|
April 13, 2017, 11:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Sources: secret Uber program “Hell” created fake Lyft rider accounts to track Lyft driver locations, and identified individual drivers using Lyft vulnerability — As the ride-sharing market was exploding in the U.S. between 2014 and the early part 2016, Uber had an advantage …
More:
Gizmodo, TechCrunch, BGR, VentureBeat, The Guardian, CNET, Mashable, Vanity Fair, Autoblog, The Verge, ValueWalk, Fortune, The Next Web, Business Insider, Engadget, The Tech Portal, and Axios
Tweets: @jeffbercovici, @sarahcuda, @jeffjohnroberts, @6fingeredamish, and @jc4p
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Instagram Stories now has 200M daily active users, passing Snapchat's 161M DAUs; update today brings selfie stickers, pinning stickers to videos, more — Instagram is seeing continued growth in the number of people using its Snapchat Stories-like feature. Four months after launching …
More:
TechCrunch, Marketing Land, The Verge, CNBC, Business Insider, TechSpot, TheStreet, and ZDNet
Tweets: @jake_k and @sallyshin
| Vikas SN / The Economic Times: |
Google launches food delivery and home services app called Areo in India, currently operational in Bengaluru and Mumbai — Areo aggregates food dishes and home services across various local service providers, allowing users to order food or schedule appointments with a local beautician … | Sam Machkovech / Ars Technica: |
Microsoft unveils Steam-like refund system for Xbox One and Windows 10 games and apps with a 14-day return window — Refunds are already live for many users, come with 14-day window, Steam-like caveats. — Xbox One is officially the first video game console to support digital purchase refunds by default.
More:
Engadget, VentureBeat, Digital Trends, Polygon, gHacks Technology News, Neowin, BetaNews, Tech2, Pocket-lint, SlashGear, Ubergizmo, Kotaku, destructoid, Eurogamer.net, MSPoweruser, VG247, and On MSFT
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Yext starts trading at $14 per share, up 27% from IPO price — Yext, a 10-year-old enterprise tech business that manages “digital knowledge” — mmmkay! — started trading this morning on the New York Stock Exchange at $14 per share, up by more than 27 percent from its IPO price of $11 per share.| Lucas Matney / TechCrunch: |
Google launches a hub for WebVR content and adds support for its Cardboard headset — Today, Google made some WebVR updates to Chrome, adding support for Cardboard while also building a home for all of its online VR web content. — WebVR Experiments is a bit of a storefront for online VR experiences …
More:
ZDNet, Android Authority, Google, UploadVR, 9to5Google, TechSpot, SlashGear, Fone Arena, SiliconANGLE, Ausdroid, Digital Trends, Tech2, The Next Web, and The Verge. Tweets: @google
| Kia Kokalitcheva / Axios: |
Filing: General Motors is planning to add 1,163 staff to its Cruise self-driving car unit in San Francisco by 2021 tax year — General Motors is adding 1,163 employees to its self-driving car unit in San Francisco, according to a state filing flagged by Bloomberg's Dana Hull .
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
New Burger King ad for prime time TV aims to trigger Google Home by asking “OK Google, what is the Whopper burger?”; Google intervenes to stop Home responding — Oh no, Google — Burger King is unveiling a horrible, genius, infuriating, hilarious, and maybe very poorly thought …
More:
The Verge, Ars Technica, 512tech, Adweek, Financial Times, Washington Post, The Huffington Post, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, Consumerist, BuzzFeed, International Business Times, Tech2, Search Engine Roundtable, Tech Times, Silicon Republic, Newser, Pocketnow, YouTube, VentureBeat, Softpedia News, BuzzFeed, Ubergizmo, Marketing Land, Neowin, Daring Fireball, New York Magazine, New York Times, Digital Trends, SiliconBeat, CNNMoney, BGR, Android and Me, The Register, 9to5Google, Recode, Android Central, TechCrunch, Android Authority, PhoneDog.com, MacDailyNews, GeekWire, Phandroid, The Next Web, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, Android Police, Adweek, The Seattle Times, The Independent, Eater, and Fortune
Tweets: @benthompson, @elizabeth_joh, @bascule, @johngcole, @marcasg, @andres, @nivo0o0, @emilybell, @jillpantozzi, @nytnickc, @amaditalks, @nick_craver, @digiphile, @jamiejbartlett, @tomgara, @mattzeitlin, @selenalarson, @fmanjoo, @jandawson, @caseynewton, @reckless, @alexhern, @joshuatopolsky, @jjvincent, @alexhern, @brianroemmele, @colinlecher, and @fmanjoo
| Lora Kolodny / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Eat24 partners with robotics startup Marble for new autonomous robot food delivery in two San Francisco neighborhoods — Rules governing the use of food delivery robots remain to be seen across the US. But major food businesses are investigating the possibilities already.
More:
Vox, Xconomy, San Francisco Chronicle, PC Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, The Official NVIDIA Blog, Ubergizmo, Wired, BBC, The Guardian, CNET, Fortune, Recode, Engadget, Consumerist, VentureBeat, Silicon Valley Business …, Business Insider, Robotics Trends, Fortune, and Yelp. Thanks:@yurieeka
| Mitchel Broussard / MacRumors: |
Spotify Apple Watch companion app in the works as Spotify collaborates with third-party developer Snowy — Over the past few months, users on Reddit have been voicing excitement for a new app being developed and beta tested that would finally bring Spotify onto the Apple Watch.| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft to unveil Project Scorpio Xbox console at E3 on Sunday, June 11 — Microsoft just sent out invites to members of the media for its big reveal of Xbox Project Scorpio, the upgraded console that will be the “first true 4K console for gamers” according to the company.| Brian Fagioli / BetaNews: |
Mark Shuttleworth to take over as Canonical CEO in July as current CEO Jane Silber announces her departure and move to board of directors — Ubuntu is in a very weird and uncertain place right now. If you have been following the Linux distribution lately, you would know that Canonical dropped …
More:
Ars Technica, Ubuntu Insights, ZDNet, ina, Softpedia News, The Register, Hacker Noon, IT PRO, OMG! Ubuntu!, and Softpedia News
Tweets: @kadams54, @tech_jools, and @tedjgould
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:
Fri. 04/19 - All The News About Llama 3
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 11:25 AM ET, April 13, 2017.
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
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: |
More:
The Verge, GeekWire, Mashable, Inquirer, TechSpot, Liliputing, Pocketnow, The Next Web, International Business Times, ZDNet, SlashGear, Engadget, MSPoweruser, and BGR
Tweets: @maryjofoley, @fxshaw, and @joebelfiore