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The Information’s 411 — Tell Me About Kubernetes
Kevin talks about AWS and its latest strategic moves. Tom and Reed lay out the future of AR and how the tech giants are approaching the technology.
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News Industry Can’t Put Genie Back in Bottle
This week Facebook confirmed it will begin testing new ways for news publishers to sell digital ...
Data Point
Volatile Cryptocurrencies Hit ICO Market
A telltale sign of the risks involved in investing in the latest breed of initial coin offerings: The ...
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Amazon Considering New Cloud Service to Combat Google
Executives at Amazon Web Services used to pride themselves on ignoring products offered by rivals like ...
Uber Boosts Employee Comp, Closes Gender Pay Gap
Uber is raising salaries for all employees, and lifting the value of equity awards for some, following ...
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How a News Startup Caught China’s Tencent by Surprise
In a lush valley near the ancient Silk Road’s starting point in Western China, young farmer Wang ...
Uber’s Middle East Goals Tested by Local Rival
As the global ride-hailing industry begins to consolidate around a handful of companies like Didi Chuxing, ...
Filtering Augmented Reality’s Fantasies
Snapchat’s lenses and Pokemon Go have demonstrated how augmented reality can be a popular toy-like ...
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Matt MacInnis
on Volatile Cryptocurrencies Hit ICO Market
“We don’t “need” new cryptocurrencies, but it’s better if there are more, provided you believe that distributed ledgers are going to power entire swathes of a new economic reality. These are not Ponzi schemes in any real sense. But they are assets being purchased on a purely speculative basis, and as such, many (most?) will end up either worthless or entirely illiquid.”
Laura Kelso
on Amazon Considering New Cloud Service to Combat Google
“Amazon is really great at making hundreds of millions of dollars off of open source projects. Is single-click access to tools like Kubernetes worth getting locked into AWS and paying the Amazon tax? I talk to the system architects and IT infrastructure and operations professionals at enterprise companies. They want cloud portability and complete control of their data.”
Babar Khan Javed
on Uber’s Middle East Goals Tested by Local Rival
“In the MENA region, locals gravitate towards Careem as it represents a regional (Muslim) success story and the stakeholders (drivers and passengers) are engaged via Careem’s localised campaigns to “be part of something greater” and play a role in “showing the West what we are made of.””
Mars Cyrillo
on Amazon Considering New Cloud Service to Combat Google
“That’s the inflection point some Googlers in the cloud team may have been expecting. Companies will soon take the best out of each cloud and move applications around depending on their business goals and pricing advantages tied to the application profiles. It will probably take longer for the machine learning advantage to play out for Google.”
Jonathan Stray
on How a News Startup Caught China’s Tencent by Surprise
“I wonder when China’s news producers are going to feel the squeeze, the same way that Western journalism organizations are fighting for their lives, while Facebook swims in ad revenue.”
Robert Scoble
on Filtering Augmented Reality’s Fantasies
“Either way, even if you are wrong and this stuff happens faster we’re only arguing about a few years. A decade is really a very short time in human history and no one I know says switching us over to augmented reality glasses will take longer than that. Me? I bet I’m wearing a pair almost full time by the end of next year.”