Archive for January, 2014
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Posted by: amygdala on January 6, 2014
- Blue Apron to lay off 6%, or more than 250 employees after going public earlier this year (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch)
- Sources: after spying accusations, Kaspersky's business is struggling, especially in US, where a source says its KGSS subsidiary has been closed for 2+ months (Joseph Cox/The Daily Beast)
- Mozilla, Microsoft, Google, Samsung, and W3C agree to unify cross-browser web documentation under Mozilla's MDN portal, rebranded as MDN Web Docs (Catalin Cimpanu/BleepingComputer.com)
- eBay narrowly beats Q3 estimates with $2.4B revenue, up 9% YoY, as GMV rises 8% YoY to $21.7B; StubHub revenue reaches $275M, up 5% YoY (Matthew Lynley/TechCrunch)
- Senators Warner and Klobuchar to file bill, cosponsored by McCain, to increase online political ad transparency, bring rules to parity with TV, radio, satellite (Ashley Gold/Politico)
- Samsung and Google partner to bring ARCore platform to Samsung devices beyond the Galaxy S8 (Nick Statt/The Verge)
- Facebook officially starts rolling out its discovery-focused "Explore Feed" on desktop and mobile (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
- Samsung says $499 Odyssey, the premier Windows Mixed Reality headset, won't be sold in Europe (Tom Warren/The Verge)
- Twitter took 11 months after being notified by GOP to shut down a fake Twitter account with 136K+ followers run by a Russian troll farm, posing as Tennessee GOP (Kevin Collier/BuzzFeed)
- DeepMind's new Go-playing AI wins 90% of time against version of AlphaGo that beat world champ, trained solely by reinforcement learning without human input (James Vincent/The Verge)
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