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- We are honored to be able to help and we will send some of our team to New York for the rest of the batch to assist.
- The ACLU will have full access to the Y Combinator network and community and they will present at Demo Day in March.
- We are hopeful that the YC community will join us in supporting this important work.
- NEW DELHI biggest technology companies lost more than billion in market value in a single hour of trading Tuesday after news reports of proposals in the US to restrict the availability of skilled worker visas for foreigners.
- Politicians say the system is abused by the outsourcing companies who use it to bring foreign workers to perform jobs previously done by Americans but at lower wages.
- On January Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren whose district encompasses much of Silicon Valley introduced a new bill that sought to reform the program.
- The American Civil Liberties Union will learn how to turn the million it raised over the weekend into growth and progress with help from top Silicon Valley startup accelerator Y Combinator.
- The ACLU will be part of the winter batch of companies in YC where it will receive mentorship a network of powerful connections in tech and a chance to present itself to investors on Demo Day.
- The partnership came about after YC partner Kat Manalac reached out to ACLU executive director Anthony Romero for feedback on a forthcoming for in the civic tech space.
- If that was bad enough Zac Hall reports that his LG monitor under the duress of a nearby router can freeze the MacBook Pro that it plugged into forcing a reboot to bring it back.
- If you take a look at the monitor product page on the Apple website customer reviews started pouring in from January a few of them are positive but a lot of them are negative.
- Hopefully the EM interference flaw is easily fixable with a bit of additional shielding so that future batches of the LG monitor do suffer from flickering blackouts and host machines.
5. To recap: Amazon buying TV shows. Apple maybe wants to buy TV shows. Facebook wants buy TV shows.
- ET Facebook might be coming to a bigger small screen.
- The social network is developing a app for television boxes including Apple Apple TV people familiar with the matter said giving it a home for video well as a new vehicle for video advertising.
- The app is one of several Facebook projects.
- heard from our community that authentic stories are the ones that resonate most those that people consider genuine and not misleading sensational or spammy.
- We continue to improve News Feed to evaluate the importance of different signals at different times.
- So now if there is a lot of engagement from many people on Facebook about a topic or if a post from a Page is getting a lot of engagement we can understand in that the topic or Page post might be temporarily more important to you so we should show that content higher in your feed.
- The timing of the donation just days after numerous women made allegations of sexual assault or misconduct against Trump prompted many within the tech industry to call for companies such as Facebook and Y Combinator to sever ties with the investor.
- Photograph Jim Images In his speech Thiel painted a dark picture of America referencing the healthcare student debt crisis and stagnant wages for American workers.
- The investor who initiated a secret legal campaign against Gawker after the publication outed him as gay asserted that have a less talented group of running for office today because of the media taking transparency in a direction.
- ET Facebook might be coming to a bigger small screen.
- The social network is developing a app for television boxes including Apple Apple TV people familiar with the matter said giving it a home for video well as a new vehicle for video advertising.
- The app is one of several Facebook projects.
- New FCC chair Ajit Pai removed the proposal championed by his predecessor Tom Wheeler from the agenda last week.
- was the biggest tech name pushing for proposal which would have theoretically allowed anyone to create their own version of a box that would sit on top of a pay TV network.
- The major pay TV providers including opposed the rule and would have ended up challenging it in court if it was approved.
- ET Microsoft sold billion of bonds capping a busy month for issuance with the largest deal of the young year.
- Surprising investors with such a big deal so soon after it sold billion of bonds last August Microsoft nonetheless met with a warm reception Monday from the market allowing it to increase the size of the offering from an initial estimate of billion.
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