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Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent — Many observers say talent pipeline isn't primary factor — Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it made meager increases in the number of women and minorities working at the social-network giant …
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| Dare Obasanjo: |
How ingrained hiring practices at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook hinder their efforts to diversify their workforces — In the past week or so I've had three instances to reflect on how three major tech companies talk about diversity hiring and their actions.| the grugq: |
Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live — Rewriting the rulebook on coups, time to add cyberpower — Mere hours after the putsch in Turkey has failed, it is still too early to understand exactly what went on.
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Thanks:@ravichandrans25. See also Mediagazer| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube were temporarily blocked or slowed in Turkey during military coup attempt — The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup.
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Tweets: @policy, @turkeyblocks, @travelgov, @kantrowitz, @anshelpfeffer, @eastdakota, @felixsalmon, @ankitlal, @mikeisaac, @wrdcsc, @jon_penney, @mikeisaac, @jaumebarbera, @twitter, @lyssaslounge, @fmanjoo and @peterwsinger
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Google's diverse emoji for women at work approved by Unicode Consortium — Back in May, Google proposed 13 new emoji meant to better represent women in professional fields, and now 11 of those emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji, including a chef, a graduate …
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| Mark Bergen / Recode: |
Google recently shut down project to create high-end standalone VR headset with non-Android OS — Another sign that Google is putting its eggs into mobile VR. — Google recently shut down an internal project to create a high-end standalone virtual reality headset akin to devices … | Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Microsoft concedes that it won't have Windows 10 installed on 1B devices by mid-2018, as previously projected — Microsoft isn't going to make its self-imposed deadline of having Windows 10 installed on 1 billion devices by mid-2018, company officials have conceded.
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| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
In a non-public filing with the US Copyright Royalty Board, Apple proposes simplified flat rate of 9.1¢ per 100 streams in songwriting royalties — In the music industry's streaming battles, the fight extends to even the minutiae of copyright. — Apple, in a government filing on Friday … | Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Kantar: Samsung's Galaxy S7 outsold Apple's iPhone 6s in the US between March and May 2016 — The iPhone showed its first decline in sales numbers earlier this year, which has today been reiterated by the latest US mobile market data from Kantar Worldpanel.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches Flixtape, a tool for making shareable mixtape-like short playlists for shows and movies — Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today announced the launch of a new service called Flixtape, which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles.
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Tweets: @netflix, @joshconstine and @eknielsen
See also Mediagazer| Jessi Hempel / Backchannel: |
Profile of Airbnb's Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer Belinda Johnson, second in command at the company — Belinda Johnson knew a decision needed to be made quickly. She pulled her boss, Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky, into a small conference room in the company's highly designed downtown San Francisco headquarters.
Tweets: @jeffweiner and @slh
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
US pledges $400M over the next 7 years for 5G research led by National Science Foundation — As President Obama approaches the end of his tenure in the White House, his team is launching a wireless networking research project that it hopes could be part of his wider legacy in the world of tech.
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