| Scouted: The Compact Echo Show 5 Is the Smart Assistant Display You Want to Get from Prime Day
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 Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast The newest member of the family of Amazon Prime smart home devices went smaller instead of larger. The Amazon Echo Show 5 is a new, compact version of the original Echo Show, its 5.5-inch screen replacing the previously larger 10.1-inch screen. The home-friendly smart display ios easy to use and its size lets you place it anywhere without interfering too much. While it's priced this low for Prime Day, it's smart to grab several before the sale ends tonight. | Get it on Amazon > Let Scouted guide you to the best Prime Day deals. Shop Here > Scouted is internet shopping with a pulse. Follow us on Twitter and sign up for our newsletter for even more recommendations and exclusive content. Please note that if you buy something featured in one of our posts, The Daily Beast may collect a share of sales. Read more at The Daily Beast. Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| Qualtrics' Julie Larson-Green will talk experience management at TC Sessions: Enterprise
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| We're less than two months out from our first TC Sessions: Enterprise event, which is happening in San Francisco on September 5, and did you know our buy-one-get-one-free sale ends today too! Among the many enterprise and startup executives that'll join us for the event is Qualtrics' Julie Larson-Green. If that name sounds familiar to you, it's most likely because you remember her from her 25 years at Microsoft. After a successful career in Redmond, Larson-Green left Microsoft in 2017 to become the chief experience officer at SAP's Qualtrics . In that role, she's perfect for our panel about — you guessed it — experience management. Larson-Green joined Microsoft as a program manager for Visual C++ back in 1993. After moving up the ladder inside the company, she oversaw the launch of Windows 7 and became the co-lead of Microsoft's hardware, games, music and entertainment division in 2013. At the time, she was seen as a potential replacement for then-CEO Steve Ballmer . Later, during a period of reshuffling ...
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| This startup is giving away all its database software for free as open source, and it says it's not afraid of Oracle or Amazon
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| • On Tuesday, YugaByte announced it will make the entirety of the code behind its database software available as free open source, including features that customers previously paid for. • This is the reverse of the trend created by companies like Redis Labs, MongoDB and Confluent, which added more restrictions to how their software can be used after vendors like Amazon and Alibaba started selling their software on their cloud. • YugaByte also announced that its database management software will be under a Polyform Project license — a new type of source-available license authored by a group of open source licensing lawyers. That makes YugaByte the first to adopt a Polyform license. • Even though other companies have made defensive moves against Amazon to protect their business, the YugaByte co-founders explain why they're not worried about Amazon. • Click here for more BI Prime stories. The co-founders of the open-source startup YugaByte have been working in the database business since the early 1990s. ...
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| Permission-Greedy Apps Delayed Android 6 Upgrade So They Could Harvest More User Data
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| Android app developers intentionally delayed updating their applications to work on top of Android 6.0, so they could continue to have access to an older permission-requesting mechanism that granted them easy access to large quantities of user data, research published by the University of Maryland last month has revealed. From a report: The central focus of this research was the release of Android (Marshmallow) 6.0 in October 2015. The main innovation added in Android 6.0 was the ability for users to approve app permissions on a per-permission basis, selecting which permissions they wanted ...
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| Amazon wants to give users $10 in exchange for tracking them all over the web
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| Amazon is offering its customers a $10 coupon in exchange for tracking them all over the web in a promotion that experts say offers the online retail giant an unprecedented view into individual web browsing habits. The promotion is being offered as part of Prime Day. The deal requires Prime members to install Amazon Assistant, a browser extension that allows users to comparison shop. The company says it collects and processes information that includes the URL, page metadata and portions of content on whatever site you visit when using Assistant, adding that it can use this information for marketing purposes. Reuters reported on the promotion earlier today. "This gives Amazon a holistic view of your web activity that's frankly, unprecedented by an ecommerce retailer," says Jeremy ...
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| AT&T Business and IBM forge closer cloud relationship
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| In an expanded two-way relationship IBM will continue to provide AT&T Business with open source systems, which IBM mostly inherited from its recent acquisition of Red Hat. And AT&T will provide IBM with software-defined networking expertise.
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| Nokia 2.2 Offers Small-Notch Design for $140
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 Nokia today launched the Nokia 2.2, an entry-level Android phone with a premium-looking design including a 5.71-inch HD display with a small notch. The 2.2 has Android One 9.0 (Pie), a dedicated Google Assistant button, and a solid polycarbonate body with a glossy finish. Nokia claims the 13-megapixel main camera has advanced low-light capability. It's powered by a MediaTek A22 chipset with 3GB of RAM and 32GB of ROM. Amazon and Best Buy are selling the Nokia 2.2 unlocked for $139. It comes in Steel and Tungsten Black.
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