Apple says it plans a $350B “direct contribution” to US economy over next five years through repatriating overseas profits, new infrastructure projects, more
does Seattle have room? Anna Hensel / VentureBeat : Relax, Apple's new campus is no Amazon HQ2 Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica : Apple to pay $38 billion in US taxes on overseas cash Brett Samuels / The...
Twitter to roll out 280-character tweets around the world, in all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
and infuriates with maddening circle icon Marius Nestor / Softpedia News : Finally, Twitter Doubles the Character Limit of Tweets to 280 Characters CBS San Francisco : Welcome To A World With 280-Char...
Sen. Mark Warner, top Democrat on Senate Intel Committee, said Twitter's briefing on Russian accounts was “inadequate” and “deeply disappointing”
How Apple's Finally Spending Its Billions Nina Godlewski / International Business Times : Twitter Hands Over Russia Today Account Information To Congress Terry Collins / CNET : Twitter finds 201 Russi...
Sources: code written by women at Facebook rejected far more than men's; Facebook says study inaccurate, performed by former employee with incomplete data
Wednesday, May 3, 2017 Inquirer : Facebook under fire for gender bias in code review process Aman Jain / ValueWalk : Facebook Inc (FB) Rejects Claims Of Bias Against Female Coders Julia Carrie Wong / ...
Google updates kid-focused animation app Toontastic with 3D graphics, available for free on iOS and Android today
iTunes — Open iTunes to buy and download apps. Tim-o-tato / Droid Life : Google's Toontastic 3D Helps Kids Create Cartoon Movies Edoardo Maggio / 9to5Google : Toontastic 3D is Google's latest app th...
How Apple's assertive negotiating style alienated cable providers and networks, and hurt its efforts to revolutionize the TV industry
report John Gruber / Daring Fireball : The WSJ on Apple's ‘Hard-Charging’ Negotiations With TV Networks Terry Collins / CNET : Apple's arrogance likely squashed its streaming TV service Shawn Knight /...
Facebook's Sports Stadium, billed as a hub for chats, stats, and commentary, is hard to find and lacks user participation, for now
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Sources: Twitter building new product to let users share tweets longer than 140 characters
People are suddenly … Nick Cowen / htxt.africa : Twitter may be expanding the character limit on tweets Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch : The Super Tweet — Twitter is about nine years old and has a little...
Founder of Silk Road drug marketplace Ross Ulbricht sentenced to life in prison, to forfeit $184M
A Post by Fernando Caudevilla … Dareh Gregorian / NY Daily News : Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht gets slammed with life sentence for running online drug bazaar Stefanie Jones / The Huffington Post : ...