This Week in Google 363

Verizon buys Yahoo for $4.8 billon, controversy surrounds the DNC email leak and the timing of its release, and Twitter has to tell everyone what the heck it is.

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Links

• Twitter Shares Slump on Lower-Than-Expected Revenue Forecast - Bloomberg
• Twitter launches new ad campaign because people still don’t understand Twitter
• Twitter users erupt: #DNCLeaks disappears from trending news as WikiLeaks emails released
• Google searches omitted key US presidential candidates (update: bug)
• Facebook Rejects New Diverse Lingerie Campaign for Being Too Sexy
• Related: Facebook takes down news footage on tortured children
• Why Did Google Erase Dennis Cooper’s Beloved Literary Blog? - The New Yorker
• Jeff Jarvis: Finding copyright peace between platforms and publishers
• Facebook beat Wall Street earnings estimates and its stock is soaring
• Washington Post hires full-time Facebook Live producers
• CNN hires Snapchat producer
• Tronc Content Specialist job
• Official: Yahoo snapped up by Verizon in $4.8 billion deal
• Mayer to Yahoos: 'I'm planning to stay' - CNET
• Google’s Omnitone surround sound project brings us closer to web-based VR
• Transistors will stop shrinking in 2021, but Moore’s law will live on
• Atom-scale storage holds 62TB in a square inch
• FBI to investigate Russia's involvement in DNC email leak
• Assange Timed WikiLeaks Release of Democratic Emails to Harm Hillary Clinton - The New York Times
• Family Play launches officially
• With 10M downloads on iOS, Prisma now lets Android users turn their photos into works of art
• New Google Assistant settings, ‘Ok Google' driving commands found in Google app beta code
• Unboxing: ZTE Axon 7
• 13 craziest Google patents
• Stranger Things - YouTube