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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• TinyCapital.com
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Links:

• 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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