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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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| 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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| 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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| 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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| Bloomberg: |
Google publishes a proposed framework for privacy regulation, a 3-page document, and taps its privacy lawyer Keith Enright to become chief privacy officer — - Longtime lawyer Keith Enright to testify before Senate — Washington ramps up pressure on tech over privacy policies
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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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| 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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| 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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| 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 … | Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook removes 12+ US hyperpartisan pages with 30M+ fans, which mostly spammed them with links to Laura Ingraham's LifeZette and were run by fake accounts — Facebook has removed over a dozen American hyperpartisan liberal and conservative pages with more than 30 million combined fans …
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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.| Reuters: |
Indian version of Tinder is trialing a new feature called “My Move”, which, like Bumble, gives women control over starting a conversation — (Reuters) - The Indian edition of dating app Tinder is trialing a new feature which gives women an additional level of scrutiny and security …
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| Larry Dignan / ZDNet: |
Salesforce announces Customer 360, which aims to connect and help manage customer data across Salesforce apps — Salesforce's idea to provide a 360 degree view of the customer isn't exactly new, but the company maintains its execution will be different. Here's the master plan.| 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 … | Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK-based Snyk, which helps companies detect security vulnerabilities in open source code, raises $22M Series B led by Accel, source says at $100M valuation — Open source software is now a $14 billion+ market and growing fast, in use in one way or another in 95 percent of all enterprises.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
US federal appeals court rules Uber can force drivers into arbitration, reversing a lower court decision — (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Tuesday granted Uber Technologies Inc's request that drivers be required to use arbitration to pursue claims made in three lawsuits …
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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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| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snap begins slow rollout of a new way to search for products on Amazon from Snapchat 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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| 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 … | 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.
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