Twitter (TWTR) founder Jack Dorsey announced on Monday, Nov. 29, that he would be stepping down from his role as CEO after nearly 16 years at the company, with CTO Parag Agrawal filling his shoes. Dorsey will remain CEO of payments platform Square (SQ), a company which he also founded. “Parag is CEO starting today [Nov. 29],” he said in an email with Twitter staff, which he also tweeted. “I’m going to serve on the board through my term (May-ish) to help Parag and Bret [Taylor] with… Source link
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Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson. (GeekWire File Photo / Dan DeLong) [Editor’s Note: This story originally appeared in journalist Eli Sanders’ “Wild West” newsletter, which covers internet-related legal issues. Subscribe here.] Think about how fast Google search results arrive. “Practically instant” has long been a company goal, and in that same instant Google often pairs results with targeted ads. Sometimes, those ads are political. University of… Source link
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A 20-year-old university student said she experienced congestive heart failure after contracting Covid for the second time. Madeline Neville, from Philadelphia in the US, shared a Facebook post on December 8 hoping to educate people who “don’t believe in the severity of the pandemic”. Ms Neville said she quarantined in October after she was diagnosed with a “mild case” of coronavirus and returned back to her normal life after she had recovered. It wasn’t until she was diagnosed… Source link
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