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Google CEO Sundar Pichai slams Trump's immigration executive order in internal memo, says 100+ company staff travelling abroad with valid visas are affected — Memo from CEO Pichai says more than 100 employees impacted — Pichai says President's move caused painful ‘personal costs’
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| Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Mark Zuckerberg says he's “concerned” about President Trump's executive orders on immigration, affirms support for “Dreamers” — My great grandparents came from Germany, Austria and Poland. Priscilla's parents were refugees from China and Vietnam.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Snap to publicly file for IPO late next week, which likely means a March IPO — The social communications company's current valuation is $25 billion, said sources. — According to sources, Snap Inc. plans to publicly file for its much-anticipated initial public offering late next week.
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| Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Apple CEO Tim Cook making rounds in DC: dinner Thursday night with Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump, meeting Friday with Sen. Orrin Hatch — Apple CEO Tim Cook has apparently been sharpening his political skills. — Politico reported that Cook had dinner Thursday night …
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| Elizabeth Banker / The Twitter Blog: |
Twitter discloses two NSLs after lifting of FBI gag order; next hearing for its lawsuit against US government over disclosure of NSLs is February 14 — Today, we're able to speak openly about two national security requests for the first time, specifically two national security letters (NSLs).
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| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
LeakedSource, a site that sold access to a database of 3.1B+ compromised account passwords, taken offline after alleged police raid — LeakedSource garnered criticism for actively cracking the passwords it sold. — LeakedSource, a legally and ethically questionable website that sold access …
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| M.G. Siegler / 500ish Words: |
Twitter should roll out a tab highlighting the best tweets, similar to “While You Were Away”, and should have realized how awful the new “Explore” tab is — A rant about Twitter's new ‘Explore’ tab — Look, it's hard to roll out changes to any product, let alone one with hundreds of millions of users.
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| New York Times: |
Russian media reports say two Russian intel officers who worked in office linked to US election hacking have been charged with treason for providing info to US — WASHINGTON — Ever since American intelligence agencies accused Russia of trying to influence the American election …
Tweets: @ryanlizza, @nycjim, and @nickkristof
| Avery Hartmans / Business Insider: |
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg breaks post-election silence to speak out against global gag rule on abortion — Sheryl Sandberg spoke out on Thursday against President Donald Trump's anti-abortion executive order. — The Facebook COO published a post on her Facebook page that chronicles …
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Tweets: @scottmcgrew and @kenroth
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Tesla files suit against former Autopilot director, says he took proprietary information and tried to poach staff for his new self-driving car startup Aurora — Tesla has sued former employee Sterling Anderson, who acted as Director of its Autopilot Programs for just over a year, for breach of contract.
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| Reuters: |
Toshiba says it is looking to sell a minority stake in its memory chip business unit to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown — Toshiba Corp (6502.T) said it will sell a minority stake in its memory chip business as it urgently seeks funds to offset an imminent multi-billion dollar writedown …
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| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
FBI posts redacted Gamergate investigation report; Brianna Wu, a target of Gamergate trolls, says report shows how little the FBI cared about the investigation — The FBI has posted a heavily redacted report of its threat investigations during the Gamergate controversy in 2014 and 2015.
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| Supantha Mukherjee / Reuters: |
Microsoft's market value tops $500B for the first time since 2000, after its Q2 earnings beat analyst expectations — Microsoft Corp's (MSFT.O) market capitalization topped $500 billion for the first time since 2000 on Friday, after the technology giant's stock rose following another quarter … | Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
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