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September 25, 2018, 9:25 AM

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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 …
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.
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.
Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:
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.
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 …
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 …
More: Axios
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
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 …
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.
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.
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 …
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.”
Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:
Amazon says the new 10" Echo Show shipping next month and the first generation Echo Show will support Hulu and Hulu with Live TV  —  Amazon's Echo Show will apparently also work like a little TV, not just a visual interface for Alexa and her many apps.  When the newly announced 10-inch HD …

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