Feb. 5, 2020
Wed. 02/05 - It Turns Out…
Spotify officially buys The Ringer, we have the official Disney+ subscriber numbers, Jeff Weiner is officially stepping down as LinkedIn CEO, a Rockstar Games co-founder is apparently leaving the company, and what languages do most developers say they want to learn next?
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- Spotify is buying Bill Simmons’s The Ringer to boost its podcast business (Recode)
- Disney earnings beat expectations, fueled by strong Disney+ subscriptions (Yahoo! Finance)
- LG Electronics is withdrawing from Mobile World Congress due to coronavirus (The Verge)
- NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Makes Takeover Offer for eBay (WSJ)
- Instagram Brings In More Than a Quarter of Facebook Sales (Bloomberg)
- Jeff Weiner Updates His LinkedIn Profile (Wired)
- Rockstar co-founder Dan Houser is leaving the company (The Verge)
- Programming languages: Go and Python are what developers most want to learn (ZDNet)
- Why the N.Y.P.D. Dropped One of Its Oldest Crime-Fighting Tools (NYTimes)
- Steve Jobs' personality changed after Apple's success, Wozniak says (CNET)
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