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Salesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne Benioff, to buy Time Magazine for $190M from Meredith Corp., expecting to close within 30 days — Benioffs won't have day-to-day operational role at Time Magazine — Time magazine will have a new home.
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| Owen Thomas / San Francisco Chronicle: |
Interview with Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, on his philanthropic priorities in SF, and why he invests in schools to help solve the “digital refugee” crisis — Salesforce's chief on the future of jobs, education, homelessness and the environment — and everything else we could get him to talk about
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Amazon confirms it is investigating claims that its employees in US and China accepted bribes for internal data and other confidential info on Amazon merchants — Employees, through intermediaries, are offering internal data to help merchants increase their sales on the website
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| Linus Torvalds / LKML Archive on lore.kernel.org: |
Linux creator and project lead Linus Torvalds apologizes for years of rude behavior, says he is temporarily stepping away from Linux maintenance to get better — From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Subject …
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Mobile social network Path, which Google reportedly tried to acquire for $100M and which was once raising money at a $500M valuation, is closing down on Oct. 18 — It's that time again, folks, time to say goodbye to a social media service from days past. — Following the shuttering … | Jessi Hempel / Wired: |
WeWork acquires Teem, an office space scheduling and workplace analytics platform, to add to Powered by We product suite; sources: WeWork paid $100M for Teem — FOR AS LONG as WeWork has been selling memberships to its coworking spaces, investors and analysts have quibbled about whether it's …
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Google remotely enabled Battery Saver mode for users running Android 9 Pie, during an “internal experiment”, has since apologized and reset settings to default — You'd think there would be more safeguards for preventing this kind of thing — Yesterday a mix of people … | Danah Boyd / Data & Society: |
How extremists exploit tech's respect of “free speech” and media's bias to cover “both sides” to amplify fringe messages and get into mainstream conversation — This is a crib of a talk that Data & Society Founder and President danah boyd gave at the Online News Association conference … | Leigh Cuen / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase says it plans to expand its New York City office, which caters to institutional clients, to 150 employees next year, up from 20 currently — The crypto industry unicorn Coinbase has aggressive growth plans for its newly opened New York office, which caters to institutional clients.
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| Eric Johnson / Recode: |
Q&A with Roku CEO Anthony Wood on working at Netflix while running Roku early on, partnering with Chinese TV makers, competing with tech giants, and ads on Roku — They're too busy selling phones and shoes to do TV right, CEO Anthony Wood says. — For years, the TV streaming platform …
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| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook seeks to hire a Director of Human Rights Policy to steer investigations into human rights abusers on its platforms — Facebook has faced criticism for its slow response to the Myanmar government's use of its social network to fuel atrocities, and it's determined to prevent that from happening again.
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TechCrunch, Isle Of Wight Radio, OnManorama, and Axios
Tweets: @sarasous, @techcrunch, @mathewi, @axios, and @caseynewton
| Cherie Hu / Billboard: |
MusicWatch: paid music streaming subscribers surpass 50M in US, nearly doubling since end of 2016, with ~20M separate users sharing but not paying for access — An estimated 51 million people in the U.S. are now paying monthly subscriptions for music streaming services …
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