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January 28, 2016
Samsung Again Easily Sells More Phones Than Apple In Q4
Despite poor financial results and a gloomy year-ahead forecast, Samsung can feel good about selling more phones than Apple.
Samsung has again sold more phones than Apple worldwide, this time in the final quarter of 2015.
White House Gets Closer To Launching Its Cancer "Moonshot"
President Obama's new memorandum sets up a task force of federal agencies—to meet Monday—to coordinate cancer research and treatment.
The government's cancer cure moonshot is preparing for takeoff. After providing just a rough outline since President Obama first announced it in the State of the Union address, the White House is convening a federal task force to "clear out the bureaucratic hurdles — and, quite frankly, let science happen," Vice President Joe Biden wrote in a post on Medium the evening of January 27. Biden will chair the first meeting of the task force on Monday (February 1), which will include the Departments of Health and Human Services, Defense, Energy, and Commerce, as well as the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration, the vice president wrote.
Meet Workhorse, The Company That's Competing With Amazon For Delivery Drones
This maker of electric trucks is testing drones at an Ohio airfield.
At a small airport in Ohio, a truck manufacturer is testing out something decidedly futuristic: Small, retractable drone aircraft that pop off a delivery truck's roof and fly packages to delivery points a mile away. The manufacturer, the Workhorse Group, thinks drones can cut gas costs and increase efficiency for companies like UPS. But first, it needs to get the technology right.
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Draws Up Invest/Maintain/Kill List Of Layoffs
As Yahoo prepares to make cuts, Marissa Mayer is doubling down on mobile search and axing Yahoo's low-performing media sites.
Leading up to its earnings report next week, Yahoo is lining up a number of stealth layoffs, which will be followed by a wider round of company-wide cuts. To do this, Re/code reports, CEO Marissa Mayer has put together a list with three categories: invest, maintain, and kill.
Could Amazon Be Spotify's Next Competitor?
According to the New York Post, Amazon is reportedly working on a full-fledged music subscription service because sure, why not?
If you're a giant tech company in 2016 and you don't have your own Spotify-killing, all-you-can-stream music subscription service, what good are you?
Walgreens To Theranos: Stop Using Your Controversial Lab For Blood Test Analysis
The drugstore chain's stance is a response to federal officials informing Theranos that its deficiencies jeopardize patient health and safety.
In the wake of the news that federal officials have informed Theranos its deficiencies pose "immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety," the medical-testing startup's partnership with Walgreens is hitting a bump. On Thursday afternoon, the drugstore giant announced that it told Theranos to stop sending the clinical laboratory tests collected from 40 Theranos Wellness Centers at Walgreens pharmacy locations in Arizona to the startup's lab in Newark, California, for analysis.
January 27, 2016
80% Of Facebook's Ad Dollars Come From Mobile
Facebook's mobile push continues to pay off: The company reported $4.5 billion in mobile ad revenue during its quarterly earnings call.
Back in 2012, Facebook was struggling to transition into a company with a strong mobile presence. Those days are long gone. In its fourth-quarter earnings report on Wednesday, Facebook revealed that 80% of its advertising revenue could be attributed to mobile. In other words: Of the $5.6 billion ad dollars Facebook raked in during the last quarter, about $4.5 billion came from mobile advertising.
Feds: Theranos's Deficiencies Put Patient Safety In "Immediate Jeopardy"
The clock is ticking for the medical-testing startup to rectify these issues.
The bad news keeps on coming for Theranos, the medical-testing startup with an eye-popping $10 billion valuation. U.S. government regulators said in a public letter to the company today that its deficiencies pose "immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety."
Google Sued By Former Contract Recruiter For Withholding Pay
A class action suit alleges that the search giant regularly demanded 40+ hour weeks but wasn't willing to pay overtime.
Former Google contract recruiter Tymuoi Ha filed suit against the company for wage and hour violations, claiming that Google and Urpan Technologies (one of the many staffing agencies the search giant uses to hire temporary and contract workers) withheld wages.
Facebook's New And Improved Like Button Is Coming "In The Next Few Weeks"
Reactions will enhance Facebook's classic Like button with emoji responses that convey emotions ranging from anger to awe.
As revealed in October, Facebook has been hard at work reinventing the famed Like button—and Bloomberg got the inside scoop. In a profile published Wednesday, Bloomberg digs into why Facebook decided to tweak the emblematic feature and reveals that the social network's new, emoji-laden spin on the Like button will officially launch "in the next few weeks."
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