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Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan pledge 99% of Facebook shares, now worth $45B, to Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, a new charity to promote equal opportunity — 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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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% of their shares to “advance human potential …
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.| Jungah Lee / Bloomberg Business: |
Samsung names Koh Dong Jin president of mobile communications business, will take over day-to-day operations from J.K. Shin amid dwindling sales — Samsung Replaces Mobile-Unit Chief as Galaxy Phones Struggle — Electronics business heading for lowest profit in four years
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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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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Lending startups Branch, InVenture look at borrowers' phone usage to assess creditworthiness as they look to disrupt lending in the developing world — Lending Startups Look at Borrowers' Phone Usage to Assess Creditworthiness — Smartphones allow lenders' apps to detect subtle patterns …
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China-based attackers use Dropbox for malware communications, targeted Hong Kong media outlets in August — China-based Cyber Threat Group Uses Dropbox for Malware Communications and Targets Hong Kong Media Outlets — FireEye Threat Intelligence analysts identified a spear phishing campaign carried … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Mozilla wants to split off its Thunderbird email/chat client to focus on projects like Firefox that have an “industry-wide impact”, says Mitchell Baker memo — Mozilla Wants To Split Off Its Thunderbird Email/Chat Client, Says Mitchell Baker Memo
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