[00:00] Christina Warren on How Sony lost the Steve Jobs movie
] data mined from leaked emails from Sony executives
] indecision, inability to secure financing
] sorkin style, the west wing of silicon valley, this is not the Jobs style
] facebook movie was an unexpected success, at the time question was wether facebook was even worthy of a movie about it
] apple is on a different level
[00:00] AD ziprecruiter.com
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[00:00] google announced closing of Spain's verison of google news
] would have had to pay for some news
] google news is non monetized
] spanish government wants to be paid for
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[00:00] google shuts down russia engineering office
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[00:00] ford unveild synch3, msft synch replaced with QNX
] so many problems with synch it was damaging the ford brand reputation
] the original synch version was highly rated, before the my touch version
] 70-80% of the
] mytouch was
] QNX, #1 in embedded systems
] android auto and carplay run on top of QNX
] surprising the msft was bested in voice recognition technology
] how did msft get the touch so wrong
] bad for msft, nano presence in smartphones, now losing
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[00:00] chinese search company Baidu, investing in Uber
] 600M investment
] chinese market for app based ride sharing is exploding
] part of the reason, is the data that the company is acquiring, transportation patterns,
] alibaba and tencent, investing in transactions,
] baidu has a map app with approx 200m users, has a god view, who is where
] uber not just a ridesharing company down the road, a logistics company, ridesharing will be a feature
] more services coming - ] delivery, ] shipping, ]
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[00:00] canada's competition beaureau launches investigation into apple
] apple being apple - if you want to sell apple, you will do this, and not this
] complainant not disclosed,
[00:00] google working on gif maker for
x] small feature that will likely put independant gif makers out of business
x] current process is painful,
x] gifs have a huge presence
[00:00] ziprecruiter.com
] post to 50+ job boards with 1 posting, search resume database of 50 m users, have applicants pre-screened ...
[00:00] ASSORTED other news (in brief)
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[00:00] FOLLOWUP on PREVIOUSLY REPORTED STORIES
[00:00] - previously sony fez watch, eink screen and ban, now new orio smartlock, opens with your phone,watch, no tools required for install, sony is crowdfunding the project, ] what sony should have ..., end to end solution ] sony has been doing this longer than anyone,
[00:00] UK flights disrupted, technical glitch - some confusion as to cause, computer failure, power failure,