Fabric, Twitter Tool for Building Apps (video)

Twitter Vice President of Product Kevin Weil discusses the company’s plans to introduce "Fabric," a tool for building mobile apps. He speaks on “Bloomberg West.” (Source: Bloomberg 10/23)

more info: https://dev.twitter.com/products/fabric

Amazon Spends and Grows, but Still Wants for Money
New York Times
Technology |​​NYT Now ... Jeffrey P. Bezos, Amazon's chief, announcing the Fire phone earlier this year. ... Amazon's shares have not suffered much, if at all, from the Fire's failure. ... in cloud computing, but it faces increased competition from Google andMicrosoft, both of which have deeper pockets.
Losses Jump at Amazon, as Investments Pile Up - New York Times
Amazon's holiday-quarter forecast disappoints, shares dive - Reuters
Amazon's Spending Leads to Biggest Quarterly Loss in 14 Years - Wall Street Journal


New York Times
Microsoft's Sales Increase, Helped by Its Acquisition of Nokia, and Investors Notice
New York Times
Satya Nadella, Microsoft's chief executive, at an event earlier this week ... And many venerable technology companies are struggling to leap from the old ... competitors going after its corporate customers, like Amazon and Google, by ...
Microsoft Bucks Trend as Sales Defy Expectations - Wall Street Journal


New York Times
At Facebook, Creating Empathy Among Cyberbullying
New York Times
No, he is not responsible for increasing advertising revenue or keeping the website alive 24 hours a day. Mr. Bejar has a much more inscrutable task: ...

Facebook's anonymous Rooms is a chat app that feels like the old days
Facebook's new Rooms app is weird, and it isn't long after installation that you figure out why. ... Apple fixed the bug – you should be able to download Rooms now! ... Microsoft is doing great, and so are Surface Pro 3 and Office 365 ... Amazon Kindle Voyage review: The best e-reader is also the priciest.

Jogging and jamming with Android Wear and the Sony SmartWatch 3
Starting today you can pre-order the Sony SmartWatch 3 from Verizon Wireless and it's coming soon to GooglePlay. SmartWatch 3 is the first Android ...

Finally! The phone-charging cable you've been waiting for
Sometimes we get so caught up in new technology that we forget to go back ... The cable comes in a Lightning version for Apple's iPhones and iPads that's .... 7.99 for a 15 foot mini usb 3.0 cable on amazon, then a buck or two for a hook on my nightstand.

Inbox by Gmail: everything you need to know about Google's...
Google has announced a new Gmail app known as Inbox, said to ... Scott has never owned an Apple device, of any kind, and doesn't see this ...

Microsoft Shipped 2.4 Million Xbox Consoles In Q1 FY15
Microsoft's fortunes are turning around with regard to the gaming division, shipping 2.4 million Xbox consoles in the company's first quarter of the new ...

Wall Street delivers bad news to Amazon
CNN Money
Amazon loses more than $14 billion in value after reporting another loss. ..

Facebook wants to bring back the anonymous chatroom
CNN.com
Facebook releases a free app that lets you anonymously create or join chatrooms based on shared interests.

Teaming up with Oxford University on Artificial Intelligence
Google Europe Blog
It is a really exciting time for Artificial Intelligence research these days, and progress is being made on many fronts including image recognition and ...

Apple Pay vs. Google Wallet vs. PayPal
CNET.com

Facebook's new 'Rooms'
CNBC.com
Facebook announced a new stand-alone mobile app that enables people to ... Facebook has announced a new mobile app called "Rooms," reports CNBC's Julia ... "The Puls" smartwatch in hopes of blending fashion and technology. ... Amazon Takes $170 Million Writedown on Weak Fire Phone Sales.

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YouTube or Google Drive for video? (Google Enterprise video)

When do we use YouTube or Google Drive for video? -
YouTube or Google Drive for video? -- from Google Enterprise (Published on Jul 8, 2014): "We have two great options at Google when it comes to posting and making videos available to our customers, employees, and partners. So, how do you choose what you use? We look at three things: 1. Who is the target audience? 2. What do we need to learn? 3. Do we want people to share? Resources for working with YouTube and Google Drive video:
Uploading, it all starts here: http://goo.gl/0wXYSc
YouTube resources for anyone creating video:https://www.youtube.com/yt/creators/
Using Google Drive for video: http://goo.gl/34KUHX

Silicon Valley harvesting interns straight from high school - Telegraph: "Companies such as Facebook and Airbnb are plying teenage programmers with perks and high pay, bypassing universities to seek new talent..."

Farewell to the big-screen plasma TV - Los Angeles Times: "To many aficionados of video image quality, this news comes as a dagger in the heart. Plasma has yielded to LCDs, which are cheaper, more energy-efficient and cooler."

Facebook kills 'Lecpetex' botnet that turned 250k PCs into Litecoin-mining zombies | PCWorld: "...Those behind Lecpetex launched at least 20 spam campaigns between December 2013 and last month, affecting Facebook and other online services. Some of the victims received private messages containing a “.zip” attachment containing a Java JAR file or Visual Basic script. Those files, if executed, would then retrieve other malware modules stored on remote sites. The modules were either DarkComet, a widely used remote access tool that can harvest login credentials, or variants of software that mines the virtual currency Litecoin, the team wrote. By frequently refreshing and changing the malicious attachments, Lecpetex defeated Facebook’s filters designed to stop such malware from being distributed. The malware would also automatically update itself to evade antivirus products...."

Amazon Dangles E-Book Offer Amid Hachette Dispute
Wall Street Journal
The Web retailing giant has proposed letting Hachette authors keep 100% of the revenue from their digital-book sales while the online retailer and ...

Google CEO: Fight Unemployment With Job Sharing
InformationWeek
That might sound like the setup for an episode of Star Trek, but it's the world Google'sfounders see ahead of us. In a video interview published last ...

Google offers workaround for bug that stopped paid apps installing on Android Wear
ZDNet
With new apps for Wear piling into the Google Play store, Wear developers have found a significant oversight by Google in the tools it recently ...

Facebook is a school yard bully that's going down
Computerworld
Computerworld - I can still remember when Facebook was still "The Facebook," before its doors were open to anyone who wanted to join, before you ...

Microsoft to try again to deliver an Azure 'cloud in a box' appliance
ZDNet
Back in 2010, Microsoft officials announced the company was readying Windows Azure Appliances, meant to function as "private clouds in a box.

Microsoft's Bing Ads Are Growing Nicely, But It's Still Living In Google's World
Forbes
With Google continuing to dominate spending on search advertising, ... that Microsoft remains “200% committed” to its search partnership with Yahoo.

With Google Offer, Cloud Storage Gets Closer to Free
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The move highlights the battle among Google, Amazon and Microsoft to provide companies with remote storage, computing power and other ...

Google to ship first Project Ara developer boards in July
PCWorld
Having nailed the basics of its ambitious Project Ara customizable smartphone, Google is now engaging the hardware developer community to add ...

Google Glass creator: Glass not only answer to life after smartphones
CNET
SAN FRANCISCO -- It seems like everyone's got an opinion on Google Glass, the search giant's ambitious connected headset that mounts a computer ...

Apple's 'Find My iPhone' Web Maps for iCloud.com Beta Move from Google to Apple - Mac Rumors
By Kelly Hodgkins
Apple is beginning the transition to move its Maps application online starting with the Find My iPhone web app on its iCloud.com beta website, ...
MacRumors: Mac News and Rumors...

Apple's Secret Ebay Store Is Back With Cheap Refurbished iPhones - Gizmodo
By Ashley Feinberg
... and eBay. And it's selling Apple Certified Refurbished iPhones for cheap. ... What Everyone's Getting Wrong About Facebook's "Creepy" Study.
Gizmodo

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