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Sarah talks about UC Berkeley's student blockchain group. Priya and Aaron talk about Amazon's Alexa fund and why some startups are wary of taking money from the company.
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Jevon MacDonald
on Microsoft’s Cloud Chief Wields Blockchain in Battle With AWS
“What Microsoft needs for Azure is a strong and relentless ecosystem of developers and entrepreneurs who are building all these exciting next-gen services on top of their scalable, flexible and highly compliant foundation. Microsoft did this with Windows. Google has done it with Android. Operating systems with strong ecosystems and break a platform monopoly and day.”
Paul S. Triolo
on Crackdown Fails to Stop China’s Crypto Gold Rush
“Chinese operated cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, and Kucoin are some of the best run and user interfaces of any exchanges on the planet right now. The liquidity on these exchanges is amazing, and they offer a huge range of currency and token options. One of the most interesting stories is the rise of NEO and NEO-blockchain tokens.”
Joe McCann
on Latest Amenity for Startups: No Office
“ At NodeSource, we built the business to be “Distributed by Design” and have reaped huge benefits from it. We didn’t have an office for the first 2.5 years and have had nearly 0 attrition in Engineering, arguably one of the most difficult functions of a tech company’s organization to keep folks in.”
Mani Gandham
on Oracle Says It Needs to Change Customer Perceptions to Win Cloud Business
“Changing perception, especially one that is so negative and deeply rooted after decades, is even more expensive than building a cloud business. So unless Oracle is investing twice as much as the others, they will never get close to the "Big Three" cloud providers.”
Jonathan Stray
on Inside Apple’s Courtship of News Publishers
“One thing struck me: “The editorial team is staffed by ex-journalists....” What makes them not currently journalists? I realize this is a minor question of definitions. But by now we’ve seen that tech companies are clearly also media companies, in the sense that they have editorial responsibility for the content they promote, and must make very journalism-like editorial decisions.
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Maxwell Zhou
on At Tencent, Tensions Rise Over the Future of WeChat
“ The question is, is his rein over WeChat invulnerable? Will Pony remove Allen? I personally believe that only having 2,000 employees working on WeChat is a disservice to Tencent and even to the country. WeChat could’ve finished a lot more innovative projects like Toutiao did, but it never takes risks anymore these days. Too bad… ”