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Dami Lee / The Verge: 35 mins ago

Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts

Lauren Feiner / CNBC: 1½ hours ago

GameStop says it will sell Spring Mobile, which owns and runs 1,289 AT&T wireless stores, to Prime Communications for $700M

Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times: 2 hours ago

Facebook poaches Kate Patchen, who led the DOJ's antitrust office in San Francisco, to be an associate general counsel of litigation, according to her LinkedIn

Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk: 2 hours ago

Parent of Silvergate Bank files for an IPO, seeking to raise $50M, and says it has 483 crypto clients, up from 114 in September 2017

Seth Fiegerman / CNN:

In an interview, Mark Zuckerberg says he will stay on as Facebook's chairman, defends COO Sheryl Sandberg, reiterates Facebook's potential as a force for good

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

In a leaked internal memo, Facebook's outgoing head of public policy, Elliot Schrage, takes responsibility for the hiring of PR firm Definers

Bloomberg:

Leaked memo: Foxconn aims to cut $2.9B from expenses in 2019 and eliminate ~10% of non-technical staff, as it faces “a very difficult and competitive year”

TechCrunch:

Amazon emails an unknown number of customers disclosing a “technical error” that exposed emails and names, but provides few other details

Wall Street Journal:

Sources: Amazon is working to persuade brick-and-mortar merchants to accept its Amazon Pay digital wallet, starting with gas stations, restaurants, and others

Pranav Dixit / BuzzFeed News:

Sources detail meeting in India between Twitter's Jack Dorsey, Vijaya Gadde, and others, after photo of Dorsey holding sign criticizing caste system goes viral

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:

USPS patches API flaw that let anyone with a usps.com account view details of 60M users, over a year after a researcher says he disclosed the vulnerability

Dami Lee / The Verge:

Instagram says it is testing new profile layouts that rearrange core elements, except the grid view, in an apparent attempt to reduce focus on follower counts

Kadhim Shubber / Financial Times:

Facebook poaches Kate Patchen, who led the DOJ's antitrust office in San Francisco, to be an associate general counsel of litigation, according to her LinkedIn

James Vincent / The Verge:

Amazon is using “neural text-to-speech” (NTTS) tech to develop new speaking styles for Alexa, will launch a newscaster style to read articles in a few weeks

Karen Weise / New York Times:

How a group of East African Amazon warehouse workers in Minneapolis became the first known collective to get Amazon management to negotiate better terms

Lauren Feiner / CNBC:

GameStop says it will sell Spring Mobile, which owns and runs 1,289 AT&T wireless stores, to Prime Communications for $700M

Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch:

Berlin-based e-scooter rental service Wind Mobility, which operates in various cities in Spain, France, and the US, raises $22M in seed funding

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