Pinterest Inc. is again paying up to acquire talent as it builds out an image search engine based on its users’ intent.
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Periscope hires editor-in-chief to curate live streams
Twitter-owned Periscope just made a high-profile hire to get the most engaging live streams in front of an audience: The social live video streaming company has hired former Wired.com editor in chief Evan Hansen to help with its curation efforts.
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USA Today suffers setback in dispute targeting video privacy of newspaper’s app
There’s some life left in the Video Privacy Protection Act, the federal law enacted in the 1980s after the Washington Postpublished a list of videos rented by then-Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork.
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Why is Google creating a new hardware division?
Reports suggest that Alphabet Inc.’s subsidiary Google has hired Rick Osterloh, the former president of Motorola to run its newly constituted hardware division which will bring Nexus, Chromecast, OnHub, ATAP, Google Glass and the company’s other consumer hardware initiatives under one umbrella.
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