CTP Ep. 125 – Jul 23, 2017: Twelve Billion Dollars!

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Sponsored by Olio Digital Labs and Codeship

Thanks to Techdoz.ca for the loan of the Snowball Blue Mic

Hosts & Guests

• Stuart Clark
• Derek Silva
• Andrés Aquino

Andrés Aquino Bio, @eh_eh

Andrés is an active advisor, community advocate, and startup investor in the Toronto tech community. He is also Managing Partner at TWG, a Toronto-based Software Consultancy that builds software platforms and applications for enterprise companies, not-for profit organizations, governments, and some of the fastest growing startups in Canada. TWG also has teams in New York City and Mumbai.

Quick Hits

• If you use Wi-Fi on your iOS device, get this security update
  • https://www.cnet.com/au/news/apple-security-update-iphone-ipad-ios-hack-broadpwn/
• Netflix surges to record high as company adds non-US subscribers
  • https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/07/netflix-surges-to-record-high-as-company-adds-non-us-subscribers/
• Microsoft earnings beat expectations thanks to strong cloud performance
  • https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/20/microsoft-earnings-beat-expectations-thanks-to-strong-cloud-performance/?ncid=mobilenavtrend
• Amazon discounts are misleading you, consumer group says
  • They were fined $1m for a similar issue in Canada earlier this year.
  • https://www.cnet.com/news/ftc-investigating-claims-of-misleading-amazon-discounts/
• IBM Launches Data Encryption system, opens blockchain data centre in Toronto
  • http://betakit.com/ibm-launches-data-encryption-system-opens-blockchain-data-centre-in-toronto/

Topics

• ChangeTogether.io
  • Increasing diversity at tech companies: TWG partnered with TechGirls Canada to improve their diversity, and through their efforts they have quickly increased the number of female employees from 9% to 30%. TWG’s created and released a free guidebook for other tech companies looking to increase their diversity, which was released early 2017; available at changetogether.io

• CRTC’s new head will be former Telus executive Ian Scott
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/18/crtc-chairman-ian-scott-canada/
• Google to radically change homepage for first time since 1996
  • https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jul/20/google-change-home-page-first-time-since-1996-app-based-feed-news-events-sports
• Live sports streaming service DAZN launches in Canada with NFL Game Pass
  • http://mobilesyrup.com/2017/07/20/dazn-canada-nfl-game-pass/
• Nanopay gets strong scores from the US Federal Reserve’s faster payments task force
  • http://betakit.com/nanopay-gets-strong-scores-from-the-us-federal-reserves-faster-payments-task-force/

Stuff We Like

• Stuart – Pocket RPG
• Derek – reMarkable tablet
• Andrés – getpocket.com it’s not a new app, but I continue to be a huge fan of Pocket for saving articles to read and listen to later.

What are you up to lately?

• Stuart – Still job hunting, doing some training on Davinci Resolve.
• Derek – Busy at Olio initiating some new marketing initiatives, added some new Managed VPS plans without cPanel pre-installed at CleverHost, and otherwise just enjoying my new pool and family time.
• Andrés – Helping advise Codefor.ca with their new fellowship program; released a new Code of Conduct at TWG this week.

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Music Credit:

“District Four” Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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