Techmeme
January 20, 2013, 11:30 AM

Top News

Tim Carmody / The Verge:
Wikileaks claims Aaron Swartz was an ally and possible source, breaking anonymity  —  Unsubstantiated statements implicate US Secret Service in Swartz's prosecution and break Wikileaks' own ‘doxxing’ rules  —  Aaron Swartz died a week ago.  A public memorial service in New York City will be held later today.
Edward Moyer / CNET:
Memorial service honors Swartz as activist, individual  —  At a memorial gathering for Aaron Swartz in New York City, the tech activist's death prompts tender recollections and fierce resolve.  —  Aaron Swartz, 1986-2013  —  Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the main threads running through …
Owen Williams / The Next Web:
Face to face with Kim Dotcom as he launches Mega, talks about Megakey and the future of free content  —  If there's one place that you want to be for the launch of Mega.co.nz, it's within Kim Dotcom's mansion.  That's precisely where I've been today.  Sure we knew that Dotcom was larger than life …
Aaron Levie / TechCrunch:
The Changing Of The Enterprise Guard  —  Editor's note: Aaron Levie is CEO and co-founder of Box.  Follow him on Twitter @levie.  —  When we decided to focus on selling to enterprises five years ago at Box, we saw some exciting emerging trends: workers needed tools that were far simpler to use …
New York Times:
With Graph Search, Facebook Bets on More Sharing  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook's greatest triumph has been to persuade a seventh of the world's population to share their personal lives online.  —  Now the social network is taking on its archrival, Google, with a search tool to mine …
Jordan Golson / MacRumors:
How Steve Jobs Buys a Company and Why Apple Bought Lala  —  Aubrey Johnson, a former Color employee, shares two stories behind the scenes at Apple's acquisitions of both Color and Lala — both firms were founded by Bill Nguyen before being acquired by Apple for two very different reasons.
Business Insider:
Normal, Non-Geeky People Are Running Rampant On A New Dating App, Tinder  —  Today, one of our “normal” colleagues approached us about a new app all of her college-age friends and roommates use.  It's called Tinder.  —  Tinder is a simple dating app that anonymously finds out who likes your looks nearby.
Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:
Circa Raises $750K From Group Including Lerer Ventures To Revolutionize Mobile News Delivery  —  We've learned today that mobile news-delivery company Circa has raised another $750K on top of the $900K raised previously.  The company launched its app of the same name, which allows you to follow …
Thanks:@leenarao

Sponsor Posts

Channel 9:
Inside NuGet for C++  —  NuGet support for C++ projects in Visual Studio has arrived in NuGet 2.5!  It's been around for about a month now so we figured we'd go talk to one of the developers who helped make it happen, Garrett Serack.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls  —  For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …
Hortonworks » Blog:
Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah!  HDP for Windows is Now GA!  —  Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.
Unison's blog:
“Yammer sucks”  —  Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:30 AM ET, January 20, 2013.

The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.