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Facebook today said it plans to open up Instant Articles to all publishers, and as it turns out, it has a very wide definition of the word publisher. The fast-loading format won’t be limited to professional media organizations, but will be open to pretty much any individual. Freelancers and amateur writers will be able to…
Twitter’s chief executive Jack Dorsey needs Ann Feely, a 51-year-old wine marketer in California’s Bay Area, to keep posting about her favorite vintages if he’s going to convince investors that Silicon Valley’s once hottest startup has a future. The problem: Feely hasn’t tweeted since June. Twitter, she says, is corked. “It’s overwhelming,” says Feely, a…
Photo Joshua Reeves, a founder of the payroll management start-up Gusto. “Even in downturns, some businesses succeed,” he said of the shifting economic environment. Credit Ramin Rahimian for The New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Technology stocks are gyrating. Valuations for once-vaunted private companies have been slashed and some start-ups have shut down. Even Apple’s…
Dear Jeremy, When I was a kid, back in the 90s when Spice Girls and owning a pager were #goals, I dreamed of having a car and a credit card and my own apartment. I told my 8-year old self, This is what it means to be an adult. Now, seventeen years later, I have…
I’m now keeping a collection of terrible awful no-good ad-tech code. This isn’t just code that tracks you, I mean code that is actually written terribly and breaks sites all around the web. All of this is simply obtained by clicking on the link in the console to the file that contains the terrible ad…
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SHANGHAI Uber Technologies Inc is burning through more than a billion dollars a year in China as it wages a fierce price war against local rival Didi Kuaidi, its chief executive said. The company’s Chinese business boosted its valuation last month to more than $8 billion after raising more than $1 billion in its…
SAN FRANCISCO — Marissa Mayer, the embattled chief executive of Yahoo, is gutting one of her signature projects: A cluster of digital magazines devoted to topics like food, autos, real estate, travel and technology. Yahoo notified dozens of writers and editors at the 15 publications on Wednesday that they were losing their jobs as part…
Instant Articles is a new way for publishers to distribute stories on Facebook An Instant Article is a HTML5 document optimized for fast mobile performance, rich storytelling capabilities, branded design and customized visual display. Through this guide, you’ll learn how to create an Instant Article and use a standardized markup language (similar to XML) to…
Apple CEO Tim Cook’s refusal to help the FBI access an encrypted phone is an important and unprecedented event in the long, strained relationship between Silicon Valley and the government. But there is one particular line, near the end of his letter, that sticks out: “We are challenging the FBI’s demands with the deepest respect…