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An extensive profile of Reid Hoffman, who believes Internet-enabled networks will change how the economic world works — The Network Man — Early on a Monday evening in June, Reid Hoffman, the founder and executive chairman of the business-oriented networking site LinkedIn, met Mark Pincus …
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BlackBerry CEO says company needs to sell 5M phones a year to make business profitable, hints it may exit handset business if it doesn't meet that goal — BlackBerry CEO wants to sell 5 million phones a year — It's been a long time since BlackBerry was on top of the smartphone world … | Kurt Wagner / Re/code: |
Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week — Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions. He isn't wasting much time.
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Source: Apple disables Apple News in China, likely to avoid requirement to censor content — Apple Is Said to Deactivate Its News App in China — HONG KONG — Apple has disabled its news app in China, according to a person with direct knowledge of the situation, the most recent sign … | Stephen Galloway / Hollywood Reporter: |
Interview with the creative team on the making of the new Steve Jobs movie, the lack of support from Apple, pressure from Laurene Powell Jobs, Sony hack, more — A Widow's Threats, High-Powered Spats and the Sony Hack: The Strange Saga of ‘Steve Jobs’ — Laurene Powell Jobs pressured … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
‘Steve Jobs’ buys into Silicon Valley's aggressive optimism, suggesting that unpleasant visionaries may be worth tolerating because of the products they create — In ‘Steve Jobs,’ Tolerating Tech's Unpleasant Visionaries — Not long ago, Larry Page watched the Disney film “Tomorrowland.”
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Wall Street Journal, BuzzFeed, New Republic, NPR.org, Breakingviews, /Film, Tech Insider, The Verge and Macworld. Tweets: @fmanjoo
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For the first time, computer science is the most popular major for female students at Stanford; 30% of Stanford computer science majors are women — Computer science now top major for women at Stanford University — Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major …
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Digital Trends, Ubergizmo and Engadget
| Lance Ulanoff / Mashable: |
Surface's creative director Ralf Groene and Windows devices head Panos Panay on the evolution of the Surface Book's design — Inside the creation of the Microsoft Surface Book — No one saw it coming: The Surface Book, history's first Microsoft laptop (or notebook, if you prefer).
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Business Insider, The Verge, BGR and WinBeta
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Period Tracker App Clue Gets $7M To Build A Platform For Female Health — Berlin-based Clue, which makes a period tracker app designed to let women keep tabs on their monthly cycles and help predict their fertile window, has closed a $7 million Series A round, with investment … | Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Pinterest says nearly half of its users are outside the US, begins localizing search in France, Germany, Brazil, and Japan — Pinterest Localizes Search For Its Large International Audience — Nearly half of Pinterest users live abroad, so the company is making the search experience better …
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Pinterest Blog, Re/code and The Next Web
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google promotes Neal Mohan to SVP for ads and Hiroshi Lockheimer to SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast — New Google CEO Sundar Pichai Makes First Major Executive Picks — Sundar Pichai, Google's new CEO under the company's Alphabet restructuring, has made his first major wave …
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Engadget, The Register, Android Beat, Android Central, Seeking Alpha and Business Insider
| Andrew Perrin / Pew Internet: |
Report: 65% of US adults now use social networking sites, up from 7% a decade earlier — Social Media Usage: 2005-2015 — 65% of adults now use social networking sites - a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade — Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites …
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Marketing Land, Socialnomics and Social Media Today
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