Deals

The New York Times’ partnership with Facebook is expected to be announced today, Gabriel Sherman reports for New York magazine. The details have yet to be released.

The Washington Post is in talks with Facebook about publishing its content natively on the social network’s platform, its president and general manager Steve Hills told a conference in Australia.

And here’s Facebook’s announcement about “Instant Articles,” which it describes as “a new product for publishers to create fast, interactive articles on Facebook.” Its partners include “The New York Times, National Geographic, BuzzFeed, NBC, The Atlantic, The Guardian, BBC News, Spiegel and Bild.”

Microsoft is making its Skype Translator tool easier to preview, Yasmin Khan announces on the company’s Skype blog. One early adopter is Pro Mujer, an NGO based in NYC that helps women in Latin America with financial, health and development services.

Fast Company’s list of the most creative people in business in 2015 is out and four of the slots are taken by “Government Groundbreakers“: White House CTO Megan Smith, Deputy Executive Director of 18F Hillary Hartley, San Francisco treasurer Jose Cisneros, and Coalition for Public Safety executive director Christine Leonard. The rest of the list is pretty interesting, too.

Former Obama campaign data director Ethan Roeder is leaving the New Organizing Institute, Ryan Grim and Marina Fang report for the Huffington Post.

FiveThirtyEight’s Andrew Flowers covers the government’s rising use of open source code platform GitHub, tracing the trend to 18F, the digital services swat team at the GSA.

In an effort to create more demand for energy efficient rental apartments, the city of Bloomington, Indiana, has developed a website called RentRocket that crowdsources current data and helps renters (many of whom are college students) find apartments that have lower utility bills, Elizabeth Daigneau reports for Governing magazine.