|
July 29, 2016, 4:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Filing: Microsoft to layoff 2,850 from mobile and sales divisions as it completes Nokia cuts, which started in 2015 — MIcrosoft is cutting 2,850 more jobs beyond the 1,850 that the company announced would be eliminated earlier this year. The new cuts will hit phone hardware and sales.
More:
Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Recode, Business Insider, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, CNNMoney, GeekWire, Bloomberg, Engadget, MSPoweruser, Seattle Business Journal, The Seattle Times, Gizmodo, Tech Times, Petri, CNET, SlashGear, RCR Wireless News, Windows Central, The Register, Fortune, Slashdot, WinBeta, CNNMoney, Petri, USA Today, MobileSyrup.com and Pocketnow
| Nat Levy / GeekWire: |
Amazon reaches new high of 268,900 employees — skyrocketing 47% in just one year — Amazon said it added approximately 23,700 employees worldwide in the second quarter, bringing its total employment to 268,900. — Amazon's headcount has grown by a staggering amount over the last few years.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Big data integrator Talend pops 54% in Nasdaq debut, raising $94.5M — French-American big data startup Talend made its debut as a public company today with a pop. After pricing its shares at $18 last night (above the expected range of $15-$17), the company began trading on Nasdaq under …
More:
Fortune, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Reuters, MarketWatch and Silicon Valley Business …. Tweets: @pmarca. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Jonathan Zdziarski / Zdziarski's Blog of Things: |
Deleted WhatsApp messages leave behind forensic artifacts that could be reconstructed by someone with access to your device or iCloud backups — Sorry, folks, while experts are saying the encryption checks out in WhatsApp, it looks like the latest version of the app tested leaves forensic trace … | Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Sony posts $205M profit as downsized mobile business stops bleeding cash — Sony posted a slim ¥21.2 billion ($205 million) profit for its Q1 2016. That's down on the ¥82.4 billion profit it carded this time last year, but in general the quarter was a mixed bag of positives … | Kevin McLaughlin / The Information: |
Source: private equity firms including KKR, Apollo Global Management, Carlyle Group contemplate buyout of Hewlett Packard Enterprise; deal would be worth $40B+ — Several private equity firms including KKR, Apollo Global Management and Carlyle Group are sniffing around Hewlett Packard Enterprise … | Reuters: |
Sources: FBI investigates cyber intrusion into Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, following DNC breach, and its potential ties to Russian hackers — The FBI is investigating a cyber attack against another Democratic Party group, which may be related to an earlier hack …
More:
Reuters, Washington Post, Associated Press, Politico, PCWorld, The Verge, ZDNet, Boing Boing, Engadget and The Hill. Tweets: @stevesi
| Jack Nicas / Wall Street Journal: |
Alphabet beats expectations with net profit of $4.88B, up 24% YoY, on revenue of $21.5B, up 21% YoY — Google parent Alphabet Inc. rode strong advertising demand to a 24% increase in profits, as it continues to capture users and advertisers shifting to mobile.
More:
FierceWireless, Tech Times, Fortune, PhoneArena, CNNMoney, Silicon Valley Business …, Washington Post, Daring Fireball, Tech Trader Daily and The Verge
Tweets: @auerbachkeller, @benpopper, @mikeisaac, @kantrowitz, @lexnfx, @chriskeall and @alex
| Alphabet: |
More:
Tech Trader Daily, SlashGear, 24/7 Wall St., New York Times, Vanity Fair, Business Insider, Silicon Republic, PCWorld, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, AOL, Ausdroid, eWeek, New York Times, TechCrunch, The Register, Recode, Wall Street Journal, Digital Trends, Engadget, CNBC, Reuters, TechCrunch, Business Insider, AdExchanger, 9to5Google, GeekWire, MobileSyrup.com, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, internetretailer.com, VentureBeat and Android Central
Tweets: @zaid and @srussolillo
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Fortune: |
Uber launches UberCentral, a website for businesses to book and pay for multiple Uber rides — Transportation has long been a helpful extra service that businesses like hotels have used to enhance their customer experiences, and Uber wants a piece of that business.
More:
Digital Trends, Uber Global, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, TechCrunch and Engadget
| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
Instagram will soon let users filter comments on their posts, turn off comments on individual posts, or turn off comments on their posts entirely — Instagram is taking an unusual step to deal with the complicated ethics of online commenting. It's giving users the ability to make the choice … | Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple's car project switches focus to developing an autonomous driving software system, though Apple isn't ditching efforts to create its own vehicle — Dan Dodge, former founder, CEO of QNX, joined Apple this year — Bob Mansfield took over cars initiative with emphasis on tech
More:
Gizmodo, Computerworld, eWeek, Vanity Fair, International Business Times, Inquirer, Tech Times, CNET, Silicon Republic, Recode, Engadget, Redmond Pie, CrackBerry.com, Pocket-lint, BGR, The Verge, MacDailyNews, O'Grady's PowerPage, Business Insider, Fortune, MobileSyrup.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Insanely Great Mac, MacRumors, The Next Web, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, SlashGear, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, Tech Insider, iMore, TechConnect, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @kylebrussell, @alistairmbarr, @gerritd and @panzer
| Saurabh Gupta / Official Google for Work Blog: |
Google introduces add-ons for Docs and Sheets on Android; initial integrations include DocuSign and Scanbot — Posted by By Saurabh Gupta, Product Manager, Google Apps — We know many of you consider your mobile device as your primary tool to consume business information … | Olivia Solon / Guardian: |
US district court rules Facebook must refund in-app purchases made by minors in the US should they or their parents request it — California court ruled in favor of parents who filed lawsuit after children unknowingly spent hundreds of dollars on Facebook virtual currency for games
More:
Daily Express, PC Magazine, Engadget, Daily Mail, Ubergizmo, CNET and SlashGear
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Turn every support session into a data point that works for you — Most support teams close a session and move on. The issue gets resolved, the ticket gets marked done, and whatever insight that session generated quietly disappears.
Turn every support session into a data point that works for you — Most support teams close a session and move on. The issue gets resolved, the ticket gets marked done, and whatever insight that session generated quietly disappears.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Access:
This AI will push back if you're rude to it
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Pioneer Jürgen Schmidhuber: AI Already Feels Pain, Loves, and Is Self-Aware
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Inside Podcasting's Fight Over Netflix, YouTube, and Creator Control
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Sam Blond from Monaco
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Training Data:
Anthropic's Katelyn Lesse & Angela Jiang: Building an Ecosystem, not a Walled Garden
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:20 PM ET, July 29, 2016.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Gene Maddaus / Variety:Borys Kit / The Hollywood Reporter:
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
More:
Gotta Be Mobile, ARC, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Fortune, Smartphone Blog and Softpedia News
Tweets: @shiraovide and @ampressman