BlackBerry CEO says company needs to sell 5M phones a year to make business profitable, hints it may exit handset business if it doesn't meet that goal
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Twitter Is Planning Company-Wide Layoffs for Next Week
Jack Dorsey was named permanent CEO of Twitter on Monday, and a big reason he got the job was that as a co-founder, Dorsey isn't afraid to make the tough, necessary decisions. He isn't wasting much t...
Display Dock for Windows 10 mobile devices to cost $99, will launch alongside the Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL
Display Dock for new Lumias will cost $99 — Microsoft will charge $99 for an upcoming Display Dock device to connect next-generation Lumia 950 and Lumia 950XL smartphones …
For the first time, computer science is the most popular major for female students at Stanford; 30% of Stanford computer science majors are women
Computer science now top major for women at Stanford University — Computer science has for the first time become the most popular major …
Google promotes Neal Mohan to SVP for ads and Hiroshi Lockheimer to SVP for Android, Chrome OS and Chromecast
New Google CEO Sundar Pichai Makes First Major Executive Picks — Sundar Pichai, Google's new CEO under the company's Alphabet restructuring, has made his first major wave …
Report: 65% of US adults now use social networking sites, up from 7% a decade earlier
Social Media Usage: 2005-2015 — 65% of adults now use social networking sites - a nearly tenfold jump in the past decade — Nearly two-thirds of American adults (65%) use social networking sites …
Google Search app now indexes iOS 9 apps with deep links to open content surfaced from apps, Safari to also show app content by end of month
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Pinterest says nearly half of its users are outside the US, begins localizing search in France, Germany, Brazil, and Japan
Pinterest Localizes Search For Its Large International Audience — Nearly half of Pinterest users live abroad, so the company is making the search experience better …
Amazon surveys employees daily about their jobs after critical reports on workplace culture
Amazon Wants to Know How Its Employees Feel Every Day — Web retailer poses daily questions on job-related topics — Connections effort started at warehouses before expansion
DocuSign Chairman and CEO Keith Krach says he will step down as CEO and company will start search for new CEO; will remain chairman 3 years after new CEO starts
DocuSign CEO to Step Down After New CEO Search Is Complete — Chairman and CEO Keith Krach told the staff of DocuSign …
“Last call!” — Valuations for later-stage tech companies are finally receding, say Silicon Valley dealmakers
Fear and sadness in Silicon Valley — Every couple of months I leave my small Massachusetts town — where most people still shop for their own groceries …
Period Tracker App Clue Gets $7M To Build A Platform For Female Health
Berlin-based Clue, which makes a period tracker app designed to let women keep tabs on their monthly cycles and help predict their fertile window, has closed a $7 million Series A round, with investme...
LogMeIn acquires LastPass for $110M in cash and another $15M in cash contingent on LastPass meeting certain milestone and retention targets
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Yahoo, NHL Ban Employees from Paid Fantasy-Sports Sites
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Dell is offering EMC $27.25 a share in cash plus tracking stock in VMware, boosting the value per share to more than $30, representing a $50B+ takeover attempt
sources Jessica Guynn / USA Today : EMC shares up on report Dell offering $27.25 a share and VMware tracking stock Jonathan Vanian / Fortune : Report: Dell makes blockbuster offer to buy EMC Rachel Ki...
Dow Jones discloses customer data breach, says financial data of 3,500 people compromised
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Twitter ad executive Glenn Brown, who oversaw Twitter's video ad push, is leaving for Betaworks to be an entrepreneur in residence
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Dell Files Confidentially for IPO of Cybersecurity Unit SecureWorks
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YC-backed Segment, which allows businesses to use a single API for event tracking, raises $27M Series B led by Thrive Capital
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US ITC: Samsung does not infringe Nvidia graphics chip patents, another Nvidia patent is invalid
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A breakdown of October 2014 fundraising documents from WeWork, which raised $400M in June 2015 at a $10B valuation
and that could be a problem Brendan O'Connor / The Awl : WeParty Like It's 1999 — Last week, members of WeWork … Tweets: Hunter Walk / @hunterwalk : @nitashatiku the @WeWork pitch is fascinating. ...
Education software firm Instructure files for IPO
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