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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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| 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: |
Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups — Editor's note: Aileen Lee is founder of Cowboy Ventures, a seed-stage fund that backs entrepreneurs reinventing work and personal life through software. Previously, she joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999 …
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| 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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| 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 … | 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 …
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| 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 … | Scott Shane / New York Times: |
No Morsel Too Minuscule for All-Consuming N.S.A. — The N.S.A.'s Evolution: The National Security Agency was founded in 1952, and its surveillance capabilities were limited by legislation in 1978. But with the attacks of September 2001 came a new sense of urgency.
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| Caroline Copley / Reuters: |
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| 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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The Verge, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Gigaom Search, Digits, Softpedia News, Forbes, Business Insider, T3 News, The Atlantic Wire, CNET and WebProNews. Tweets: @rupertmurdoch
| Amol Sharma / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon Mines Its Data Trove to Bet on TV's Next Hit — In May, a dozen Amazon.com Inc. executives, including Chief Executive Jeff Bezos, gathered in a Seattle conference room to select the first original TV shows the company would produce for its streaming video service.
Tweets: @pkafka
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot — A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display off and a single notebook tethered wirelessly to the iPad downloading at a constant 50KB/s … | Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
Plotting The Way To IPO, Twitter's Product Roadmap Has Become Too Data Driven — In its rush towards becoming a public company, Twitter is in danger of sacrificing focus on the altar of growth. And it's doing it with decisions based heavily on data and testing, rather than with an overall vision.Sponsor Posts
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