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Google creates holding company called Alphabet with Larry Page as CEO; Sundar Pichai now CEO of Google, other subsidiaries will have own CEOs — Google Announces Plans for New Operating Structure — G is for Google. — As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company.
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| Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
Giving Google Room to Dream Big Beyond Search — MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Shortly after its founding, Google posted a document on its site called “Ten things we know to be true,” an effort to distill its unusual corporate culture into a succinct list of prescriptions — the 10 commandments of Googliness.| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
The Invention Of Alphabet Is The Ultimate Larry Page Move — When a coworker shared the news that Google was creating a new holding company called Alphabet and splitting off all its non-core activities from the Google brand, I reacted in the only rational way: I wondered for a nanosecond if it was a wonderfully wacky hoax.
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| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Source: StumbleUpon to lay off about 70 of its 100 employees this week after failing to raise new round — StumbleUpon lays off dozens after failing to raise new round, source says — Content discovery company StumbleUpon was unable to secure additional venture capital funding …
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Sources explain how Force Touch on iPhone 6S will be different from Watch or MacBook, and they say it will work with the upcoming 12.9" iPad stylus — Force Touch on iPhone 6S revealed: expect shortcuts, faster actions across iOS — While Force Touch on the Apple Watch allowed Apple …
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Sources: Google to launch affiliate program for Google Play, initially for movies and music, apps and hardware to come later — Exclusive: Google planning an affiliate program for Google Play, starting with Movies & Music — Google is working on launching an affiliate program … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network — Facebook's making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it's going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that its opening up its own best performing ad units … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Firefox 40 arrives with Windows 10 support, expanded malware protection, and new Android navigation gestures — Mozilla today launched Firefox 40 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. Notable additions to the browser include official Windows 10 support, added protection against unwanted software downloads … | Eriq Gardner / Hollywood Reporter: |
Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr ask to file amicus brief in movie studio suit against MovieTube, which seeks broad site-blocking SOPA-like power — Tech Giants to Hollywood: Stop Trying to Resurrect SOPA — Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr file a brief with the MPAA … | Brett Howse / AnandTech: |
Lenovo announces laptops with new mobile Xeon processors starting at $1599, available Q4 2015 — Lenovo Launches New P50 And P70 Mobile Workstations With First Mobile Xeon Chips — Today at the SIGGRAPH 2015 Conference and Exhibition, Lenovo unveiled some new mobile workstations.
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| Zac Hall / 9to5Mac: |
CurrentC-backer Rite Aid to reverse its stance, start accepting Apple Pay, as well as Google Wallet and Android Pay — CurrentC backer Rite Aid will soon start accepting Apple Pay after initially blocking it — When Apple Pay launched in the US late last year, Apple's mobile payment system …
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Carlyle buys data storage biz Veritas from Symantec for $8 billion — Private equity firm The Carlyle Group CG announced this morning that it is acquiring data storage and server management business Veritas from Symantec Corp. SYMC for $8 billion. Helping to finance the deal will be GIC …
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