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Tech News Flash: Friday -- February 2, 2018

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HighGround CEO Andee Harris: Find Your People
Facebook Is Gobbling Less of Users' Time
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Aim to Untangle Employee Healthcare Knot
Alexa Now Can Dash Off Text Messages to Android Phones
Privacy-Minded Smart Speaker May Struggle to Get to Know You
Alphabet's New Chronicle Promises to Speed Threat Data Analysis
The Ironic Weirdness of Apple and Intel vs. Qualcomm
NYC Data Science Academy CTO Vivian Zhang: Do the Difficult Things First

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HighGround CEO Andee Harris: Find Your People
"Human capital management is the idea that your humans are your capital,
and so you should be investing in them and managing them, making sure
that you're giving your talent opportunities to grow, and that they have
purpose in their work," said HighGround CEO Andee Harris. "Human
resources is more about HR benefits and core HR systems," she noted,
while HCM "is more about people systems."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85102.html

Facebook Is Gobbling Less of Users' Time
The social media industry may have to struggle to rehydrate in light of
some surprising and troubling metrics Facebook released on Wednesday. In
addition to a pause in user growth, there have been signs that user
engagement may have reversed course. The decline may have something to
do with Facebook's efforts to recover from accusations that it has
provided fertile ground for fake news.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85105.html

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JP Morgan Aim to Untangle Employee Healthcare Knot
Three corporate giants on Tuesday announced they were banding together
to provide healthcare for their 1.1 million employees. The companies --
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase -- plan to form a company
"free from profit-making incentives and constraints" in order to improve
employee satisfaction with their healthcare coverage as well as reduce
costs.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85103.html

Alexa Now Can Dash Off Text Messages to Android Phones
Amazon on Tuesday introduced new functionality that enables its Alexa
virtual assistant to send and receive SMS messages on devices running
Android 5.0 or higher. Carrier charges may apply. Alexa, the software
that powers the Echo line of smart speakers, can play and send
personalized messages from contacts for users who have set up voice
profiles.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85100.html

Privacy-Minded Smart Speaker May Struggle to Get to Know You
Mycroft AI earlier this week announced that its Mark II smart speaker
achieved full funding on Kickstarter in just 6.5 hours. As of Wednesday,
pledges reached more than three times its $50K goal -- with 23 days
remaining in the campaign. The Mark II is positioned as an open source
alternative to the dominant Amazon Echo line of smart speakers and its
main challenger, the Google Home device.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85099.html

Alphabet's New Chronicle Promises to Speed Threat Data Analysis
Alphabet has launched Chronicle, a new cybersecurity venture, following
two years of development at the Alphabet X research lab. Chronicle will
include VirusTotal, a Google-owned cybersecurity and intelligence
platform and malware intelligence service. The idea behind Chronicle
stems from the fact that many companies receive many more security
alerts per day than they can handle.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85096.html

The Ironic Weirdness of Apple and Intel vs. Qualcomm
I am not remotely religious, but recently it has become harder and
harder to ignore that things have become incredibly ironic of late -- as
if a divine being with control over the world decided to prank us. For
example, take President Trump. During the campaign, everything he made
fun of others for doing -- including drinking water badly, playing too
much golf, slacking off and slurring words -- he has done himself, in
glorious living color.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85092.html

NYC Data Science Academy CTO Vivian Zhang: Do the Difficult Things First
In the data science field today, "the big problem is that the industry
does not have official data science training," observed Vivian Zhang,
CTO of the NYC Data Science Academy. "Their majors don't teach them
anything in the industry. We've become a natural transition funnel to
bring those people in. Companies know that data science is important,
but they don't know how to do it."
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/85058.html

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