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| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Full memo: Jeff Bezos responds to brutal New York Times story, says it doesn't represent the Amazon he leads — The cruel and back-stabbing environment described by The New York Times in a recent report on the workplace culture at Amazon.com has struck a nerve with Jeff Bezos …
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Thanks:@taylor_soper. See also Mediagazer| Nick Ciubotariu / LinkedIn Pulse: |
An Amazonian's response to “Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace” — Disclaimer and proviso: “The postings on this site are my own and don't represent Amazon's position in any way whatsoever”. — Update: I really appreciate the notes of thanks this post has received, here and on other social media avenues.
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See also Mediagazer| Carl Elkin / Google Green Blog: |
Google launches Project Sunroof, a tool that uses Google Maps data to estimate your roof's solar energy potential — Project Sunroof: mapping the planet's solar energy potential, one rooftop at a time — The cost of solar power is at a record low. A typical solar home can save hundreds … | Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
Facebook Notes revamp set to battle Medium and Twitter — Facebook Notes has been one of the sprawling social network's least looked after features. It has sat there for years largely unloved and useless, like Facebook's appendix, serving no purpose yet apt to explode and spill its toxic contents everywhere.
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| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
Photo of LG's Nexus 5 leaks online, after renders of both LG and Huawei Nexus devices surfaced over the weekend — This could be Google's new Nexus 5 smartphone, built by LG — We waved goodbye to the Nexus 5 when Google stopped selling its 2013 flagship Android smartphone earlier this year …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
IBM to build LinuxONE mainframes running Ubuntu Linux in partnership with Canonical; IBM joins Linux Foundation's new Open Mainframe Project — IBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes — You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence …
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| Joe Pinsker / The Atlantic: |
Wikipedia's dwindling ranks of volunteer editors struggle to stop editors paid by PR firms — The Covert World of People Trying to Edit Wikipedia—for Pay — On January 11, 2013, James Heilman, an emergency-room physician and one of Wikipedia's most prolific medical editors … | Grace Caffyn / CoinDesk: |
Former Bitcoin lead developer Gavin Andresen, others launch Bitcoin XT fork amidst heated community discussions over how to avoid 1MB block “capacity cliff” — Bitcoin ‘Forked’ in Controversial Bid to Resolve Scalability Question — Two of bitcoin's best-known developers … | Serena Ng / Wall Street Journal: |
Liberty Interactive Corp., owner of home shopping TV network QVC, buys online retailer Zulily for $2.4B — QVC to Acquire Online Shopping Site Zulily for $2.4 Billion — The owner of home shopping network QVC is acquiring five-year-old Internet retailer Zulily for $2.4 billion in cash and stock.
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| Sam Oliver / AppleInsider: |
New privilege escalation exploit discovered in OS X Yosemite, also affects just-released 10.10.5 — Just days after patching the DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE vulnerability with a new OS X point release, Apple's desktop operating system has been hit with yet another zero-day exploit that would allow …
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Avoid being featured in the App Store at launch: your app will likely have issues and first-time users won't give you a second chance — Avoid the Feature — Early on, all those downloads are not your friend — It's right there, like a glittering lure in a dark sea. An email from Apple.| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
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