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Sources: Twitter media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil leaving, company to announce the hire of a prominent CMO on Monday — Big Exec Departures at Twitter: Media Head Stanton and Product Head Weil Leaving — In a major executive upheaval, two of Twitter's top executives …
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Sources: Twitter engineering head Alex Roetter is leaving; other possible departures include Vine head Jason Toff, business development head Jana Messerschmidt — Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come) — In what is shaping up to be a big executive upheaval tomorrow …
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FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
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Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.| Richard Trenholm / CNET: |
Samsung to open VR movie studio in New York: ‘We love stories’ — The company behind the Gear VR virtual-reality headset partners with the Sundance film festival to foster new immersive experiences.
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How chat apps could usher in a new wave of services that are easier to deploy and access — 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce — As — I've surveyed the landscape collecting startups and apps that fit into this paradigm, talked with the press, observed how marketers … | AnandTech: |
iPad Pro Review: great display, A9X chip has no real competition in the ARM SoC space, Apple Pencil is the best tablet stylus but Smart Keyboard is a letdown — The Apple iPad Pro Review — At this point it probably isn't a secret that tablet sales have leveled off, and in some cases they have declined.
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The story behind f.lux, an app that adjusts the color of computer displays to emit less blue light at night — The Story Behind f.lux, the Night Owl's Color-Shifting Sleep App of Choice — In 2005, Lorna Herf left her job at Google and took up painting.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
How CityBridge is approaching security for the new LinkNYC WiFi hubs — How secure are New York City's new Wi-Fi hubs? — The first of New York City's public Wi-Fi hubs went live yesterday, offering free gigabit-fed Wi-Fi to anyone within 150 feet of the stations on Third Avenue.
Tweets: @josephschmitt
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading … | Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Smartwatches need more smart, phone-independent functions: fitness tracking and easy notification access aren't enough — Mossberg: Smartwatches Need to Get Smarter — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg …
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| William D. Cohan / Fortune: |
Floundering tech stocks raise questions about the IPO process, cause problems for IPO-bound unicorns — Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem — VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck getting out.
Tweets: @mims, @ellenhuet and @katiefehren
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| Nitish Kulkarni / TechCrunch: |
Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … Sponsor Posts
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