- Sean Parker, the Napster Inc. co-founder and early investor in Facebook Inc. and Spotify AB, believes social media isn’t intimate enough. Which is why on Thursday, he relaunched his old video service—Airtime—with a new mission, to bring friends closer together online. (WSJ)
- Revenue from Microsoft’s Intelligent Cloud segment, which includes its Azure on-demand computing services as well as its older server software sales, grew 3% to $6.1 billion. The gain was 8% in constant currency, and the company said that Azure grew 120% in constant currency.But just one quarter earlier, the same segment grew 5%, or 11% in constant currency, and Azure was up 140%(WSJ)
The idea for the Echo came from an entirely different project Amazon stopped working on https://t.co/5cR3WnGJPc via @sai
— Ozan Saglam (@ozantechnews) April 20, 2016
The real story of how #Amazon built the #Echo https://t.co/WV0sA4o6qh via @business
— Marc Morelli (@morellimarcp) April 19, 2016
Google claims YouTube ads are more effective than TV https://t.co/GI6oqUasH6
— Ozan Saglam (@ozantechnews) April 20, 2016
#Smartphone installed base 2.6B: #Android has 2.1B: 79%, #iPhone 505M: 19%, others gone https://t.co/vNAnD6JVLJ pic.twitter.com/PLj4qLvlTd
— Tomi Ahonen (@tomiahonen) April 20, 2016
Netflix's $6b investment in original programming isn't risky–it's a sure thing. https://t.co/5F1I7fsNPw pic.twitter.com/7x69vlQHNa
— Forbes Tech News (@ForbesTech) April 21, 2016
300M WeChat users have bound their banking cards (~700M MAU). Imagine what that enables. Also testament to how WeChat is winning user trust
— Connie Chan (@conniechan) April 21, 2016
~87% of WeChat users say they check it more than 10x daily $TCEHY $BABA https://t.co/BsYPixYmaX
— Craig Bujnowski (@craigbuj) April 21, 2016
Who’s next? Predicting Deaths in Game of Thrones – Part 2: Event-based survival modeling https://t.co/GxD3cwU0Na pic.twitter.com/aB0gb8R1ac
— Teradata (@Teradata) April 20, 2016
6/ THIS is what a WeChat transaction actually looks like (ordering McDonalds); not a chat but an app-within-an-app. pic.twitter.com/bEKCBnpuHW
— Connie Chan (@conniechan) April 1, 2016
iPad multitasking is having an enormous impact on video businesses. https://t.co/2FHNzck0zE pic.twitter.com/CJpUa3L0lO
— Matthew Panzarino (@panzer) April 15, 2016
No small goals here.
"Amazon might buy an airport in Germany" https://t.co/zWGlhsWB3S— Subrahmanyam KVJ (@SuB8u) April 16, 2016