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While the White House has been quiet today on official public announcements, staffers — including the president — have been making lots of news on Twitter:

• Trump got it started with an insult: "When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the Obama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story? ... It is the same Fake News Media that said there is "no path to victory for Trump" that is now pushing the phony Russia story. A total scam!"
• Trump complimented the NYT, tweeting an excerpt from an Obamacare story: "The failing @nytimes finally gets it - 'In places where no insurance company offers plans, there will be no way for ObamaCare customers to.....use subsidies to buy health plans.' In other words, Ocare is dead. Good things will happen, however, either with Republicans or Dems."
• Finally, he got on the trail of a Fox News story from yesterday: "Wow, @FoxNews just reporting big news. Source: "Official behind unmasking is high up. Known Intel official is responsible. Some unmasked......not associated with Russia. Trump team spied on before he was nominated." If this is true, does not get much bigger. Would be sad for U.S."

Meanwhile, Dan Scavino, Trump's social media manager, tweeted for Rep. Justin Amash to be primaried. The Amash response: "Trump admin & Establishment have merged into #Trumpstablishment."

Uber released its first diversity report this week, which revealed that just like the rest of Silicon Valley, it struggles to hire as many women as it does men, especially for high-paying technical jobs or senior positions.

However, Didi Chuxing, the Chinese ride-hailing giant that acquired Uber's local business last year, has done a better job in that department than Uber (and Silicon Valley), according to data provided by the company:

• At Didi, 40% of the company's 7,000 employees are women, and they fill 37% of technical jobs.
• In comparison, 36.1% of Uber employees worldwide are women, and fill 15.4% of technical jobs.
• It should be noted that in Asia, 42.5% of Uber's employees are women, the region where it has the most gender parity.

50-50 leadership: Unlike Uber, which is looking to hire a No. 2 executive to lead with CEO Travis Kalanick, most likely a woman as a response to the company's recent sexism scandals, Didi Chuxing already has both a man and a woman running the company—CEO Cheng Wei and president Jean Liu.

Google is known for having some of the best of the tech April fools day pranks, and this year the team pulled out an old favorite: turning Google Maps into a game of Ms. Pac-Man. To play, open up the Google Maps app on your phone or desktop, then click on the pink Pac-Man icon.

Twitter ditched its iconic default egg profile picture for a more generic gray silhouette today, as first reported by Fast Co. Design. It's another controversial move for the platform after yesterday's revision to the reply function.

The new silhouette is meant to "[highlight] the absence" of a profile photo, as Twitter's design team found that the vibrant background colors of the egg didn't capture the fact that something was missing.

The move comes after the egg became synonymous with trolling and harassment, leading many users to ignore any profile with an egg picture. However, that put newbie users unaware of the egg's connotations at a disadvantage on the platform. Twitter's senior manager of product design told Fast Co. Design, "These regular users would be using a troll's clothing in some ways, not realizing that they probably should be changing that."

Whatever Netflix is doing on mobile, it's working. The company's in-app revenue from iOS devices has been growing exponentially over the last few quarters, hitting nearly $120 million in this last quarter alone, according to data from mobile analytics company SensorTower. In late 2015, when it first began to offer in-app subscription purchases, Netflix brought in a mere $11.4 million from iOS devices.

Meanwhile, competitors Hulu and HBO Go have lagged behind. Hulu has seen modest growth every quarter, but it only made $19.4 million in this last quarter from iOS in-app subscriptions. HBO Go, which was raking in the most money in late 2015, has seen its quarterly iOS revenue decline over the past year.

All about the content: It's clear that the original content produced by these companies drives their mobile revenue, which comes from customers purchasing monthly subscriptions. HBO Go, for example, saw a bump in the second quarter of 2016 before a steady decrease, which coincided with the airing of the sixth season of Game of Thrones, its popular TV series. Netflix, meanwhile, has been adding new show after new show to its roster over the last couple of years, including Orange is the New Black, Stranger Things, the Gilmore Girls' revival, Making a Murderer, Master of None, and numerous comedy specials.

As part of an on-going IP theft lawsuit from Alphabet's self-driving car unit against Uber, the parties had a private hearing before Judge William Alsup in United States District Court in San Francisco this week. Newly hired lawyers for Anthony Levandowski, the former Alphabet employee at the center of the lawsuit, told the judge that he would be exercising his Fifth Amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.

General Electric is going all in on futuristic manufacturing, having ditched businesses like finance and network television to focus on building stuff like jet engines and gas turbines. Here's what CEO Jeff Immelt thinks about automation and the future of work:

• He thinks fears of robot-driven joblessness are overblown, even as he invests billions in automation: "This notion of the war of the robots happening in the short term, that's more of a Silicon Valley vision than the real world."
• Robots are making Americans richer: Businesses can only pay workers more if they become more productive, and automation allows humans to focus on more valuable tasks.
• It's not just technology, but politics that drive automation: "The question of the last election was, 'how do you create $25 per hour jobs?" Immelt argues. In a global economy, jobs that don't require trained workers to leverage the power of computers and automation simply won't pay that well.
• All business will be in the education business: Immelt says that GE and firms like it must do more to train workers to rise above tasks that robots can do, "not because we're bleeding hearts, but because we're good at it."