The Three Tech Companies Having a Bad Week: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) Cheezburger CEO Ben Huh discusses LinkedIn’s accounting woes, Groupon’s shift to e-commerce and 21st Century Fox withdrawing its offer for Time Warner. He speaks on "Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg August 7)
Why Is Yahoo Sports Hiding Its Best Asset In Woj? Forbes Yahoo still boasts over 800 million monthly active users on mobile and ... Before Yahoo, she was a product manager at Google and, before that, was a ...
LinkedIn Pushes Content Creation to Draw Users: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play or go to link above) LinkedIn Executive Editor Daniel Roth discusses content creation and users use of relevant information on “Bloomberg Surveillance.” (Source: Bloomberg July24) This Google Opportunity Could Spell Serious Competition For Facebook - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: "Discovery of apps continues to be a serious challenge on the Google Play Store. With over 1.5M apps, finding the right content is becoming a chore for users. The soaring cost of installs sold by Facebook is pricing many developers out of the market. Given its ads business, Google could easily build a $1bln+ business by inserting ads into the Play Store." Researchers from Nvidia Show a Way to Quadruple the Resolution of Virtual Reality | MIT Technology Review: "Researchers at Nvidia now have a possible solution. They have built a prototype VR headset to demonstrate a technique that can quadruple the pixel density of an LCD panel. They call their new design—made by modifying two off-the-shelf LCD panels—a “cascaded display.” “This is useful in applications like a head-mounted display, where each pixel looks really large because it is very close to your eye,” says David Luebke, a senior director of graphics research at Nvidia." What's The Real Purpose Of Google Shopping Express? - Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) | Seeking Alpha: "...Is Google Shopping Express a Data Collection Effort or an Amazon Killer? Google certainly has money to spend, but why is it spending that money on a delivery business? The most likely answer to that question is both simple and interesting: Google Shopping Express isn't just a delivery service. Instead, it is a data collection or data mining effort...."
Tech City broadband is 'not fit for purpose', say startups | Technology | theguardian.com: "London’s much heralded Old Street technology startups are struggling to grow their businesses because of poor internet connection services, the Guardian has been told. Lengthy installation delays and high fees have caused some companies to leave the area, while others complain of months of costly hold ups moving to new offices. Startups and smaller ISPs, as well as technology collective Perseverance Works, are all due to meet Labour MP Meg Hillier on Thursday to discuss the crisis in the capital’s broadband provision. Hiller represents Hackney South and Shoreditch where many tech companies are based, and described the situation “a national embarrassment” that requires urgent action...."
A Neutral Guide to Net Neutrality | SingleHop: "...In April 2014, a set of rules proposed by FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, a former lobbyist for cable and wireless companies, indicated that the FCC may abandon its previous Net Neutrality position and consider letting ISPs provide tiered service. Wheeler denied that the proposed rules changed the FCC’s position,[13] but more than 100 companies supporting Net Neutrality wrote a letter to the chairman in May criticizing the proposed rules...." FCC Chairman blasts Verizon: The FCC Chairman blasted Verizon... over a plan to slow down speeds for some customers who are using unlimited data plans that have been grandfathered-in. "Reasonable network management concerns the technical management of your network; it is not a loophole designed to enhance your revenue streams," Wheeler wrote in a letter to Verizon Wireless CEO Daniel Mead. 'It is disturbing to me that Verizon Wireless would base its 'network management' on distinctions among its customers' data plans, rather than on network architecture or technology." Verizon Wireless, in a statement, called its announcement last week a 'very limited" effort, which is 'only targeting cell sites experiencing high demand." Read Wheeler's letter, here: http://politico.pro/1s5oZ2e
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Why Priceline Paid $2.6B for OpenTable: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play) Priceline is buying OpenTable in a deal valued at $2.6 billion to add restaurant bookings to its travel business as the industry steps up investments in local listings and mobile services. Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky, Cory Johnson and Jeffrey McCracken comment on Bloomberg Television's “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg June 13) Amazon.com unveils the Fire Phone, its first smartphone Los Angeles Times Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos holds up the Fire Phone at a media ... The silhouette of Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., ...
Amazon And Samsung Are Locked In A Battle Against Google Forbes Amazon's operating system – for the Kindle, and presumably the Fire Phone ... This is, to some extent, the ultimate rebellion by Amazon, using Google's ... and here Amazon might even be able to beat Apple and Google, because it ...
Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google: Not A Diverse Club InformationWeek Yahoo joined LinkedIn and Google in releasing workplace diversity statistics. They tell the same tale: Silicon Valley is predominantly white and male....
Facebook announces its open data-center switch Computerworld Facebook has taken networking into its own hands, building a switch to link servers inside its data centers, and wants to make the ...
Amazon Appstore heads to BlackBerry 10 phones CNET BlackBerry 10 supports apps designed for Google's Android mobile ... Its selection of apps is limited compared to Google's Play store and Apple's App ...
Google Ready to Comply With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Rules in Europe - NYTimes.com By By MARK SCOTT Google will start to remove links to online content in Europe by the end of the month to ... Last month, Google created a rudimentary framework, including a new online form for ... BlackBerry to Add Amazon App Store to Phones ... Yahoo Tech | Harvard scientists successfully transferred a smell across ... NYT Bits Amazon Fire Phone: An All-Seeing 3D Prime Contender - Gizmodo By Brent Rose ...Amazon's phone is here, and it's called the Fire Phone. ... Report: Google in Talks to Buy Stake in Virgin Galactic ... Gizmodo
Yahoo CEO takes heat for stilted presentation in Cannes USA TODAY CANNES, France — This is an advertising conference, so some spinning and selling is expected. Yet, a Tuesday presentation from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was flagged by some attendees as an excessively hard sell. Audience members took to Twitter to ...
Earth's Most Abundant Mineral is Seen for the First Time and is Given a Name Chinatopix Believe it or not but the Earth's most abundant mineral doesn't have a name and hasn't been seen, until now. What on Earth is the Earth's most abundant mineral? If you answered quartz, you'd only be partially correct. Quartz is the commonest mineral in the ...
BC court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide The Globe and Mail In an unprecedented ruling, a B.C. court has ordered Google Inc. to block a group of websites from its worldwide search engine – a decision raising questions over how far one country's courts can exert their power over the borderless Internet. The temporary ... Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles - NYTimes.com: "“They don’t have enough software engineers,” said Catherine McCullough, executive director of the Intelligent Car Coalition, an industry group. “They don’t have the budget or the structure to oversee both Silicon Valley and the auto industry.”"
Merry Christmas and Season's Greetings! Tech industry chieftains unloaded on Obama about the NSA for 2 and 1/2 hours this past week --
Yahoo’s Mayer Said to Warn of Web Balkanization in Spying - Bloomberg: "Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer warned President Barack Obama the backlash over U.S. spying threatens to Balkanize the Internet, as countries adopt different standards to thwart surveillance, according to an industry official. Mayer was among 15 technology company executives including Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO Tim Cook, Facebook Inc. Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg and Google Inc. Chairman Eric Schmidt who met at the White House...Schmidt began by going over five principles supported by the companies to changing government surveillance programs, including limiting collection of user information and transparency about government demands, according to the industry official..." (see below)
Reform Government Surveillance: The Principles: 1 Limiting Governments’ Authority to Collect Users’ Information Governments should codify sensible limitations on their ability to compel service providers to disclose user data that balance their need for the data in limited circumstances, users’ reasonable privacy interests, and the impact on trust in the Internet. In addition, governments should limit surveillance to specific, known users for lawful purposes, and should not undertake bulk data collection of Internet communications. 2 Oversight and Accountability Intelligence agencies seeking to collect or compel the production of information should do so under a clear legal framework in which executive powers are subject to strong checks and balances. Reviewing courts should be independent and include an adversarial process, and governments should allow important rulings of law to be made public in a timely manner so that the courts are accountable to an informed citizenry. 3 Transparency About Government Demands Transparency is essential to a debate over governments’ surveillance powers and the scope of programs that are administered under those powers. Governments should allow companies to publish the number and nature of government demands for user information. In addition, governments should also promptly disclose this data publicly. 4 Respecting the Free Flow of Information The ability of data to flow or be accessed across borders is essential to a robust 21st century global economy. Governments should permit the transfer of data and should not inhibit access by companies or individuals to lawfully available information that is stored outside of the country. Governments should not require service providers to locate infrastructure within a country’s borders or operate locally. 5 Avoiding Conflicts Among Governments In order to avoid conflicting laws, there should be a robust, principled, and transparent framework to govern lawful requests for data across jurisdictions, such as improved mutual legal assistance treaty — or “MLAT” — processes. Where the laws of one jurisdiction conflict with the laws of another, it is incumbent upon governments to work together to resolve the conflict. /s/ AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, Yahoo
