As Monday morning rolls in, we’re providing TechWire readers with a quick recap of the past week’s news headlines.
Hot stories for July 8-13 included: Dow Jones VentureSource’s latest report shows that NC startup investments have slowed, but local investors say otherwise; a survey finds NC’s tech workers rank 25th in average pay; the IBM-Red Hat merger has finally closed – Bob Young, Red Hat co-founder and first CEO, shares his perspective in an exclusive interview; WeWork is expanding its presence in North Carolina.
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Here’s a look back at 81 local, state and national headlines as reported by WRAL TechWire last week:
MONDAY July 8 Headlines:
- Best state to start a business? It’s not North Carolina, says new study
- British show data protection rules have bite: $230M fine on British Airways
- Headlines: Fortnite & Stranger Things; ‘2001’ & iPad; Microsoft-Linux security; Sprint & T-Mobile update; Cree stock
- iPhone’s future? Apple analyst paints a bleak picture
- Report: Amazon workers plan strike on Amazon Prime Day at Minnesota warehouse
- Mixing it up: Here’s your guide to more than 100 meetups across the Triangle
- NC headliners: Previewing 48 conferences, workshops, panels, socials in July
- NC startup DisposeRX teams up with gov’t to fight opioid epidemic
- NC startups raise $337M in Q2, lowest total in 3 years, but …
- On NC horizon: RIoT Developer Day, Regional Chamber Biz Expo, YP Leader Con & more August events
- Target takes aim at Amazon Prime Day with its own ‘Deal Days’
- TechWire rewind: Employer rankings; Deutsche Bank layoffs; CED & NC IDEA boards; much more
- Think before you leap: Top 3 areas to consider before investing resources in early-stage startup
- Triangle headliners: 48 events + 7 startup program deadlines in July
- Will Deutsche Bank layoffs hit its 900 workers in Cary? ‘Too early to say’
- Winston-Salem startup, committed to minimizing healthcare costs, raises $667,000 in equity
- With Cary jobs picture still unclear, Deutsche Bank makes last-ditch effort to save itself
TUESDAY July 9 Headlines:
- Amazon, Microsoft wage war over the Pentagon’s ‘war cloud’
- AT&T pulls ‘Friends’ from Netflix for its new streaming service, HBO Max
- ‘Becoming an Investor-Ready Entrepreneur’ program aims to help startups raise funding
- Bouncing bitcoin: From $14K to $9.6K back to $12K – what’s going on?
- CEO Whitehurst declares in letter to employees: ‘Red Hat is still Red Hat’
- Cisco targets data center market with $2.6B buy of Acacia Networks
- Deutsche Bank says it will be cutting jobs at Cary tech hub
- Economist: IBM-Red Hat might not mean big number of layoffs
- IBM closes $34B acquisition of Red Hat
- Joan Siefert Rose: The science of summer fun
- On-your-wrist PC: IBM patents smartwatch that unfolds into a tablet
- Red Hat, IBM execs pledge: ‘We’re not talking about layoffs’
- Red Hat, IBM execs promise to pursue ‘social impact’
- Report: Richard Branson is preparing to take Virgin Galactic public
- State of venture capital in NC? Investors, watchers say it’s booming
WEDNESDAY July 10 Headlines:
- ABB to invest $40M at Mebane plant, add 400 jobs
- A Charlotte healthcare real estate firm raises $5 million in equity
- Appalachian State hosts Energy Summit; focus is sustainability & efficiency
- Brooks Bell: ‘I finished my chemo treatment, feeling fantastic’
- Celebrations, hangovers, now back to work: What’s next in IBM-Red Hat marriage
- Exclusive: Building around Burt’s Bees, Clorox is growing its tech hub in Durham
- Grifols lands FDA approval for immune deficiency treatment
- Headlines: Fortnite World Cup; blocking robo calls; Alexa & your health; ViiV’s good data; Microsoft vs. Slack; Apple kills 2 Macs
- Jay-Z is latest celebrity to join growing cannabis business
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- Online shopping, price transparency has changed face of car ‘haggling’
- Raleigh-based FM:Systems acquires workspace optimization analytics firm
- Social media heavyweights aren’t on Trump summit guest list
- Thom Ruhe: NC IDEA wraps up a strong year, plans (hush hush) a summit in Nov.
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- WeWork Labs, the company’s for-pay innovation platform for startups, now in Durham
THURSDAY July 11 Headlines:
- 5 new commercial towers planned for Downtown Raleigh — here’s the lowdown
- Amazon, which is expanding rapidly in NC, to provide technical training for workers
- As tech stocks soar, Amazon cracks $1 trillion in value, joining neighbor Microsoft
- Consumer Technology Association CEO to keynote NC TECH event
- Exclusive: Red Hat’s first CEO sees his legacy turning IBM reddish from blue
- Fighting internet addiction? Behavioral therapy could help, study says
- Finding nukes: NCSU tech can test bricks to monitor for high enriched uranium
- Is a smart home a good idea? Data security worries 79% of consumers
- Japan-South Korea dispute threatens semiconductor, smartphone supplies
- Nearly 60% of us fear using digital assistants – have you secured yours?
- Need investment advice? Robo-adviser joins JPMoran Chase portfolio
- Photo shoot: Check out WeWork’s new digs, Durham.ID
- Putting Artificial Intelligence to work: Tackling content marketing
- ‘Robot umpires’ debut in independent Atlantic League
- WeWork’s NC spree continues: New spaces in Durham, Raleigh and Charlotte
FRIDAY July 12 Headlines:
- Apple pulls its Walkie Talkie app over security flaw
- Biocryst joins growing trend in tight labor market, offering ‘inducement grants’
- Circassia, which has US headquarters in Morrisville, receives 2 boosts for lung products
- Facebook set for record $5 billion fine over its privacy lapses
- Ford, Volkswagen team up for electric, autonomous vehicle push
- How can machines, humans talk better? UNC prof, colleague land $1.5M to find out
- Industry exec: Broadband mapping initiative making progress in identifying underserved areas
- Lenovo widens lead as No. 1 global PC seller; shipments jump 16%
- N.C. ranks No.1 for economy, third overall for business: Report
- #Twitterdown – Outage triggers panic among some tweeters
- Underpaid at $102K? Survey finds NC’s tech workers rank 25th in average pay
- Want a charge? Harley-Davidson’s $30K ‘Electric Hog’ goes 0-60 in 3 seconds
Weekend Headlines:
- At Starbucks, no longer read all about it – newspaper sales to stop
- Black Friday in July – How Amazon Prime Day became Super Bowl of shopping
- Facebook’s headaches aren’t over – $5B fine isn’t end to investigations
- Gloom or boom? Guidance on earnings to attract Wall Street’s attention this week
- Judge sides with Amazon, Pentagon in cloud wars case
- With stocks at record highs, what can kill the bull market? Here are 5 threats
