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Twitter adds stickers for photos and lets you search them like hashtags — Twitter will begin letting you add virtual stickers to the photos you post, the company said today. Hundreds are available at launch, including the standard Unicode emoji and some original work from Twitter.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: dozens of new brands get Dash buttons this week; companies pay $15 for each branded button sold and 15% of each product sale, atop normal commission — Detergent, household-products makers join expansion as they try to stay close to Amazon, but consumer demand for gadgets has been cool
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Report: Huawei hedges its bet on Android by developing a new non-Android operating system in-house — Like Samsung before it, Huawei hopes to have a “Plan B” should Android terms go bad. — A report from The Information (subscription required) claims that Huawei is building its own in-house OS as a possible “Plan B” to Android.
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Google announces Project Bloks, a new open hardware platform to make coding physical for kids, still in development — Posted by Steve Vranakis and Jayme Goldstein, Executive Creative Director and Project Lead, Google Creative Lab — At Google, we're passionate about empowering children to create and explore with technology.| Reuters: |
Sources: Google and Facebook start automatically blocking reposted extremist videos — Some of the web's biggest destinations for watching videos have quietly started using automation to remove extremist content from their sites, according to two people familiar with the process.| Financial Times: |
Sources: Intel weighs sale of cyber security business created from its $7.7B McAfee acquisition in 2010 — Intel is looking at options for Intel Security, including potentially selling the antivirus software maker formerly known as McAfee which it bought for $7.7bn almost six years ago.
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| Erin Griffith / Fortune: |
Nikesh Arora talks about his resignation, tenure at SoftBank, working with Masayoshi Son, and how he already sold his SoftBank stake to Son at a small loss — Nikesh Arora shocked the business world two years ago when he jumped from his role as Google's chief business officer to SoftBank SB … | Lizette Chapman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: DocuSign's CEO search drags on after losing leading candidate, Google's Rick Osterloh, in March; Bain's Enrique Salem being considered for the position — Unicorn company is said to have been spurned by Google exec — Bain's Enrique Salem emerges as candidate for chief executive| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
Amazon unveils Inspire, an online education service for teachers, offering free lesson plans, teaching modules, and other digital resources — Just ahead of the back-to-school season, Amazon is making a major foray into the education technology market for primary and secondary schools …
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| Mitch Smith / New York Times: |
Case in Wisconsin spurs debate about the use of proprietary algorithms that calculate defendants' recidivism risk in sentencing — CHICAGO — When Eric L. Loomis was sentenced for eluding the police in La Crosse, Wis., the judge told him he presented a “high risk” to the community and handed down a six-year prison term.| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Flipboard CEO Mike McCue talks about focus on high-end ads, competition from Nuzzel and Apple News, and why he took JPMorgan's $50M investment — Flipboard, the magazine-style curation app, is about to turn profitable “reasonably soon,” the company's CEO Mike McCue revealed to Business Insider on Monday.
Tweets: @twittner
| Brandy Shaul / SocialTimes: |
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