|
April 24, 2015, 3:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Comcast Corporation: |
Comcast terminates $45B Time Warner Cable merger agreement — Comcast / Time Warner Cable / Charter Transactions Terminated — Comcast Corporation announced this morning that its merger agreement with Time Warner Cable and its transactions agreement with Charter Communications, Inc. have been terminated.
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, Fortune, AdExchanger, Associated Press, Ars Technica, The Verge, BetaNews, BGR, CNNMoney, Gizmodo, PCWorld, Computerworld, USA Today, Time Warner Cable, Washington Post, Forbes, Phandroid, Re/code, The Huffington Post, Public Knowledge, Reuters, WebProNews, Light Reading, Re/code, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, USA Today, New York Times, GeekWire, RCR Wireless News, Engadget, USA Today, US News, WebProNews, iMore, SlashGear, GamePolitics blogs, BGR, The Next Web, Forbes, TechCrunch, Slashdot and Digital Trends
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @digiphile, @comcast and @pkafka
See also Mediagazer| Emily Steel / New York Times: |
Comcast and TWC combined would have controlled 57% of national broadband market, too high a threshold for FCC and DoJ — Comcast Confirms End of Deal With Time Warner Cable — Comcast confirmed Friday that it had called off its $45 billion takeover of Time Warner Cable … | Jonathan Mahler / New York Times: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, Wall Street Journal, Re/code, Wetmachine, Bloomberg Business, SmallBusiness.com and TechPresident
Tweets: @mattblaze, @zseward, @jbflint and @shaliniwsj
See also Mediagazer| iFixit: |
Apple Watch teardown reveals 205mAh battery, Apple S1 CPU, inside view of Taptic Engine and Digital Crown — Apple Watch Teardown — Time flies: it's been eight months since Apple announced its (digital) crowning achievement: the Apple Watch. Join us as we make time stand still by tearing …
More:
9to5Mac, AppleInsider, MacRumors, The Daily Dot, Computerworld, CNET, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Macworld, The Next Web, iMore, Ars Technica, ValueWalk, CIO.com, MacRumors, Mashable, Telegraph, TechCrunch, internetretailer.com, BGR, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Geek.com, International Business Times, MacNN, Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, Dice News, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge, The Register, O'Grady's PowerPage, TechnoBuffalo, ZDNet, TechSpot, Geeky Gadgets, SlashGear, VR World, WatchAware, iLounge, Wearable Tech Insider, AppleInsider, Boing Boing and MacStories. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac: |
Starwood Hotels debuts Apple Watch app for keyless entry at over 100 locations — Your Apple Watch can now open your hotel room door at over 100 Starwood Hotels — Starwood Hotels has allowed guests to use their iPhone as their room key since last November, and today announced that guests … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
CNBC, Cult of Mac, 9to5Mac and NBC News
| Manuela Mesco / Wall Street Journal: |
Italian eyewear maker Luxottica working with Google on cheaper version of Glass coming soon — Italian Eyewear Maker Luxottica Working on New Version of Google Glass, CEO Says — A new version of Google Glass is in the works and will be out soon, the Chief Executive Officer of Italian eyewear maker Luxottica said Friday.| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
The history of YouTube and how Google overcame legal, financial, and technological problems to build a site that has almost 50 years of video uploaded daily — Cheaper bandwidth or bust: How Google saved YouTube — Leading the Web video revolution was an almost constant battle for survival.
More:
InvestorPlace, CNET, Consumerist, The Huffington Post, BetaNews, Reuters, CBS Detroit and ABC News
Tweets: @gigastacey, @profbruce and @erigion
| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
How crowdsourced hardware maker Quirky brought money-losing inventions to market and ultimately cut a third of its staff — How the invention factory at Quirky almost imagined its way out of business — In February of this year, the staff of the New York startup Quirky gathered …
Tweets: @pkedrosky
| New York Times: |
Chipotle partners with Postmates to offer delivery in 67 US cities for $4.99 to $7.99 — Chipotle Signs Deal With Food Delivery Start-Up Postmates — In the age of the on-demand economy, sooner or later everything is just a few taps of a smartphone app away. Even burritos.
More:
Re/code, GeekWire, The Verge, Business Insider, Biz Beat Blog, The Huffington Post, Eater, Forbes, Phandroid, Mashable and Refinery29
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
Tests reveal Snapdragon 810 runs hot and throttles early and severely, causing performance issues — In-depth with the Snapdragon 810's heat problems — This is a hot chip that throttles early and often, and it makes a difference. — If you're using a relatively recent, non-Apple …
More:
Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, TechSpot and AndroidHeadlines.com
| JP Mangalindan / Mashable: |
Facebook testing new notifications tab that acts as news hub, includes birthdays, events, local news, nearby friends, and more — Facebook's new notifications tab is a robust mini-news hub — Facebook wants notifications to become much more than a perfunctory list of recent behavior, events and invitations.| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Victorious Launches Its First Apps For Online Stars And Their “Superfans” — Victorious is launching mobile apps today built for Internet video stars Ryan Higa and The Young Turks. — I assume this is good news if you're a fan of Higa or The Young Turks, but even if you're not … | BuzzFeed: |
Sources: BitTorrent laid off about 40 of their 150 domestic employees — Big Layoffs At BitTorrent — The company behind the revolutionary file-sharing protocol sacks dozens of employees. — Wikimedia Commons — They're swinging the axe over at BitTorrent.| Greg Bensinger / Wall Street Journal: |
Amazon shares soar over 15% to all-time high on news of high AWS operating margin and strong North American sales — Amazon Shares Soar to All-Time High on Cloud Surprise — Amazon.com shares hit an all-time high Friday as investors rewarded the e-commerce giant for showing a surprise profit …
More:
AppleInsider, Re/code, Re/code, BGR, GeekWire, CNBC, Yahoo! Finance, Seeking Alpha, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com and ZDNet
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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Zoho Backstage x Zoho MCP: Your events, now connected to AI — Event management involves a constant stream of decisions and actions. Registration numbers change, attendee lists grow, ticket classes evolve, and new requests come in throughout the day.
Zoho Backstage x Zoho MCP: Your events, now connected to AI — Event management involves a constant stream of decisions and actions. Registration numbers change, attendee lists grow, ticket classes evolve, and new requests come in throughout the day.
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
Grit:
Data Centers in Orbit by 2028: Baiju Bhatt on His Plans After Robinhood
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
How to close $100K+ enterprise deals, step by step | Jen Abel
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:
Big Tech's Insane Hidden AI Spending, Ranking Anthropic vs. OpenAI, AI For Travel Debate
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:
OpenAI's Two-Week Pause + Jill Lepore on the Threat of the "Artificial State" + Train of Thought
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:
The $12.5 Billion Lakers, the NFL's TV Fight, and Sports Media's Big Split
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.
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 3:35 PM ET, April 24, 2015.
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
Laurel Rosenhall / New York Times:Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Jennifer Maas / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority: |
More:
Engadget, CNET, Tom's Guide, eWeek, ZDNet, Gizmodo, BetaNews, PCWorld, Android Central, Electronista and Pocket-lint
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
| Michael McWhertor / Polygon: |
| Alex Dobie / Android Central: |
More:
Samsung Mobile Press, Engadget, PhoneArena, Electronista, Geeky Gadgets, Gizmodo UK, Sammy Hub, Cult of Android, Tech Times, Fone Arena, Phones Review, Samsung Tomorrow, iDownloadBlog.com, Seeking Alpha, SlashGear, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, VentureBeat, CNET, PhoneDog.com, TechnoBuffalo, Pocketnow, The Verge and Droid Life
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Tweets: @delrey, @delrey, @mikeisaac and @caseynewton