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Twitter’s latest move to improve safety allows reporting of tweets from users that block you

Braintree hires former Lending Club exec John MacIlwaine as CTO

Facebook reportedly creating app to bring videos to the television

Slack expands beyond teams to entire organizations with Enterprise Grid

Zenefits adds compliance and document management apps to its HR platform

Design, Inc. pivots its 99designs-like service to be ODesk for designers

Y Combinator backs the ACLU as the nonprofit challenges Trump

Uber adds Daimler to its roster of self-driving car makers

SoundHound raises $75 million to expand access to its Houndify voice-powered platform

Twitter says it will do more to stop harassment in the coming days

Comparably raises $7.25 million to help match employees with the best companies

Lyft follows Uber with in-app calendar integration

Square to save sellers $350 in processing fees if they use Apple Pay

Fitbit reportedly to lay off up to 10% of workforce

LinkedIn brings refugee assistance program to the U.S.

Uber creating $3 million fund to help drivers with immigration defense

Lyft donating $1 million to ACLU over next four years following Trump immigration ban

Activists protest Twitter demanding it ‘dump the real Donald Trump’

LinkedIn has lost $100 million since Microsoft acquisition closed

Twitter Explore launches to show trends, Moments, and live videos in one place

Facebook’s ‘Privacy Basics’ site now more mobile-friendly with new guides and a FAQ

Uber was the most-expensed service, with 6% of all business receipts in 2016

Facebook hires former Xiaomi exec Hugo Barra to lead VR efforts

Facebook starts testing more ads in Messenger home screen

Facebook stops personalizing trending topics to your interests, adds publisher headlines

Lyft now lets commuters use pretax dollars for Line rides to and from work

Lyft to launch in 40 new cities this week, targeting 100 in 2017

Tumblr now lets you add stickers and filters to photos and GIFs in its mobile app

Fuse raises $12 million for app building tool that helps designers and developers collaborate

500px launches photographer directory and unveils Adobe Stock licensing deal

Brigade acquires politics matchmaking service Voter, plans to shutter service later this year

Yahoo postpones close of Verizon transaction to Q2 2017, citing work needed

Marketo cofounder Phil Fernandez lands at Shasta Ventures

Civis Analytics adds surveys so brands can better understand themselves

Hugo Barra leaves Xiaomi after joining from Google in 2013

Yahoo reportedly under investigation by SEC over data breaches

Track Trump monitors the president’s policy changes for the first 100 days

Twitter testing new layout for Moments
