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| Bloomberg: |
Sources: White House draft proposal aims to overhaul foreign work visas, requires firms to try to hire Americans first, prioritizes visas for most highly paid — President Donald Trump's clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Starbucks unveils a virtual assistant that takes your order via messaging or voice — Starbucks is embracing the trend towards voice-based computing with the launch of a new feature in its mobile app called My Starbucks barista, which allows customers to order and pay for their food and drinks just by speaking.
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| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Dropbox takes Paper, its Google Docs competitor, out of beta for global launch and tests new features including a project organization tool with task management — In 21 languages around the world — Dropbox's latest tool for businesses, a piece of collaborative editing software called Paper, is launching globally today.
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| Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel: |
How Paper fits into the enterprise strategy at Dropbox, which is now on pace for $1B+ in annual revenue, according to CEO Drew Houston — To recapture its mojo, the decacorn is expanding from your file cabinet to your office. — Dropbox became a darling company of the cloud computing startup wave by keeping users' files in sync.| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox debuts Smart Sync tool to make opening files stored only in the cloud just like opening any normal file, available to Dropbox Business customers today — Dropbox today released Smart Sync, its tool that allows users to access files stored online in Dropbox accounts automatically … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Fitbit to cut six percent of its staff, or about 110 jobs, following a disappointing Q4 with 6.5M devices sold — As anticipated, wearable leader Fitbit kicked off the week by announcing a six-percent reduction in global work force, following disappointing fourth quarter financials.| Clarence Williams / Washington Post: |
123 of 187 of Washington DC police CCTV network video recorders were infected with ransomware, unable to record between January 12 and 15 — Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump's inauguration … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Analytics firms and social media stars say Snapchat Stories view counts have plummeted between 15% and 40% since Instagram launched its Stories clone — Good enough and convenient. That's proved a winning strategy for Instagram's clone, according to a dozen analytics providers … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Lyft surges as high as #4 in Apple's App Store top free chart, surpassing Uber at #13, in wake of the #DeleteUber campaign — Lyft's app has surged in the App Store thanks to the “Delete Uber” campaignwhich took place via social media over the weekend. People were angry that Uber appeared …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
In response to Trump's travel ban, tech execs, investors, and firms including Lyft and Google pledge donations to ACLU as well as other non-profits, initiatives — Tech executives are offering to match donations to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) following the enactment …
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| Katharine Schwab / Co.Design: |
A look at “The Founder”, a dystopian startup simulator game, created by the designer Francis Tseng, that aims to echo the structural flaws of the startup system — “The only way to win is not play,” says designer Francis Tseng. — The year is 2001.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
How Airbnb head of policy Chris Lahane, a former Bill Clinton aide, is helping the company navigate regulatory challenges by striking deals with city officials — SAN FRANCISCO — Chris Lehane rarely wears the tailored Italian suits that he was known for during his days as a high-profile Washington operative.
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