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Shaheen Ainpour

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Shaheen Ainpour is a former Marketplace production intern. He graduated from California State University, Long Beach, with a degree in finance and journalism. Before coming to Marketplace, Shaheen was a summer intern at NPR. He likes radio.

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Apple's WWDC: Lots of new features, little talk of privacy

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Jun 5, 2018
"It was a soft sell rather than a hard sell," Axios reporter says.
Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering, speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference at the San Jose Convention Center today in California.
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Are we trading security for emojis on Venmo?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
Jun 1, 2018
The Federal Trade Commission found the app's security and privacy protections disclosures lacking.
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Are traders messing with the price of bitcoin? And why should you care?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 31, 2018
The U.S. is reportedly investigating price manipulation in digital currencies.
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The Craig behind the internet's most famous list

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 29, 2018
Craig Newmark founded Craigslist, Inc. in 1995; the site has changed little since then.
Craig Newmark at an event in New York City on March 11, 2016.
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Venture capitalist John Doerr on the virtues and perils of setting goals

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 28, 2018
The legendary venture capitalist talks about his new book on measuring the right goals.
John Doerr of the venture firm Kleiner Perkins, author of the new book "Measure What Matters."
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How to learn the business of business as a high schooler

by Shaheen Ainpour
May 25, 2018
Students form "companies" and test drive careers as part of the Virtual Enterprise program.
Emauri Singletary in front of the logo he designed for his Virtual Enterprise company, which sells disposable cups that change color to detect date rape drugs.
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The problem of governments using facial recognition software

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 24, 2018
"They know both the question and the answer," one CEO says.
A display shows a facial recognition system for law enforcement during the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
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Why privacy settings can't keep your location secret

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 22, 2018
Phone carriers can sell location data to third parties, and you can't opt out.
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Is Uber disrupting itself with its bike share investment?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 21, 2018
It recently bought Jump, giving users an alternative to cars.
A Jump bike sits in front of Uber headquarters in San Francisco. Uber acquired Jump for an undisclosed amount of money.
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Did our lack of trust in Big Cable sway the net neutrality vote?

by Molly Wood , Stephanie Hughes and Shaheen Ainpour
May 18, 2018
The rules aren't likely to be resurrected soon. But the Senate vote did accomplish something.
Demonstrators outside the Federal Communications Commission building in Washington, D.C., in December protest the end of net neutrality rules.
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