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October 5, 2015, 12:15 PM

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Jay Yarow / Business Insider:
Twitter names Jack Dorsey permanent CEO, will remain Square CEO; Adam Bain promoted to COO, Dick Costolo to step down from board  —  IT'S OFFICIAL: TWITTER MAKES JACK DORSEY FULL-TIME CEO  —  Jack Dorsey, cofounder of Twitter and Square, has been named Twitter's permanent CEO.
Harrison Weber / VentureBeat:
Adobe unveils new mobile apps Fix & Capture, UX prototyping tool Comet, Photoshop updates, more  —  Today Adobe unveiled a flood of new apps and updates for creatives during its second major launch event of the year.  —  On stage during its Max conference keynote, the company showcased …
Roger D. Hodge / New Republic:
How some Zappos employees, now without a formal process for budgeting and raises, are struggling to adapt to Holacracy's lack of structure  —  A radical experiment at Zappos to end the office workplace as we know it  —  PHOTOGRAPHS BY GREGG SEGAL  —  TONY HSIEH, the CEO of Zappos …
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed:
Tim Cook: Apple will give developers access to Apple TV universal search with upcoming API  —  Tim Cook Talks Apple TV  —  In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Apple CEO Tim Cook talks about universal search, a key feature of the next-generation Apple TV.  —  Getty
Steven Levy / Backchannel:
How Steve Jobs used Carly Fiorina's HP iPod deal to preinstall iTunes on millions of PCs and prevent HP from creating its own iPod competitor  —  How Steve Jobs Fleeced Carly Fiorina  —  The former HP CEO boasted of her friendship with Apple's leader—but he took her to the cleaners with the iPod
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James Titcomb / Telegraph:
Facebook partners with French satellite operator Eutelsat to beam internet to Africa from space, starting in second half of 2016  —  Facebook reaches deal to beam internet to Africa from space  —  Social network's internet.org initiative reaches deal with French company Eutelsat that will see much of sub-Saharan Africa given internet
Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Tweets during shows, Snapchat's Live Stories, and other social tools are ushering in new communal viewing moments, and may transform TV business  —  Social Media Takes Television Back in Time  —  The actor Joshua Malina is one of those guys you know from TV.  You may not recognize his name, but his boyish face would ring a bell.
Tim Stenovec / Tech Insider:
Behind Bing Predicts, a statistical modeling tool that uses machine learning and big data from the web to forecast elections, sporting event results, and more  —  How Microsoft got so good at predicting who will win NFL games  —  In the second installment of the classic “Back to the Future” …

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