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Twitter to hide abusive tweets in conversations, add safe search, and try to keep banned users from rejoining the service — The company promised users more features around safety, so here they are. — A week ago, Twitter executives said that making the service safer for users was the company's …
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| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
YouTube opens up mobile livestreaming to all creators with 10K+ subscribers and debuts Super Chat, which lets users pay to highlight their messages — Eight months after announcing it would support livestreaming capabilities, YouTube has started giving more people access to the service.
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Google Material Design principal Nicholas Jitkoff joins Dropbox as head of design — Dropbox today said it has named Nicholas Jitkoff — former lead designer for Google's Material Design team — as its VP of design. — This comes on the heels of a suite of announcements Dropbox made last week …
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| Megan Rose Dickey / TechCrunch: |
Twitter's head of diversity, Jeffrey Siminoff, is leaving, after its chief HR officer, Renee Atwood, already left — Twitter's VP of diversity and inclusion Jeffrey Siminoff is leaving the company at the end of the month and its chief human resources officer Renee Atwood has already left, TechCrunch has confirmed.| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Twilio reports Q4 revenue of $82M, up 60% YoY, as active customers rise 36% YoY to 36.6K as of December 31, 2016 — Twilio ($TWLO) has released the results of its fourth quarter 2016 earnings in which it generated $82 million in revenue, an increase of 60 percent, and a non-GAAP net earnings per share (EPS) of $0.00.
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Carl Bass, CEO of Autodesk since 2006, resigns effective immediately, but will remain on company board — Design-focused software firm Autodesk has announced that CEO and president Carl Bass is stepping down effective tomorrow (February 8). — No immediate replacement has been appointed … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Hootsuite acquires Facebook ad manager AdEspresso as it moves into paid content and social ads — Hootsuite, the startup and platform that lets marketers manage a company's interactions across a range of social media networks, is getting into the business of paid content.
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| Alison Griswold / Quartz: |
Pittsburgh mayor said last week that the relationship with Uber has been a “one-way street” as Uber expects carte blanche access to city amid self-driving tests — The honeymoon is over for Uber and Pittsburgh. After bending over backward to accommodate the ride-sharing company's … | Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Open-source networking software startup SnapRoute raises $25M Series A led by Norwest Venture Partners, with Lightspeed, AT&T, Microsoft Ventures participating — SnapRoute, a new-age networking startup founded by former Apple aapl engineers, now has $25 million in Series A funding.| Alan Ohnsman / Forbes: |
Waze says its new carpool service is now open to the nine counties that comprise the Bay Area, plus Sacramento and Monterey — Waze, the popular crowd-sourced traffic navigation app purchased by Google in 2013, has expanded its smartphone-based Carpool service across the entire San Francisco Bay Area …
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| Andrew J . Hawkins / The Verge: |
Uber sues Seattle over law allowing drivers to unionize, hearing set for March 17 — Liberal city of the Northwest vs. global ride-hailing juggernaut — Late last month, Uber sued the city of Seattle, challenging the city's authority to implement a landmark law allowing drivers in the gig economy to unionize.
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| Khari Johnson / VentureBeat: |
PayPal launches a Slack bot to let users send money to each other with the shortcode “/paypal” plus username — PayPal today launched its first bot for users of team messaging app Slack. The bot lets people send peer-to-peer (P2P) payments with the shortcode /paypal and a user's Slack handle.
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