Re/code Daily - What Comes Next for Troubled Nest? - Mar 25, 2016

[Re/code] [..] [..] Read Now [..] • [Ever since Google bought Nest in 2014, things have gone sideways at the smart home technology company.][The Information reports that] CEO Tony Fadell has clashed with Google and his underlings, and that Nest has struggled to ship new products. Now the company is set to introduce a line of home security gadgets. [[Mark Bergen | Re/code]] • [Snapchat is buying Bitstrips, the company that makes the emoji creation app Bitmoji, for around $100 million.] [[Kurt Wagner | Re/code]] • [Private equity investors and activist shareholders are all plotting their Yahoo takeovers. So is Microsoft, sort of: The tech giant is telling investors that it's interested in lending money to buyout efforts.] [[Kara Swisher | Re/code]] • [On this week's episode of the Too Embarrassed to Ask podcast, Walt Mossberg joins Lauren Goode to talk about Apple's "derivative" product announcements from earlier this week.] [[Eric Johnson | Re/code]] • [IBT Media, the parent company of the International Business Times and Newsweek, laid off 15 IBTimes staffers yesterday. IBTimes editorial chief Peter S. Goodman is also leaving, as are four staffers from IBT Media property Latin Times.] [[Noah Kulwin | Re/code]] [..] Top Stories from Re/code [..] Gaming [Two Years Later: Facebook’s Oculus Acquisition Has Changed Virtual Reality Forever] By Kurt Wagner [Mark Zuckerberg's $2 billion bet on VR changed an industry.] Commerce [Fab Co-Founder Bradford Shellhammer Lands at eBay] By Jason Del Rey [Shellhammer is joining eBay's innovation team after selling his startup Bezar in a small transaction.] Gaming [The First Batch of Oculus Rift Virtual Reality Headsets Finally Shipped] By Kurt Wagner [Oculus on Thursday did something it's never done before: It shipped a consumer product.] Culture [We Can All Learn Something From How Quickly Microsoft’s Chatbot Turned Into a Racist] By Ina Fried [Racism, sexism and xenophobia are all too easily learned.] Security [U.S. Indicts Seven Iranian Hackers Over Cyber Attacks] By Arik Hesseldahl [The attacks include one from 2013 against a dam in upstate New York.] Transportation [Cadillac Just Made a Rearview Camera — Finally] By Johana Bhuiyan [Cadillac recently secured regulatory approval to incorporate video-enabled rearview mirrors, signaling a change in tides in the auto industry.] [..] This Is Cool [..] [Skip Terrible "Batman v. Superman" but Read This Great Review] [A.O. Scott, film critic at the New York Times, on the latest costumed blockbuster monstrosity: "The studio has, in the usual way, begged and bullied critics not to reveal plot points, and I wouldn’t dream of denying you the thrill of discovering just how overstuffed and preposterous a movie narrative can be."] 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]. [Vox_200.png] | [News] | [Podcasts] | [Events] | Follow Us: [twitter] [facebook] [You-tube] [Instagram] [Googleplus] [Linkedin] [RSS] [V] [Pininterest] 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 © 2016 Vox Media, Inc.