|
May 11, 2015, 4:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Peter Bright / Ars Technica: |
How Microsoft's strategy for supporting apps developed for Android and iOS differs from similar plans by BlackBerry and IBM — Android and iOS apps on Windows: What is Microsoft doing—and will it work? — Running a competitor's apps has been done before. It hasn't worked.
More:
BGR
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
How are there so many unicorns? Survey of 37 unicorns by Silicon Valley legal firm shows liquidation preferences protecting investors in 100% of funding deals — Here's One Thing All the Billion-Dollar Unicorns Have in Common — They're called unicorns — young companies valued at $1 billion or more …
More:
New York Times, Fenwick & West LLP, PE Hub Blog and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @davidhornik, @startupljackson, @ipaullee, @mikeisaac, @adamsinger and @pmarca
| Wall Street Journal: |
NASDAQ to test system based on blockchain technology for NASDAQ Private Market, its marketplace for pre-IPO trading, may extend it to stock market if successful — A Bitcoin Technology Gets Nasdaq Test — Pilot to take place in fledgling Nasdaq Private Market| Tad Friend / New Yorker: |
A profile of Marc Andreessen and Andreessen Horowitz — Tomorrow's Advance Man — Marc Andreessen's plan to win the future. At his firm, Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist routinely lays out “what will happen in the next ten, twenty, thirty years.”
Tweets: @praetorian, @tianran, @kevin2kelly, @zalzally, @webbarr, @nilofer and @pegobry. Thanks:@waqasaday
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China, plans to expand its renewable energy projects to manufacturing facilities in the region — Apple announces new environmental initiatives for China: responsibly managed forests, solar for manufacturing
More:
Apple, Gizmodo, Engadget, Wall Street Journal, ABC News, MacStories, PCWorld, TechCrunch, The Verge, MacDailyNews, AppleInsider and VentureBeat. Tweets: @daiwaka
| David Scheltema / Make: |
Next Thing Co. unveils CHIP, a $9 Raspberry Pi competitor with 1GHz ARM Cortex-A8 CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of storage, running Debian Linux — Next Thing Co. Releases “World's First” $9 Computer — Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) — Snuggly situated in an industrial section of Oakland …
More:
TechCrunch, Geek.com, Ars Technica UK, Kickstarter, Mashable, Tech Times, BetaNews, Boing Boing, CBC News, The Next Digit, HotHardware.com News, CrazyEngineers, Yibada, TechRadar.com, BizTek Mojo, Yibada, Standard Daily, News Every Day, Headlines & Global News, TechWorm, HEXUS.net Consumer …, PC Pro, Engadget, SlashGear, Liliputing, Tech News Today, Crowdfund Insider, Trak.in, TechSpot, Digital Trends, The Register, tech.co and The Daily Dot
| John McDuling / Quartz: |
Q&A with Google Ventures' Bill Maris on conflicts of interest, life sciences investments, international investments, and more — What it's like to run Google's $2 billion venture capital fund — When Google's co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, decided to set up a venture-capital fund …
More:
Fusion
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Overcast's Apple Watch app redesign shows why scaled-down iPhone apps don't work well on Watch — Redesigning Overcast's Apple Watch app — I originally designed the Apple Watch app for my podcast player, Overcast, with a scaled-down version of the iPhone app's structure.
More:
The Next Web, TechCrunch, Fortune, Pixel Envy, Apple Spotlight and MacStories
Tweets: @mgsiegler, @stevesi, @stevecheney, @lukew, @stevekovach, @applespotlight, @marcoarment, @johnolilly, @gassee and @panzer
| Mark Bergen / Re/code: |
Google's strategy for making mobile searches more lucrative: new mobile ad formats, options for ordering food directly from inside mobile search, more — Google's Mobile Search Strategy: Bake In and Take Out — On Tuesday, Google confirmed what many had long suspected: Mobile searches now outnumber those on desktop.| Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal: |
Zynga says it's shutting down data centers it spent $100M to build, goes back to Amazon — For Zynga, a Journey From the Cloud to Home — and Back Again — In 2009, Zynga was a marquee customer for Amazon.com 's cloud-computing services. Two years later, it spent $100 million to build … | James Appell / Foreign Policy: |
Skolkovo, Russia's $4B tech incubator near Moscow, languishes as funding is cut and startups leave — The Short Life and Speedy Death of Russia's Silicon Valley — In 2009, Moscow unveiled an ambitious plan to build a world-class technology incubator. Then corruption, brain drain, and Putin killed it.
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @pmarca, @kasparov63 and @eurasiagroup
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:
Instant invoice insights with Zoho Cliq and Zoho Invoice — Timely communication is the cornerstone of successful invoicing management. Picture this: your business diligently sends out invoices to customers …
Instant invoice insights with Zoho Cliq and Zoho Invoice — Timely communication is the cornerstone of successful invoicing management. Picture this: your business diligently sends out invoices to customers …
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:
Wed. 04/24 - What Now For TikTok?
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 4:30 AM ET, May 11, 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
Manish Singh / TechCrunch:Murray Stassen / Music Business Worldwide:
New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Rose Pastore / Fast Company: |
More:
PCWorld, Digital Trends, Fusion, Wired, FierceOnlineVideo News, The Next Web and Xconomy. Tweets: @kylebrussell
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
| Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
More:
GSMArena Blog, 9to5Google, Phandroid, Liliputing, The Verge, ZDNet, GeekWire, SlashGear, TechnoBuffalo, Android and Me and Ubergizmo
Earlier Picks
| Jacob Kleinman / TechnoBuffalo: |
More:
Engadget, Tech Times, TechSpot, SlashGear and iFixit