Yahoo! – Japan not included

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Yahoo! – Japan not included
Number 2730
Broadcast Date APRIL 7, 2016
Episode Length 43:20
Hosts Tom Merritt
Guests Justin Robert Young

Facebook isn’t Facebook anymore. It’s Oculus and WhatsApp and more. It looks like a 1980s conglomerate. Google split up into slices and now Verizon is possibly adding Yahoo to its collection. Justin Young and Tom Merritt discuss if decentralization is the new pivot for the big dogs.

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Headlines

Sources are telling Bloomberg that Verizon plans to make a first-round bid for Yahoo’s Web business next week and would be willing to buy Yahoo's stake in Yahoo Japan as well. Alphabet’s Google division is also considering a bid. AT&T, Comcast and Microsoft have decided not to bid. Time Inc. is still evaluating, and private equity funds Bain and TPG are looking to back someone else's play here although they might make solo bids as well. First round bids are due April 11.
Facebook Messenger accounts now get the URL m.me/username that can be visited to start a chat. Facebook also is rolling out Messenger Codes, a series of dots and dashes around a profile pic similar to Snapchats QR codes. Facebook announced Messenger now has 900 million monthly active users.
Speaking at Kenyon College in Ohio Wednesday, US FBI Director James Comey said the method used to unlock an iPhone 5C in a case in San Bernardino will not work with the iPhone 5S or newer. The A7 chip in the 5S was the first to include a secure enclave.
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Reddit released new apps for Android and iOS, replacing Alien Blue on the latter. Alien Blue will be removed from the store but continue to work. The new apps are now out of beta and available in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. Try it in the next week and you can get a free trial of Reddit’s ad-free gold membership. Wednesday Reddit announced Wednesday that now when you block a user you will no longer see posts or public comments from that user though they will not know they’ve been blocked.
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Quartz reports 12 autonomous trucks in the European Truck Platooning Challenge have arrived in Rotterdam, completing successful journeys from southern Sweden, Gothenburg and Stuttgart. The convoy from Sweden traveled 2,000 km. A human driver leads each convoy with the rest connected by WiFi driving more efficiently than humans can. Research firm TNO says two trucks clocking 100,000 miles annually can save €6,000 on fuel.
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Bloomberg reports that analysts are raising operating profit projections for Samsung based on stronger than expected sales of the Samsung Galaxy S7. Samsung has updated its earning guidance for Q1 expecting sales of 49 trillion won and operating profit of 6.6 trillion.
Messaging app line began letting developers create bots on its platform but it’s dealing with investigations in two markets. Japanese regulators are investigating Line’s handling of customer money. Unused deposits in Japan must be kept with the Legal Affairs Bureau but Line didn’t deposit unspent credits in a game because it claims they are not currency, just Line points. Meanwhile in Thailand stickers that mock the royal family may have violated rules against insulting the monarchy which carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison. Stickers are made by users but vetted by Line.
BlueStacks has added the ability to stream to Twitch to its App Player that lets users play Android games on a PC. BlueStatcks is using Twitch’s new API which also gives App Player users the ability to watch Twicth Streams in the app.
Computerworld reports Wohlers Associates says sale of desktop 3D printers rose 69.7% last year from 163,999 to 278, 385 for models priced below $5,000. The Additive manufacturing industry grew 25.9% last year as a whole with $5.1 billion in sales. Wohlers expects worldwide revenues to reach 12.8 billion by 2018.

Discussion

Pick of the Day

I have a pick for anyone that is blind. More often than not, if I need to check if an app is accessabile to voice over, apple's talking screen reader built in for iOS devices, I check out applevis.com. They have forums, and they review apps based on how well voiceover works with different apps as a note, love the show. Thanks,
Submitted by Teresa

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Natron points out video on the Internet often lags behind live video, which could be a problem for Twitter: “people posting to Twitter could be watching on TV, and then their tweets will get ahead of the Twitter video. Which means they could be spoiling the game when they post tweets. And the people most likely to read the tweets would also be people watching the delayed Twitter video feed.”
Sent by Natron


Up here in the northeast where Dunkin Donuts out numbers Starbucks the DD app does the same thing as the Starbucks apps. You can even use Apple Pay to reload your gift cards on the app. The DD that I frequent just updated their credit card terminals and now accept all NFC based payments including Apple Pay. If it wasn't for the perk I get using the DD app I would use Apple Pay to buy my daily coffee. The only place I use Apple Pay is at my works cafeteria vending machines since no other business I frequent in my town uses it.
Sent by Ben from Keene (pronounced Keen) New Hampshire where Mother Nature can't make up her mind if it's winter spring or summer right now


Happy to report that I am able to routinely survive a normal working day, including bus and train travel, food, stationery purchases, etc using just the Apple Pay. However, card plastic contactless is still marginally, but noticeably, faster than iPhone - which takes almost a full second to authorise sometimes.

Hope the US catches up sometime soon!

Best
Sent by Toby


I was skeptical about how a bot could help with shopping, so I tried out the new H&M bot with Kik Messenger, and was actually surprised. A couple of takeaways:

Pro
1. The bot does a good job of establishing a fashion profile when you first engage.
2. Its surprisingly fast
3. I like that it gives you a complete outfit and the full price with a link to purchase.

​Con
1. Its billed as being able to input one item of clothing and build an outfit around it, but its a pretty on-rail experience. Once you veer from their selected options, its very hit or miss (I tried "blazer" and "suit" with no luck, "sneakers" worked). Also there's no way to state color preferences. Ideally I'd like to upload a picture of an item I already have to build an outfit around.

2. I wish it would let you give your sizes up front so they don't suggest items that are out of stock for you.

3. No way to preference items on clearance.​

4. No integrated payment system, kicks you out to the site once you've decided on something.

My biggest issue will be how they balance getting me to engage with the bot vs it being a spam machine. Because I don't want it to send me a message if there's a general sale, but if a shirt I've told it I like goes on sale, I do want to know that.

Overall, I'm actually impressed it works as well as it does, but I don't know if its something I'll use in its current state to do actual shopping.
Sent by Rich from Lovely Cleveland

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