RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – Some of the latest high-tech and life science related news from the Triangle, North Carolina, the southeast, and the world is just a click away.
• LinkedIn has released one of its biggest product face lifts to date. The company announced a redesigned profile page, giving its users a more customizable way to show their professional identity. Announced at a Tuesday event, the profile page now offers new editing tools, insights to a user’s network, and features that make it easier to connect with other users. Read more details here.
• Six weeks after its debut inside yellow cabs roiled New York’s taxi industry, a cab-hailing app company said Tuesday that it would shut down the service, citing “obstacles and roadblocks” placed before it by the city. Read more details here.
• With Softbank’s majority stake acquisition of Sprint Nextel Corporation, the amount of foreign interest in the United States wireless market is greatly expanded. On the other side of the coin, wholly-American owned wireless companies are beginning to look like an endangered species. Read more details here.
• On Sunday, Felix Baumgartner made history by being the first person to skydive from a distance of 23 miles and being the first person to break the sound barrier outside of a vehicle. But he didn’t do it alone. Behind Baumgartner’s extraordinary achievement was some incredibly impressive technology – technology that could be used to further commercial spaceflight. Read more details here.
