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After Kleiner trial, Ellen Pao talks about workplace sexism, changing hiring practices at Reddit, more — Ellen Pao Says Gender Issues Won't ‘Go Away’ After Kleiner Trial — In first interview since losing sexism case, Pao says too many 'women feel like there's no way to win'| NY Daily News: |
EXCLUSIVE: Judge says Brooklyn woman can use Facebook to serve divorce papers — A Brooklyn woman scored a judge's approval to legally change her relationship status to “single” via Facebook. — In a landmark ruling, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper is allowing …
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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Replaces “Best Friends” With Friend Emojis, Adds Low-Light Camera — It was always weird that Snapchat exposed who you snapped with most in the “Best Friends” list, so today the app is ditching that for a new private way to see who you're closest to.
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ZenPayroll raises $60 million from Google Capital, others — For the founders of ZenPayroll, a Silicon Valley startup that aims to automate the payroll process for businesses, it all started with family. Joshua Reeves, Edward Kim, and Tomer London each had close family members who managed people's paychecks.
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Turkey blocks Twitter, YouTube, Facebook over hostage photo — Turkish authorities have blocked access to Twitter, YouTube and Facebook over the publication of photos published on the three social media platforms showing a prosecutor who was taken hostage by militants in Istanbul last week.| AppleInsider: |
LG may have accidentally revealed Apple's 8K iMac plans in a press release about display tech — Apple to release super-high resolution ‘iMac 8K’ later this year, display partner LG says — In a rather unusual reveal, a supposed “iMac 8K” has been outed in a press release that was published …
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| Tomasz Tunguz: |
Charted: the alarmingly widening gap between the number of late stage private rounds and the number of IPOs — The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising — Every morning, it seems like a startup raises a massive growth ground. In fact, the data proves the point.
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| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Google Ventures-Backed Bitcoin Exchange Buttercoin Is Shutting Down — Buttercoin, a bitcoin exchange startup backed by Y Combinator and Google Ventures, is closing its doors at the end of this month after failing to raise new investment. — “Buttercoin will be turning off our service …
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Buttercoin, The Next Web, StreetWise Journal, InvestCorrectly.com, CoinTelegraph, CoinBuzz, Mashable, CoinDesk, SiliconANGLE, CryptoCoinsNews and Techcircle.in. Tweets: @shaig
| Natasha Singer / New York Times: |
New anti-cheating program Proctortrack, used by some universities, raises concerns about civil liberties — Online Test-Takers Feel Anti-Cheating Software's Uneasy Glare — NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — Before Betsy Chao, a senior here at Rutgers University, could take midterm exams …
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Jonah Becker, Who Just Left HTC, Joins Fitbit as Design Chief — Jonah Becker, who last week left Taiwanese phone maker HTC, is joining Fitbit as VP of industrial design. — In the newly created position, Becker will report to Fitbit CEO James Park. Before HTC, he was a partner …
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Roku Adds Voice Search, My Feed for Upcoming Movies — Starting today, Roku users will have new ways to search and discover content on their set-top boxes. — That's because the Silicon Valley-based company updated its line of media streaming devices and mobile apps to support voice search.Sponsor Posts
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Cheap code, precious trust: Code modernization at scale — The promise—and challenges—of agentic software engineering, from large-scale code migration to language modernization.
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The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
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