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| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top iOS Engineering Vice President, leaves company after 23 years — Henri Lamiraux, Apple's top Vice President of Engineering for the iOS iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch operating system has left the company, according to a source and corroborated by his LinkedIn profile.
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Softpedia News, iDownloadBlog.com, The Verge, AppleInsider, PC Magazine, MacRumors, CNET, I4U News, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, iPhone in Canada Blog, iMore, VentureBeat, App Advice, Rev2.org and iClarified. Tweets: @markgurman
| Tim Cook / Wall Street Journal: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook pens op-ed urging Congress to pass bill prohibiting anti-gay discrimination — Tim Cook: Workplace Equality Is Good for Business — Long before I started work as the CEO of Apple, I became aware of a fundamental truth: People are much more willing to give of themselves …
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Tweets: @m1ke_ellis, @danielpunkass, @markgurman, @markgurman and @anildash
| Fred Wilson / A VC: |
The Billion Dollar Valuation Club — Aileen Lee has a really good post up on TechCrunch, in which she analyzes the number of companies that have been started since 2003 that have gone on to be worth $1bn or more. — This is a very useful exercise in the VC business since it is these big wins …
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| Aileen Lee / TechCrunch: |
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| Nick Bilton / NYT Bits: |
Disruptions: Under a New Chief, Yahoo Still Seeks Its Voice — In Google's early days, when employees were preparing to release a new project, they had to make a pilgrimage to see Marissa Mayer, employee No. 20, and the head of design and user interface. This was not fun.
Tweets: @samgustin and @om
| Washington Post: |
HealthCare.gov: How political fear was pitted against technical needs — In May 2010, two months after the Affordable Care Act squeaked through Congress, President Obama's top economic aides were getting worried. Larry Summers, director of the White House's National Economic Council …
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Polygon and Forbes. Tweets: @tcarmody, @jpodhoretz, @nprinskeep, @arimelber, @jodyavirgan and @digiphile
| Wall Street Journal: |
Twitter Confronts Obstacles Abroad on Members, Ads — Three-fourths of Twitter Inc. users are overseas. But only one-fourth of its revenue comes from non-U.S. advertisers. To Twitter, that is a “substantial opportunity” as it readies to go public as soon as this week.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @joshconstine
| Ian Brown / Guardian: |
Will NSA revelations lead to the Balkanisation of the internet? — As countries move to protect their citizens' digital privacy, Ian Brown considers their options and the potential impact — There has been criticism of America's National Security Agency and Britain's GCHQ from Latin American nations …
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| Scott Shane / New York Times: |
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| Timothy B. Lee / The Switch: |
How a grad student trying to build the first botnet brought the Internet to its knees — On November 3, 1988, 25 years ago this Sunday, people woke up to find the Internet had changed forever. The night before, someone had released a malevolent computer program on the fledgling computer network.
Tweets: @alecjross, @damianogui and @odannyboy
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Yahoo's Mayer on the Talent Hunt for Tech Journalists (Even From AllThingsD!) — This weekend, a Yahoo recruiter tried to poach two of our fine AllThingsD reporters for what was described as a “new initiative within our Tech Vertical.” — According to the recruiter, who used LinkedIn for the outreach …
Tweets: @jbrodkin, @mattbuchanan, @fmanjoo, @thestalwart, @jackshafer, @alexia, @thestalwart, @binarybits and @dangillmor. See also Mediagazer
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Apparent hack of limo reservation service exposes 850k customers, including VIPs and celebs — Hackers Take Limo Service Firm for a Ride — A hacker break in at a U.S. company that brokers reservations for limousine and Town Car services nationwide has exposed the personal and financial information … | Businessweek: |
T-Mobile's Wacky Plan to Trash the Wireless Business Model — John Legere smiled, the kind of smile reserved for a man who knows he has already won and is just waiting to announce it. Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US (TMUS), the fourth-largest wireless carrier in the country …
Tweets: @robpegoraro
| Ina Fried / AllThingsD: |
Samsung Extends Agreement to License Nokia Patents, Though Deal's Price Tag Yet to Be Determined — Nokia announced Monday that Samsung has extended for five years a patent agreement that was set to expire at the end of this year. — However, a clause in the deal means that the price …
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ZDNet, TechCrunch and Nokia
| Kristina Shevory / New York Times: |
Twitter and other tech companies spur office construction boom in SF's Mid-Market and SoMa — Twitter Helps Revive a Seedy San Francisco Neighborhood — SAN FRANCISCO — The middle stretch of Market Street here has befuddled mayors, investors and entrepreneurs for decades.
Tweets: @zseward, @benparr, @jilliancyork, @joshelman, @rsarver, @rsarver and @pkafka
| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
Bill Gates stands separate from peers with focus on disease over internet connectivity — An exclusive interview with Bill Gates — The internet is not going to save the world, says the Microsoft co-founder, whatever Mark Zuckerberg and Silicon Valley's tech billionaires believe.
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VatorNews, TechEye, The Verge, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Gigaom Search, Digits, Softpedia News, Forbes, Business Insider, T3 News, The Atlantic Wire and The Register. Tweets: @rupertmurdoch
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