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Top Products in Two Decades of Tech Reviews
Walt Mossberg on the dozen personal-technology products that were the most influential over two decades of reviews.
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RapGenius and Google: Tales in Growth Hacking Gone Wrong
A startup gets in hot water with Google’s search team. Was it a misstep, or did it just get caught doing what other companies are doing?
Continuing Its Public Content Push, Facebook Acquires SportStream
Take note, Twitter!
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Facebook Rolls Out Donate Button to Aid Nonprofits
Facebook announced a new feature on Monday that will let users send money to nonprofit organizations directly from Facebook. The company partnered with about 20 nonprofits at launch, and expects to work with more in the future. Worth noting, too, for privacy watchdogs: Facebook keeps your credit card information on file after you’ve used the Donate button.Benchmark’s Mitch Lasky on App Discovery, Distribution and the Power of Chat Networks
The successful games investor chats about, well, chat.
With Private Messaging, Instagram and Twitter Continue Their Arms Race
It’s getting harder and harder to tell the two apps apart.
Twitter Dethrones Facebook as 2014’s Best Tech Company to Work For
Spoiler: It’s the food.
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Twitter Adds Private Photo Messaging to Mobile
As AllThingsD reported earlier this year that it would, Twitter on Tuesday launched a significant revamp of its private messaging product, adding the ability to send photos via Direct Message. Twitter also added a swipeable timeline feature (which we also reported would happen). All of this comes days before a highly anticipated Instagram event.Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. Facebook Users Have Their Own Ideas.
It’s tough to make everyone happy. Can Facebook reconcile its high-minded design ideals with the interests of users and publishers?
Facebook Steps Up Artificial-Intelligence Efforts With New Research Lab
Big news for deep learning.
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Instagram to Hold NYC Event on December 12
Instagram has invited reporters to a press event in Manhattan on Dec. 12, according to reports from CNET and TechCrunch. The invitations do not specify what the event will focus on, though a recent report from GigaOM suggests that it could be a messaging service.
