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Jack Dorsey and Other Twitter Insiders Make Show of Support

Twitter has had a tough year. It has been slow to attract more users and has been battered on the public markets.Now executives at the highest levels ofTwitter are trying to show that despite it all, they still believe in the company.Jack Dorsey, co-founder and interim chief executive, bought more than 31,000 shares of Twitter stock on Monday, amounting to roughly $875,000.

“Investing in Twitter’s future,” Mr. Dorsey wrote in a tweet on Monday that included a link to the Securities and Exchange Commission filing disclosing his purchase.For Mr. Dorsey, who owns nearly 22 million shares of Twitter stock, it was a small addition to his holdings. And it came at a relatively low price; shares of Twitter have fallen by nearly a third over the last year.

The price of a Twitter share jumped 9 percent on the news Monday, to $29.50.The purchase is also a statement by Mr. Dorsey who, along with stepping in as the interim chief, has privately expressed considerable interest in becoming Twitter’s permanent leader, according to people familiar with his thinking who asked not to be identified because the conversations were private.

The company has yet to name a permanent chief executive, and Mr. Dorsey has not said whether he would take the position were it offered to him. But any decision would come at a tricky time for Mr. Dorsey, whose other company, Square, is preparing an initial public offering.

Twitter’s board has indicated that it wants its next chief executive to be at the company full time, putting pressure on Mr. Dorsey to decide between the tech companies he co-founded. That is, assuming he would be the board’s choice to run Twitter.

“I think for another company, spending months on end to find the right C.E.O. is appropriate,” said Brian Blau, an Internet analyst with Gartner. “I’m not sure Twitter has that luxury, or that they should have even gone forward without a permanent C.E.O. already on board.”

There also could be a shuffling of Twitter’s top ranks, according to people close to the company who requested anonymity because the board conversations were confidential. The shift would distribute power among Mr. Dorsey, Adam Bain, the company’s top advertising executive, and Evan 

Williams, a founder and board member of Twitter.

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Delhi Police launches 'Himmat' Whatsapp group for women safety

NEW DELHI: Delhi Police today launched 'Himmat'Whatsapp and Hike groups for women safety that will assist the force to effectively communicate with women in need of help.

The facility will be available on mobile number 8800001091.

Women travelling by public transport can now send photographs and other details of the vehicle to the police before boarding it.

"Women in Delhi can now send us photos/details of the taxi/auto they are boarding and other details. This will boost their confidence and serve as a deterrent for errant drivers. Women can also send distress messages during emergencies," Delhi Police Commissioner B S Bassi said.

The details could be sent in the following format: passenger name, boarding vehicle (TSR/Cab/Taxi), from --------- to ------- and the vehicle's registration number.

The number is integrated with the PA-100 system and if a emergency is reported on the group, the nearest PCR MPV will be rushed to the spot, police said.

The Delhi Police chief also said that they have urged both the Centre and State governments to introduce self defence programme for girls in school curriculum.

"We are taking the self-defence programme very seriously. Last year we imparted training to around 17,000 girls. This year our aim is to train more than one lakh girls.

"We have already trained 15,000 girls so far this year and we have requested both the Centre and State governments to make self defence training compulsory for girls from class third and fourth onwards," he said.

More than 30,000 users are availing the 'Himmat' mobile application which lets women send SOS signals to alert Delhi police control room. And, 5,360 have registered themselves with the Delhi Police, he said.

"In all, total 1,589 SOS messages were received out of which 1,029 were from Delhi," said Bassi.

The app, which is currently available only on android platforms, will soon be made available on iOS and Windows smartphones.

"Those who donot have a smartphone can call police the police on the 1091 helpline. Last year, we received 72,930 calls on the women helpline," he said.

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how to use linked in

Saving and Sharing an Article in the LinkedIn Pulse App

How do I save and share an article in the LinkedIn Pulse mobile app?

To save an article:

1. Tap to open the article.
2. Tap the bookmark ribbon in the top right of the article.
3. You'll be notified that the article was saved.

You can also save an article directly from the feed by tapping the bookmark ribbon at the bottom right on the card.

To access saved articles

1. Tap your profile photo. This will take you to a screen with three tabs, Activity, Saved andFollowing.
2. Tap the Saved tab. Your saved articles will appear here.

To share an article:

1. Tap to open the article.
2. Tap the  Share icon on iOS or the Share icon on Android.
• When the article first loads, the Share icon will appear at the bottom right of the screen, next to the  Like icon. As you scroll through the text, this footer will disappear. This is intended to provide you a full reading view.
• If the Share icon isn't visible, tap the screen once, and it'll reappear at the bottom.
3. Choose among the share options - you can share articles on LinkedIn, or via iMessage, email, and on other social networks such as Twitter and Facebook.
• You can either share publicly or to your connections on LinkedIn.
• To share outside of LinkedIn, tap the Share via... option.

Note: As on LinkedIn.com, you can mention individuals in the LinkedIn share box by typing @ before your connection's name.

Reading mode

The LinkedIn Pulse app's reading mode provides a simplified view of the article without headers or navigation menus, for an optimized reading experience. This allows the reader to focus on the text of the article.

To turn on reading mode:

1. Tap into an article.
2. Tap the  Book icon at the top right, located next to the Save icon.

Note: Reading mode is only available for third-party articles. These are articles that were originally published on an external news site, such as nytimes.com or slate.com. Articles published on the LinkedIn platform are natively optimized for reading in the app.

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Street Dreams Magazine Flips the Script, Bringing Instagram to Print

If the measure of a successful party is the sidewalk overflow, then Street Dreams magazine had arrived.

Last September, to celebrate Issue No. 3 of its crowd-sourced photography magazine, Street Dreams gave a party at the Reed Space gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery had room for 150 people, but more than 600 showed up. Within an hour, the police shut down the event.

“That was crazy,” said Steven Irby, 28, who lives in Brooklyn and is one of the magazine’s three founders. “That really helped spark the fire.”

The party helped to cement the success of three young friends who had taken their love of street photography and turned it into a calling for their peers, as well as an expanding publishing and social media brand.

“Now, you can start with an Instagram page and turn it into something bigger,” said Eric Veloso, 33, the magazine’s editorial and creative director, who lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. “A lot of companies are starting to backtrack now and get down to that root level. People want to see real folks.”

About two years ago, Mr. Irby and Mr. Veloso, along with Michael Cobarrubia, 38, decided to create a quarterly magazine that draws its content from Instagram users. In each issue, they feature six photographers: three women and three men whose Instagram followings range from about 3,000 to more than 50,000. The second half of the magazine is filled with photos that they crowd-source from Instagram by inviting users to submit photos using the hashtag #streetdreamsmag, which has been tagged on more than 1.8 million posts.

The most recent issue, No. 6, is 56 pages and includes submissions from 127 photographers. The pages evoke the walls of a gallery, with plenty of white space and minimal writing, save for short introductions for each photographer. There are no ads, and although the magazine had a limited run of 800 copies, readers can download a digital copy from the website for 8 Canadian dollars, or about $6 at the latest exchange rate.

The magazine’s novel editorial approach has gotten the attention of photography editors as well as scholars. “One of the things about periodicals is that they’re very of the moment,” said Karen Gisonny, a librarian at the New York Public Library, which added Street Dreams to its periodical archives last year. “Street Dreams is the epitome of that.”

Part of the appeal may have to do with the founders’ humble beginnings. Mr. Irby, who is the magazine’s editor at large, was previously a customer service representative in New York. He would often show up late because he would be busy taking photos. “It was becoming harder and harder every day to go to work,” he said. “I felt like I was wasting my time.”

Mr. Veloso, meanwhile, worked as a distribution manager at a Vancouver-based clothing company. It paid the bills but offered little else. “When I was turning 29, I thought, ‘Holy cow, I don’t know if I can do this,’ ” Mr. Veloso said. “I didn’t feel that I was being fulfilled.” He quit and went back to finish his photography courses. Finding steady work as a photographer, however, turned out to be difficult, so Mr. Veloso decided that if no one was going to showcase his work the way he wanted, he would do so himself.

He had discovered Mr. Irby’s work through — what else? — Instagram. After the two connected online, Mr. Veloso flew out to New York, and the pair spent a blustery fall day taking photos and brainstorming plans for a magazine. The Street Dreams concept was born.