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Sources: Twitter media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil leaving, company to announce the hire of a prominent CMO on Monday — Big Exec Departures at Twitter: Media Head Stanton and Product Head Weil Leaving — In a major executive upheaval, two of Twitter's top executives …
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Sources: Twitter engineering head Alex Roetter is leaving; other possible departures include Vine head Jason Toff, business development head Jana Messerschmidt — Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come) — In what is shaping up to be a big executive upheaval tomorrow … | Brad Heath / USA Today: |
FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
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Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.| AnandTech: |
iPad Pro Review: great display, A9X chip has no real competition in the ARM SoC space, Apple Pencil is the best tablet stylus but Smart Keyboard is a letdown — The Apple iPad Pro Review — At this point it probably isn't a secret that tablet sales have leveled off, and in some cases they have declined.
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Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading … | Richard Trenholm / CNET: |
Samsung to open VR movie studio in New York: ‘We love stories’ — The company behind the Gear VR virtual-reality headset partners with the Sundance film festival to foster new immersive experiences.
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How chat apps could usher in a new wave of services that are easier to deploy and access — 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce — As — I've surveyed the landscape collecting startups and apps that fit into this paradigm, talked with the press, observed how marketers … | William D. Cohan / Fortune: |
Floundering tech stocks raise questions about the IPO process, cause problems for IPO-bound unicorns — Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem — VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck getting out.
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Inside Facebook's Ambitious Plan to Connect the Whole World — The stern woman behind the press desk at the United Nations is certain I've made a mistake about the person I'm here to see. “Mr. Mark Zuckerberg?” she says. “Who's he?” ¶ He's an Internet executive, I tell her.| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Smartwatches need more smart, phone-independent functions: fitness tracking and easy notification access aren't enough — Mossberg: Smartwatches Need to Get Smarter — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg …
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Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … Sponsor Posts
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