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Alphabet Sees Boost in Mobile Ads as It Takes Hit From Record EU Fine on Google Google parent Alphabet on Monday saw shares slide as the market reacted to a massive fine by the European Commission and word that success in mobile, cloud and YouTube is coming with higher costs.

BlackBerry last week announced that its turnaround was finished, and Microsoft finally provided some information on its new connected car deliverables. One strange thing was that after CEO John Chen excitedly pointed out that BlackBerry had displaced Microsoft in Ford, he then announced a strategic initiative to work more closely with Microsoft's Azure on BlackBerry's own market-leading QNX car operating system. That showcased not only the massive changes in both companies, but also the really strange way this market is evolving. via TechNewsWorld http://ift.tt/2kMm1kG via Blogger http://ift.tt/2kkl2vx

Life is about negotiation. We negotiate our relationships -- including marriage, which is a contract that many don't take seriously. We negotiate our jobs, and we negotiate our interactions with our families. Those who are good at this tend to have relatively happy lives. While they don't get everything they might want, they get more than most. When things go badly, they degrade into wars, and both sides lose. That is what was in the front of my mind last week, when I read the idiotic open letter to President Trump from the U.S. Press Corps. via TechNewsWorld http://ift.tt/2kkrrY8 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2jiJpbu

Remember the old song, "You Don't Mess Around With Jim"? The chorus goes like this: "You don't tug on superman's cape, You don't spit into the wind, You don't pull the mask off that old lone ranger, And you don't mess around with Jim." One of the lessons we learned last year is that what goes for "Jim" likely also goes for Peter Thiel, who put Gawker out of business and is one of President-elect Donald Trump's leading supporters. BuzzFeed decided to publish a controversial dossier about Trump that includes some disgusting material. via TechNewsWorld http://ift.tt/2j1rCmK via Blogger http://ift.tt/2iEEq4B

CES was a fascinating show this year. One of the things that made it so fascinating was that everyone and their brother had cars demonstrating one form of technology or another. It kind of makes me wonder what we'll see at the next car show -- PCs, drones, tablets and smartphones? That wasn't the only surprise at the show, though. Nvidia, long thought of as living in Intel's shadow, broke out, taking over the prime keynote spot in a big way and demonstrating that it has all but cornered the market for car brains. via TechNewsWorld http://ift.tt/2iwwmk3 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2iwZoQt

CES week is here, and it's the one week of the year I look forward to looking back on. CES is a killer show -- not because you are up to your armpits in interesting new products, but because it is so spread out that it'll kill your legs as you hike all over the damn place. One year, I walked so much I actually ripped the soles off both shoes. What is weird about this show is that it really comes too early for vendors to have much of what they intend to have in stores by the end of the year. So, it fails to deliver the impact it once did. via TechNewsWorld http://ift.tt/2ivDZb3 via Blogger http://ift.tt/2iBnP2t