Archive for February 19th, 2009
emoticons, the early years
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hi, my name is Bob…
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
links for 2009-02-18
Posted by: amygdala on February 19, 2009
- Vimeo is acquiring live video streaming platform Livestream and launching its own live streaming service, Vimeo Live (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Equifax chairman and CEO Richard Smith steps down effective immediately after massive data breach, after more than a decade at the company (Zack Whittaker/ZDNet)
- ProsperWorks raises $53M Series C led by Norwest Venture Partners for its Google-centric CRM tools (Frederic Lardinois/TechCrunch)
- Apple Watch Series 3 shows little change from Series 2 Watch, some redesign to accomodate LTE, and 1.07 watt-hour battery, up from 1.03 in Series 2 Watch (iFixit)
- IVP announces $1.5B venture fund, its sixteenth and largest yet, bringing the group's total committed capital to $7B (Katie Roof/TechCrunch)
- Interview with Satya Nadella and Bill Gates on political climate, how AI, quantum computing, and mixed reality will shape the future as Nadella debuts memoir (Seth Stevenson/Wall Street Journal)
- Lyft is updating its app for drivers with 24/7 phone support in English and Spanish, and new "destination" option to help drivers pickup fares to and from work (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
- Didi Chuxing invests $200M in Beijing-based second-hand car marketplace Renrenche.com (Yimian Wu/China Money Network)
- Nvidia unveils AI acceleration software, partners with server makers Huawei and Lenovo, and cloud providers Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent in China push (Robert Hof/SiliconANGLE)
- Apple starts collecting Safari browsing data in macOS High Sierra using differential privacy tech that will help it identify problematic websites (Brian Heater/TechCrunch)
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