|
February 12, 2016, 4:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| New York Times: |
Sources: Pandora has held preliminary discussions about selling itself — Pandora Is Said to Have Held Talks About Selling Itself — Pandora Media, the largest Internet radio service, has held discussions about selling the company, according to people briefed on the talks.
More:
VatorNews, Fortune, Music Industry Blog, VentureBeat, Mashable, Variety, The Hill, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, Digital Trends, Investor's Business Daily, The Next Web, Ubergizmo, USA Today, ZDNet, GeekWire, SiliconBeat, Forbes, CNET, Reuters, Daring Fireball, ValueWalk, Deadline, Variety, Business Insider and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @sisario, @mathewi and @johnpaczkowski
See also Mediagazer| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Google developing stand-alone VR headset that won't require smartphone, computer, or game console, uses Movidius chips to track users' motion — Google Developing Stand-Alone Virtual-Reality Headset — Alphabet Inc.'s Google is developing a virtual-reality headset that doesn't rely …
More:
Fortune, The Verge, Silicon Republic, Fone Arena, SlashGear, SiliconANGLE, Android Authority, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, Patently Apple, Ubergizmo, Droid Life, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, TechCrunch, Reuters, International Business Times, Phandroid, The Next Web, 9to5Google, Liliputing, SlashGear, Engadget and MacRumors. Tweets: @alistairmbarr
| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits created software tool to let sales reps fake completion of legally required course — Zenefits Program Let Insurance Brokers Fake A Mandatory Training Course — A secret software program inside Zenefits made it seem that brokers were completing a legally required 52-hour online training course …
More:
Business Insider, CNNMoney and The Next Web
Tweets: @dhh, @ktbenner, @tylerjewell, @bradchacos, @williamalden and @anildash
| Agam Shah / PCWorld: |
Qualcomm bringing LTE connectivity to wearables with new Wear platform — With LTE connectivity, Qualcomm is trying to break the pattern of tethering wearables with smartphones — Wearables today are overwhelmingly tethered to smartwatches. Qualcomm wants to change that by bringing LTE connectivity … | Andrew Cunningham / Ars Technica: |
| Stuart Dredge / Music Ally: |
SoundCloud files financial results showing $44.27M loss in 2014 with revenue of $19.7M; board forecasts it will need more capital investment in 2016 — SoundCloud financial results show €39.1m loss in 2014 — SoundCloud's revenues rose 54% to €17.4m in 2014 … | Aaron Smith / Pew Internet: |
15% of US adults have used dating sites or apps; usage by 18- to 24-year-olds has nearly tripled since 2013 — 15% of American Adults Have Used Online Dating Sites or Mobile Dating Apps — Usage by 18- to 24-year-olds has increased nearly threefold since 2013, while usage by 55- to 64-year-olds has doubled
More:
TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, GeekWire, The Huffington Post, CNET, Mashable, Quartz, CSO, NPR, Fortune, VatorNews, The Next Web, socalTECH.com, Newser, Washington Post and ABC News
Tweets: @pewresearch, @pewinternet, @conradhackett, @pewresearch, @digiphile and @katie_roof
| Yevgeniy Sverdlik / Data Center Knowledge: |
Netflix shuttered its last data center in January after a seven-year migration to the cloud, now everything runs on AWS — Netflix Shuts Down Final Bits of Own Data Center Infrastructure — It's done and dusted. Since someday last month, everything Netflix does runs on Amazon Web Services … | Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Facebook is testing SMS integration in Messenger on Android, launches multiple account support — Facebook has confirmed that it is looking to bring back SMS support in Messenger and has also launched multiple account support. At least for now, both features are only for Android users.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Instagram Reveals Video View Counts To Score Creators And Ad Dollars — Video is booming on Instagram with watch time up 40% in 6 months, so now it's trying to lure the best video makers and marketers from competitors like Vine and YouTube. Over the next few weeks, Instagram …
More:
Instagram Blog, Instagram for Business, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, Tubefilter, Droid Life, SlashGear, TIME, The Next Web, WebProNews, International Business Times, MobileSyrup.com, CNET, SocialTimes, iPhone in Canada Blog, BuzzFeed, VentureBeat, Re/code and The Verge
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
Quartz's new iPhone app uses a chat interface and push notifications to deliver curated news stories — Quartz's new app wants to text you the news — For a brief moment during development, the first app from Quartz — the four-year-old business news publication owned by The Atlantic …
More:
App Store, Quartz, Fortune, Wired, AppleInsider, Fusion, The Next Web, Nieman Lab and TechCrunch
Tweets: @beirutspring, @kounterb, @codybrown, @gilgul, @mgallivan, @mims, @waxpancake, @anildash and @ow
See also Mediagazer| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Time Inc Acquires Viant, Owner Of Myspace And A Vast Ad Tech Network — It looks like Myspace is becoming a big-media property once again. Today during its quarterly earnings report, Time Inc announced that it has acquired Viant, a profitable company that has built a large ad tech business …
More:
Business Insider, Business Wire, Time Inc., Viant, SiliconANGLE, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, The Register, Mashable, Business Insider, Marketing Land, ZDNet, Consumerist, Investor's Business Daily, Engadget, Tech Times, The Next Web, SocialTimes, Fortune and Beet.TV. Thanks:@ingridlunden. See also Mediagazer
| Jason Jacobs: |
Japanese footwear manufacturer ASICS acquires Runkeeper — Runkeeper and ASICS are Joining Forces — I have some big news today! I am proud and excited to announce that Runkeeper has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by ASICS Corporation.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:
Thu. 04/18 - Game Emulators On iOS And The Atlas Robot Lives!
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 4:35 AM ET, February 12, 2016.
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
David Ingram / NBC News:New York Times:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Noah Kulwin / Re/code: |
More:
The Awl, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, Inside Airbnb, Boing Boing and Gizmodo
Tweets: @mattbuchanan and @mattbuchanan
| Manish Singh / NDTV Gadgets360.com: |
More:
Microsoft, ARC, ZDNet, BetaNews, PCWorld, WinBeta, Digital Trends, Petri, Fone Arena, The Official Microsoft Blog, Engadget, Tech Times, ZDNet, International Business Times, Business Insider, VentureBeat, WinBeta, Neowin and Android Police. Tweets: @merket. Thanks:@refsrc