Re/code Daily - Google's Secret Numbers, (Possibly) Revealed By Oracle - Jan 22, 2016

Read Now  • Oracle has been in a long-running legal battle with Google over whether Oracle is entitled to a chunk of the money that Google has made from Android. Two big revelations emerged from this battle yesterday: First, Google paid Apple $1 billion in 2014 to keep its search engine on iOS, plus a cut of the revenue generated. Second, Oracle says that Google has made $22 billon in (probably gross) profit from Android. Bear in mind that both of these numbers come from Oracle, not Google, so feel free to add a question mark to them. [Joel Rosenblatt and Jack Clark | Bloomberg Business] • OpenDoor Labs is a year-old startup that buys houses from people who want to sell quickly without a broker, and then flips them for a profit. One of its founders is early Square and PayPal exec Keith Rabois; last fall, it raised $80 million at a $580 million valuation. [Rolfe Winkler | The Wall Street Journal] • On this week's episode of the "Too Embarrassed to Ask" podcast, Andreessen Horowitz partner and ex-Microsoft executive Steven Sinofsky talks with Kara Swisher and Lauren Goode about why software is king, and how CES 2016 improbably explains the reason. [Eric Johnson | Re/code] • Last year, regulators killed No. 1 Comcast's proposed $45 billion merger with No. 2 Time Warner Cable because of antitrust concerns. No. 3 Charter Communications then stepped up to the plate with a $55 billion TWC offer of its own, and government officials are starting to signal their discomfort with that deal as well. [Emily Steel and Cecilia Kang | The New York Times] • Historically black colleges, like Howard University, have been focusing on building computer science departments that can get black graduates jobs at big tech companies like Google and Facebook. But those companies aren't hiring a lot of black talent. Why? Bloomberg Businessweek tries to explain. [Vauhini Vara | Bloomberg Business]  Top Stories from Re/code  Media More Awesome Code/Media Speakers? Okay: Cosmo, BuzzFeed and the New York Times Are Coming, Too. By Peter Kafka Three of the most interesting people in publishing -- Alex MacCallum, Dao Nguyen and Joanna Coles -- are joining us next month. You should, too. Social Want to Combat Hate Speech on Facebook? Try a ‘Like Attack,’ Says COO Sheryl Sandberg. By Kurt Wagner Kill 'em with kindness. Media Pooping on the Primaries: Triumph the Insult Comic Dog Hits Campaign Trail By Dawn Chmielewski And he should fit right in. Enterprise With Deal for Ustream, IBM Creates Cloud Video Unit By Arik Hesseldahl The deal is Big Blue's second for a video services company in as many months. Re/code Daily Who Bought Twitter Shares Yesterday, and Who Wants to Buy Twitter? By Noah Kulwin Trading near an all-time-low could result in a deal on the cheap for a hungry buyer. Mobile Verizon Says Results Show It’s Powering Through Ultra-Competitive Mobile Market By Ina Fried The company added 1.5 million postpaid customers and posted earnings ahead of what most analysts were expecting.  This Is Cool  The History of the New York Times on the Internet The New York Times is not only the paper of record, but it's a paper that has been trying to figure out the Internet for a long time. Twenty years, to be precise: The Times has a new, nifty interactive site that you can use to look at how the paper's digital operations have changed over the last two decades. It's also a useful reminder of just how much the Internet itself has changed. Well worth your click. Read more Re/code Daily here! Your friends can also receive Re/code Daily! They can sign-up for FREE here. For Reprints and Permissions, click here. |  News  |  Podcasts  |  Events  | Follow Us: You are receiving this email because you subscribed to Re/code Daily. If you would like to unsubscribe, click here. Mailing Address: Re/code – PO Box 1830, Morgan Hill, CA 95038 Copyright © 2015 Vox Media, Inc.

 

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