|
February 4, 2014, 7:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Microsoft Corporation: |
Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO — Bill Gates steps up to new role as Technology Advisor; John Thompson assumes role as Chairman of Board of Directors. — Microsoft Corp. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Satya Nadella as Chief Executive Officer and member …
More:
The Verge, Gigaom, Re/code, New York Times, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Reuters, Tech Trader Daily, Wall Street Journal, LAPTOP Magazine, Reuters, Fortune, Slate, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Tim Anderson's ITWriting, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, CNBC, CITEworld, GeekWire, Quartz, The Official Microsoft Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, Re/code, Los Angeles Times, TechnoBuffalo, Gotta Be Mobile, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Gigaom Research, Gamasutra, Digits, The Official Microsoft Blog, eWeek, Gizmodo, Geeky Gadgets, Cult of Mac, CITEworld, VG247, virtualization.info, SecurityWeek, Mashable, Guardian, WinBeta, Geek Beat Technology News, BGR, iMore, WebProNews, CNET, Engadget, Business Insider, VatorNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, BetaNews, PhoneArena, PhoneArena, Bloomberg, TechLoy, The Tech Report, Inquirer and AppleInsider
Tweets: @microsoft, @stevesi, @pmarca, @sacca, @stevesi, @mseurope, @jason_pontin, @billgates, @maryjofoley, @microsoft, @thurrott, @bradsmi, @ingridlunden and @dannysullivan
| Microsoft Corporation: |
Satya Nadella email to employees on first day as CEO — Today is a very humbling day for me. It reminds me of my very first day at Microsoft, 22 years ago. Like you, I had a choice about where to come to work. I came here because I believed Microsoft was the best company in the world.
More:
PC World, TechCrunch, The Verge, Re/code, Quartz, InfoWorld, Computerworld, Forbes, Xconomy, Ars Technica, Salon, Gigaom, CNET, Dice News, PC Magazine, It's a Gadget, TechWeekEurope UK, The Switch, LiveSide.net, VentureBeat, ExtremeTech, Engadget, SiliconBeat and Financial Post
Tweets: @karaswisher, @toddbishop and @raheelk
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft's Bill Gates “Steps Up” To New Role As Technology Advisor: Was He Pushed Or Did He Jump? — Along with the news today that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO of Microsoft, another big change in the executive ranks: Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, is leaving his role as chairman …
More:
CNN, eWeek, Digits, The Switch, Tech Trader Daily, IntoMobile, GeekWire, WinBeta and iDownloadBlog.com. Tweets: @karaswisher
| Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land: |
With Nadella's Appointment, The “Search CEOs” Now Run Google, Yahoo & Microsoft — Satya Nadella being named CEO of Microsoft isn't just big news for Microsoft. It's big news for search. For the first time in ages, the three major search companies in the US are all run by CEOs who either came … | Mark Zuckerberg / Facebook: |
Today is Facebook's 10th anniversary. — It's been an amazing journey so far, and I'm so grateful to be a part of it. It's rare to be able to touch so many people's lives, and I try to remind myself to make the most of every day and have the biggest impact I can.
More:
eWeek, Guardian, Forbes, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, TIME, CNN, Techvibes, TechnoBuffalo, LinkedIn Pulse, ZDNet, TechSpot, Gigaom, AllFacebook, Mashable, Los Angeles Times and PetaPixel. Tweets: @marshallk
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Facebook celebrates 10-year anniversary with personalized ‘Look Back’ videos just for you — As Mark Zuckerberg reflects upon Facebook's first ten years as a company today, he's encouraging the community he built to do the same. Starting this morning, hundreds of millions of Facebook users …
More:
Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, ABC News, Engadget, NYT Bits, Motherboard, SiliconBeat, The Next Web, Slate, iDownloadBlog.com, Digits, CNBC, ZDNet, USA Today and TechCrunch. Tweets: @ranjanxroy
| Tom Cheredar / VentureBeat: |
YouTube founders' startup Avos is laying off 80% of staff & killing video app Mixbit — Avos Systems, the company created by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen, is laying off a significant portion of its workforce, sources close to the company told VentureBeat.| Austin Carr / Fast Company: |
Microsoft Injects $15M Into Foursquare, Strikes Licensing Deal For Location Data — The big news from Microsoft this week isn't only about its new CEO Satya Nadella. — Today, the company announced that it has made a $15 million strategic investment in Foursquare, the New York-based startup focused …
More:
Digits, The Foursquare Blog, NYT Bits, Bloomberg, Re/code and ReadWrite
Tweets: @danprimack, @sarahfrier and @alex
Thanks:@austincarr| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
FiftyThree Files Trademark For “Paper” — Yesterday, as Facebook launched its news reader app Paper, design-focused startup FiftyThree called out Facebook publicly for using their brand name. Facebook declined to change the name of their brand new reader app. — But FiftyThree has taken action to protect its brand name.| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac: |
Apple hires sleep research expert Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips for iWatch team — Joining a longlist of Apple executives and new hires thought to be working on Apple's highly anticipated iWatch project, the company has recently picked up Roy J.E.M Raymann from Philips Research … | Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
North Korea goes OSX-like with new operating system — The latest version of the software dumps a Windows-like interface for a Mac-style desktop — If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, might the folks in Cupertino be pleased when they see the latest version of North Korea's home-grown operating system?
More:
AppleInsider, Computerworld, MacRumors and Gizmodo
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
Apple and Microsoft join US carriers in $750 million commitment to education — iPads, MacBooks, Windows 2-in-1s, teacher training, and wireless broadband have all been promised as part of a wide-ranging commitment from US companies to support Barack Obama's ConnectED plan.
More:
White House.gov Blog, Engadget, The White House, AppleInsider, ABC News, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Associated Press, The Switch, The Official Microsoft Blog, PR Newswire, Associated Press, PR Newswire, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Featured News, Washington Times, Press Release, CNN, Los Angeles Times, MacRumors, Mashable, CNET, Politico and TheHill
| Emily Glazer / Wall Street Journal: |
RadioShack to Close About 500 Stores Within Months—Sources — Electronics Retailer, Advisers Continue to Work on Restructuring — RadioShack Corp. is planning to close around 500 stores in the coming months as the electronics retailer continues working with advisers to restructure the company …
More:
Business Insider, BuzzFeed and Reuters
| Dara Kerr / CNET: |
Target works on security-heavy credit cards, after breach — Target is still reeling from the massive security breach, which affected as many as 110 million customers. Now, as the retailer gets back on its feet, it's becoming more security focused. — Target Chief Financial Officer John … | Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Netflix to Raise $400 Mil in Additional Debt to Fund Original Content, Euro Expansion — Netflix formally announced it is seeking to offer $400 million aggregate principal amount of 10-year senior notes due 2024 to institutional investors, coin it expects to use for acquiring original content and expanding into Europe.| Washington Post: |
Senate cybersecurity report finds agencies often fail to take basic preventive measures — The message broadcast in several states last winter was equal parts alarming and absurd: “Civil authorities in your area have reported that the bodies of the dead are rising from their graves and attacking the living. .
More:
Techdirt, ZDNet, Gizmodo and Federal Computer Week
| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
DFJ Raises $325M For Eleventh Early Stage-Fund, Tim Draper And John Fisher Will Not be Investing Partners In Fund — DFJ is announcing the raise of DFJ Venture XI, a $325 million early-stage venture fund. For background, DFJ Fund X was $350 million, closed in 2010.
More:
Inside DFJ, PandoDaily, Re/code and PE Hub Blog
| Bloomberg: |
IBM Uses Dutch Tax Haven to Boost Profits as Sales Slide — International Business Machines Corp. has reduced its tax rate to a two-decade low with help from a tax strategy that sends profits through a Dutch subsidiary. — The approach, which involves routing almost all sales in Europe … | Erica Klarreich / Wired: |
Cryptography Breakthrough Could Make Software Unhackable — As a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1996, Amit Sahai was fascinated by the strange notion of a “zero-knowledge” proof, a type of mathematical protocol for convincing someone that something …
More:
ExtremeTech
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 04/19 - All The News About Llama 3
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:00 PM ET, February 4, 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
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:Todd Spangler / Variety:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
More:
Facebook Code and Wired
| Shane Cole / AppleInsider: |
| John Ebbert / AdExchanger: |
More:
Business Insider
Earlier Picks
| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
More:
9to5Google, Droid Life, Gigaom, BGR, The Verge, TechCrunch, Engadget, Pocketables and Phones Review. Thanks:@philnickinson
| Jeff John Roberts / Gigaom: |
More:
Cisco, eWeek, Reuters, The Switch, 9to5Google, CNET, ITworld.com, SlashGear and Bloomberg
| Sean Michael Kerner / eWeek: |
More:
Help Net Security
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
More:
Ars Technica and Inquirer
| Brian Ashcraft / Kotaku: |
More:
BGR, GameSpot, T3 News, Business Insider, Polygon, TechSpot, SlashGear and Geeky Gadgets