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Source: Samsung to launch refurbished smartphone program as early as next year in an effort to boost revenue, fight off mid-tier competitors — Samsung Electronics Co Ltd plans to launch a program to sell refurbished used versions of its premium smartphones as early as next year … | Takashi Mochizuki / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Sony to debut a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside a high-end version on September 7 — Japanese tech company to introduce a standard and high-end version of the console next month — TOKYO— Sony Corp. plans to introduce a new PlayStation 4 standard model alongside … | Dave McClure / 500 Hats: |
Expect more non-tech public companies to buy tech unicorns as a hedge against disruption — Yeah, There's a Bubble... But it Ain't in Tech … Everybody in the press loves to write stories about the next “Tech Bubble”. — Of course, they all think they've seen this movie before—twice in fact, in 2000 and in 2008.| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
How San Francisco's tech business is spilling over into other metro areas across the US, based on job growth — PHOENIX — Three years ago, Kate Rogers was caught in the Bay Area struggle. She paid the astronomical rents. She did the crushing commute. She lived the frustration … | Fast Company: |
Apple acquired personal health data startup Gliimpse, which lets users collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health data, earlier this year — In the last three years, Gliimpse has built a secure platform where consumers can manage and share their own medical records and info.| Adrienne Lafrance / Nieman Reports: |
The blurring of lines between media and tech firms, Silicon Valley's culture of secrecy, and a lack of skepticism and resources make tech reporting difficult — With the lines between media firms and tech firms blurring, coverage of the tech sector presents one of the most profound accountability challenges in modern journalism| Bloomberg: |
How a Lending Club user mined the company's data to uncover shady loans made to Lending Club insiders and repeat borrowers — Photographer: Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images — “You ready to see some crazy s**t?” — Bryan Sims and I were sitting in the dining room of his modest home in Portland … | Dennis K. Berman / Wall Street Journal: |
Kobe Bryant and Jeff Stibel launch $100M venture capital fund based in Los Angeles, to invest in tech, media, and data companies — The retired NBA star and his partner today will unveil their vehicle for investing in technology, media and data companies — Meet Kobe Bryant, venture capitalist.| Brett Scott / The Long and Short: |
Inside the war for cashless society, pushed by the likes of Visa and PayPal, which will leave many without bank accounts behind — Long — Banks, governments, credit card companies and fintech evangelists all want us to believe a cashless future is inevitable and good.| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
Microsoft's Panos Panay on the evolution of Surface, from the failure of the first model with Windows RT to the trendsetting Surface Pro 4 tablet-laptop hybrid — On May 20, 2014, Satya Nadella — the recently appointed CEO of Microsoft — sat down next to Microsoft Surface boss Panos Panay in a packed New York City auditorium.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Chinese selfie app-maker Meitu files for IPO in Hong Kong, aims to raise between $500M and $1B — Offering will test market's competitiveness for coming Chinese startup IPOs — HONG KONG—One of China's most popular “selfie” app makers is preparing to raise up to $1 billion through … | TechCrunch: |
Sources: seed-stage firm Rothenberg Ventures near collapse as executives depart; employees blame out-of-control spending by the firm's fame-seeking founder — Rothenberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm.
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.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
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.
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.
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