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Why is Microsoft buying LinkedIn? | The Verge
Nadella's internal memo does a good job of providing a basic outline to partially answer that question, and more. Nadella points out that LinkedIn is "how people find jobs, build skills, sell, market and get work done." It's a key tool in the professional work space, with 433 million members and more than 2 million paid subscribers. Microsoft itself has more than 1.2 billion Office users, but it has no social graph and has to rely on Facebook, LinkedIn, and others to provide that key connection."
Why is Microsoft buying LinkedIn? | The Verge
Sunday, June 12, 2016
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Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Apple's slickest iPhone releases may slip to a 3-year cycle - CNET
"Apple might prolong its big iPhone refreshes from every two years to every three years.
The company currently issues a major iPhone upgrade every other year, with a less momentous model coming in the off year. For example, the iPhone 5 was followed by the more incremental iPhone 5S, and the iPhone 6 by the iPhone 6S.
A shift from that plan is 'likely,' according to Japan's Nikkei newspaper, just as the smartphone market itself is shifting."
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Saturday, May 28, 2016
SpaceX successfully lands a Falcon 9 rocket at sea for the third time | The Verge
"SpaceX just successfully landed the first stage of its Falcon 9 rocket on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the third time in a row the company has landed a rocket booster at sea, and the fourth time overall.
The landing occurred a few minutes before the second stage of the Falcon 9 delivered the THAICOM-8 satellite to space, where it will make its way to geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). GTO is a high-elliptical orbit that is popular for satellites, sitting more than 20,000 miles above the Earth. The 3,100-kilogram satellite will spend 15 years there, helping to improve television and data data signals across Southeast Asia.
After landing, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said that there would be 'some risk of tipping' as the rocket was brought back to port."
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Friday, May 27, 2016
South Asian migrants say they were put in 'body bags' for deportation from US
"Immigration officials admit using ‘minimum force’ but deportees claim they tased, punched and kicked a group of 85 Bangladeshis, Nepalis and Indians"
South Asian migrants say they were put in 'body bags' for deportation from US
Thursday, May 26, 2016
Mossberg: Can Apple win the next tech war? | The Verge
"But Apple could have a very hard time in the AI war that's dawning — even though it actually pioneered the first widespread, voice-controlled, cloud-based AI assistant, Siri, on the iPhone 5 years ago and is now rumored to be bringing Siri to the Mac. (In fact, former Apple CEO John Sculley pushed an AI-powered conversational assistant concept called Knowledge Navigator, complete with concept videos, way back in 1987. It envisioned a conversational digital helper with abilities far beyond any that exist now.)".