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Report: Microsoft considered selling Bing to Apple to replace Google as default search engine

GeekWire

Microsoft considered selling its Bing search engine to Apple in a deal that would have replaced Google as the default search offering on Apple’s devices, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Apple and Google first reached a deal on search in 2002. Apple and Google first reached a deal on search in 2002.

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Technology Short Take 178

Scott Lowe

Ars Technica examines TunnelVision , a vulnerability that has existed since 2002 and has the potential to render VPN apps useless. This trick for “de-Googling Google” has been making the rounds on social medial for the last few days. I haven’t personally tried it yet—have you?

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AWS, Microsoft, Uber engineering vets raise $20M from top VCs for Seattle startup Temporal

GeekWire

Founded a year ago by former Uber engineers who previously worked at Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, Temporal has built an open-source microservices orchestration platform that can replace ad-hoc systems currently used by developers. He left in 2013 for Google, then joined Uber in 2015.

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Temporal is a unicorn: Developer productivity startup lands $103M at $1.5B valuation

GeekWire

The chops: Fateev, CEO, spent nearly six years at Amazon from 2002 to 2008, landed at Microsoft for two years, then returned to Amazon as a principal engineer. He left in 2013 for Google, then joined Uber in 2015. The reception to that idea sparked them to launch Temporal.

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Nerfies Might Be the Future of Selfies, Letting Your Friends Judge You on Social Media in Full 3D

Gizmodo

Ever since cameras first existed people have been pointing the lens at themselves to snap so-called selfies—a term first coined back in 2002. At this point they’re long overdue for an upgrade, so a team of researchers have created what could be the next-generation of selfies : easy to capture 3D models of yourself… Read more.

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Resetting Amazon: Why the tech giant should rethink its business from scratch

GeekWire

During his tenure at Amazon, from 2002-2005, he helped to launch and build Amazon Marketplace, before leading the company’s Enterprise Services business. ” Listen above, or subscribe to GeekWire in Apple Podcasts , Google Podcasts , Spotify or wherever you listen.

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Not Just Hadoop: NoSQL in the Enterprise at Strata NYC 2012

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2000 Google Inc Today announced it has released the largest search engine on theInternet. Google’s new index, comprising more than 1 billion URLs. 20072008 2005 2006 2003 2004 2001 2002. In 1998 Google won the search race through custom software & infrastructure. What isBIG data ? How BIG is it? How BIG is it?