Breaking news: Google will bring its digital assistant to smartphones running the latest versions of its Android operating system, Reuters reported on Sunday. “For the tech community, our findings emphasize the necessity of sunsetting SHA-1 usage,” Google noted this week. That is important, and I felt relieved after reading coverage of SHA-1 by a benchmark… Read More
Back to Apple: it patented an interactive display panel with IR diodes. Was that meant to steal Amazon parachute’s thunder? As the saying goes, you wait ages for a bus and then two or more come along at once. It isn’t any different with tech news — it often follows a… Read More
Microsoft’s Cortana? It looks a lot like the revisited, digital version of Jiminy Cricket To be sure, the trending tool section of our weekly wrap is by far the most fascinating this week, given that meaningful news related to Google remains thin on the ground while the closing of the earnings… Read More
“Softbank Considers $1bn Investment In WeWork” — that is another one, and we promote the concept, daily. I ended up writing our weekly wrap late on Monday night as there has been little traction, if any, on the ‘trending tools’ topic I have duly covered for days. I didn’t manage to spot any… Read More
Last week’s tech industry trends were only mildly enticing — things changed on 24 January, however. Enter Cisco, data management stuff and its corporate strategy. On finance side of things, we assiduously monitor extraordinary corporate activity, and Cisco’s latest $3.7bn deal (2% of its market cap) surely dominated the headlines this… Read More
“There is no chance Amazon, which fully operates as a financial institution in the way it manages its finances and short-term liquidity needs, will also become a builder, right?” Firstly, there wasn’t much news out there this week that was actually worth my research time — it’s unknown, for example… Read More
13 January Volvo: Invests In A New Car-Sharing Unit (The Tech Portal) Snapchat: Introduces A New Universal Search Bar (Engadget) WhatsApp: More On Encrypted Messages (The Guardian) Microsoft: Acquires Canadian AI Startup Maluuba (Maluuba) Foursquare: Adds ‘List Search’ Feature To Its App (Foursquare) Snapchat: Nabs Michael Lynton From Sony (The Hollywood Reporter) Nissan: Starts Testing Self-Driving Electric Cars In… Read More
29 December Toshiba: About Value Destruction (Reuters) LeEco: In Talks To Raise $1.4bn From A Strategic Investor (Reuters) 28 December Qualcomm: About That $854m Fine In South Korea (BBC) Amazon: Introduces Digital Day (Amazon) Facebook: Acquires The Eye Tribe (Venture Beat) Twitter: Introduces Live 360 Video (Twitter) FDA: Rolls Out Recommendations For Cybersecurity Of Medical Devices (FDA) 27 December… Read More
9 December Facebook: Tests PopUp Windows For Comment; and Update On ‘Metrics’ (Daily Mail; FB) Samsung: Latest Software Update Will End Note7 Story (The Guardian) TDK: In Talks To Buy Apple And Samsung Supplier (Reuters) 8 December Facebook: Secures E-Money Licence From The Central Bank Of Ireland; and A New Snapchat-Like Feature (Business Insider; FB) Uber:… Read More
2 December Uber: Accused In Denmark Of Driver Violations (Reuters) Amazon: More On The AWS re:Invent 2016 (Tech Crunch) Facebook: Now Blocks Links To B.S. Detector (The Verge) Pandora: Is It Up For Sale? (CNBC) Microsoft: Helps You Overcome Several Disabilities With AI (Microsoft) 1 December Apple: Plans To Use Drones To Improve Maps Data? (Bloomberg) Facebook:… Read More