A Bunch Of Fancy Tech People Will Be Partying In Ireland This Week
Welcome to the week ahead, our look at what's happening in the tech world this week.
There are two conferences happening simultaneously in Dublin, Ireland - F.ounders and Web Summit.
Web Summit is a conference during the day, and F.ounders is smaller, exclusive group that has activities and dinners during the evening.
Web Summit will feature Werner Vogles, CTO of Amazon, Drew Houston, CEO of Dropbox, Peter Thiel, Brendan Iribe, CEO of Occulus, and many others.
Many of those people will also participate in the night stuff for F.ounders.
Other stuff that's happening this week:
Google is hosting an event to talk about cloud computing (via Techmeme).
A handful of tech companies are reporting earnings, including the following:
- Tuesday, November 4: Criteo, Priceline
- Wednesday, November 5: Zillow
- Thursday, November 6: AOL, Millennial Media, Disney, Zynga
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- A couple accidentally shipped their cat in an Amazon return package. It arrived safely 6 days later, hundreds of miles away.
- Colon cancer rates are rising in young people. If you have two symptoms you should get a colonoscopy, a GI oncologist says.
- Having an regional accent can be bad for your interviews, especially an Indian one: study
- Dirty laundry? Major clothing companies like Zara and H&M under scrutiny for allegedly fuelling deforestation in Brazil
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- Climate change could become main driver of biodiversity decline by mid-century: Study
- RBI initiates transition plan: Small finance banks to ascend to universal banking status