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February 9, 2016, 6:10 AM

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Julie Bort / Business Insider:
Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad resigns amid compliance issues, COO David Sacks becomes CEO, Josh Stein named Chief Compliance Officer  —  The CEO of one of Silicon Valley's hottest startups has suddenly resigned  —  Parker Conrad, cofounder and CEO of high-flying Zenefits …
Steve Ragan / CSO:
Hackers leak names and contact details of over 9K DHS staff, claim DOJ is next  —  Hackers leak DHS staff directory, claim DOJ is next  —  Staff directory contains details on over 9,000 employees  —  On Sunday, an account on Twitter posted a Department of Homeland Security staff directory with 9,355 names.
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat:
Instagram version 7.15 enables switching between up to five accounts on iOS and Android  —  Instagram launches account switching on iOS and Android  —  Facebook-owned Instagram today announced that starting this week, users will be able to switch accounts when using the app on Android and iOS.
Scott Moritz / Bloomberg Business:
Source: Verizon enlists AOL CEO Tim Armstrong to explore possible bid for Yahoo assets  —  Verizon Said to Enlist AOL CEO Armstrong to Explore Yahoo Deal  —  No formal offer yet, but Verizon CEO favors ‘marrying’ assets  —  Armstrong's advance work builds on ties to Yahoo's CEO Mayer
Nitasha Tiku / BuzzFeed:
India bans zero-rated internet services, including Facebook's Free Basics, for infringing on the principles of net neutrality  —  India's Telecom Authorities Have Ruled Against Facebook's Controversial Free Internet Plan  —  “Who could possibly be against this?”  Zuckerberg asked.
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
CBS Says Super Bowl 50 Broke Streaming Records With 3.96 Million Unique Viewers  —  CBS reported earlier this morning that its live stream of Super Bowl 50 broke all prior streaming records for the big game.  Now the network has released numbers to back up that claim: according …
Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land:
Chance Miller / 9to5Mac:
Apple open sources benchmarking suite for Swift  —  Apple today announced in a post on its Swift blog that it is open sourcing the Swift benchmark suite.  This announcement comes two months after the company made the Swift programming language open source, allowing the developer community to have direct access to the platform.
Bloomberg Business:
Google CEO Sundar Pichai awarded 273K Alphabet shares worth about $199M, vesting in quarterly increments through 2019, SEC filing shows  —  Google CEO Pichai Receives Record $199 Million Stock Grant  —  Pichai's award is largest ever for a Google executive officer
Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:
The Pirate Bay, other torrent sites add support for Torrents Time plugin allowing you to stream movies and TV shows from your browser  —  The Pirate Bay now uses Torrents Time to let you stream all its movies and TV shows  —  On Tuesday, a new simple solution for streaming torrents directly in your browser showed up on the Web.
Abner Li / 9to5Google:
1Password for Android jumps to version 6, adds Material Design, fingerprint sensor support  —  The Android version of popular password manager 1Password has received a big update to version 6.  In addition to a full Material redesign, the app now has support for Marshmallow's fingerprint unlocking.
TechCrunch:
Slack, Honor, Gear VR, Stewart Butterfield, Bill Gurley win at the 9th Annual Crunchies  —  And The Winners Of The 9th Annual Crunchies Are...  Silicon Valley is getting dressed up tonight to celebrate startups, their founders and CEOs, VCs and angels, and the products they make during …

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