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Instagram Hires Twitter’s Former Product Head Kevin Weil

Weil left Twitter over the weekend with other execs in a major shake-up.

Former Twitter product head Kevin Weil has reportedly landed at one of the microblogging site’s main competitors, Facebook’s Instagram, reports Re/code. Weil was one of the executives who left Twitter in a major shake-up at the company over the weekend. At Instagram, Weil will take the same position he held at Twitter, heading up the product team.

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Twitter Is Looking To Stack Its Deck In Wake Of Exec Exodus

The company has hired AmEx’s former VP of global advertising and is looking to nab Apple’s former PR star.

After an exodus of high-level executives at Twitter over the weekend, which caused the company’s shares to drop as much as 4.6% on Monday, it appears the social media company is on a high-profile hiring spree to stack its deck full of experienced leaders which can move the company past this turbulent period.

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This is How Google’s Project Wing Drone Delivery Service Could Work

Patent filing reveals a drone “delivery receptacle” to securely store packages

Google’s Project Wing is the code name for the company’s drone delivery service it hopes to launch in 2017. The company first publicly announced Project Wing in a YouTube video back in 2014, but since then has been keeping mum about how this service will work. Now a new patent filing from the company reveals how part of Project Wing deliveries could deliver your packages.

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The R&D Behind Meal Delivery Startup Sprig’s New Recipes

The story of 1,274 different dishes that needed to be healthy, delivery-proof, cost-conscious, mass-producible—and oh yeah, delicious.

For years, 590 Van Ness Ave. in San Francisco was home to a restaurant in the Chevy’s Fresh Mex chain, and therefore full of food that was starchy, salty, served in overwhelming portions, and generally prepared without apparent regard to its impact on anyone’s health.

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5 Ways Twitter Has Changed Since Jack Dorsey Returned As CEO

A rundown of the changes we’ve seen at Twitter since Jack Dorsey returned to the helm

It’s been only seven months since Twitter cofounder Jack Dorsey returned to the company as interim CEO—and three months since that role was made permanent—but we’ve already seen major changes taking shape at the social network. And we’re not just talking about Dorsey’s epic beard. As Twitter molds its product (and overall strategy) in an effort to jump-start its stagnant growth, we’ll undoubtedly see even more shifts throughout 2016.

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SEC Suspicious Of Tech Companies’ Plunging Valuations Post-IPO

Tech upstarts like Box and Etsy saw a steep decline in valuation after going public last year—and regulators want to understand why.

A number of tech companies with sky-high valuations prior to going public last year—Box, Square, and Etsy, to name a few—have since seen their worth drop significantly. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) thinks the stockbrokers who advise investors may be to blame, according to Bloomberg.

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This Startup Wants To End AdBlock’s “Raping and Pillaging” Of Online Publishers

Websites are freaking out over billions in lost revenue and starting to fight back, but there are still legit reasons to block ads.

This January marked the 10th anniversary of AdBlock Plus, a browser plug-in that banishes ads from web pages. It isn’t the only ad blocker; but AdBlock Plus dominates, with 500 million downloads, according to Eyeo, the company behind the software.

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