|
November 5, 2014, 9:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
In Europe, Spotify Royalties Overtake iTunes Earnings By 13% — Spotify may be smarting from the removal of Taylor Swift's music catalogue from its platform, and Taylor Swift may not care, since she is riding a sales blockbuster in the form of her new album 1989, but it turns out that in the bigger picture … | Husain Sumra / MacRumors: |
Apple Watch Pricing to Reportedly Start at $500 for Stainless Steel, $4,000 for Gold — French Apple website iGen.fr is reporting [Google Translate] that pricing for the stainless steel Apple Watch may start at $500, while the gold Apple Watches' pricing could start between $4,000 and $5,000. iGen …
More:
9to5Mac, Business Insider, BGR, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, iPhone, Cult of Mac, AppleInsider, Wearable Tech Insider, Tech Times, Geeky Gadgets, Gizmodo, ITProPortal, Neowin, SlashGear, Mac Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, PadGadget and iPhone Hacks. Tweets: @sammywalrusiv
| Kara Swisher / Vanity Fair: |
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's battles with the taxi industry, regulators, and sometimes, customers — Man and Uber Man — Uber, Travis Kalanick's smartphone-based car service, has been valued at $18.2 billion, but its C.E.O. still spends a lot of his time on the warpath.| Lauren Goode / Re/code: |
Jawbone launches $50 Move clip-on fitness tracker, preorder today, ships Nov 7; $180 Up3 wristband tracker with heart-rate sensor, ships within weeks — Jawbone Joins Pre-Holiday Wearable Race, With $50 Up Move and a New Up3 Wristband — Get ready for yet another activity-tracking device.
More:
The Jawbone Blog, Macworld, ZDNet, Gizmodo, Gigaom, Engadget, BetaNews, Wired, MacRumors, Digital Trends, blogs.ft.com, VentureBeat, The Wearable Stuff, AppleInsider, CNNMoney.com, The Verge, BGR, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Mac, Connectedly, Ubergizmo, Mashable, Geeky Gadgets, iMore, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Pocket-lint and Ubergizmo
| Nitasha Tiku / Valleywag: |
Uber and Its Shady Partners Are Pushing Drivers into Subprime Loans — The subprime lending market that plunged America into the Great Recession is back and as unscrupulous as ever. Instead of mortgages, this time a bubble has formed around auto loans, and reliably ruthless Uber is in the thick of it.
More:
Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and Business Insider
Tweets: @adrjeffries, @ellenhuet, @backlon, @counternotions and @mims
| Vlad Savov / The Verge: |
LG G Watch R Review: voice commands too limited, circular display chops Google Now cards, software and hardware need refinement — LG G Watch R review — Watches are functionally boring. Their primary task of displaying the time has been figured out for centuries … | Robert Lemos / Ars Technica: |
EFF finds that only 6 of 39 messaging apps guarantee basic secure communications — Security scorecard finds messaging apps need more development — Only six out of 39 messaging applications have the features needed to guarantee the security of communications sent over the Internet …
| Chris Sonderby / Facebook: |
Facebook says government requests for data up 24%, content removal up 19% in just 6 months — Global Government Requests Report — Today, we're releasing our third Government Requests Report, which provides information about the number of government data and content removal requests …
More:
Fortune, Inquirer, Mashable, TIME, Naked Security, SecurityWeek, InfoWorld, Los Angeles Times, VentureBeat, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Gigaom, The Next Web, Slate, The Register, CNET, TechCrunch and The Hill
| Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal: |
Warner Music Group Signs Deal to License Music to SoundCloud — Warner Is First Major Record Label to Start Earning Money From German Audio-Sharing Site — Warner Music Group has signed a deal to license its music to SoundCloud Ltd., the companies said, making Warner the first major record label …
More:
VentureVillage, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, TechSpot, The Next Web, New York Times, Digital Trends, Fortune, Engadget, CNET, Gigaom, SlashGear, The Verge and Gizmodo. Tweets: @pkafka. See also Mediagazer
| Brian Stevens / Google Cloud Platform Blog: |
Google lets you run clusters of Docker containers with Container Engine, reduces cloud computing prices, announces new cloud connectivity options — Google Cloud Platform Live: Introducing Container Engine, Cloud Networking and much more — Today, tens of thousands of developers from around … | Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Emoji to Gain Expanded Racial Diversity With Skin Tone Modifier Option in Mid-2015 — The Unicode Consortium has released a technical report (via Emojipedia) detailing a new method for handling the representation of multi-ethnic groups in emoji. Previous guidelines have stated that emoji people be … | Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Google and LG will license each other's patents for the next decade — Samsung isn't the only Android device maker getting cozy with Google's patents, apparently. LG has just entered into a cross-licensing deal with Google that will let the two companies use each other's patents (including new ones) for the next 10 years.| Martin Beck / Marketing Land: |
Marketing company claims it started #AlexFromTarget meme, but inconsistencies raise questions — Is The Company Claiming Credit For #AlexFromTarget Really Behind It? — Some wondered if the #AlexFromTarget phenomenon was too good to be organic. Now it seems so.
More:
LinkedIn Pulse, CNET, CNN, Mashable, Tech Times, Adweek, Business Insider, Business Insider, NEWS.com.au, Q13 FOX News, Gawker, abc7.com, Yahoo Tech, The Daily Dot, Gigaom and ClickZ
| Dennis Fisher / Threatpost: |
Google open sources nogotofail, a tool to test the security of any device or application on the internet — Google Releases Nogotofail Tool to Test Network Security — The last year has produced a rogues' gallery of vulnerabilities in transport layer security implementations and new attacks … | Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
Sonos adds multi-account support for streaming services to its internet-connected speakers — Sonos adds multi-account support to its connected loudspeakers — Sonos wants to make sure that your kids questionable taste in music doesn't ruin your Spotify recommendations.| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
BlueSnap Raises $50 Million For Its Global Payment Processing Tech — Global payment services provider BlueSnap has raised $50 million in a round of growth financing as the battle over who will rule the register both in stores and online heats up. — The growth of online shopping alongside …
More:
PYMNTS.com, bizjournals, BetaBoston, Finextra Research news and PE Hub Blog
| Mic Wright / The Next Web: |
Consumer version of Oculus Rift VR headset ready to arrive in ‘months’, says CEO — Oculus VR CEO, Brendan Iribe, told the audience at Web Summit 2014 in Dublin, that a consumer-version of the company's Rift VR headset is “close”. While he understandably declined to offer a timetable for launch … | Electronista: |
AT&T Next 24 plan allows customers to extend device payments over 30 months starting Nov. 9 — AT&T adds longer payment period option to Next installment plans — AT&T Next 24 has 30 monthly payments, upgrades from month 24 — AT&T is giving its customers a third option to acquire …
More:
AT&T Newsroom, TechSpot, Cult of Mac, MacRumors, Digital Trends, Droid Life and TechnoBuffalo
| Leon Spencer / ZDNet: |
VMware to launch vCloud Air public cloud platform in Australia in first half of 2015 — Telstra to host VMware public cloud platform — Summary: Telstra will play host to VMware's vCloud Air public cloud platform as it makes its move into the Australian marketplace …
More:
iTnews.com.au, Gigaom, arnnet.com.au, cio.com.au, Lifehacker Australia, Forbes and The Register
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:
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
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:
How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)
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:
Tue. 04/23 - Microsoft's Own LLMs and Perplexity's Big Raise
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 9:35 AM ET, November 5, 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
Amy Graff / SFGATE:Elle Griffin / The Elysian:
Isabela Raygoza / Billboard:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
More:
The BitPay Blog, bizjournals and Inside Bitcoins
| Harish Jonnalagadda / WIndows Central: |
More:
Gigaom, WinBeta, CNET, Pocketnow and IntoMobile
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
More:
GeekWire, ZDNet and Tech Trader Daily
| Catherine Shu / TechCrunch: |
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
More:
VentureBeat, Fortune, PE Hub Blog, AdExchanger and Re/code
Earlier Picks
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
More:
TechSpot, Ubergizmo, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, AndroidHeadlines.com, Inquirer, Droid Life and 9to5Google
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
More:
TechCrunch, The Next Web, Mashable, Electronista, Gizmodo, SlashGear and Engadget
| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
More:
SiliconANGLE
| Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
The Dropbox Blog, News Center, Office Blogs, Wired, Digital Trends, dropboxatwork.com, SocialTimes, ZDNet, Tech Times, The Mac Observer, BGR, Fast Company, TechSpot, theWHIR.com, Computerworld, Gigaom, The Next Web and SlashGear
Tweets: @satyanadella, @levie and @thurrott