As Monday morning rolls in, we’re providing TechWire readers with a quick recap of the past week’s news hits.
Hot stories for February 4-8 included a “State of the Region” address presented by RIoT’s Tom Snyder, funding rounds from local life science companies and live coverage of LaunchBio’s “Brilliant Minds” event.
Here’s a look back at 71 local, state and national headlines as reported by WRAL TechWire last week.
MONDAY Feb. 4 Headlines:
- Agencies Sokal Media Group, Webstreak to merge
- Analysis: With more than $100B in cash, it’s time for Google to pay a dividend
- ‘Brilliant Minds’ is focus of LaunchBio’s Larger Than Life Science event
- Fortnite’s Marshmello dance draws millions – is this interactive entertainment’s future? (+ watch the video)
- From dorm to dominance: Growing pains as Facebook turns 15
- Gannett board says no to buyout offer from hedge fund-backed Digital First Media
- Headlines: IBM Siri warning; AI & taste; AR comes to PGA; Cisco on IoT, GDPR; Sensus-Philly deal; Spotify-Gimlet talks
- How Holly Springs is preparing for its economic future
- Looking for tech & startup meetup? Here’s list for Triangle
- Model Y: Tesla’s next big thing is on horizon
- NBA All-Star game brings attention to Sports Tank event from Charlotte startup
- NC event headliners: CONNEXXPO, Business of Farming, Marketing Summit & more
- NCSU: Gap between corporate earnings, non-financial measures affects forecasting
- On the event horizon: Save the date for these 70+ events in March
- Raleigh-based SalesSync looking to raise $800,000 in offering
- TechWire week in review: 78 headlines for earnings, Cree, State of Tech, biotech VC & more
- Triangle event headliners: Pearl Hacks, Biogen Career Night, Carolina Makeathon & more
TUESDAY Feb. 5 Headlines:
- Alphabet – Google’s parent – tops $39B in revenue but costs rise, margin declines
- Duke researchers: Decision-making tool doesn’t ease anxiety for families facing life support decisions
- Durham-based Velocity Clinical raises more than $20M to purchase 3 research sites
- Durham’s Adwerx powers more real estate advertising in an ever-changing market
- Durham’s Disruptive Enterprises raises $7.75M from One Better Ventures
- GSK strikes potential $4B deal for immunotherapy targeting cancer
- Honda Aircraft pays $44K penalty to feds to settle jobs discrimination case
- IQVIA unveils new unit to support small life science firms
- Mount Olive firm IMPulse purchased by fiber optic company
- Streaming wars: FX Networks boss rips Netflix over viewership claims
- Ting expanding Triangle fiber Internet footprint to Wake Forest
- W-S startup OrbitalRx fund raiser reaches $1.4M (+ The OrbitalRx system)
- With fewer gig jobs than you think, economists walk back study predicting huge increase
WEDNESDAY Feb. 6 Headlines:
- $250M cryptocurrency mystery: Founder dies, passwords to exchange unknown
- Analog Devices expands Raleigh offices in move to The Dillon
- Apple’s retail chief leaving ‘for new personal and professional pursuits’
- Chimerix CEO Michelle Berrey resigns; 3 to share job on interim basis
- Durham’s Teamworks lands platform partnership with new Alliance of American Football
- GSK’s top exec sees ‘good progress’ but drug giant forecasts decline in earnings
- Looking for a Tesla? Model 3 price is cut $1,100
- NCSU: Artificial intelligence can identify microscopic marine organisms better than most humans
- Next up for LaunchBio’s Larger Than Life Science series: ‘Brilliant Minds’
- RTP-based SmartSky Networks raises $104M after first in-flight wireless commercial deployment
- Spotify bolsters podcasting effort with deals for Gimlet, Anchor
- Tech on Tap: Media layoffs, Facebook vs. Apple, Netflix prices and Apple in Raleigh
- The buzz of CloudBees grows as software tech firm expands Raleigh presence
- WRAL TechWire Live features top Triangle execs addressing leadership, innovation
THURSDAY Feb. 7 Headlines:
- Analyst: Apple won’t have a ‘model’ in China within 5 to 10 years
- Blood test could soon disclose blocked, narrowed arteries, Duke pilot shows
- Changing corporate climate reflected in the growth of flexible workspace
- Digital content trends: What Spotify and The New York Times have in common
- Durham-based Biocryst secures $100 million for drug development
- Germany cracks down on Facebook’s ‘exploitative abuse’ of user data
- Guest opinion: RIoT executive director’s ‘State of the Region’ and a call to action
- IBM plans $2B investment in New York state for Artificial Intelligence, other programs
- Infosys, NCSU team up to put new employees through training ‘boot camp’
- Kinston firm looks to raise $1.5 billion for agriculture investments
- LabCorp beats Street on revenue, earnings expectations
- LabCorp names new chief legal officer
- Study: Cold, hot temperatures drive down electric car battery strength
- Twitter grows revenue 24% but user base declines
FRIDAY Feb. 8 Headlines:
- Apple fixes FaceTime bug, will reward teen who discovered flaw
- Bitcoin true believers see cryptocurrency as a hedge against disaster
- Durham pharma startup Renovion raises nearly $500,000
- Emerging 5G technology helps spur Analog Devices expansion in Raleigh
- Emerging Issues Forum highlights mutual growth in rural & urban communities
- Google Fiber shutting down Louisville network, says Triangle, Charlotte not affected
- Jeff Bezos vs. National Enquirer: I won’t ‘capitulate to extortion and blackmail’
- National Enquirer parent says it will investigate Bezos blackmail claim
- Photo shoot: ‘Brilliant Minds’ event draws a crowd at LaunchBio
- Report: Amazon reconsidering plan to build 25,000-job campus in New York City
- Student, professor team up to fight cancer, other diseases with startup Ribometrix
- Suicide leads to Instagram’s ban on graphic images
- UNC researcher presents additional results from groundbreaking genome editing clinical trial
