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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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| Kevin Systrom / 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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Sources say Instagram's co-founders are leaving after growing tensions with Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook's leadership over autonomy and product direction — Facebook promised Instagram autonomy, but reduced it over time leading to today's bombshell revelation.
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| David Faber / CNBC: |
Qualcomm accuses Apple of allegedly stealing source code and chip secrets and giving them to Intel for improving the performance of Intel chips in iPhones — - Qualcomm hopes the court will amend its allegations to an existing lawsuit against Apple for breaching the so called master software agreement …
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| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter announces a new policy around dehumanizing language and says it will now ask everyone for feedback about its policy changes, starting today — Twitter says it's going to change the way it creates rules regarding the use of its service to also now include community feedback.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
LinkedIn launches Talent Insights, which provides business intelligence reports on companies, talent pools, skills, and more — LinkedIn may be best known as a place where people and organizations keep public pages of their professional profiles, using that as a starting point for networking …
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| Rob Pegoraro / Yahoo! Finance: |
What to expect when Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Charter, Google, and Twitter testify in front of the Senate Commerce Committee on Wednesday at 10am ET — you some popcorn, because another Silicon-Valley-comes-to-Washington drama is on the way. — Starting at 10 a.m. Wednesday, the
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sundar Pichai to meet with GOP lawmakers in private meeting Friday to discuss privacy, Google's work with China, and alleged bias in search results — Friday's talks to occur amid concerns on Capitol Hill about privacy, China business and allegations of bias against conservatives
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| Klint Finley / Wired: |
A look at Tidelift, a startup described as “Netflix for open source”, that hopes subscription fees will let coders keep open source projects patched and updated — HENRY ZHU MAKES software that's crucial to websites you use every day, even if you've never heard of him or his software.| 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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| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
An in-depth review of macOS Mojave, which continues High Sierra's foundational work while bringing some consequential changes to the UI, the desktop, and Finder — Dark Mode and iOS apps make this desert-themed release feel surprisingly verdant. — I ended last year's review of macOS High Sierra … | Jeremy Horwitz / VentureBeat: |
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| Mark Sullivan / Fast Company: |
A look at new Microsoft video conferencing and meeting tech, including a feature, available now, that lets participants blur the background of their location — Microsoft let me sit in on the rehearsal for its futuristic “meetings of the future” demo in Orlando. Here's what I learned.| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| 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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| Rachel Kraus / Mashable: |
Snapchat partners with TurboVote to put links to register in users' profile pages and partners with some pubs on “swipe up” option, says 80% of US users are 18+ — Snapchat is the latest social network to roll out a voter registration initiative in the run up to the 2018 midterm elections.
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| Jillian D'Onfro / CNBC: |
Google is reversing part of its ban on cryptocurrency-related ads, plans to allow ads from regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan, starting in October — - Google is reversing part of its sweeping ban on cryptocurrency-related advertising and plans to allow regulated crypto exchanges to buy ads in the United States and Japan.
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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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| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Google launches Android Studio 3.2 with over 20 new features, including new Android App bundle, Emulator Snapshots, and Energy Profiler — Google today launched Android Studio 3.2, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with over 20 new features …
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| Bloomberg: |
A look at how startup entrepreneurs still struggle in France, as multiple regulatory regimes and languages and inadequate capital remain hurdles to scaling up — - France spawns a ‘forest of bonsai trees’ but no real giants — Scaling up is still a problem, although progress is being made
Tweets: @helenefouquet and @business
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Interview with Peter Chou, former HTC CEO who worked alongside Google's Andy Rubin on Android's first phone, the G1 — The T-Mobile G1 is an iconic device. But with its slide-out full QWERTY keyboard and a thick chin, it isn't an attractive one. — When it debuted a decade ago … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Indian hotel-booking startup Oyo has raised $800M, with commitments for another $200M, in a round led by SoftBank's Vision Fund, sources says at a $5B valuation — Oyo Hotels, an Indian startup for booking reliable rooms in the country's chaotic lodging market, is raising $1 billion …
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| 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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