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• Twitter CEO Dick Costolo steps down

  Embattled Twitter CEO Dick Costolo will be leaving the social networking company on July 1, according to an SEC filing the company made public Thursday.

• Twitter, to curb abuse, lets users share block lists

  Twitter, to reduce abusive content on its site, is letting users share lists of the people they block, so they can more easily silence those account holders on their own profiles.

• Brace yourself for videos on Apple Watch

  No screen, apparently, is too small for video, even the one on Apple's Watch.

• Facebook, Twitter represent bulk of blocked traffic on corporate networks

  CIOs and IT managers are in many ways fighting a losing battle when it comes to blocking employee access to social media services and other websites on corporate networks. Every day, employee make an average of 6.2 attempts to access blocked social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, according to a new report from Allot Communications, an Israeli enterprise IP service provider. Whether those attempts are intentional or the result of links in messages, redirects from other sites or ads, IT is responsible for the integrity of its systems.

• How marketers can seize the mobile moment

  Marketers and advertisers shudder when they think about the great consumer rush to mobile. With a smartphone's tiny screen and a mobile consumer's fleeting attention span, marketers face an enormous challenge capitalizing on mobility.

• Despite Google Photos' arrival, Google+ still lives

  SAN FRANCISCO -- The fact that Google launched a new photo sharing and storage service this week isn't ringing the death knell of Google+.

• Private, insulting tweet gets Italian senator sued

  A right-wing senator stands to make legal history in Italy when he becomes the first person to be prosecuted for insulting another person on Twitter.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 22

  Connected cars will mean mobile traffic jams, US wants to ban export of some security tools, exploits...Google planning IoT OS...and more tech news.

• Verizon hit by an 8-hour email outage

  A lot of Verizon's email customers woke up this morning to find that their service was down. And for many, the problem lasted for about 8 hours.

• Tweets now appear in Google search results

  Performing a search on Google now also displays relevant tweets from Twitter. The integration will widely distribute Twitter content beyond its own site and is also aimed at adding a new real-time element to Google search results.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, May 19

  Obama claims @POTUS, tweets...YouTube Kids shows beer ads...Samsung off the hook for some Apple damages...and more tech news.

• Obama's new Twitter account stays with the office

  When the next U.S. president takes office, he or she will have a new perk -- an official Twitter account ready to go with millions of followers.

• Talking SMAC: Revisiting social, mobile, analytics and cloud

  While SMAC (social, mobile, analytics and cloud ) concept crystalized only in the past couple of years, buy this new area in data warehousing and data analytics has been growing -- and improving -- every day.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, May 4

  Facebook opens up Internet.org...big fight highlights Periscope piracy...Feds to share more about secret phone tracking... and more tech news.

• The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, May 1

  Oracle shrugs off Salesforce rumors...House OKs plan to stop NSA phone dragnet...why Ford's CEO is wary of Apple and Google