Some interesting acquisition news starts our week, with both items reported by VentureBeat. First, Microsoft acquires and shutters messaging startup Wand Labs. Next, Samsung buys Joyent, a cloud infrastructure company. Joyent will continue to operate as a separate company, so no major concerns there. On Digital Trends, they talk about a man who built a… Read More Geek Reading June 20, 2016 #1131
Some big news leads the day. First, LinkedIn announced they are being acquired by Microsoft. According to reports, the purchase price is over $26 Billion in all cash. I have no idea why Microsoft wants this deal, so we will have to wait and see what happens. Google announced Tango, with the first enable phone,… Read More Geek Reading June 14, 2016 #1127
We start our day with a report on re/code about Microsoft giving up on consumer smartphones. Part of this is the impending layoffs of about 2000 jobs. Stratechery talks about the curse of culture and how it affects your business. Culture is a frequent topic here because it affects everything at your job, how coworkers… Read More Geek Reading May 26, 2016 #1114
Today is April Fools Day in the US, and it is easily the worst news day of the year. Hopefully, I don’t share something that is actually a prank. With that being said, there is one epic prank, the GMail Mic Drop. In the normal reading, we have The Next Web reporting on Toshiba’s recall of… Read More Geek Reading April 1, 2016 #1075
Oddly enough, Microsoft leads the day with their announcement of the availability of SQL Server on Linux. This is clearly a different Microsoft than we are used to. Instagram gives us a peak into their work on performance and usage. Ben McCormick talks about the sad state of the Backbone.js ecosystem. I am not sure… Read More Geek Reading March 9, 2016 #1059
Leading off our stories today is an interview with Microsoft CEO Nadella. It may not be breaking news, but it is an interesting view into the future of Microsoft. On AVC, Fred Wilson talks about founders getting “knocked down”. The basic idea is how do you handle it and what do you do next, which… Read More Geek Reading July 16, 2015
By now you have heard that Google Music is freely available for streaming as an ad-supported service. More options in this space are definitely a good thing. Seth Godin drops his usual genius on us with his post on the tragedy of small expectations. Microsoft continues their love-in with Docker as they announce more cross… Read More Geek Reading June 25, 2015
Microsoft leads most of the news due to the announcements at their conference. As reported by The Next Web, they announced that developers will be able to reuse their Android code to bring apps to Windows 10. Having a bridge between ecosystems should help drive the availability of apps. Also reported by The Next Web,… Read More Geek Reading April 30, 2015
Lots of good articles over the weekend. First, Microsoft casually mentions that an open source Windows is “definitely possible”, and it was not an April Fool’s joke. This is definitely a different Microsoft. Coding Horror talks about how all bugs are shallow, if you throw enough money at it. It is a very good read,… Read More Geek Reading April 6, 2015
Leading us off is a joint venture between two behemoths. Google and Microsoft are working together regarding Angular2 and TypeScript. Seth Godin gives us something interesting to think about in his post regarding the asymmetry of decay. Northwestern University brings us another interesting topic, where they found that creative genius is driven by distraction. As… Read More Geek Reading March 6, 2015
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