Fire OS encryption function will be restored

Lately, the medium reported much about the case concerning FBI asked for Apple to decrypt the gunshot case suspect’s iPhone. FBI wished to decrypt the suspect’s iPhone data in order to solve the case. However, they failed and turned to Apple for help.

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It caused discussions over the nation as Apple declined to decrypt the suspect’s iPhone. The encryption technology is highly concerned by the public now.

Back to Amazon Fire iPad, it removed the encryption function for Fire OS when it upgraded the newest version. This action was agaist and criticized by its consumers and preservers of privacy policy. Because of this, Amazon decided to restore its encryption function.

Robin Handaly, Amazon spokesman notified the public and consumers by emsil on last Saturday that the company woulf restore the encyption function for new upgrade version of Fire OS this Spring.

The news concerning Amazon removed the encryption function for Fire OS was leaked by the media last week. Amazon claimed that they have removed the encryption function from Fire OS since last autumn as fewer people use this iPad.

It is safer to use the encryption function for a computing device as the encryption function is able to encrypt the data, so only the users insert the right passwoard could access to the data on the device.

The famous cryptologist Bruce Schneier claimed that it was stupid action that Amazon quit this function from Fire OS. Bruce Schneier who is one of the people that call on the restore of Fire OS encryption function.

As reported, Amazon is supposed to submit the court documents to appeal the judges to support Apple’s stand soon.

Samsung spent $ 6 million to introduce OLED production line

Many of domestic smartphones applied the OLED screen already. As reported, Apple will also apply OLED screen for its smartphones in the future. The upstream suppliers will make transition as Apple does.

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According to the confirmed source, Samsung started investing about $ 600 million to add OLED production line. The Samsung Engineering just signed a contract valued at $ 590 million recently to install producing equipments of OLED screen for Samsung Display. This contract also involves in Tangjeong plantation that products Samsung displayers.

Tangjeong plantation has basic facility. It will build another clear workshop and several equipments. This project will be completed by the end of 2016.

What’s more, Samsung Display purchased the equipments for producing OLED panel. The OLED production line will go into operation by the end of 2017.

OLED screen will have better scenes, thinner and enegery saving in comparison with LCD.OLED is considered as the substituendum of LCD for tv panel a few years ago. However, it costs dearer to have it produced.

According to the report, the global market of OLED screen is monopolied by Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics. Samsung Electronics has advantage in producing small and medium size OLED screen.

Some South Korean media reported Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics would sign contracts with Apple to supply OLED screen last year. Therefore, these two compaines would invest decades of billion to enlarge OLED productivity in a few years.

As customary, Apple will distribute the orders of components and parts to several suppliers. Samsung has chance to win bigger order.

The worst failure of acquisitions made by Yahoo

Speaking of the acquired business, Yahoo spent a great amount of capital on acquisitions. As we all known, Yahoo acquired several companies with over-high offers. Their business was a mess even afterthe acquisition.

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Talking about this, it might remind the public of the acquisition of Tumblr that Yahoo offered higher prices than its valuation. In 2013, Yahoo acquired Tumblr at $1.1 billion. Now, Yahoo claimed to make the write-downs of its capital. Yahoo implied the well-known for time blog platform is declining. It has little chance for Tumblr to revive.

Besides, the Tumblr acquisition is not the worst merged deal judeged by the acquired value scale in Yahoo history. There are Top 4 worst acquistions that Yahoo made.

Broadcast.com

It could be counted as No 1 worst acquisition made by Yahoo. It spent $5.7 billion to acquired this online content company. However, it shut down the Broadcast.com business a few years later. It was such an unsucessful deal. Broadcast.com former boss Mark Cuban became a billionaire and purchased a NBA team.

GeoCities

It spent $3.6 billion to acquire personal homepage service site GeoCities. GeoCities allowed the newbies to create their webpages on it. Unfortunately, this website is almost shut down by Yahoo now.

Overture

Overture was company dealt with search engine business. Yahoo acquired it at $1.63 billion in 2003 for exploring the search engine business. However, Google search beat it down.

Right Media

Right Media is a social networking media company. Yahoo spent $ 850 million to acquire in 2007 in the hope of making more profit for advertising business in social networking field. This acquisition also came as a failure.

VMware suffers brain drain: President & Co-COO dismissed

VMware announced on Tuesday that its president and co-COO Carl Eschenbach would resign soon. It was the second news of senior officer resignation in the past week.

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Eschenbach will join Sequoia Capital as a partner after his resignation. So far, VMware has not announced its successor yet.

In fact, VMware senior vice president Martin Casado just quit his post a few days ago. Casado joined Andreessen Horowitz as an ordinary partner. However, a month ahead of the brain drain, VMware announced that its CFO & co-COO Jonathan Chadwick would resign from his posts.

In addition to this, VMware also announced the appointment of four senior managers for more responsibilities. Maurizo Carli is appointed as the executive vice president for global sales business. Peter McKay will be the chief supervisor of US sales team. Its current CTO Ray O’ Farrell will be also responsible for the related business concerning global business and consumer plan. Sanjay Poonen will be responsible for business of global sales and public relations.

The management group adjustment is worth noting as Dell just acquired EMC, the parent company of VMware. EMC holds 80% of VMware’s stock equity. The $67 billion acquisition was approved by the US regulatory last week.

VMware streamlined about 800 employees last month. What’s more, VMware announced to decrease the expectation of 2016 revenue in the latest quarterly report.