November 15, 2024

Month: March 2016

Apple won't bid on NFL Thursday Night Football

NFLLogo“Last month, the NFL sold off TV rights to its Thursday night games to CBS and NBC,” Peter Kafka reports for Re/code. “This month, the pro football league intends to sell digital rights to the same games, and it should be nearing a decision shortly on which company will buy them.”

“Up for grabs: The right to stream up to 18 regular-season games,” Kafka reports. “And, in theory, a chance to stand out from a crowd of online video players vying for viewers and advertisers’ attention.”

Kafka reports that Amazon, Facebook, Verizon, and even beleaguered Yahoo are among would-be buyers, but Apple is not: “Apple, which could use something dramatic to set its Apple TV box apart from the competition, has determined that this package isn’t enough to pull that off, and isn’t bidding.”

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Now is the time to learn Swift for a great developer's job

SwiftLogo“Developers who can code in Apple’s Swift programming language have been the most in demand over the past year, according to new figures from Toptal,” Liam Tung reports for ZDNet.

“The freelance developer placement firm looked at year-on-year growth in job requests for each language and found that requests for Swift projects rose 600 percent in 2015, roughly triple the rate of many other languages,” Tung reports. “Requests for HTML jobs grew 267 percent, followed by 244 percent growth for C++ requests, and 239 percent growth for CSS.”

“Other studies based on GitHub references have also found Swift displaying unprecedented growth among developers,” Tung reports. “Swift’s ascent should be supported further by Apple’s move in December to open-source the language.”

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