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Twitter CTO Adam Messinger and VP of Product Josh McFarland to leave company; McFarland to join Greylock Partners as a general partner — Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company's CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said today he was leaving the company.
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| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
AT&T announces Call Protect, a new service for automated blocking of spam calls at network level; feature only available on postpaid iOS and Android devices — Today, AT&T introduced a new service for automated blocking of fraud or spam calls. Dubbed AT&T Call Protect … | Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: the Mac is getting far less attention inside Apple than it once did, amid lack of clear direction from senior management and departures of key people — Inside the company, the once iconic computer is getting far less attention than it once did. — by
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Live Audio launches with select publishers and authors including the BBC, LBC, and Harper Collins, will open up to more next year — Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new Live Audio feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year.
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Sling TV website shows details for AirTV Player, a new Android-powered device with an interface that combines Sling TV with over-the-air broadcasts and Netflix — Putting streaming and antenna TV channels all in the same guide — Dish's Sling TV website has (perhaps prematurely) unveiled a new set-top box, the AirTV Player.| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
BlackBerry posts $301M Q3 revenue, below expected $332M; declining smartphone unit made up 23% of company's revenue as software and services made up 55% — Albeit a small profit, the stock jumped by more than 2 percent. — BlackBerry's big bet on software and services is making progress — albeit slowly.
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| April Glaser / Recode: |
7-Eleven touts first regular commercial drone delivery service in US via partnership with Flirtey, says 77 deliveries have been made from store in Reno, Nevada — The convenience store chain has partnered with drone maker Flirtey for the ongoing trial. — 7-Eleven, the world's largest …
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| Richard Procter / San Francisco Business Times: |
Uber to meet with DMV and California Attorney General's office amid autonomous vehicle testing issues — Lawyers from Uber, the California Attorney General's office, and the Department of Motor Vehicles will meet Wednesday afternoon, the DMV said. Further details were not disclosed.
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| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Oracle senior staffer George Polisner resigns after co-CEO Safra Catz joins Trump transition team, starts petition for colleagues to protest Catz's involvement — A senior staff member of Oracle Corp., George A. Polisner, has resigned after the enterprise tech titan's co-CEO, Safra Catz …
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| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
HelloFresh raises $88M, bringing total VC funding to nearly $360M as company looks toward possible IPO — HelloFresh, the Berlin-based company that delivers meal kits and recipes to subscribers, has reportedly raised another $88 million as the company continues its march toward a possible public offering.
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| Dan Richman / GeekWire: |
Microsoft wins $927M tech support contract with US Defense Information Systems Agency following company's earlier deal to move all 4M DoD employees to Win 10 — Microsoft has won a $927-million contract to provide technical support to the U.S. Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Reuters is reporting.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Facebook now allows Android apps to request phone number for login and skip SMS verification if the number matches the one in the user's Facebook profile — Facebook today is announcing a new addition to its Account Kit developer tool that people can use to log in to apps.
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| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
iFixit teardown finds AirPods filled with glue and a charging case that's mostly empty but houses a battery that allows for about eight full recharges — iFixit today published a teardown of Apple's AirPods, uncovering the internal components of both the AirPods themselves, and the charging case that comes with the headphones.
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Tweets: @steipete, @jandawson, @rdr0b11, @ifixit, @benbajarin, and @benbajarin
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