As tech giants cut back, staff working on big bets and moonshots, like Amazon's Alexa and Google's X, were heavily impacted; Meta's Reality Labs is an exception
Big tech companies have long been willing to fund efforts with no obvious payoff. But those groups have been hit hard in recent layoffs. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness , @ethan_in_sv , and @marcportermagee...
[Thread] Former exec describes Amazon's transition from Sun to HP/Linux servers in early 2000s, that risked bankrupting the company and laid foundations for AWS
Dan Rose / @danrose999 : Tweets: @raifshareef_ , @corry_wang , @det_conan_kudo , @jan_eeckhout , and @ericdungan Tweets: Raif Shareef / @raifshareef_ : “The best companies look at every challenge as ...
Blockchain journalism startup Civil is shutting down following its failure to find substitute financing after losing its major source of funding, ConsenSys
Lessons from a failed startup: The high-profile, blockchain-backed attempt to nurture nascent digital news sites is shutting down.” https://www.poynter.org/... The company seeded The Colorado Sun w/ a...
Eric Schmidt on growing up in Italy, years at Bell Labs, PARC, and Sun, scaling Google, polarization on social platforms, how tech will shape the future, more
Subscribe: Apple Podcasts / SoundCloud / RSS — The son of an economist, Eric Schmidt eschewed his father's profession …
Twitter hires Candi Castleberry-Singleton, formerly of Motorola and Sun, as new VP of inclusion and diversity, following Jeffrey Siminoff's February departure
total class act-she will do well @Twitter http://www.usatoday.com/...
With Google's move to integrate OpenJDK in Android, Oracle gains influence over a significant part of the Android software stack
Andreas Gal : Tweets: @fmnjohn , @pquerna , @fraserspeirs , @stshank and @luisobo Tweets: John Carroll / @fmnjohn : Google really missed a trick when it opted not to buy Sun. Could have kept Java and...
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42
Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He w...
Debian founder and Docker employee Ian Murdock has died at 42
Docker today announced that Ian Murdock, a member of the startup's technical staff and a former Sun and Salesforce employee known for founding the Debian Linux operating system, has passed away. He w...