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Friday, August 19, 2016
19 August - Pale Moon Start Page - Tech News
Tickets to Startup and Hardware Alley at Disrupt London 2016 are now available
Listen up, startups in the U.K. and around the world. Disrupt London
2016 is right around the corner, and we’re happy to announce that
tickets to display your company in Startup and Hardware alley are now
available.
You can get your hands on Startup and Hardware Alley tickets here. Read
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Amazon now lets you rent its virtual desktops, Amazon WorkSpaces, by the hour
Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based
virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces. Instead of paying monthly
for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to at any time,
companies can now choose to pay and use WorkSpaces on an hourly basis.
The new billing sys...
YouTube opens a Creator Store retail shop at Google’s London offices
There’s more than one way to monetize your online video content. Sure,
you can go the old fashioned route, making ads and clicks and such —
but just wait until your preferred platform opens a one-off store front
where you can pedal your wares for the real money to roll in. Following
the recent unve...
London’s Octopus launches new accelerator to capitalize on FinTech boom
Accelerators have been all the rage for the last 10 years in tech, but
VC funds tend not to launch them in addition to their normal investment
strategies. However, London-based Octopus Ventures is taking a
different tack. Its new Octopus Labs will concentrate on FinTech
startups specifically, with ...
Apple just dropped iOS 10 beta 7 for developers and public testers
Apple keeps releasing new iOS 10 betas ahead of the final iOS 10
release in September. The company just issued the seventh beta for both
developers and public beta testers — the public beta’s version number is
one digit behind, so it’s public beta 6, but it’s the same version.
Head over to the Sett...
Tech companies assemble the Robocall! Strike! Force! to take on scammers
Look out phone scammers. Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Samsung
and Microsoft are coming for you. The big names are among 30 tech
companies that have joined up to form the Robocall! Strike! Force! (our
exclamation points).
Other notable names on the list include BlackBerry, LG, Qualcomm,
Siriu...
Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux
First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry
for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you
really were one of a kind. As Google noted in a blog post today, active
usage numbers were pretty low for the offering. Today, approximately 1%
of users on Wind...
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.19.16
Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare,
and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.
Our live chat stream during the show broadcast
Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE
G3’s archive on ustream
G3’s Facebook page HERE Read More
Is big data in big trouble?
We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and
analytics space. Tableau released earnings and missed their forecast by
$0.05; their stock dropped 5 percent. Then Hortonworks announced a
revenue miss that sent the stock into a downward spiral. What’s going on
with the business intelli...
Lyft pauses Carpool service
Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, Lyft launched a
Carpool feature for people commuting outside of San Francisco city
limits. The idea was that people would pick up passengers on their way
to work and make anywhere from $4 to $10 per ride. The service, which
was only available in the S...
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