At least for the moment, Twitter has reportedly put its marketing department under the direction of Chief Financial Officer Anthony Noto. “Noto is consolidating power, so to speak,” a source tells The Verge. “He took over marketing after months of fruitless searching for a chief marketing officer.” Kevin Weil, SVP of product, has led Twitter’s marketing efforts since January. 

Facebook plans to release the first commercial model of its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset in the first quarter of 2016, The Guardian reports. “Extremely excited to announce that the Oculus Rift will be shipping Q1 2016!” Nate Mitchell, vice president of product at Oculus VR, tweeted this week. Analysts were hoping to see the launch before the end of 2015. 

Google’s social strategy is showing signs of life with the launch Collections, which are essentially curated sets of Google+ posts. “A user can create a new collection based on their interests, and then add posts to it using the share menu,” Android Police reports. “Other users can then follow and share that collection to keep up to date with posts relevant to the topic.” Collections bears a strong resemblance to Pinterest. 

Trying to get a leg up on rival operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows 10 officially allows an up finger emoji. Available in a range of flesh color-tones, the middle finger emoji “is surely yet another example of how Microsoft wants to shed its stodge in favor of a little modernist chutzpah,” CNet writes. “The political correction facilitators behind Android and iOS have singularly failed to include one of humanity's most basic pieces of terminology: the bird flip.” 

Extending an olive branch to media makers, Facebook is reportedly ready to let publishers keep all the revenue from certain ads. “The Facebook initiative, dubbed Instant Articles, is aimed at speeding” the process of mobile content discover, The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources. “Facebook plans to start hosting news and videos from BuzzFeed, The New York Times, National Geographic and other publishers as early as this month.” 

Uncertainty surrounding the untimely passing of Dave Goldberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey and husband of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, is fueling speculation about his cause of death. As The Wrap reports, a number of industry watchers are suggesting it was suicide, and even wondering whether the financial health of SurveyMonkey could have factored into the equation. 

By bragging about the popularity of Periscope, Twitter CEO Dick Costolo is picking what will likely be a costly fight with sports and entertainment content owners. That’s according to Variety, which doesn’t think it was very smart of Costolo to tweet, “And the winner is… @periscopeco” following the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight, Saturday night. 

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