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Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan pledge 99% of Facebook shares, now worth $45B, to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, an LLC to promote equality for next generation — A letter to our daughter — Your mother and I don't yet have the words to describe the hope you give us for the future.
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Thanks:@pursuitist| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
Zuckerberg intends to remain Facebook's controlling stockholder for foreseeable future — Mark Zuckerberg Is Now A Dad, Pledges To Give Away 99% Of His Shares — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg today said he and his wife would give away 99 percent of their shares to “advance human potential …
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Yahoo board to meet Wednesday for three days to plan future after Starboard increased pressure on company to sell core business last month — Yahoo Board to Weigh Sale of Internet Business — Board to discuss whether to proceed with a plan to spin off its investment in Alibaba …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Adobe renames Creative Cloud software Flash Professional to Animate as it downplays Flash — Adobe renames Flash Professional to Animate, pivots to HTML5 — Adobe renamed its Creative Cloud software Flash Professional to Animate as it downplays Flash, which is under fire in many camps, and pivots to HTML5 with its messaging.
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google now lets you star images and add them to collections from image search, only available in the US; collections are not public — Google Turns Image Search Into Pinterest With New “Collections” Feature — Watch out, Pinterest, you've got new competition.| Mike Beasley / 9to5Mac: |
Sketch joins parade of developers abandoning Mac App Store in favor of direct sales — The developers of the UI design tool Sketch have announced their decision to exit the Mac App Store, following in the footsteps of many other software makers, such as Panic.
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| Stan Higgins / CoinDesk: |
SEC charges former CEO of Bitcoin mining firm, GAW Miners, with conducting a Ponzi scheme that defrauded up to 10K people of about $19M — SEC Charges GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza With Securities Fraud — The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged former GAW Miners CEO Josh Garza …
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| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
WhatsApp blocks links to rival app Telegram on Android; Telegram says its Facebook page vanished too — WhatsApp Is Blocking Links To Rival App Telegram On Android — Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp appears to have started deliberately blocking links to rival messaging app Telegram …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Cyber Monday Beat Forecasts With A Record $3.07 Billion In Sales, 26% From Mobile Devices — Yesterday's Cyber Monday sales event was already poised to break records with a forecasted $3 billion in sales, making it the largest online sales day in history. It ended up beating those estimates …
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| Abhimanyu Ghoshal / The Next Web: |
Chrome for Android's new Data Saver feature will not load images on sites until you tell it to, resulting in up to 70% data savings — Chrome for Android skips images on sites for up to 70% data savings — Google is updating the Data Saver feature in its Chrome browser for Android …
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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Airbnb shares anonymized data for New York City, shows median host income is about $5K per year — Airbnb Releases Trove of New York City Home-Sharing Data — Airbnb has had a rough history with regulators in New York City. Now the company is playing nice.
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Samsung launches Internet for VR, its web browser for Gear VR, with Gaze Mode for UI navigation, on-screen keyboard, voice controls, more — Samsung Launches Optimized Web Browser for Gear VR — Samsung Electronics announced the web browser optimized for Gear VR.
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