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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks — SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks …
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| Kevin Systrom / Instagram: |
Kevin Systrom's statement on his and Mike Krieger's departure from Instagram says they plan to take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again” — Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team.
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Tweets: @mikeyk, @kevin, @karaswisher, and @caseynewton
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces several changes to its search product, Google Feed is rebranded as “Discover”, the homepage on mobile will now show a news feed, more — Google Feed is also getting an update, now it's called Discover — Google is announcing changes to its search product today …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations, up from 200,000 in March of this year — At Microsoft's Ignite enterprise technology conference this week in Orlando, Florida, the company announced that Microsoft Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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Tweets: @maryjofoley and @reckless
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, which works by pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy.
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @taylorlorenz, @alexeheath, @joshconstine, @danblackroyd, @joshconstine, and @scottjohnson
| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, Stacks, security enhancements, a redesigned App Store, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Apple News apps — As promised during September 12's Gather Round event in Cupertino, Apple today released macOS Mojave — aka macOS 10.14 — to the general public.| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
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| Jane Mayer / New Yorker: |
New book about online activity in the 2016 US presidential election argues that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive in changing outcome — A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
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| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar — There's a common understanding that there are two types of people in this world: Slack people and email people. In reality, most modern offices use both …
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| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone XS Max far outselling iPhone XS, with 256GB most popular, 512GB is subject to shortages; Apple Watch Series 4 demand is “much better than expected” — In a research note obtained by MacRumors today, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided launch-weekend takeaways for the iPhone XS …
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| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoho says its domain registrar, TierraNet, pulled its service offline for a few hours after it received phishing complaints, is now looking for a new registrar — Zoho.com was pulled offline on Monday after the company's domain registrar received phishing complaints, the company's chief executive said.
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Tweets: @zoho, @mjg59, @malwarejake, @zackwhittaker, and @troyhunt
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019 — Salesforce and Apple have announced a partnership “that brings together the number one customer relationship management platform and iOS.”
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Tweets: @benioff, @salesforce, @tim_cook, @benioff, and @stephennellis
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
After working with IBM for over a year on a food safety blockchain solution, Walmart says it's pushing produce suppliers to use blockchain by September 2019 — Walmart has been working with IBM on a food safety blockchain solution and today it announced it's requiring that all suppliers …
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news.walmart.com, VentureBeat, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Fortune, Adweek, CNET, and Database Trends …
Tweets: @buzzfeednews, @nathanielpopper, @cnbc, @nytimestech, @nytimestech, and @n_shields_12
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple has closed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam and says it will soon become ad-free, in a deal sources say was for $400M — Last year, we broke the news that Apple was buying the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million, and nearly one year later, the deal has finally closed.
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Apple, The Verge, Fortune, The Next Web, Engadget, Digital Trends, Macworld, Forbes, Android Police, ZDNet, BetaNews, TechSpot, iPhone Hacks, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @ingridlunden and @benbajarin
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sundar Pichai to meet with GOP lawmakers in private meeting Friday to discuss privacy, Google's work with China, and alleged bias in search results — Friday's talks to occur amid concerns on Capitol Hill about privacy, China business and allegations of bias against conservatives| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday's close of $9.09 a share …
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Tweets: @brianstelter, @shiraovide, @nytimes, @levynews, @claireatki, @readdanwrite, @eamonjavers, @pkafka, and @pkafka
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Android Studio 3.2 with over 20 new features, including new Android App bundle, Emulator Snapshots, and Energy Profiler — Google today launched Android Studio 3.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features …
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