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Sources: White House draft proposal aims to overhaul foreign work visas, requires firms to try to hire Americans first, prioritizes visas for most highly paid — President Donald Trump's clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious.
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| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
More than 2K Google employees including Sundar Pichai and Sergey Brin across eight campuses stop work to protest Trump's executive order banning immigration — Google employees in offices around the world staged a walkout on Monday afternoon in protest of President Donald Trump's executive …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Lyft surges as high as #4 in Apple's App Store top free chart, surpassing Uber at #13, in wake of the #DeleteUber campaign — Lyft's app has surged in the App Store thanks to the “Delete Uber” campaignwhich took place via social media over the weekend. People were angry that Uber appeared …
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| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
In response to Trump's travel ban, tech execs, investors, and firms including Lyft and Google pledge donations to ACLU as well as other non-profits, initiatives — Tech executives are offering to match donations to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) following the enactment …
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Fitbit to cut six percent of its staff, or about 110 jobs, following a disappointing Q4 with 6.5M devices sold — As anticipated, wearable leader Fitbit kicked off the week by announcing a 6 percent reduction in global work force, following disappointing fourth quarter financials.| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Dropbox takes Paper, its Google Docs competitor, out of beta for global launch and tests new features including a project organization tool with task management — In 21 languages around the world — Dropbox's latest tool for businesses, a piece of collaborative editing software called Paper, is launching globally today.
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| Scott Rosenberg / Backchannel: |
How Paper fits into the enterprise strategy at Dropbox, which is now on pace for $1B+ in annual revenue, according to CEO Drew Houston — To recapture its mojo, the decacorn is expanding from your file cabinet to your office. — Dropbox became a darling company of the cloud computing startup wave by keeping users' files in sync.| Clarence Williams / Washington Post: |
123 of 187 of Washington DC police CCTV network video recorders were infected with ransomware, unable to record between January 12 and 15 — Hackers infected 70 percent of storage devices that record data from D.C. police surveillance cameras eight days before President Trump's inauguration … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Analytics firms and social media stars say Snapchat Stories view counts have plummeted between 15% and 40% since Instagram launched its Stories clone — Good enough and convenient. That's proved a winning strategy for Instagram's clone, according to a dozen analytics providers …
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Starbucks unveils a virtual assistant that takes your order via messaging or voice — Starbucks is embracing the trend towards voice-based computing with the launch of a new feature in its mobile app called My Starbucks barista, which allows customers to order and pay for their food and drinks just by speaking.
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| Kate Conger / TechCrunch: |
Facebook to begin a limited trial of Delegated Recovery, a system for recovering third party accounts that aims to obviate email's role in that process — Getting locked out of your account sucks. Almost everyone has experienced the frustration of forgetting a password …
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| Katharine Schwab / Co.Design: |
A look at “The Founder”, a dystopian startup simulator game, created by the designer Francis Tseng, that aims to echo the structural flaws of the startup system — “The only way to win is not play,” says designer Francis Tseng. — The year is 2001.Sponsor Posts
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