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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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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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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.| 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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| 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.| David Carnoy / CNET: |
BeatsX wireless earphones will go on sale February 10 in Apple retail stores and online at Apple.com — Beats by Dr. Dre says its highly anticipated wireless neckband-style headphone and AirPods competitor will be in stores shortly — and two new colors are coming.| 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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| 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 … | Hamza Shaban / BuzzFeed: |
Hundreds of investors, startups, and VC firms say Trump's travel ban will harm the US startup community and country's ability to compete globally — More than 200 tech industry leaders signed a letter to be sent to President Donald Trump on Tuesday opposing the administration's refugee … | Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Hashtags appeared in 30% of Super Bowl ads in 2017, down from a high of 57% in 2014; URLs were used in 41% of ads this year — From a high of 57% three years ago, hashtags are now in only about one-third of ads. — Hashtags were in 30% of Super Bowl 51 ads, down significantly from 45% last year.| Will Strafach: |
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