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Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week — Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions. He isn't wasting much time.| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
“Last call!” — Valuations for later-stage tech companies are finally receding, say Silicon Valley dealmakers — Fear and sadness in Silicon Valley — Every couple of months I leave my small Massachusetts town — where most people still shop for their own groceries …
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Mattermark and Business Insider. Tweets: @davemcclure, @mikeisaac, @ajs, @peterjthomson, @bfeld, @randfish, @halletecco, @noahpinion, @hchawlah, @mattrosoff and @puiwingtam
| Matt Hamblen / Computerworld: |
Display Dock for Windows 10 mobile devices to cost $99, will launch alongside the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL — Display Dock for new Lumias will cost $99 — Microsoft will charge $99 for an upcoming Display Dock device to connect next-generation Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL smartphones …
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Macworld, Windows Central, Fone Arena, WinBeta, Pocketnow, eWeek, TechnoBuffalo and WMPoweruser
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google promotes Neal Mohan to SVP for ads and Hiroshi Lockheimer to SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast — New Google CEO Sundar Pichai Makes First Major Executive Picks — Sundar Pichai, Google's new CEO under the company's Alphabet restructuring, has made his first major wave …
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Android Central, Business Insider and Seeking Alpha
| Spencer Soper / Bloomberg Business: |
Amazon surveys employees daily about their jobs after critical reports on workplace culture — Amazon Wants to Know How Its Employees Feel Every Day — Web retailer poses daily questions on job-related topics — Connections effort started at warehouses before expansion
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BGR, Business Insider, Fortune and Racked
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
LogMeIn acquires LastPass for $110M in cash and another $15M in cash contingent on LastPass meeting certain milestone and retention targets — LogMeIn Acquires Password Management Software LastPass For $110 Million — With an increasing number of data breaches putting users' personal information at risk … | Wall Street Journal: |
Dell files confidentially for IPO of cybersecurity unit SecureWorks, may be worth up to $2B — Dell Files Confidentially for IPO of Cybersecurity Unit SecureWorks — SecureWorks could begin trading by year-end and may be worth as much as $2 billion — Dell Inc. has filed confidentially …
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Fortune, ValueWalk, Business Insider, Seeking Alpha, TechCrunch, BetaNews, Datamation.com and The VAR Guy
| Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed: |
A breakdown of October 2014 fundraising documents from WeWork, which raised $400M in June 2015 at a $10B valuation — How WeWork Convinced Investors It's Worth Billions — Startups don't turn into unicorns — the buzzword for companies valued at a billion dollars or more — without a good story attached.
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Business Insider and The Awl. Tweets: @hunterwalk, @miriamgottfried, @kamilstanuch, @danprimack, @sameer_singh17 and @tomgara
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google Search app now indexes iOS 9 apps with deep links to open content surfaced from apps, Safari to also show app content by end of month — Google Search now indexes iOS 9 apps with deep links, Safari will show app content by end of the month — In May, Google began allowing iOS developers … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
DocuSign Chairman and CEO Keith Krach says he will step down as CEO and company will start search for new CEO; will remain chairman 3 years after new CEO starts — DocuSign CEO to Step Down After New CEO Search Is Complete — Chairman and CEO Keith Krach told the staff of DocuSign …
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Reuters, GeekWire and Business Insider
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
Dell is offering EMC $27.25 a share in cash plus tracking stock in VMware, boosting the value per share to more than $30, representing a $50B+ takeover attempt — Dell Is Offering EMC $27.25 a Share in Cash Plus Special VMware Stock — David Paul Morris, Slaven Vlasic / Getty| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo, NHL Ban Employees from Paid Fantasy-Sports Sites — Fantasy-site purveyors have faced scrutiny over how much internal data employees can access — Yahoo Inc. and the National Hockey League have barred employees from playing in paid fantasy-sports contests, moves that come amid questions … Sponsor Posts
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