|
August 15, 2013, 8:20 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Google blocks Microsoft's new YouTube Windows Phone app — Microsoft's recently released YouTube application for Windows Phone is being blocked by Google. In a statement issued to The Verge, Google confirms that the application has been blocked for violating the terms of use.
More:
AllThingsD, Digits, ZDNet, TechCrunch, VatorNews, VentureBeat, Windows Phone Central, GigaOM, The Mac Observer, LiveSide.net, PhoneArena, TechHive, Marketing Land, BGR, SlashGear, Gotta Be Mobile, 9to5Google, pocketnow.com, GeekWire, Guardian, WMPoweruser, Business Insider, Ubergizmo and TechnoBuffalo
Tweets: @edbott, @theromit, @mattrosoff, @whatthebit, @backlon and @dsilverman
| Jeffrey Meisner / Microsoft on the Issues: |
The limits of Google's openness — Corporate Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Microsoft — You may be wondering what happened to the YouTube app for Windows Phone. Last May, after we launched a much improved app on our platform, Google objected on a number of grounds.
More:
CNET, CITEworld, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, PC Magazine, LiveSide.net, GeekWire, WindowsITPro, BGR, TechCrunch, MobileSyrup.com, The Next Web, IntoMobile, WMPoweruser, Ubergizmo, My Nokia Blog, tbreak and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @martinsuchan, @dcseifert, @tomwarren, @mattrosoff, @backlon and @pkafka
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sony Reaches Programming Deal With Viacom for Online Pay-TV Service — Sony Corp. has reached a preliminary agreement with Viacom Inc. to carry the media company's cable channels on its planned Internet-based TV service, a person familiar with the matter said, a significant boost …
More:
The Verge, Digital Trends, Engadget, SlashGear, Digits, Business Insider, GigaOM and Deadline.com. See also Mediagazer
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Acquired Matcha Because It Got The Recommendation Recipe Right — News broke that Apple had acquired Matcha, a video programming recommendation site, earlier this week. It's not surprising, despite the company's relative unknown status and small amount of total funding …
More:
Macworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, App Advice and iClarified. Thanks:@jordanrcrook
| Reuters: |
New iPhone, 4G technology may mean Apple, China Mobile tie-up closer — (Reuters) - The stars may be aligning for a long-awaited deal between Apple Inc and China Mobile Ltd, the world's biggest mobile carrier, that could help the iPhone maker claw back lost ground in its most important growth market.
More:
Digits, DailyFinance.com, Bloomberg, Quartz, Seeking Alpha, Tech Trader Daily, eWeek, ValueWalk, iPhone in Canada Blog, InvestorPlace, MacDailyNews, Softpedia News, TechnoBuffalo, The Mac Observer, Forbes, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, Benzinga, MacRumors, I4U News, BGR, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, AllThingsD and iClarified. Tweets: @waltbtig
| AllThingsD: |
Facebook to Test Its Own PayPal Competitor in Bid to Simplify Mobile Purchases — Facebook plans to test a new payments product that would allow online shoppers to make purchases on mobile apps using their Facebook login information, according to sources familiar with the company's plans.
More:
CNNMoney.com, PC World, eWeek, AllFacebook, Mobile Marketing Watch, VentureBeat, on the build, Forbes, PC Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, InvestorPlace, Marketing Land, SiliconBeat, ValueWalk, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times, SlashGear, WebProNews, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Ars Technica, IntoMobile, memeburn, TechSpot, TechHive, internetretailer.com, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, MobilePaymentsToday.com News, bizjournals, ReadWrite and Digits
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @evelynrusli, @eghosao, @lenkendall and @delrey
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Microsoft's ‘touch screen’ for any surface goes on sale — Prototype technology that turns any surface — a wall, table, or floor — into an interactive touch screen has been years in the making. Now, anyone can get their hands on the software. Turning a wall into a touch-screen computer has many uses … | Dan Seifert / The Verge: |
Yahoo's beautiful new weather app comes to Android — Yahoo's redesigned weather app for iOS has been receiving praise and accolades for its gorgeous design and usability all year. In fact, the updated weather app included with iOS 7 appears to borrow more than a few ideas from Yahoo's version.
More:
Yahoo!, 9to5Google, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Engadget, VentureBeat and App Advice
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Flexes Its Location Muscle, Tests Out Highlights Of Live Events Happening Near You — Yesterday we reported how Twitter was testing out a new Trending box for TV programs to run at the top of your timeline; today we've spotted a test for yet another new feature: alerts for live events that are happening right near you.
More:
VentureBeat, Engadget, Ubergizmo and Softpedia News
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple Releases New App Store Review Guidelines with Updated Rules for Kids Apps, Gambling Apps — Apple has updated its App Store Review Guidelines, revising several sections and introducing a number of new rules based on various policies that have been enacted over the last six months.
More:
9to5Mac, TechCrunch, TUAW, Gotta Be Mobile, ZDNet, iLounge, PC Magazine, Softpedia News, Engadget, Electronista, iPhone Hacks, Macgasm, I4U News, iPhone, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, MacStories and bizjournals. Tweets: @hinterding
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Google updates Cloud Storage with server-side encryption: No setup, no performance impact, and no extra charge — Google today announced an update to Google Cloud Storage that beefs up security: server-side encryption. The service now automatically encrypts all data before it is written to disk.
More:
Cloud Platform Blog, GigaOM, The Register, Gizmodo, AndroidSPIN, TechCrunch, ZDNet and Softpedia News
| Rachel King / ZDNet: |
Dell reports decent Q2 earnings as company future still looks uncertain — Summary: Could this be the last time that Dell reports quarterly earnings as a public company? The shareholders are still out on that one. — Amid its ongoing self-identity crisis, Dell turned …
More:
Dell, Reuters, The Register, PC World, eWeek, AllThingsD, Digits, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @applespotlight
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Why Some Startups Say the Cloud Is a Waste of Money — Eric Frenkiel is through with convention and conformity. It was just too expensive. — In Silicon Valley, tech startups typically build their businesses with help from cloud computing services — services that provide instant access …
Tweets: @qthrul
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Aereo CEO: Service will turn a profit before turning in 1M subscribers — The upstart online TV service will have a “fabulous” business at 1 million users and an “extremely fabulous” one at 5 million, but registrations need only be in the hundreds of thousands for it to be profitable, its CEO says.| Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
World's biggest chip equipment manufacturer names Gary Dickerson as CEO — Mike Splinter and Gary Dickerson of Applied Materials — Applied Materials, the world's largest maker of chip manufacturing equipment, has named Gary Dickerson as president and chief executive of the company.
More:
Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, CNBC and bizjournals
| Alyson Shontell / Business Insider: |
SOURCE: Former Zynga Executive Dan Porter Is Working On A Mobile Entertainment Startup, May Partner With Ari Emanuel — Dan Porter was the CEO of OMGPOP (the company that made Draw Something) when it sold to Zynga for nearly $200 million in early 2012. — Last spring, he left Zynga … | Philip Bump / The Atlantic Wire: |
Syrian Hackers Use Outbrain to Target The Washington Post, Time, and CNN — For a brief period on Thursday morning, the Washington Post's website redirected some visitors to a webpage controlled by the Syrian Electronic Army. In a brief statement, the site didn't indicate how the infiltration occurred …
More:
Ask The Post, Digits, Outbrain Techblog, Business Insider, Outbrain, New York Times, The Switch, eWeek, Poynter, ABC News, ZDNet, Graham Cluley, Mashable, GigaOM, Digiday, CNNMoney.com, The Verge and VentureBeat
Tweets: @theatlanticwire, @markrussinovich and @1bobcohn
See also Mediagazer| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Multitask Nation: ESPN Lets iPad Users Call Up Scores, Clips, While They Watch Live Video — ESPN's WatchESPN is a very good app that lets you stream the sports channel's live broadcasts to your phone, tablet or TV. But what if you're not content watching a single game at a time?
More:
TechCrunch, GigaOM, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, RyanSpoon.com and Engadget
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
IBM Buys Israel/US Cybersecurity Specialist Trusteer For $800M-$1B — Another exit for an Israeli enterprise startup and a deeper move into Israel by one of the world's tech titans: IBM today announced the acquisition of Trusteer, a specialist in cybersecurity primarily for financial services.
More:
PR Newswire, ZDNet, Ynetnews, GigaOM, SC Magazine, Gartner, Web Host Industry Review, Internet Evolution, Xconomy, AllThingsD, The Register, Inquirer, WebProNews, GeekTime, Network World, Softpedia News and bizjournals. Tweets: @techwriterjim
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
Stop re-entering Shopify order details in Zoho CRM — This is a guest blog from Xapplets (Zeeyes AI Inc).Here's a scene that plays out in many growing Shopify stores every day: a customer places an order …
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
GPT-6 & OpenAI's Comeback, Hugging Face Attack Debate, Ballmer's Scandalous Legacy
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
The A.I. Mob That Attacked Hugging Face + METR's Ajeya Cotra
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Sources:
Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:20 PM ET, August 15, 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.
From Mediagazer
New York Times:CBS News:
El Constitucional:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
More:
TechCrunch, Y Combinator Posthaven, VentureBeat, VatorNews, Forbes and PandoDaily
| Tom Simonite / MIT Technology Review: |
Earlier Picks
| Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: |
More:
GigaOM, Light Reading, Business Insider, TechSpot, TelecompetitorTelecompetitor, Geek News Central, everythingiCafe, I4U News, TUAW, CNET and Fast Company. Tweets: @jtoeman
| Klint Finley / Wired: |
Tweets: @nytimesbits and @jhong
| Dina Bass / Bloomberg: |
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
More:
Android Developers Blog, SlashGear, Examiner, The Switch, Guardian, SiliconANGLE, GigaOM, ZDNet and PC World
Tweets: @gcaughey and @kleinmatic
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
More:
Lenovo Newsroom, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, The Next Web, CNET, Mashable, GSMArena Blog, Washington Post, Inquirer, Yahoo! News, memeburn, Android Beat, Wall Street Journal, Digits, Bloomberg, SlashGear, ZDNet and Forbes. Tweets: @lukew