| Netflix beats, Palantir is protested and Google picks up Twitter's pieces. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for January 19, 2017. 1. Netflix had a very good quarter Netflix is coming off a great quarter with a beat for earnings expectations from analysts, buoyed by significant international subscriber growth. Even at home in the U.S., it's best expectations, and it seems like its investment in originals is driving a lot of that. It could also be that making it easier to subscribe has had significant impact; Netflix rose to the top of the highest grossing app list on the iOS App Store in December for the first time, which means a lot of people are signing up via the in-app subscription option introduced last year. 
2. Palantir gets protested by tech employees Protests are going to be pleasantly plentiful this week with Trump taking office on Friday, but one yesterday focused instead on Palantir, the Peter Thiel-backed big data mining company that critics fear could create a Muslim registry should Trump proceed with that plan. While Palantir's Alex Karp has said the company wouldn't do this, protests were looking for a more formal pledge that he would indeed never assist in creating a registry. 3. Google buys Twitter mobile dev platform Fabric Google is buying Fabric, a mobile development platform Twitter debuted in 2014, as well as various other developer-focused tools from the troubled social networking company. This should give Twitter some liquidity to focus on other aspects of its business, and has to at least suggest it's looking to get in trimmer form for a potential acquisition. 4. Super Mario Runs to Android in March Super Mario Run is coming to Android in March, which is not long to wait, but also not very soon. Well at least Android users know when to expect it. Also, it's other new title, Fire Emblem Heroes, is coming to Android first starting February 2. 5. Mozilla gets new threads Oh look Mozilla rebranded. I like it, for the record. 6. Mirai's creator was a disillusioned DDoS protection dev The creator of the world's most powerful botnet appears to be someone who once fought against them, but who went to the dark side in order to drive customers away from competing hosts. It's just like Anakin Skywalker, kind of. 7. Zuckerberg's perfect social media life is an elaborate construction Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook profile looks too perfectly tailored, and that's because it is. The company has a team of over a dozen employees curating his feed, which makes all the sense in the world. All social media is artifice, Zuck's is just a bit more elaborate. | 
No comments:
Post a Comment