alphabet move and we're told that the new umbrella company will be nimble. Today, one of the groups inside of the company announced that it will be spun out into a separate company …
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Geek News Central, CNET, Polygon, Android Authority, SlashGear, VentureBeat, Android Central, Variety, The Verge, 9to5Google, The Next Web, Engadget and GamesIndustry.biz. Thanks:@drew
| Lukas I. Alpert / Wall Street Journal: |
News Corp in advanced talks to sell off its education division, Amplify, will cease production of tablet, continue to develop software during talks — News Corp Posts Loss on Education Write-Down — Media company in advanced talks to sell off Amplify digital-ed unit| Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Periscope announces 2M daily active users, claims more than 10M have created accounts since launch — Periscope Has 10 Million Users (Kinda) — Twitter has spent a lot of time talking up Periscope, the livestreaming app it bought back in January. Now it wants you to know that people … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Kik launches Jam, a new service designed to help Kik's 200M+ users “meet new friends based on similar music interests” — Kik Brings Music-Themed Communities To Its Mobile Messaging Service — Mobile messaging firm Kik is upping its focus on music after launching a new service …
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Microsoft Surface Hub to ship starting January 1, 2016, rather than September 1, 2015, as originally planned — Microsoft Surface Hub to ship starting January 1, 2016 — Microsoft's Surface Hub conferencing system will begin shipping on January 1, 2016, rather than September 1, 2015, as originally planned.
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