Leading today we have some job and startup related stories. First, Mark Suster talks about survivors on Both Sides of the Table. Mark always gives us an interesting look into the mind of a VC. On Customer Experience Matters, they share some research showing that employees need to feel like they are contributing. For some… Read More Geek Reading July 31, 2015
Leading today we have some interesting news and some that has been long expected. First, Windows 10 was released! The reviews are coming in and VentureBeat has a decent article on that. VentureBeat also reported on a new marketplace for startups, with Amazon partnering with Y Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz. This is definitely an interesting… Read More Geek Reading July 30, 2015
Today’s leading stories are startup and career focused. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about startup growth and retention. There are a bunch of useful startup metrics but if your retention sucks, that is normally a very bad sign. Henry Ward tells the story of how eShares got their Series A. It is an interesting post, but… Read More Geek Reading July 29, 2015
Today we start with a story from VentureBeat where they report on research finding a vulnerability in 95% of Android devices. At this point, we have not heard anything about this being exploited in the wild, so we should be safe for now. Tomasz Nurkiewicz talks about RESTful services being “harmful”. The basic idea is… Read More Geek Reading July 28, 2015
I want to apologize to the 3 people that really await this post every day, I was sick on Friday and unable to post:) That means we have a lot of articles today. Leading the weekend edition, Reuters reports on another Earth-like planet discovered using the Kepler telescope. There seems to be more excitement surrounding… Read More Geek Reading July 27, 2015
It was a fairly slow news day yesterday. So, today we lead off with a post on the Chromium blog, announced the integration of the physical web into Chrome for iOS. Algorithmia talks about mining Product Hunt and detecting voting rings. Collin Mulliner talks about how the Hacking Team used open source software that he… Read More Geek Reading July 23, 2015
Leading today’s stories is a post from VentureBeat, reporting on the new Google Drive plugin for Microsoft Office. It is an interesting idea from Google to get people into Drive and maybe editing their documents in Google Apps instead. Another big story comes from Wired, where they report on how hackers were able to remotely… Read More Geek Reading July 22, 2015
Today, we start with a post from Brad Feld on Feld Thoughts. The story is actually an anonymous repost of one founder’s struggles with their startup. On All Things Distributed, we get a look “under the hood” of the EC2 Container Service. Google Cloud Platform announced the availability of the Application Default Credentials feature, mainly… Read More Geek Reading July 21, 2015
Leading off our news is the wonderful announcement from Tesla. The Model S now gets a “Ludicrous” mode. It is nice to see a company have fun with naming things instead of some “super-sport” mode or something drab. In the continuing fight against Flash vulnerabilities, Google Project Zero talks about various mitigations in the latest… Read More Geek Reading July 20, 2015
Leading today is more cool news about Pluto. Reuters reports on how Pluto has big mountains and other interesting features. Generally, the whole “real, close pictures of Pluto” thing is fascinating. Microsoft talks about support for Web Components in their Edge browser. The gist of the story is, we will support some things now and… Read More Geek Reading July 17, 2015
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