An interview with Morris Chang on starting TSMC at the age of 55, the company not designing or selling its own chips, returning to Taiwan from the US, and more
Morris Chang had decades of experience before he founded a business that's indispensable to the global economy. X: @rmnth , @angler_deepfish , and @aparanjape LinkedIn: Anthony Soohoo , Subra Shankhar...
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
People, as well as organizations, resist the need (habit?) to move from current processes and products to newer ones … Tweets: Gabriel Weinberg / @yegg : Some people still use dialup internet, fax mac...
Some doctors, bird watchers, and others still use pagers due to their simplicity; paging company Spok has 800K+ pagers in use in the US, down from 6.6M in 2004
Fans, including some doctors and bird watchers, appreciate the simplicity of the once-popular devices, even as others move on LinkedIn: Tom Wriggins and Greg Coticchia Tweets: @rmc031 , @stefaniei , @...
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
read the memo CEO Sundar Pichai sent to staff Mary Yang / NPR : Google is cutting 12,000 jobs, adding to a series of Big Tech layoffs in January BBC : Google parent Alphabet to cut 12,000 jobs Abner L...
An investigation details Twitter's business in China: local governments and state media buying ads, a growing non-US revenue stream, internal tensions, and more
Even as China bars 1.4 billion citizens from Twitter, its local authorities are splurging on global advertising on the site … Tweets: @niubi , @mattnavarra , @780thc , @olivertheyoung , @aparanjape , ...
Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon join the NIST's push to scrap the leap second, which keeps clocks in sync with the Earth's rotation but can cause glitches
so Meta wants to get rid of them Mariella Moon / Engadget : Meta calls for the death of the leap second Ciaran / worthreading : Worth Reading Issue #12 Leigh Mc Gowran / Silicon Republic : Meta and ot...
Data shows the percentage share of e-commerce in total US retail sales, which is still up from pre-pandemic levels, has started to drop as in-store sales rise
E-commerce retailers that rode a surge of online purchases in 2020 are now grappling with the fact that some customers have returned to stores Tweets: @htsfhickey , @kjlabuz , @stevenpdennis , @iiiits...
While unable to meet analog chip demand, Texas Instruments hesitates to expand production capacity because of the industry's history of boom and bust cycles
Even in digital age, analog chips such as those made in Texas are essential, and they are in short supply Tweets: @aparanjape , @pastynome , @jbathgate , and @scottlincicome Tweets: Amit Paranjape / @...
SpaceX signs a satellite connectivity deal with Google Cloud, as part of which SpaceX will install Starlink terminals at Google's data centers around the world
bringing you seamless connectivity to the cloud and internet ↓ https://www.cnbc.com/... @horserumba : @Hedera $HBAR omg! 🔥🔥🔥Google is part owner of @Hedera on the governing council! @SpaceX 🚀🚀🚀 https:...
VAMS, a CDC website built by Deloitte at a cost of $44M to manage rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine, has been abandoned by states due to bugs and problems
mission comes second, profit comes first. And that comes at a cost: vaccines delayed, loved ones lost. https://twitter.com/... Lawrence Mower / @lmower3 : Unreliable registration, problems that lock s...