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tnt - 2015-01-27

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1. [00:00] apples earnings report later today
1. ] high expectations
2. ] china results, some predicting will have even more units then US, iphone 6 costs more in china
2. [00:00] Vines newest competitor, Twitters own video service w/Kurt Wagner @recode
1. ] twitters adds new group messaging feature 
2. ] similar to direct messaging, instead of 1 - 1, you can message 1 - 20
3. ] you can only DM message someone who is following you
4. ] new video feature, you can record, edit and publish video, all through the twitter app
5. ] twitter will create a video vibe, which will be important when twitter does more
6. ] they are not killing vine, this will be competition for vine,
7. ] twitter video had 30 sec limit, vine is(currently) 6 seconds
8. ] tools are similar, a lot of vine users are using/creating "vines" strictly to upload to twitter
9. ] twitter has tested with some video ads, goal is make consumer video prevelant, will open the door for brand video ads
3. [00:00] prosper/twit
1. ] a peer to peer lending marketlace
   
4. [10:00] Microsoft Is Selling More Phones Than Ever, but It Isn't Nearly Enough w/Alison Griswold
1. ] msft latest earnings report, numbers showed a lot of promise in cloud, improvements in mobile,
2. ] earnings results were almost exactly as forecast, slightly higher but wall st analysts are concerned,
3. ] tepid forecast, unfavorable currency exchange rates, stock is now trading -9.0%
4. ] are investors concerent about timelines of future products
5. ] surface revenue, up 24%,  a good spot
6. ] 10.5M phones sold in last qtr, big for them, pales in comparison to samsung/apple and the really big smartphone makers
7. ] windows + office traditional businesses are in transition
8. ] are investors concerned about the model
9. ] concerned with them having trouble growing sales in China and Japan,
10. ] mike impressed with office 365 home/personal subscriptions +30% over same qtr prev year
11. ] search revenue(Bing) grew 23%, search market share grew to near 20%, they are gaining on the goog
12. ] chronic ? at what point does search transition to 2nd tier, @ amazon, other shopping companies as people go directly to those sites
13. ] also when people search thru cortana, siri etc
5. [15:45] Cold War Echoes in a New Russian Spy Ring w/Russell Berman
1. ] justice dept uncovered a 3 man russian spy ring operating in NYC
2. ] ring was using sex and money to recruit spies
3. ] particulary interested in NYSE and high frequency trading, methods of destabilization of markets
4. ] 1 arrested, 2 still at large
5. ] operating for the last 2 years, part of a bigger spy ring the gov took down in 2010
6. ] this ring comes at a very different time in us/russian relationships
6. [19:30] Looking To Share Secret Photos On Facebook? This Startup May Help w/Yael Grauer @readwrite.com
1. ] new app Wicher, has feature Wicker Time Feed(WTF) which enables you to send messages to othe Wicker users that posts a "decoy" image to facebook(ex cat photo) which wicker users can "click through" to see the actual wicker secret image
2. ] will people lose their followers b/c you are posting a lot of "cat" photos
3. ] you can use this app outside of fb as well
4. ] not sure of how app works, where "secret" photos are stored, persistence etc
5. ] iOS only, android coming in about 2 weeks, then desktop
7. [21:30] Justice Department is reportedly spying on millions of US cars 
1. ] whenever your driving its a good idea to watch where your going at all times, sounds like the government agrees
2. ] wsj reports that the justice department building a national database that tracks realtime movements of cars throught the US
3. ] all the cameras on the highways , feeding into some big data system, that authorities like the DEA are using to track drug traffickers
4. ] cars already have the abiltity to track themselves, toll roads take pictures, red light / traffic montoring cameras
5. ] systematic ? abusive ?
6. ] this database is silod, data gathered from highway cameras,
7. ] what happens when - gather info from the cars themselves, the phones inside the cars
8. ] what happens when this database, connected to those databases, super database
9. ] PROs save the children, catch the bad guys,
10. ] CONS - law abiding citizen,none,"doing nothing wrong", you wont even know about it, dont worrry your pretty little head about it
11. ] larger issue - cumulative effect of lots of companies and the government, tracking everything you do, you dont know what they are tracking, what they are doing with it
12. ] sliding into this dystopian future, you can be are tracked , never know who has control or access to that information
13. ] what happens ifwhen your information falls into the hands of the bad guys
14. ] this program the cameras can ID who is in the car, who is driving, who is in the passenger seat
15. ] when self driving cars arrive, what will they be reporting
16. ] of course we will continue to track this story ...
8. [00:00] shutterstock.com/twit
1. ] site to buy high quality stock photo images for your website or blog, their site has great search features that make it easy to find the exact image you are looking  for, USE OFFER CODE=tnt115 for 20% off
9. [27:30] Google Fiber - A different kind of Internet and TV 
1. ] plans to announce 4 new cities (Atlanta, Charlotter, Raleigh Durham, Nashville) that will be getting google fiber
2. ] huge fees for first time users of google fiber
10. [28:15] ASSORTED
1. ]  snapchat - has new feature called discover, will push out content from a variety of publishers, espn, cnn and vice - Will it fit with their user profile
2. ] 1Password 5.2 for iOS: The Awesomesauce Edition is here - new features
3. ] Pixelapse - aquired by Dropbox, makes a github like version control service for designers, terms of deal undisclosed, part of a larger trend where "commodity cloud providers" add additiona[ services to continue to provide value
4. ] xbox - 6.6 M sold by msft in xmas qtr , -11% over same period last year
5. ] xiaomi - sold out its new flagship mi smartphone in 3 minutes after it went on sale, no sales # announced by company says it had 220M phones reserved,
6. ] Rumor: Joystiq closing shop 
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