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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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Tweets: @kevin, @mikeyk, @karaswisher, @kchaykowski, and @caseynewton
| 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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| 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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| 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 … | 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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| 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: |
| 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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| 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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| 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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| 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.
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| Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer: |
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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.| 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 …
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Mac App Store, 512 Pixels, and iMore
| 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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TechCrunch, The Economic Times, Reuters, MediaNama, and Trak.in. Tweets: @saritharai. Thanks:@pelstrom
| 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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| 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, @stephennellis, @benioff, and @tim_cook
| 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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Tweets: @macrumors, @neilcybart, and @navalang
| 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
| 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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