Note: Techmeme is hiring part-time editors. Apply here or tell a friend!
|
February 15, 2016, 3:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
Samsung starts pushing Android 6.0 Marshmallow update to its devices, beginning with Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 edge today — Samsung starts Android Marshmallow update with Galaxy S6 today — Samsung is pushing the latest version of Google's Android operating system to its mobile devices from February 15th.
More:
SAMSUNG NEWSROOM, SamMobile, ABC News, 9to5Google, Digital Trends, ZDNet, International Business Times, BGR, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, MobileSyrup.com, TechRadar.com, CNET, SamMobile, VentureBeat, GSMArena.com, The Tech Portal, Fone Arena, Ars Technica UK, Ubergizmo, Neowin, Liliputing, Tech Times, Pocketnow, Inquirer, International Business Times, Android Beat, Pocket-lint, Droid Life, BetaNews, Fone Arena, PhoneDog.com, Droid Life, Android Central and Android Authority
Tweets: @dcseifert and @reckless
| Andrew Liszewski / Gizmodo: |
Mattel's $40 Google Cardboard-compatible VR View-Master 2.0, coming this fall, fixes many problems of the original — The VR View-Master 2.0 Will Be the Best Google Cardboard You Can Buy — Last year Mattel completely re-invented the View-Master by turning it into what eventually became …
More:
Digital Trends, 9to5Google, The Verge, TechnoBuffalo, Marketing Land, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, Road to VR, The Next Web, Tech Times, Engadget and Liliputing. Tweets: @marshallk
| Fitz Tepper / TechCrunch: |
Tidal Tops U.S. App Store After Landing Exclusive Rights To Kanye West's New Album — After scoring exclusive streaming rights to Kanye West's new album, The Life of Pablo, Tidal has taken over the number one spot on the U.S. App Store. … The album, which went live yesterday …
More:
Macworld, The Verge, ABC News, App Advice, Patently Apple, Tech Insider, Gizmodo, The Verge, New York Times, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, The Next Web, iPhone Hacks, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Engadget and The Loop
Tweets: @kanyewest, @snowden and @harvilla
| John Kell / Fortune: |
Mattel's ThingMaker, a 3D-printer and app enabling kids to make toys, is available for pre-order on Amazon for $299, will ship this fall — Mattel Is Using 3D Printing to Resurrect An Old Hit — Mattel kicked off New York Toy Fair with a big announcement: the world's largest toy maker …
More:
Gizmodo, USA Today, PR Newswire, SiliconANGLE, The Verge, SlashGear, TechCrunch, The Next Web, HotHardware, 3DPrint.com, Geeky Gadgets, Headlines & Global News, Android Community, I4U News, Gizmag, Geek.com, bit-tech.net, Tech Times, Technabob and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @petervogel and @kevinsuttle
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
How Facebook and Google dominate digital advertising, and why other tech companies struggle — The Reality of Missing Out — When it comes to ad-supported services, pundits everywhere are fond of the adage “If you're not the customer you're the product”.
Tweets: @mdudas
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Immersion files a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple over 3D Touch, Force Touch, Taptic Engine and other haptic feedback technologies — Haptic Feedback Company Immersion Files Patent Infringement Lawsuit Against Apple — Immersion, a company that develops and licenses haptic touch … | ABC: |
Wikimedia's Knowledge Engine, a $2.4M research project to build a transparent search engine, received a $250K grant from the Knight Foundation in September — Knowledge Engine: Wikimedia Foundation takes aim at Google with $3.5m search project — Online encyclopedia Wikipedia is preparing … | Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
VCs interviewed at Upfront Summit concerned by cooling markets and troubled unicorns, but look to the down market to propel startups with strong business models — ‘The Great Reset’: Venture capitalists and startups have shifted from greed to fear — If the terrible headlines and stock prices … | Anthony Noto / New York Business Journal: |
Web.com to acquire SMB digital marketing firm Yodle for $342M — Yodle agrees to $342M takeover offer from Web.com — New York-based Yodle Inc. has been toying with the idea of an initial public offering for almost two years. Today, it opted for M&A instead.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Hulu's universal Windows 10 app features live tiles and Cortana — A big part of the promise of Windows 10 is the big push for universal applications, which enable developers to write one app that'll work on PCs, phones and tablets. Hulu has embraced Microsoft's vision and is launching its universal Windows 10 application today.| Ben Rosen / BuzzFeed: |
How one teen and her friends use Snapchat, replying to 40 snaps in under a minute, getting scores of 100K+ in 45 days, burning tens of gigabytes of data a month — My Little Sister Taught Me How To “Snapchat Like The Teens” … TRENDING — I'm 29 years old, and I've been on Snapchat for about a year now.
More:
Washington Post and Motherboard. Tweets: @katie_roof, @dshankar, @marshallk, @profjeffjarvis, @nickbilton, @wickedgood and @umichlsa
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
Indian e-commerce firm Snapdeal raises $200M round led by Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan — Snapdeal Raises $200M More To Fuel Up For India's Ongoing E-Commerce Battle — Snapdeal, India's second largest e-commerce site, has pulled in $200 million in new funding via an investment led …
More:
livemint.com, Business Standard, Wall Street Journal, iamwire, dna, NDTV Gadgets360.com, Times of India, bgr.in, YourStory.com, Reuters, Firstpost and Business Standard
Tweets: @jonrussell, @mgsiegler and @mdudas
Thanks:@ravichandrans25Sponsor Posts
Google:
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Generate videos with Veo 3 in Google Gemini — Create high-quality, 8-second videos with Veo 3, our state-of-the-art AI video generator. Try it with a Google AI Pro plan or get the highest access with the Ultra plan.
Warp:
The #1 Coding Agent — #1 on Terminal-Bench. 71% on SWE-bench Verified. Trusted by 600K+ devs. Try the top agentic dev tool for $1 for 1st month with code TECHMEME.
The #1 Coding Agent — #1 on Terminal-Bench. 71% on SWE-bench Verified. Trusted by 600K+ devs. Try the top agentic dev tool for $1 for 1st month with code TECHMEME.
Zoho:
Boost technician productivity on the go with the Zoho FSM mobile app — Life on the move: Inside a technician's daily workflowIn field service, unpredictability is part of the job. One moment, a technician is on schedule.
Boost technician productivity on the go with the Zoho FSM mobile app — Life on the move: Inside a technician's daily workflowIn field service, unpredictability is part of the job. One moment, a technician is on schedule.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box 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 & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Can The Web Survive Generative AI? -- With Matthew Prince
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.
Tech Brew Ride Home:
AI Business Bigger Than The Smartphone Business?
Tech news headlines every day. 15 minutes and you're up to date. From Tech Brew, Morning Brew's tech hub.
Subscribe to Tech Brew Ride Home.
Hard Fork:
GPT-5 Backlash + Perplexity C.E.O. Aravind Srinivas on the Browser Wars + Hot Mess Express
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.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
The head of ChatGPT on AI attachment, ads, and what's next
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
The one question that saves product careers | Matt LeMay
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.
Great Chat:
Warm intros and hot takes: It's time to get ready for fundraising season
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:25 PM ET, February 15, 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
Matthew Belloni / @mattbelloni:Free Press:
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
| William Herkewitz / Popular Mechanics: |
More:
CNN, GeekWire, Business Insider, Greenbot, Digital Trends and The Register. Tweets: @schoolseismo
| M. Mitchell Waldrop / Nature: |
More:
Guardian, Silicon Republic and The New Stack
Tweets: @stevesi, @natisho, @mdudas, @stevecheney and @akposthuman