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• Why Twitter's CEO is looking for a job

  Dick Costolo is out as CEO of Twitter not so much for what he did wrong, but because he didn't do nearly enough right.

• Google senior VP talks about when the company nearly failed

  The eighth person hired at Google, and its first vice president of engineering, talked today about how the world's largest Internet company nearly failed.

• Google, Facebook racing for virtual reality launch

  When it comes to virtual reality, the game is on.

• Google offers carousel of mobile search results

  Users doing a Google search on their smartphones will now get a different view of their search results.

• How to prepare for Verizon's 2-day cloud shutdown

  With some of Verizon's enterprise customers about to lose their cloud service for up to two days, now is the time for them to prepare for the extended downtime.

• Buckle up IT: The enterprise needs you for cloud adoption

  For years, people in marketing or HR have been sneaking their apps and data onto the cloud, totally bypassing IT's approval or help.

• Internet goes ad-free for an hour as Google ad server fails

  A Google ad server went down Wednesday morning, leaving many websites without advertising. Sites like <em>Computerworld</em> and <em>CNBC.com</em> were affected.

• See yah, Facebook. Teens prefer Instagram

  Teenage users have been drifting away from Facebook for the last few years, but now it seems they're in a mad rush to get off the world's largest social network.

• What you need to know about social-network upstart Ello

  Ello, a new social networking site, is creating a lot of buzz and raising more than a few questions.

• Smarter algorithms will power our future digital lives

  Researchers are working on a new version of an algorithm that will power better search, autonomous cars, smarter smartphones and the Internet of Things.