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| Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Instagram's co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks — SAN FRANCISCO — Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, the co-founders of the photo-sharing app Instagram, have resigned and plan to leave the company in the coming weeks …
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| Seine Kim / Instagram: |
Kevin Systrom's statement on his and Mike Krieger's departure from Instagram says they plan to take time off “to explore our curiosity and creativity again” — Mike and I are grateful for the last eight years at Instagram and six years with the Facebook team.
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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft says Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations, up from 200,000 in March of this year — At Microsoft's Ignite enterprise technology conference this week in Orlando, Florida, the company announced that Microsoft Teams is now used by 329,000 organizations.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
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| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces several changes to its search product, Google Feed is rebranded as “Discover”, the homepage on mobile will now show a news feed, more — Google Feed is also getting an update, now it's called Discover — Google is announcing changes to its search product today …
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| Cherlynn Low / Engadget: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon right from Snapchat, which works by pointing camera at a physical product or barcode — See, snap, sale. In a rare partnership for Amazon, the commerce giant will help Snapchat challenge Instagram and Pinterest for social shopping supremacy.
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| Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
Apple releases macOS 10.14 Mojave with Dark Mode, Stacks, security enhancements, a redesigned App Store, Home, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Apple News apps — As promised during September 12's Gather Round event in Cupertino, Apple today released macOS Mojave — aka macOS 10.14 — to the general public.| Jane Mayer / New Yorker: |
New book about online activity in the 2016 US presidential election argues that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive in changing outcome — A meticulous analysis of online activity during the 2016 campaign makes a powerful case that targeted cyberattacks by hackers and trolls were decisive.
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| Simone Stolzoff / Quartz: |
Slack has acquired Astro, a productivity startup that makes tools to surface important information from your emails and calendar — There's a common understanding that there are two types of people in this world: Slack people and email people. In reality, most modern offices use both …
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| Michael Sheetz / CNBC: |
SiriusXM to acquire Pandora in a $3.5B all-stock deal — Satellite radio company SiriusXM is acquiring music streaming service Pandora in a $3.5 billion all-stock deal, the companies announced Monday. — Pandora shares rose 14.4 percent in premarket trading from Friday's close of $9.09 a share …
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| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
After working with IBM for over a year on a food safety blockchain solution, Walmart says it's pushing produce suppliers to use blockchain by September 2019 — Walmart has been working with IBM on a food safety blockchain solution and today it announced it's requiring that all suppliers …
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VentureBeat, news.walmart.com, New York Times, BuzzFeed News, Engadget, Bitcoinist.com, CoinDesk, Fortune, Adweek, CNET, and Database Trends …
Tweets: @nytimestech, @buzzfeednews, @nathanielpopper, @cnbc, @nytimestech, and @n_shields_12
| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Kuo: iPhone XS Max far outselling iPhone XS, with 256GB most popular, 512GB is subject to shortages; Apple Watch Series 4 demand is “much better than expected” — In a research note obtained by MacRumors today, Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo has provided launch-weekend takeaways for the iPhone XS …
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iFixit, 9to5Mac, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, SlashGear, BGR, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, TechCrunch, and The Register
Tweets: @macrumors, @neilcybart, and @navalang
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Zoho says its domain registrar, TierraNet, pulled its service offline for a few hours after it received phishing complaints, is now looking for a new registrar — Zoho.com was pulled offline on Monday after the company's domain registrar received phishing complaints, the company's chief executive said.
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| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
As part of a new strategic partnership with Apple, Salesforce will release a Salesforce Mobile SDK for iOS by end of 2018 and redesign its iOS app by early 2019 — Salesforce and Apple have announced a partnership “that brings together the number one customer relationship management platform and iOS.”
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Tweets: @benioff, @salesforce, @tim_cook, @benioff, and @stephennellis
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Apple has closed its acquisition of music recognition app Shazam and says it will soon become ad-free, in a deal sources say was for $400M — Last year, we broke the news that Apple was buying the music recognition startup and app Shazam for about $400 million, and nearly one year later, the deal has finally closed.
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Tweets: @ingridlunden and @benbajarin
| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Roku says its streaming boxes, sticks, and TVs will gain Google Assistant support within the next few weeks, letting users launch apps, control playback, more — And Spotify is coming back to the platform — This is one example of interoperability that I didn't expect to see anytime soon …
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