|
December 9, 2013, 1:50 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Reform Government Surveillance: |
Global Government Surveillance Reform — The undersigned companies believe that it is time for the world's governments to address the practices and laws regulating government surveillance of individuals and access to their information. While the undersigned companies understand …
More:
SecurityWeek, eWeek, Businessweek, Search Engine Watch, PC Magazine, The Technology Chronicles, TheStreet.com, PandoDaily, Microsoft Corporation, Marketing Land, Los Angeles Times, Digital Trends, Help Net Security, AppleInsider, The Register, Yahoo! News, RT, Federal Computer Week, The Verge, The Tech Report, Guardian, ExtremeTech, TechNet Blogs, InfoWorld, WinBeta, Gizmodo, BGR, Naked Security, BetaNews, DSLreports, Nextgov, Hit & Run, ReadWrite, ZDNet, Business Cloud News, Electronista, Talking Points Memo, SocialTimes, SiliconANGLE, T3 News, iDownloadBlog.com, I4U News, Laughing Squid, Forbes, Gotta Be Mobile, DailyFinance.com, Gigaom, Lastest ITProPortal news, TechEye, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, WebProNews, App Advice, Inquirer, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, A VC, PhoneArena, TUAW, CNET, GeekWire, iLounge, Mobile Entertainment Feed, NBCNews, Android Beat, 9to5Google, 9to5Mac, The Next Web, AllThingsD and Mashable
Tweets: @ericschmidt, @pogue, @dannysullivan, @chriseng, @normative, @emptywheel, @anonyops, @bradsmi, @counternotions, @antichrista, @tojiro, @segphault, @nikcub, @sdw, @alexisohanian, @csoghoian, @mattrosoff, @trevortimm and @cdixon
| New York Times: |
Tech Giants Issue Call for Limits on Government Surveillance of Users — Eight prominent technology companies, bruised by revelations of government spying on their customers' data and scrambling to repair the damage to their reputations, are mounting a public campaign to urge President Obama …
More:
Digits, The Hill, Washington Post, Guardian, Ars Technica, The Switch, Reuters, BBC, TechPresident, Guardian, Ubergizmo, Bloomberg, ABC News, Cult of Mac, Forbes, Softpedia News, InfoWorld and Mashable
Tweets: @silvertje, @jstylman, @dannyyadron, @ggreenwald, @jesselynradack, @dannyyadron, @jayrosen_nyu, @zpez, @jbrodkin, @clairecm, @mikeisaac and @0xabad1dea
See also Mediagazer| James Ball / Guardian: |
Revealed: spy agencies' covert push to infiltrate virtual world of online games — NSA and GCHQ collect gamers' chats and deploy real-life agents into World of Warcraft and Second Life — Read the NSA document Exploiting Terrorist Use of Games & Virtual Environments
More:
New York Times, ProPublica, Guardian, Techdirt, Washington Post, TechCrunch, Gigaom, Computerworld, Ars Technica, The Register, Engadget, VentureBeat, The Verge, Associated Press, Digital Trends, NEWS.com.au, CNET, PC World, BGR, Polygon, TechSpot, Gizmodo, TheHill, Softpedia News, Forbes, RT, Mashable, Softpedia News, VG247, GamePolitics blogs, Geek.com, TheBlaze.com, PSFK, Blue's News, Graham Cluley, Gawker, GamesIndustry International, Kotaku, emptywheel, Boing Boing, Daily Dot and MCV: Home Stream
Tweets: @mattbuchanan, @dhh, @m_c_klein, @levie, @jamesrbuk, @lavlobster, @pbump, @doublejake, @0xabad1dea, @flashboy, @pkafka and @intelwire
| Lorraine Luk / Digits: |
China Mobile to Accept iPhone Orders This Week — China Mobile Ltd. plans to take preorders for Apple Inc.'s iPhones from Thursday in Shanghai, according to an advertisement on its website, as the world's largest mobile carrier by subscribers moves closer to launching high-speed fourth-generation mobile services in the country.
More:
Examiner, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat, Forbes, AppleTell, MacRumors, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, iPhone in Canada Blog, Cult of Mac, I4U News, AppleInsider, Gigaom, CNET, Fortune, iDownloadBlog.com, iMore, iPhone, China Real Time Report, The Next Web, App Advice, Business Insider, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, BGR, Mashable, Softpedia News and iClarified. Tweets: @chinarealtime
| Dan Primack / Fortune: |
Stealth payment startup Clinkle lays off 25% of staff — Layoffs at stealth payment startup Clinkle — Clinkle still wants to kill Square. But first it needs to get its own house in order. — FORTUNE — Clinkle, a stealthy mobile payment startup that recently raised …
More:
Gigaom, Business Insider, AllThingsD and Valleywag
Tweets: @samfbiddle, @mikeisaac, @kevinroose, @loyalelectron and @mattcharris
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Files For A Restraining Order, Accuses Ousted Founder Of Leaking Confidential Court Docs — Snapchat has filed for a temporary restraining order against Reggie Brown, the man who claims to have invented the idea for disappearing messages. According to court documents filed today … | Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note: |
Microsoft CEO Search: Stalemate — The Microsoft CEO succession process appears to be stalled. This is a company with immense human, technical, and financial resources; the tech industry is filled with intelligent, energetic, dedicated candidates. What's wrong with the matchmaking process?
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Confirmed: Flipboard Raises Another $50 Million To Close Out Its Series C Round — Flipboard has confirmed that it raised an additional $50 million, which will close out the Series C round of financing that it brought on in September. According to a company spokesperson, the funding closed last week …
More:
AllThingsD
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur, The Photo-Sharing Site Reddit Loves — This fall, Yahoo began serious talks to buy photo-sharing site Imgur, a source with first-hand knowledge of those discussions tells us. — Since she joined Yahoo in July 2012, CEO Marissa Mayer has acquired dozens of startups.| Tim Wu / The New Republic: |
Binge-viewing was just the beginning. Netflix has a plan to rewire our entire culture — Given all the faces you see glued to computers, tablets, and cell phones, you might think that people watch much less television than they used to. You would be wrong.| Peter Kafka / AllThingsD: |
Google Launches Google+ Social Ads on Other Sites — Advertisers can plug anything they want on Facebook and Twitter for free. And if they pay up, they can take those posts and transform them into “native” ads, so more people can see them. — Now Google is trying the same thing with its Google+ social network.
More:
Eran Arkin, TechCrunch, Marketing Land, 9to5Google, The Next Web, WebProNews and AdAge. Tweets: @chartier
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Square reveals thinner and more accurate mobile credit card reader — As Square spreads its wings to Japan, starts a new cash-by-email service and retools its mobile apps, the humble credit card reader that started it all hasn't received much attention of late.
More:
The Verge, AllThingsD, MacRumors, CNET, VentureBeat, Gigaom, TechCrunch, The Next Web, TechSpot, Electronista, Ubergizmo, NBC Bay Area and Softpedia News
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
Connecting, collaborating, and growing: Zoho Mail 2025 wrap-up — Your inbox has been home to a lot this year—quick updates, long threads, approvals, reminders, and the occasional late-night draft you weren't sure about.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Great Chat:
The stories we told ourselves in 2025
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
The Social Radars:
Jessica & Carolynn Announce Season 5!
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Grit:
How Brands Stay Visible When AI Decides | Profound CEO James Cadwallader
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff
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:
OpenAI's Potential, Google's Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
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 1:50 PM ET, December 9, 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
Sara Fischer / Axios:Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ryan Lizza / New Yorker: |
| Paul Mozur / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Reuters, AllThingsD, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Bloomberg and Yahoo! News
| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
More:
Reuters, EU Press Room, CNET, Forbes, Softpedia News and Sammy Hub
| Michael Lee / ZDNet: |
More:
Google Online Security Blog, Agence nationale de …, Gigaom, Computerworld, SecurityWeek, Inquirer and Softpedia News
Tweets: @csoghoian and @mikko
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
eWeek, InfoWorld, ZDNet, Data Center Knowledge, Gigaom, VentureBeat, CNET, Light Reading, Marketing Pilgrim, Dan Rayburn and DealBook
Earlier Picks
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Tweets: @michael_mba, @minakimes and @gregbensinger
| Charles Seife / PandoDaily: |
Tweets: @burritojustice
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
More:
The Verge, The Switch, ACLU, Gigaom, CNET, ZDNet, TheHill, Talking Points Memo, SocialTimes and USA Today
Tweets: @jujueyeball and @csoghoian
| Jada F. Smith / New York Times: |
More:
Small Business Technology, Guardian and Daily Dot
| Stephen Gandel / Fortune: |