Twitter Executives Migrate

Twitter Executives Migrate
Number	2673
Broadcast Date	JANUARY 25, 2016
Episode Length	39:00
Hosts	Tom Merritt
Guests	Veronica Belmont, Patrick Beja

The Twitter executive exodus continues and the stock drops. Do you use it? 300+ million people do. Tom Merritt, Veronica Belmont, and Patrick Beja discuss whether Twitter is in trouble and what it’s good for anyway.

Guest

• Veronica Belmont
  • Dear Veronica on Engadget
• Patrick Beja
  • Patrick's Patreon

Headlines

• Big Executive Departures at Twitter: Media Head Stanton and Product Head Weil Leaving

Sunday evening, Jack Dorsey partially confirmed reports from the New York Times and ReCode that top executives are leaving the company. Katie Jacobs Stanton, head of media, Kevin Weil, head of product, Alex Roetter, head of engineering and Skip Schipper head of HR are all choosing to leave according to Dorsey. Jason Toff, GM of Vine announced that he will leave to work on VR at Google. Twitter is holding a two day leadership summit in San Francisco later this week.

Submitted by KAPT_Kipper

• ‘iPhone 5se’ likely to have faster A9/M9 chips & always-on Siri, come in 16/64GB capacities

9to5 Mac’s Marc Gurman reports Apple will make a new 4-inch iPhone called the iPhone 5SE which will have Apple pay, A9 and M9 processors, always on Siri and come in 16GB and 64 GB versions. Gurman is told Apple plans to announce the iPhone 5SE the week of March 14th along with new Apple Watch models.

• Cortana Gets Better at Helping You Manage Your Busy Schedule

Microsoft announced Cortana can now automatically create reminders for you. The feature— called Commitments— scans your local email and suggests reminders that you can accept or reject. It also alerts you to meeting requests that fall outside of your usual meeting times or are coming in last minute. Commitments is rolling out to Windows Insider Program users first.

• (APP)(Xposed)(1.6.5)Snapprefs - The ultimate Snapchat-utility (9.21.1.0) (JB-M) - Post #9742

Snapprefs, Mészáros Marcell, Piotr Brzozowski, Jani Andsten posted findings on xda-developers.com of features hidden in snapchat APK. The ChatV2 interface indicates audio and video calling and stickers might be added to the app.

• Google Streamlines Play Games API: Allows Automatic Sign-In And Only Shows A Prompt When Google+ Access Is Requested

Android Police reports that Google’s game API no longer requests access to a Google+ account to access game-specific services. A separate player ID is created instead. A setting is also coming to turn off automatic sign-in. No timeframe was given by Google on when the changes will be implemented.

• Facebook’s Second European Data Center Is Coming To Ireland

Facebook has announced plans to open a new European data center in Clonee Ireland outside Dublin. It will be powered entirely by hardware and software from Facebook’s Open Compute Project, which aims to create energy and cost-efficent open source infrastructure. This is Facebook’s sixth data center worldwide and the second in Europe. The first European data center was opened in Luela, Sweden in 2013.

Submitted by habichuelacondulce

• WORLD’S OLDEST TORRENT IS STILL BEING SHARED AFTER 4,419 DAYS

TorrentFreak has identified the world’s oldest known torrent which delivers, an ASCII version of the Matrix movie. The torrent was created December 20, 2003. The original site it came from is no longer online.

Submitted by motang

• Nigeria-based Online Entertainment Platform iROKO Will Finance “Nollywood” Films After Raising $19M

TechCrunch reports Nigerian online Nollywood movie service iROKO has received $19 million in funding from Kinnevik and French TV company Canal+. iROKO will use $7 million to strike content development deals with Nigerian studios. The platform runs on the Web and Android and has 2500 to 3,000 titles. Nollywood was a $3 billion industry in 2014 ahead of Hollwyood and just behind Bollywood.

Discussion

• Big Executive Departures at Twitter: Media Head Stanton and Product Head Weil Leaving
• As Jack Dorsey Tries to Reshape Twitter, Revolving Door Takes Another Spin
• Jack on Twitter: "Was really hoping to talk to Twitter employees about this later this week, but want to set the record straight now: https://t.co/PcpRyTzOlW"
• Nearly Half of Twitter’s Senior Leaders Are Leaving
• After Twitter’s Executive Exodus, What Happens Next?
• Number of monthly active Twitter users worldwide from 1st quarter 2010 to 3rd quarter 2015 (in millions)
• Twitter Revenue (Quarterly) (TWTR)

Pick of the Day

• MagCozy 2-Pack (Glow In The Dark)

Just a quickie based on Veronica's complaint about the constantly changing magsafe adapters and the need for wee adapter adapters.

I've been very happy with the MagCozy

They're cheap, and damn useful, especially if you (as I do) have an older power supply tethered in a spot in the house that you use with several different Mac laptops.

Thanks for everything,

Submitted by Rob from Damascus (MD)

Messages

When going over Apple's hire of Doug Bowman, Darren stated that he was hoping that VR could establish a footing without Apple having to come in and dominate to set the standard. While I agree it would be refreshing, its not like there are a bunch of small VR hardware vendors being threatened by Apple. Personally, I don't see much of a difference if either Sony, Facebook, or Apple dominate VR. I guess HTC is the little guy in the room, but are there indie VR hardware players getting any traction that Apple would quash (does Magic Leap count)? If any one of these players becomes the de facto standard, its the same result, right?

Sent by Rich from Lovely Cleveland

Links

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