|
January 30, 2014, 3:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mike Isaac / Re/code: |
Paper, Facebook's new app for browsing and creating stories, will launch Feb. 3 for US iPhones — Meet “Paper,” Facebook's New Answer For Browsing — and Creating — Mobile Media — Facebook wants to be a newspaper. And it wants you to be writing some of its best stories.
More:
Facebook, CNET, Business Insider, Computerworld, AllFacebook, Guardian, Mashable, Gigaom, Digits, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, SiliconANGLE, Android Community, bizjournals, iPhone, blogs.ft.com, Lifehacker, ReadWrite, BetaNews, iDownloadBlog.com, memeburn, Digital Trends, Ars Technica, WebProNews, Apple Bitch, MacRumors, Softpedia News, The Next Web, iMore and Electronista
Tweets: @bougie, @rsarver, @benedictevans, @robertandrews, @mikeisaac and @whatthebit
See also Mediagazer| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
With Paper, Facebook just blew its own iPhone app out of the water — This morning, Facebook is announcing a new standalone iPhone app called Paper. Contrary to earlier rumors, it's much more than just a news reading app — it's a complete reimagining of Facebook itself.
More:
TechCrunch, Marketing Land, Slate, Engadget, ZDNet, GeekWire, NYT Bits, Co.Design, Betabeat, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, TechGeek, Gotta Be Mobile and Gizmodo
Tweets: @rsarver and @globalmoxie
| Businessweek: |
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview — Mark Zuckerberg doesn't usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he's confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May.
More:
TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Valleywag, Business Insider, The Next Web, Capital New York, The Verge, 9to5Mac and Softpedia News
Tweets: @bw, @bradstone, @sarahfrier, @erikschatzker, @zoebfox and @jwherrman
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Internet2Go, BIA/Kelsey, Mashable and Gotta Be Mobile
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple aggressively pushing to take Arizona sapphire plant live in February for ‘critical’ product component — In November of last year, Apple announced that it would be opening up a new manufacturing plant in Mesa, Arizona. Since that time, little information has come out about the plant except … | Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Microsoft may select new CEO next week, VP of Cloud and Enterprise Satya Nadella most likely candidate — Now at 160 Days, Microsoft CEO Search Could Be Nearing Its End With Insiders on Inside Track — According to numerous sources close to Microsoft, the selection of a new CEO could happen within the next week.
More:
BGR, WinBeta, TechSpot, GamesIndustry International, VentureBeat, Fox Business, FierceWireless, Gigaom Research, Business Insider and Softpedia News. Thanks:@srikardr
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
SwiftKey gets its predictive keyboard onto iOS, with a little help from Evernote — The popular Android keyboard arrives on iPhone and iPad — Three and a half years after launching on Android, SwiftKey's popular predictive-software keyboard has finally come to iOS. iPhone and iPad users …
More:
MacStories, MacRumors, pocketnow.com, Inquirer, BGR, Softpedia News, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, Mashable, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Central, Re/code, Gizmodo and ZDNet. Tweets: @stephenfry
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
PayPal Wants Role in Apple's Mobile Payments Dreams — Apple may finally appear serious about facilitating the purchase of physical products in retail stores through its devices — and that has gotten the attention of at least one potential major competitor.
More:
MacRumors, PhoneArena, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Telegraph and App Advice. Tweets: @chris_ciaccia. Thanks:@delrey
| Rebecca Grant / VentureBeat: |
Mint integrates with Coinbase, so you can track Bitcoin with the rest of your finances — The wild ride of Bitcoin's value is slowing down, and we are beginning to see the effects of that stability. — Personal finance app Mint is integrating with Bitcoin wallet service Coinbase …
More:
Slate, SiliconBeat, CoinDesk, Examiner, Computerworld, Engadget, Gigaom, The Verge, SlashGear, The Switch and The Next Web. Tweets: @mariagrineva
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
The PC may be dying, but tablet growth is slowing as consumer saturation sets in — Summary: If you thought the tablet was the savior to the ailing PC market, we may need a better alternative if the latest tablet growth forecasts are to be believed. — Zack Whittaker| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Incredible Labs Acquired By Yahoo, Mobile Assistant App Donna To Be Shut Down — Incredible Labs, the startup behind mobile personal assistant app Donna, has been acqui-hired. Five of the seven members of the team will join Yahoo, and Donna will be shut down.| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Intel Will Shut Down AppUp PC App Store On March 11, Apps Will Stop Working By May 15 — So much for Intel's bid to get hip with our app-filled times: the company is shutting down its consumer-facing AppUp, its app store for Windows-based PC apps. “The world's largest app store that nobody's ever heard of …
More:
Computerworld, Ars Technica, eWeek, bizjournals, Inquirer, SemiAccurate, HotHardware.com News, CNET and The Register
| Signe Brewster / Gigaom: |
IBM researchers just built the best graphene-based circuit yet: it sends text messages — IBM researchers have created a graphene-based circuit that they say performs 10,000 times better than existing options; It was reliable enough that they used it to send and receive a text message.
More:
Gizmodo, CNET and VentureBeat
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
Hackers likely exploited insecure, widely used server software on Target's internal network — New Clues in the Target Breach — An examination of the malware used in the Target breach suggests that the attackers may have had help from a poorly secured feature built into a widely-used … | Don Reisinger / CNET: |
More:
The United States Department … and TechnoBuffalo
| Peter Kafka / Re/code: |
Former Hulu Head Jason Kilar's Stealth Startup Pitches Magazine Publishers — Jason Kilar made a big splash in Web video and TV when he ran Hulu. — Now he's trying do the same thing with Web publishing and magazines. — Kilar has yet to talk publicly about The Fremont Project, the startup he began staffing up last fall.| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Nintendo plans non-wearable health products, still has no interest in smartphone gaming — Nintendo has again confirmed today that it won't introduce its games to smartphones and tablets, however, company President Satoru Iwata did reveal plans to introduce non-wearable technology that monitors users' health.| Eric Pfanner / New York Times: |
More:
TechCrunch, Bloomberg and Wall Street Journal
| Tom Krazit / Gigaom: |
With Motorola sale and Samsung peace, Google finds practical exit to an unconventional (and expensive) deal — In the nearly ten years Google has been a public company, it has been defined by a curious mixture of ambition, futurism, and unpredictability. This week, Google showed that it also knows when to move on.| Larry Page / The Official Google Blog: |
More:
TechCrunch, SiliconBeat, Washington Post, Digits, Gigaom, BGR, Network World, Businessweek, Wired, DealBook, Re/code, VentureBeat, TechHive, PhoneArena, Marketing Land, InvestorPlace, stratechery, I4U News, Android Authority, Business Insider, Softpedia News, BBC, InfoQ, AndroidHeadlines.com, WinBeta, T3 News, Mobile Marketing Watch, SlashGear, The Tech Report, ZDNet, Internet Evolution, TechEye, memeburn, Mashable, Bloomberg, Forbes, AnandTech, Reuters and FOSS Patents
Tweets: @carnage4life, @shiraovide, @reckless, @stratechery and @scepticgeek
| David Kravets / Wired: |
Obama Stays Silent on Reform of NSA's Crypto Subversion — President Barack Obama in his State of the Union on Tuesday failed to address an issue that affects everyone on the internet — the NSA's subversion of cryptographic standards and technologies. — Privacy advocates and business interests … Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Azure Content Understanding: Building on lessons from a decade of Document Intelligence — What a decade of teaching machines to read real-world documents taught us about what LLMs can and can't do.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce 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 & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
Why every company now needs to think and operate like a lab team | Josh Woodward (Google Labs, Gemini, AI Studio)
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:
Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don't Bully Your AI
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.
Sources:
Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Bringing Back Mammoths And Building Noah's Ark 2.0 | Colossal's Ben Lamm
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Great Chat:
The launch industrial complex
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:35 PM ET, January 30, 2014.
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:Nieman Lab:
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Aman Shah / Reuters: |
| Kevin McLaughlin / CRN: |
| David Kravets / Wired: |
More:
NPR, ACLU, Washington Post, Ars Technica, ACLU, CNET, New York Times, Associated Press, Associated Press, Computerworld and Guardian
| Mike Rose / Gamasutra: |
More:
BBC, I4U News, SlashGear, Forbes, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, All About Symbian, Guardian and VG247
Earlier Picks
| Hayley Tsukayama / Washington Post: |
More:
The Boston Globe and Geek.com
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
Search Engine Land and WebProNews
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More:
PC Magazine, eWeek, Inquirer, BBC, PC World, The Next Web and Softpedia News. Tweets: @n_is_stolen