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Technology Report: Bitcoin Foundation hit by resignations over new director

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Bitcoin Foundation hit by resignations over new director
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - As the most prominent trade group pushing adoption of the electronic currency Bitcoin begins its annual conference on Friday, it is being roiled by controversy.
Baidu hires former Google artificial intelligence chief
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - China's top search engine Baidu Inc has hired Google Inc's former artificial intelligence (AI) chief Andrew Ng to spearhead research in a field that promises to show Internet companies how to maximize use of their vast data trove.
Protesters target tech executives over San Francisco evictions
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A tenants' rights advocacy group released on Thursday what it called a "Dirty Dozen" list of landlords from the technology sector that it said had evicted San Francisco tenants.
Amid protests, U.S. FCC proposes new 'net neutrality' rules
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. regulators on Thursday advanced a "net neutrality" proposal that would ban Internet providers from blocking or slowing down access to websites but may let them charge content companies for faster and more reliable delivery of their traffic to users.
Pinterest wins new funding, raising valuation to $5 billion
(Reuters) - Pinterest has raised a new $200 million round of funding that gives it a valuation of $5 billion, the photo pin-up site said on Thursday.
Nextdoor CEO Tolia faces lawsuits over hit-and-run accident
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia, whose social networking website espouses neighborhood safety and community, is facing civil and criminal charges for leaving the scene of a highway accident that a driver says he caused.
German government tightens rules for sensitive public IT contracts
BERLIN (Reuters) - The German government has tightened tender rules for sensitive public IT contracts in the wake of reports about mass surveillance by the U.S. National Security Agency, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said on Friday.
Now the hard part: Microsoft CEO touts new Surface tablets
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Satya Nadella has enjoyed a fairly smooth ride in his first 100 days as Microsoft Corp chief executive, but he risks hitting a rough patch next week when he unveils the latest models of the tepidly received Surface tablet.
Adobe Creative Cloud up after outage, may compensate customers
(Reuters) - Adobe Systems Inc said on Friday that access to its Creative Cloud was restored following an outage that disrupted the Web-based, subscription service to top-selling software programs including Photoshop, Illustrator and Flash for about a day.
FCC votes to restrict AT&T, Verizon in 2015 spectrum auction
(Reuters) - U.S. telecom regulators on Thursday voted to limit how much spectrum Verizon Communications Inc and AT&T Inc will be able to buy in next year's auction of highly valuable wireless airwaves.
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