“EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft’s Satya Nadella accidentally acquired LinkedIn as he tried to delete his account.”— Steven Millward, twitter.com
“Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence. As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is av…”— Sahil Patel, digiday.com
“Maybe it’s time for Silicon Valley to tone things down. To admit that, no, the Valley can’t solve all human problems -- not even close -- and never will.”— Keith Emmer, reuters.com
“To date, Facebook has only showed ads across its Audience Network to Facebook users, targeted based on information the company has collected about its users’ tastes and behaviors. Now Facebook plans to collect information about all Internet users, through “like” buttons and other pieces of code pres…”— Jack Marshall, wsj.com
“I was trying to buy an AirPort Extreme today from the Beverly Hills Apple Store and an employee told me that Apple had asked for all of them back from all the stores”— Anonymous Tipster, macrumors.com
“For the avoidance of doubt, references to JADE on the website https://www.npmjs.com are permissible during the period ending six months after the date of these Undertakings. Upon the expiry of the six month period, I will make no further use of the sign "JADE" in any context.”— Jade Software Corporation Limited, github.com
“This decision has been made, I am aware of these issues, but we have neither the finances, nor the time to fight this.”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com
“Why pug? It's short, memorable and widely available. Not only that, but pugs are cute!”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com
“Unfortunately, these people have a trademark for the word "jade" referring to software, so we've been forced to change our name. Fortunately, @davidglivar has kindly donated the name "pug" to us. I've claimed pug and pugjs everywhere I could think of so hopefully we shouldn't have any problems getti…”— Forbes Lindesay, github.com
“Participating on someone else’s operating system means you’re on their turf. Resisting the local conventions and importing design from a different operating system is as offensive as an American going to a far-off country and expecting everyone to speak English and accept U.S. cash.”— Jason Snell, macworld.com
“An SEC filing has been made today with information about Snapchat’s latest Series F round, in which it has raised $1.8 billion. Separately, we’ve also obtained a leaked pitch deck, revealing Snapchat’s revenue and forecasts. The Los Angeles-based company recently started its monetization efforts and…”— Katie Roof, techcrunch.com
“Facebook denies censoring Twitter in Trending topic headlines, or what we call 'descriptions', and the guidelines appear to support this. However, I was specifically trained to avoid using Twitter. Several times curators were penalized for using Twitter in descriptions.”— Anonymous, theguardian.com
“Google Home should also get a significant boost from another major I/O announcement: Allo, a messaging service that calls on neural networks not just to understand your words, but reply to them. Home offers the promise of not just understanding commands, but providing conversation.”— Brian Barrett, wired.com
“Instead of creating a campaign solely geared to inspiring young girls to get into computer science, the nonprofit wanted to show how ridiculous it is to assume that girls have some sort of gender-specific obstacles to being developers.”— Kristina Monllos, Girls Who Code, adweek.com
“A time capsule is bottled optimism. It makes material the belief that human beings will survive long enough to retrieve and decode artifacts of the distant past. In 1938, during the planning stages of the Crypt of Civilization, Jacobs dedicated the vault’s massive steel door. His remarks exhibited a…”— Glenn Fleishman, theatlantic.com
“When Uber said it is profitable, the company similarly left out equity grants to employees, along with interest and taxes. Its main ride-hailing rival in the U.S., Lyft, declined to elaborate on its "path to profitability" statement, leaving questions about how or when it will reach its destination.…”— Ellen Huet, bloomberg.com
“The social media company will soon stop counting photos and links as part of its 140-character limit for messages, according to a person familiar with the matter. The change could happen in the next two weeks, said the person who asked not to be named because the decision isn’t yet public. Links cur…”— Sarah Frier, bloomberg.com
“Apple released an update to iTunes today that's supposed to give it 'a simpler design', supposedly making it easier to navigate between sections to find what you're looking for. To do that, it brings back an old iTunes standby: the lefthand navigation bar, which disappeared a while back.”— Jacob Kastrenakes, theverge.com
“What happened to the days when tech companies were hiring good engineers. Nowadays this political correctness is going way way way over the top of common sense.”— Unknown, menofdesignernews.tumblr.com
“Postmates, which is now completing 1 million deliveries a month, is digging in deeper to the e-commerce space with the launch of Postmates Plus Unlimited, a $9.99 per month subscription service that gets you free deliveries on all “Plus” orders over $30, minus the service fee. Plus merchants include…”— Megan Rose Dickey, techcrunch.com