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Clayton Christensen, the author of the theory of disruptive innovation, dies at 67 — Apple's Steve Jobs, Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Netflix's Reed Hastings and Intel's Andy Grove looked to influential management thinker — SALT LAKE CITY — Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation …
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Google is backtracking on desktop search redesign which made it hard to distinguish ads from organic results, will experiment with favicon placements — The company says it will experiment with favicon placement — Google is backtracking on a controversial search engine redesign …
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Sources: Accenture is making its YouTube content moderators sign a document acknowledging that performing the job can cause PTSD — Accenture comes clean with its workforce — as part of an apparent legal defense — Content moderators for YouTube are being ordered to sign a document acknowledging …
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Sources: Accenture has sent a form to Facebook content moderators working at a European facility requiring them to acknowledge that their job could cause PTSD — Content moderators working at a European facility for Facebook have been required to sign a form explicitly acknowledging … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann launches Byte, a Vine-like short-form video app, on iOS and Android, aims to start its partner program to pay creators “soon” — Two years after Vine's co-founder Dom Hofmann announced he was building a successor to the short-form video app, today Byte makes its debut on iOS and Android.
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London police announce they will use live facial recognition cameras within a month for five to six hours at a time with bespoke lists of suspects each time — The Metropolitan Police has announced it will use live facial recognition cameras operationally for the first time on London streets.
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YouTube gains exclusive streaming rights to Activision Blizzard's big esports events like Overwatch League, which was a Twitch exclusive for the past two years — As part of a multiyear partnership between the game publisher and Google — Video game publisher Activision Blizzard has entered …
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| Bob Davis / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: US withdrew proposed rules which would have made it harder for US firms to sell to Huawei from overseas facilities, following DOD, Treasury objections — Proposed rules making it harder for American firms to sell to Chinese company are withdrawn — WASHINGTON—The Commerce …
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| Tara Seals / Threatpost: |
Kaspersky Lab: in 2019, ~30% of all macOS malware detections derived from the Shlayer trojan, an unsophisticated malware that spreads via fake app installs — The malvertising-focused trojan known as Shlayer has burbled to the top of the malware heap when it comes to targeting Mac users.
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| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
Profile of Tony Blevins, the VP of procurement at Apple, known as the Blevinator for his ability to stare down suppliers and slash prices to the bone — Apple procurement executive Tony Blevins's job is to stare down suppliers and slash prices to the bone, an increasingly vital role
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Tweets: @wsj, @nxthompson, @bradnews, @davecbenoit, @daveambrose, @trippmickle, and @faderp
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
LA-based commercial real estate marketplace CRExi raises $29M, says it had $700B worth of transactions on its platform — Los Angeles is one of the most desirable locations for commercial real estate in the United States, so it's little wonder that there's something of a boom in investments … | New York Times: |
Google has started charging law enforcement agencies fees for legal demands of user information such as emails, location tracking information and search queries — The tech giant has begun charging U.S. law enforcement for responses to search warrants and subpoenas.Sponsor Posts
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