Archive for July 4th, 2007
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Posted by: amygdala on July 4, 2007
- USB 3.2 specification announced, which promises double data transfer speeds, or up to 20Gbps, over existing Type-C ports and cables (Juli Clover/MacRumors)
- AltspaceVR, a social platform for virtual reality, to shut down August 3 due to "unforeseen financial difficulties" (AltspaceVR Inc)
- Meg Whitman says she will not be Uber CEO, is fully committed to HPE and is not going anywhere (Katie Roof/TechCrunch)
- Redfin prices IPO at $15 per share, higher than expected $12-$14, raising $138M, at a valuation of $1.2B (Nat Levy/GeekWire)
- Will.i.am's wearable startup i.am+ acquires Wink smart home hub from Flex (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
- Facebook unveils Messenger Platform 2.1 with built-in natural language processing, a payments SDK, and bot-to-human handover protocol in open beta (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
- Sources: Uber board member views on Whitman as CEO: Kalanick, Huffington not in support; Cohler, Trujillo, Graves, Camp in favor; Martello and Rumayyan, unclear (Dan Primack/Axios)
- Sources describe Facebook's paywall plan: 10 free articles/month from a publisher before redirect to publisher's subscription site, with no cut for Facebook (Peter Kafka/Recode)
- Intel reports Q2 revenue of $14.8B, up 9% YoY, vs. $14.4B expected, net income of $2.8B, up 111%; IoT revenue $720M, up 26% YoY; data center revenue was $4.4B (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
- Amazon reports Q2 revenue of $38B, up 25% YoY, as net income drops from $857M to $197M YoY; AWS revenue rose 42% YoY to $4.1B; headcount reaches 382K, up 31K (Amazon.com)
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