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Twitter is in takeover talks…

Twitter is in takeover talks with Google, Salesforce.com, and other potential buyers

Twitter is in takeover talks with Google, Salesforce.com, and other potential buyers

If it’s just Twitter on the block then Disney is the right home for Twitter.

However, what really makes sense to me is that Google basically hires Jack Dorsey. This means buying Twitter and Square. Google has a poor payments system and has struggled for years trying to build a social network. Jack is the answer to both.

Paris est la quatrième ville la plus attractive au monde…

La métropole française est la seule à être classée dans le top 10 pour neuf familles de critères sur dix.

Source: Paris est la quatrième ville la plus attractive au monde

Analysis of Last.fm Passwords…

Passwords were stored using unsalted MD5 hashing. This algorithm is so insecure it took us two hours to crack and convert over 96% of them to visible passwords, a sizeable increase from prior mega breaches made possible because we have significantly invested in our password cracking capabilities for the benefit of our users. Here are the top 50…

LeakedSource Analysis of Last.fm Hack

Are you using unique passwords yet? If not you should be.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”…

Across a large enough population of really talented and experienced individuals emerged ten reasons for each position. You can argue the viability of certain ones, but all-in-all it’s an interesting outcome given the hype about companies moving to public cloud and CIOs all claiming they’re looking to exit the data center business.

A Reality Check on “Everyone’s Moving Everything To The Cloud”

This is well worth 15 minutes of your time. I hear similar things every day as I wander from client to client. However, it’s good that JP has taken the time to put them on paper.

2016 Internet Trends…

The scale of changes that will be brought by the move of the center of internet usage to Asia will be massive.

After reading this report I can only see the mountains of work in front of us to restructure what we have to support these changes.

https://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/key/D0N5V1PjTsIasR

KPCB’s Mary Meeker presents the 2016 Internet Trends report, covering today’s Internet growth.

2016 Internet Trends Report — Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers