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Here s what s on the Tuesday menu.

Two senior Intel executives are leaving the company: Kirk Skaugen was in charge of the main PC-chip unit, and Doug Davis heads the Internet of Things group.

In other Intel news: The Santa Clara company is buying Yogitech, an Italian company that works on functional safety of semiconductors, as part of its work on autonomous cars and the Internet of Things. (Company blog post)

Most Americans spend two full workdays a month on Facebook, and other numbers from comScore s latest report on traffic to social networks.

Twitter extends 20 weeks of paid parental leave to dads and parents who adopt, too, Fortune reports.

HP unveils world s thinnest laptop, complete with new logo.

Some investors from Bono s Elevation Partners (who are also former Apple execs) are forming a new VC firm called NextEquity.

Starz launches its standalone streaming service. It s $8.99 a month.

ICYMI: EU is advancing its probe into Google s Adsense and Android. (WSJ)

 

Photo: Evan Spiegel, CEO of Snapchat, which a comScore report shows is one of the younger generation s preferred social networks. (Jae C. Hong/Associated Press)

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