Twitter, Google, Shake Up Management Teams, Tech News (videos)

Twitter, Google Further Shake Up Management Teams: Video - Bloomberg:
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On “Before The Bell,” Bloomberg’s Betty Liu, Matt Miller, and Olivia Sterns run down the top stories of the day. They speak on “In The Loop.” (Oct 31 Bloomberg)

U.S. Consumer Spending Unexpectedly Drops: Video - Bloomberg
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Bloomberg’s Emily Chang reports on today’s top news stories on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 10/31)

Apple 'iPad Pro' may have smaller screen than thought, be thin as iPhone
CNET
A jumbo-size iPad could provide a spark for Apple, which has suffered ... With Microsofttargeting businesses more aggressively, Apple could be ...
Apple Is Reportedly Planning A 12-Inch iPad That Will Be Like Microsoft's Surface - Business Insider


USA TODAY
Lunch with Apple Pay - a quiet afternoon
USA TODAY
SHERMAN OAKS, Calif. — It's lunchtime at Panera Bread here, where the fast casual chain has welcomed new technology by letting its customers ...


Slate Magazine (blog)
These Two Phones Prove Apple Has Forced Samsung to Change its Game
Slate Magazine (blog)
The reason: Consumers held off buying them ahead of the launch of Apple's iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus phones in September in big-screen sizes ...


ZDNet
Top iOS news of the week: Apple Pay kicked out, too late it's already big
ZDNet
Competing mobile payment systems, including Android-based Google ... Microsoft'ssupport for iOS is impressive, and the update for OneNote this ...


ValueWalk
The Best Apple iPhone, iPad Deals For Black Friday Sales
ValueWalk
But absolutely brand new is the iPad Air 2, the latest tablet from Apple which has received rave reviews from technology sites. Many people who've got ...


BBC News
JONY IVE ON THE APPLE WATCH: 'With Every Bone In My Body I K...
Business Insider
Apple's lead designer Jony Ive was honored at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last night. Nellie Bowles and Dawn Chmielewski of Re/code ...
“San Francisco Treasure” Jony Ive Talks Apple Watch at SFMOMA Gala - Re/code


USA NEWS
Google and Facebook: voracious giants with the power to create the future
The Guardian
A Google driverless car on the streets of Washington. ... Yet with such a simple and lucrative core business, Facebook and Google ... It might sound dystopian, but Oculus is a powerful and compelling technology to try – and far more ...


Computerworld
An open email to Google Inbox
Computerworld
At first I thought: "Oh, you think you're so great with your fancy Material Design and snobby invitation-only access. But I know your type. You're really ...

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Sapphire Worth the Extra Cost for Apple iPhone? (video)

Video - Is Sapphire the Answer to the Scratched iPhone? - WSJ.com:
Is Sapphire the Answer to the Scratched iPhone?
Apple is betting $700 million that sapphire, a harder and more expensive material, can replace glass and better protect the newest iPhone. WSJ's Daisuke Wakabayashi joins the News Hub with Sara Murray.

Email Is Still the Best Thing on the Internet - The Atlantic: "... Email is actually a tremendous, decentralized, open platform on which new, innovative things can and have been built. In that way, email represents a different model from the closed ecosystems we see proliferating across our computers and devices. Email is a refugee from the open, interoperable, less-controlled "web we lost." It's an exciting landscape of freedom amidst the walled gardens of social networking and messaging services. Yes, email is exciting. Get excited!..."


New York Times
German Authors Join Protest Over Amazon's Tactics in E-Book Dispute
New York Times
Amazon has grown in Germany, its largest market outside America, with this distribution center in Brieselang. It plans to open two logistics centers ...


Forbes
iPhone 6 Leaks Show New Cable Design. Apple Redesigns USB
Forbes
The joke goes: if there is a universal standard Apple Apple will find a way to make ... and Apple appears ready to forge ahead with its own version of the technology. ...


VentureBeat
Google Partners With Mesosphere - Ramps Up Its Container Commitment
Forbes
Not to be left out, Google Google was one of the vendors that introduced the ... Kubernetes has support and contributions from Microsoft Microsoft, IBM and ... Mesos (and, by extension Mesosphere) is an exciting technology. ... on fire and Google is trying hard to catch up to Amazon Web Services in the ...


Android Headlines - Android News
Google Maps is tracking everywhere you go
Vox
Google probably already knows your age, your interests, and everything you've looked at online. But now, there's proof that Google knows where you ...


Economic Times
Google acquires image-recognition startup Jetpac
CNET
Google has other plans, though: the app will disappear in a month. ... Jetpac will remove its apps from Apple's App Store on September 15, the ... It's not clear exactly what Googlewill do with Jetpac's technology for finding things ... In the past he has been CNET's beat reporter for Google, Yahoo, Linux, ...


Tech Times
Microsoft Considered Renaming Internet Explorer Due To Negative Perceptions
Forbes
I cover noteworthy technology, startups, and gadgets ... This is about triple the market share of the second-place browser, Google Google Chrome. ... The potential rebranding was revealed when engineers from Microsoft's ... dropping due to competition against Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Apple ...

Can Microsoft beat Apple by being rational?
CNET
Microsoft/YouTube screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET I've never been too ... Apple and Samsung have both developed powerful, emotional pulls.


SavingAdvice.com
Microsoft pulls its August Windows update after users report crashes
PCWorld (blog)
Microsoft has pulled its August Update for Windows after users reported crashes and issues restarting their systems. The company is currently ...


Techaeris
Google Cardboard works on the iPhone, too
CBS News
You might recall that Google unveiled its Cardboard hardware at last ... Google intended Cardboard for Android, so Apple iPhone users were shut out ...


Firstpost
Facebook Testing 'Satire' Tags for Sites Like The Onion
Mashable
Facebook is testing out a feature that marks fake news stories from sites such as The Onion with "satire" in its News Feed, a feature requested by some ...
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End of the Week Tech Wrap (videos)

[167] End of the Week Tech Wrapup via BoomBustRT:
Tech Wrapup via BoombustRT:
Erin Ade sits down with Edward Harrison to talk about Uber moving into Asia, the Apple-IBM deal, and Amazon’s mobile wallet application. (July 24)

Can Apple Optimism Spread Through Tech Industry?: Video - Bloomberg:
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July 24 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Ward, chief investment officer of growth equities at Gamco, examines the state of the tech industry and what looks like a slow comeback for old tech companies. He speaks on “Bloomberg Surveillance.”

Qualcomm Raising Fiscal 2014 EPS Guidance: Video - Bloomberg:
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July 23 (Bloomberg) –- S&P Capital IQ Senior Head of Tech Equity Research Scott Kessler discusses Qualcomm and tech earnings with Julie Hyman on “Street Smart”. (Source: Bloomberg)

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Computerworld
Amazon's Bruising Week
InformationWeek
Amazon spent heavily to develop the Fire TV and Fire Phone during the ... Apple, Google, and Microsoft are seasoned veterans and masters at what ...


TheChronicleHerald.ca
Microsoft's Nadella: More Than Talk
InformationWeek
Microsoft Office For iPad Vs. iWork Vs. Google ... They say talk is cheap, but that's not necessarily true if you're Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. Microsoft ...


Firstpost
Apple will 'set the world on fire' with iPhone 6 sales
Computerworld
Computerworld - Apple will "set the world on fire" with "unbelievably massive" sales of the next iPhone, analysts said this week. "As well as they did ...


Times of India
Apple Acquires BookLamp, the 'Pandora for Books'
PC Magazine
Apple has confirmed earlier reports that it has acquired BookLamp, ... to $15 million, is designed to allow the company to "beat Amazon at its own game. ... of Idaho onFacebook (and still indicating they're employees of the company), .... Master Google Drive; Hot Tech Gear for Staying Cool This Summer.


IBNLive
Facebook extends closing of WhatsApp acquisition by a year
IBNLive
New Delhi: Social networking giant Facebook has extended by a year the closing of its landmark $19 billion deal to acquire instant messaging app ...


NDTV
Amazon's Spending Spree Raises Margin Concerns
NDTV
Amazon's shares fell 12 percent to $314.76 in early trading on Friday, ... Amazon is engaged in "a massive ecosystem war" with Apple Inc, Google ... also faces competition from Microsoft's Azure cloud service - hurt Amazon's ... For the latest technology news and reviews, like us on Facebook or follow us ...


CRN
Microsoft's latest earnings totally explain its mega-layoffs
Chicago Daily Herald
Microsoft said it will eliminate as many as 18,000 jobs, the largest round of ... Microsoftchief executive Satya Nadella may not have addressed the ... coming late to the party while Apple and Google collected the glory -- and ... Doing so gives Microsoft a different set of competitors, namely Amazon.com ...


Chron.com
Amazon,Visa drive Dow to a loss
Philly.com
NEW YORK - Investors got some bad news about the American shopper on Friday, driving down stocks and sending the Dow Jones industrial average ...


eWeek
Google Faces Renewed Focus by EU in Antitrust Case
eWeek
The EU probe had been sought by Google competitors, including Microsoft, Expedia and British search services company Foundem. The pending ...

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Top Microsoft Lawyer Blasts Secret Surveillance Court -- Unaccountable, Unjust

Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Slams Secret Surveillance Court - Digits - WSJ: "The U.S.’s secret surveillance court is unaccountable to the public and not “inclined to promote justice,” Microsoft’s top lawyer said Tuesday. General counsel Brad Smith said the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISA Court], which reviews applications and appeals involving U.S. government data-collection efforts in the name of national security, acts unlike most other courts because “only one side gets to tell its story.” The surveillance court also effectively creates law “that the American public is not permitted to read,” Smith said Wednesday in a speech at the Brookings Institution. The 35-year-old court was cast into the spotlight following revelations about National Security Agency’s data-collection programs. The court’s decisions and most documents submitted to the court are secret, which Smith said made it tough for those opposing the government’s data demands to have a fair hearing. “This is not an approach inclined to promote justice,” Smith said, as he showed an image of what he implied was a government document before the surveillance court, with all text blacked out...."

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Google Courting Developers as Device Sprawl Spurs Choices - Bloomberg:“....This year at Google I/O, we’re focusing on three key themes: design, develop and distribute -- to help developers build their apps from start to finish, with tools for the entire development cycle,” the company said in an e-mailed statement. “Our large, open platforms -- Android and Chrome -- provide the foundation for developers to evolve their offerings for phones, tablets and other new form factors.” Amid the sprawl, Google has put more emphasis on developers at I/O ... In total, there are more than 1 million apps in the Google Play store. Android-based smartphones made up 78 percent of the global industry in 2013, up from 66 percent in 2012, according to Gartner Inc. The No. 2 player was Apple’s iPhone, which had 16 percent, down from 19 percent...."

Google Play Emerges as Powerful Weapon for Internet Giant - WSJ: "....There are now more apps available in the Play store, 1.5 million, than the App Store, 1.2 million, according to market researcher App Annie. App downloads from the Play store surpassed those from the App Store for the first time in 2013. The App Store still generated more than twice as much revenue for developers last year, but that was down from six times as much in 2012. Google Chief Business Officer Nikesh Arora told investors in April that Play store payments to developers quadrupled in 2013 from 2012...."

Microsoft Exchange Online Suffers Service Outage
InformationWeek
Microsoft's Exchange Online hosted email service suffered a disruption Tuesday morning, leaving many users without email for much of the morning.

Microsoft's 'First' Android Phone Aims Low
InformationWeek
Microsoft on Tuesday revealed the Nokia X2, a smartphone that can officially ... The X2 doesn't use any Google services and instead uses Microsoft's.

Amazon's Fire Phone May Be Too Magical for Its Own Good
Wired
After several years of rumors, Amazon finally announced the launch of its very ... In a landscape dominated by Apple, Samsung, Google, and other ...

How Amazon's Product Design Is Governed by the Whims of Jeff Bezos
Businessweek
When Amazon (AMZN) released its new phone last week, one of the most notable ... 

[From POLITICO's Morning Tech]:
Apple Starts Production of BIG iPhone
Bloomberg story on Chinese suppliers' plans to begin mass production of 4.7-inch and 5.5-inch iPhones: http://bloom.bg/V7CbZt

FCC HIRES INVESTMENT BANKERS TO ADVERTISE INCENTIVE AUCTION. The agency hired New York-based Greenhill & Co. to develop educational material to persuade broadcasters to participate in the auction http://bit.ly/1rrMcLg

AMAZON, WARNER BROS. CLOSE TO RESOLVING PRICING DISPUTE. The e-commerce giant is no longer forcing backorders of Warner Bros. DVDs http://on.wsj.com/V7AoU7

TECH MOGULS BACK MAYDAY SUPERPAC. Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak, Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson and Paypal exec Peter Thiel and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman will work to raise $12 million to support candidates this fall who are willing to fight for campaign finance reform Reuters:http://reut.rs/V7BlM3

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Due to Win8 debacle, Microsoft continues some XP support

When you have nowhere to go but to another platform (MacBook or Chromebook) due to the Windows 8 debacle, Microsoft relents and continues some support for the old operating system:

Microsoft will furnish malware assassin to XP users until mid-2015
Computerworld
Computerworld - Microsoft confirmed on Friday that it will continue to offer its malware scrubbing program to Windows XP users for more than a year after it stops patching the operating system. "Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool is aligned ...

Apple's dated iPhone 4 may still cost Rs 23000 in India
Firstpost - We already have reservations about whether Apple's possible iPhone 4 relaunch in India is a sound strategy, but it looks like the company is going ...

Some Microsoft Surface Pro 2 users report a firmware fix rolling out
ZDNet - Summary: The fix for a faulty firmware update for Microsoft's second-generation, Intel-based Surface Pro 2 tablets may be starting to roll out, according ...

Google Buys Nest Just As Internet Of Things Suffers First Global ...
Forbes - When I think about the differences between Apple and Google it seems to me that Apple excels in the device in your hand and Google in the network ...

Microsoft Offers To Pay YouTubers To Positively Promote Xbox One
Cinema Blend - When your console is getting trashed by anyone who doesn't watch TV on their TV, when you have no idea how to win over the silent Japanese ...

Google Glass Traffic Court Ruling Just The Start Of Long Legal Battle
CBS Local - An attendee tries Google Glass during the Google I/O developer conference on May 17, 2013 in San Francisco, California. Eight members of the ...

Apple and Google Are Killing Nintendo's 3DS
DailyFinance - Friday's release suggests that Apple and Google's mobile devices are finally taking a toll on ...

Apple needs to clamp down on its talking cats
The Guardian - It's 4.30 on a gloomy winter's afternoon. I'm sitting with my grandson having one of those conversations in which grandsons explain complicated stuff ... available at: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/talking-tom-cat-2/

Rosetta: Alarm to sound for comet mission
BBC News
One of the most daring space missions ever undertaken reaches a key milestone on Monday. Europe's Rosetta probe was launched a decade ago on a long quest to chase down and land on a comet, and has spent the past two-and-half-years in hibernation ...

'Bio-Bot' Swims Like A Sperm! Self-Propelled Biological Robots Advances [Video]
Design & Trend
Engineers have created a new way to explore the viscous fluid of biological environments unsupervised, like the inside of the human body. Known as "bio-bot," the synthetic machine swims like a sperm, is powered by heart cells, propelled by a tail and can ...

Group: 250 dolphins await slaughter, lifetime of captivity at Japan's Taiji Cove
CNN
(CNN) -- Japanese fishermen rounded up more than 250 bottlenose dolphins in a secluded cove to kill for meat or sell into a lifetime of captivity, U.S. conservationists warned. The annual hunting of dolphins at Taiji Cove highlights the rift between ...

Nintendo needs 'radical new beginning' to recover from Y25bn loss
Financial Times
Amid the smartphone boom of the past few years, executives at the Kyoto-based company have stuck to the basic model that defined the modern gaming industry: sell hardware cheaply, or even at a loss, then make money back through sales of software.

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No easy road ahead for Microsoft after Nokia deal

With the Nokia deal, Microsoft might have substituted short-term pain (loss of Windows Phone) for long-term pain -- continuing decline and irrelevance as Windows Phones will never be competitive to Apple iPhones or Android smartphones --

The Deal That Makes No Sense | stratēchery by Ben Thompson: "The tragedy in the deal, as I hinted at earlier, is that I think Microsoft ought to abandon Windows Phone. The war is over, and iOS and Android won. It would be far better for Microsoft to focus on serving and co-opting those devices, instead of shooting the most promising parts of their business in the foot for the sake of a platform that is never going to make it."

Google-Motorola Deal Foreshadows Challenge Awaiting Microsoft - Bloomberg: "Google’s experience with Motorola may hold lessons for Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, which announced plans on Sept. 2 to buy Nokia’s handset unit, stepping up an effort to challenge Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Google in the smartphone market. Nokia’s devices and services business swung to a loss of more than $1.4 billion after earning almost that much in 2011. “Hardware margins are always much lower than software,” said Sameet Sinha, an analyst with B. Riley & Co in San Francisco. “Microsoft will have to bear the brunt. You will see margin compression. There’s no doubt about it.”"

Panasonic officially quits the consumer smartphone business, president says mobile performance was 'unacceptable': ""It's not acceptable for the company to be bleeding red ink like this, so we have to think about ways to develop assets that we do have in a more effective direction", Tsuga said. Panasonic is not stopping completely with phones, however, and plans to expand on its Toughbook laptop series with smartphones for rough-and-tough business use."

Intel Unveils Optical Technology to Kill Copper Cables and Make Data Centers Run Faster | MIT Technology Review: "Intel hopes to make computing far more efficient by introducing a technology that replaces conventional copper data cables with faster optical data links. The breakthrough required Intel to fit lasers and other optical components onto silicon chips, which usually deal only with electronic signals."

Microsoft claims victory in 2nd Motorola patent trial
Chicago Tribune
The long-running argument between Microsoft and Motorola, and by extension Google, is just one facet of a wide-ranging global patent war surrounding smartphone and internet technology that has drawn in Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, Nokia and ...

Microsoft's Make-or-Break Decision: Selecting the Next CEO
Businessweek
The course has been set, but the company has not done well here, whereas Apple(AAPL) has succeeded. The Nokia (NOK) acquisition brings ... Google (GOOG) andAmazon (AMZN) passed Microsoft years ago, but it's not too late. Microsoft still casts a long ...

Microsoft Made a Pretty Good Smartwatch, Back in 2004
Businessweek
Before Samsung's product is official, now might be a good time to travel back to 2004 to see the beginnings of the modern smartwatch because in some ways, Microsoft had the right idea, as evidenced by modern takes on the concept. I remember my ...

Apple iPhone Anticipation Grows
InformationWeek
"This should brighten everyone's day," says coy Apple event invitation -- but probably not for Microsoft and other Apple competitors. Start The Discussion. Tweet; Mail Mail; Print Print · Thomas Claburn | September ... But the Android camp has wasted ...

Google taking Android mainstream with KitKat
ZDNet
Amidst all the fury following the announcement of the Microsoft/Nokia deal, Googlequietly shook up the Android space with the unveiling of its affiliation with the KitKat candy bar. While Key Lime Pie was long expected to be the next major version of ...

Google Sued in Europe-Privacy Test Case
Wall Street Journal
Google Inc. was hauled into a French court Wednesday by former Formula One racing head Max Mosley, who wants the Internet giant to scrub its search results of grainy images of a sexual escapade. The images were found to be a privacy breach by a U.K. ...

Xbox One To Be Released on Nov. 22
ABC News
The CPU speed of the Sony PlayStation 4, Microsoft's chief rival in the latest iteration of the console wars, has not yet been specified. However, there have been rumors that it could be upwards to about 2.75 GHz, though that has not been confirmed by ...

Microsoft's Haswell-based Surface Pro 2: The leaks begin
ZDNet
He added that the new Surface Pro will look identical to the current Surface Pro -- which makes sense, given Microsoft is expected to allow the same keyboard/covers to work with the new Surface models. And as far as the "refined" kickstand goes ...

Apple Shows China the Respect It Deserves
Businessweek
If it wasn't already clear that Apple's (AAPL) priorities lie in the East, the company is beating the point home when it introduces its newest products next week. As always,Apple will trot out executives in a California auditorium to show off its ...

Microsoft faces quandary in aping Apple and Google
CBS News
(MoneyWatch) Microsoft (MSFT)'s $7.1 billion deal for Nokia's device business is a clear effort to regain the ground it has lost over the years in the mobile platform arena to industry leaders Apple (AAPL) and Google (GOOG). Yet while the acquisition ...

Your Turn, Apple | TechCrunch
By Matt Burns
Samsung is a different company than Apple. Samsung iterates where Apple innovates. Samsung releases a first generation product that's far from perfect. The first Galaxy Note was large enough to kill a man and was too slow for general use.
TechCrunch

Coffee Talk -- The Inside Story of Microsoft's Nokia Deal - Ina Fried ...
By Ina Fried
The result was that Windows Phone still had single-digit market share, a situation that kept Microsoft on the sidelines of the mobile conversation and a clear also-ran to Google's Android and Apple's iOs. Perhaps more significantly, without big ...
AllThingsD

Google Glass could be worth $3.3B in just 4 years | VentureBeat
By John Koetsier
Given the amount of interest in Google Glass and the average consumer's increasing interest in wearable technology — in a recent survey, 20 percent of Americans wanted an Apple iWatch, sight unseen — I'd have to guess that first-year ...
VentureBeat

Apple's iWatch Is Cleared For Takeoff - Business Insider
By Jay Yarow
Google Has Created A Programming Language That Thumbs Its Nose At Oracle ....Before Apple announced the iPad, Microsoft and HP rushed to announce a tablet at the annual technology trade show, CES. That tablet, the HP Slate, was ...
Business Insider

Apple Beefing Up iAd Team Ahead of iTunes Radio Launch - Mac ...
By Eric Slivka
Apple has been working to expand its iAd team over the past month, posting job listings for dozens of positions just as the company prepares to...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

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