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The Longish Goodbye: Highlights From AllThingsD Staffers Johnson, Del Rey and Cha
I don’t know why you say hello, we say goodbye.News Byte
Yahoo Loses New Top Data Scientist to eBay
Tim Converse, one of Yahoo’s higher-ranking data scientists, who arrived at the company early this year via an acquisition, has been hired away by eBay. He will lead its search-science engineering team, reporting to search technology VP Dan Fain. Converse is co-founder of Jybe, a mobile app for recommendation and social discovery that the Silicon Valley Internet giant bought in March. His LinkedIn profile notes that, at Yahoo, he “worked on machine learning techniques for the personalization group.”Betaworks Hires Former HuffPost Publisher Balis as CRO
The New York-based tech studio is trying to monetize across all its online media platforms.PlayPhone Adds SingTel to Its Roster, Betting on “Not Yet Mature” Emerging Markets
And it’s a safe bet, too. Just don’t expect a whole lot of change overnight.News Byte
StumbleUpon Acquires Video Discovery Startup 5by
StumbleUpon, the website discovery startup that has been around for more than a decade, announced on Tuesday it has acquired 5by, a Montreal-based video discovery startup. The six-person 5by team will relocate to StumbleUpon’s San Francisco-based offices, and for now will continue supporting the 5by standalone mobile and Web-based apps as it works toward integrating into StumbleUpon’s products. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.Foursquare Says It’s Ready to Impress You Now
A new “passive” tip feature starts rolling out, and Dennis Crowley says it’s a huge deal: “This is the version of Foursquare that we’ve been talking about building for a long time.”News Byte
PlayPhone Partners With Sprint for Preloaded Social Games Store
PlayPhone has partnered with Sprint to preload its social games store on some of the U.S. carrier’s new devices. Sprint is the fourth such carrier to partner with PlayPhone, after Verizon, AT&T and Claro Brazil. Games in the store, which must integrate PlayPhone’s SDK, let players quickly connect with gamer friends via a built-in menu, and support direct carrier billing if the developer so chooses. The visibility of a preloaded store means better discovery for participating developers, PlayPhone says, and carriers like having alternatives to the two juggernaut mobile app stores, Apple’s and Google’s.Facebook-Owned Parse to Host First Developer Conference
Attention mobile developers — Facebook really wants to help you build mobile apps.News Byte