|
June 18, 2015, 11:20 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Watch 2: Apple plans FaceTime camera, iPhone-free Wi-Fi, $1000+ models, similar battery — Two months after the initial launch of the Apple Watch, and only a day following the device's debut at Apple Stores, sources have revealed Apple's intentions for the 2016 release of a second-generation model.
More:
The Verge, ZDNet, Business Insider, iLounge, TechnoBuffalo, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneDog.com, Digital Trends, Tech Times, The Next Web, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, AppleInsider and iMore. Tweets: @dsilverman
| Wall Street Journal: |
New York City criticizes Verizon for slow FIOS rollout: 40K requests pending with 75% outstanding for over one year — New York City Criticizes Verizon on FiOS Delivery — Verizon promised New York City to deliver FiOS to anyone who wanted it by 2014 — New York City says Verizon …
More:
Gizmodo, BGR, DSLreports, RCR Wireless News, InvestCorrectly.com, Telecompaper and Seeking Alpha
| Julia Love / Reuters: |
Slice Intelligence research says 2.79M Apple Watches sold to date; IHS estimates $49 band costs Apple $2 — Exclusive: Apple mines big profits from Watch band — Nearly 20 percent of Apple Watch buyers are not only shelling out hundreds of dollars for the timepiece but are springing for a spare band too … | CNBC: |
Fitbit opens 52% higher in market debut — Fitbit CEO: We're more than just wearables — Fitbit co-founder and CEO James Park, shares how one customer got really into counting steps, and the company's mission. — On Wednesday, fitness wearables maker Fitbit priced its initial public offering … | Mat Honan / BuzzFeed: |
Twitter's Project Lightning will bring event-based curation to the platform, blends tweets from events into timelines, and works when not logged into an account — Twitter's Top Secret Project Lightning Revealed — The new tool will give the company a way to show the best of Twitter … | Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Xbox 360 game-streaming is coming to Windows 10 — As if backwards compatibility on the Xbox One wasn't enough, Microsoft's also going to let you stream and play those older games on Windows 10 PCs. In a private demo of the recently announced Xbox One updates, the company confirmed to Engadget …
More:
WinBeta, VG247, SlashGear and Windows Central
| Cory Bennett / The Hill: |
Reddit to fully encrypt traffic — Reddit, the self-described “front page of the Internet,” will start encrypting all of its traffic by the end of the month, joining other major Internet players that have made similar moves in recent months. — “We're ready to enforce that everyone use …
More:
The Verge, The Next Web, Engadget and Ubergizmo
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google, Microsoft, Mozilla And Others Team Up To Launch WebAssembly, A New Binary Format For The Web — Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and the engineers on the WebKit project today announced that they have teamed up to launch WebAssembly, a new binary format for compiling applications for the web.| TechCrunch: |
Sean Parker's Brigade App Enters Private Beta As A Dead-Simple Way Of Taking Political Positions — Sean Parker, who changed the music industry as a teenager and then went onto have an early and formative role in Facebook, has long had one frontier that he's wanted to change: American democracy.
More:
TechCrunch, Brigade Blog, Ars Technica, Politico, The Next Web, Washington Post, Cult of Mac, ReadWrite, The Technology Chronicles, Tech Times, tech.co, Techonomy and Mashable. Tweets: @startupljackson
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
Many unicorns may fail, but as a group they are likely undervalued — Unicorns — The entire point of the name “Unicorn”, first coined by Aileen Lee in November 2013, is to describe something very rare: “U.S.-based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion …
More:
Build a Better Founder
| Nicole Lee / Engadget: |
Ello's ad-free social network comes to the iPhone — When Ello came into the social networking scene late last year as an ad-free alternative to Facebook, it was pretty barebones in terms of features. That didn't stop it from gaining hundreds of thousands of users in a few short days … | Katy Steinmetz / TIME: |
Why the California Ruling on Uber Should Frighten the Sharing Economy — This week a ruling from the California Labor Commission was made public because popular ride-sourcing company Uber appealed it. A San Francisco-based driver named Barbara Ann Berwick brought a case alleging that she is an employee … | New York Times: |
More:
VentureBeat, Uber Global, Reuters, TechCrunch, Newsweek, Bloomberg Business, Christian Science Monitor, Medium, BuzzFeed, PYMNTS.com, Stowe Boyd, Robert Reich, Engadget, Techdirt, Inc.com, Forbes, Cult of Mac, Vox, Slate, The Verge, Business Insider, Fortune, Business Insider, BuzzFeed, PC Magazine, Gizmodo, VentureBeat, Reuters and The Next Web
Tweets: @jswatz, @sacca, @grellas, @polly, @startupljackson, @startupljackson, @startupljackson, @rabois, @semil and @alex
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Vimeo overhauls Cameo into a simple video editor for iOS — Vimeo is today releasing a huge update to Cameo, stripping the app down to its core elements and making the entire experience about editing video. The new app doesn't resemble the old Cameo at all, and the changes are for the better.
More:
iMore, TechCrunch, Variety and Engadget
| Thomas Gryta / Wall Street Journal: |
An Early Net-Neutrality Win: Rules Prompt Sprint to Stop Throttling — FCC's new net-neutrality rules went into effect Friday — The Federal Communications Commission's new net-neutrality rules are already having an effect. — Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier …
More:
New York Times, CNET, BGR, Fortune, Stop the Cap!, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, RCR Wireless News and Adweek. Tweets: @demandprogress
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
SoftBank Lands $236M From Alibaba And Foxconn To Bring Its Pepper Robot To The World — Remember Pepper, the intelligent robot that SoftBank unveiled last year? Pepper goes on sale in Japan this coming weekend, but in advance of that launch SoftBank has revealed that Alibaba and manufacturer Foxconn … | Nimrod Tamir / The Official Google Blog: |
Google Trends now delivers real-time popular searches and trending stories; News Lab team will publish curated datasets to Github — A new window into our world with real-time trends — Every journey we take on the web is unique. Yet looked at together, the questions and topics we search … | Matt Rogers / Nest: |
Redesigned Nest app adds several new features, a simplified UI, and support for Nest Cam — One home. One app. — The Nest product people use most isn't the thermostat on the wall, the smoke alarm on the ceiling, or the camera on the mantle. It's the Nest app.
More:
Wall Street Journal, MacNN, AndroidGuys, EH Network, APKMirror, Fone Arena, Android Police, Engadget and Yahoo Tech
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
More:
Inquirer, Wall Street Journal, Wired, 9to5Google, AppleInsider, bizjournals, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Gizmodo, International Business Times, BetaNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, Macworld, TechCrunch, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, The Next Web, CNET and Engadget. Tweets: @laurengoode
| Wall Street Journal: |
Airbnb projects $900M+ revenue in 2015 as it readies to close $1B round valuing it at $24B — The Secret Math of Airbnb's $24 Billion Valuation — Home-rental site's revenue projected to triple this year to more than $900 million — As it raises $1 billion in new funding …
More:
bizjournals, Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, TheJournal.ie and Fortune
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 11:20 AM ET, June 18, 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
Elle Griffin / The Elysian:Sara Fischer / Axios:
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Julia Greenberg / Wired: |
More:
Official LinkedIn Blog, Re/code, VentureBeat, Forbes, Beyond Search, Fast Company, The Verge, TechCrunch, PC Magazine, Mashable, The Next Web and CNET. Tweets: @mariosundar
| Jeffrey Burt / eWeek: |
More:
Cisco, The Register and SiliconBeat
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Stephanie Mlot / PC Magazine: |
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
Inquirer, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, bizjournals, Fone Arena, MediaNama, Re/code, SiliconANGLE, Benzinga, The Tech Portal, BetaBoston, ITworld.com, USA Today, SiliconBeat, Engadget, Opptrends, CNET, PandoDaily, The Next Web, Seeking Alpha and ZDNet. Tweets: @twittereng
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |