|
July 25, 2018, 12:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| BuzzFeed News: |
Facebook CSO Alex Stamos told peers in memo about his departure to “intentionally not collect data where possible” and be willing to pick sides on moral issues — In March, days after confirming his plans to leave the company, Facebook's highest-ranking security official implored …
More:
TechCrunch, Reuters, 512tech, The Hill, Recode, Wired, The Daily Caller, Silicon Valley Business …, Engadget, Silicon Republic, Fortune, Gizmodo, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, CNET, CNBC, Business Insider, Mashable, and The Verge
Tweets: @hannahkuchler, @karaswisher, and @rmac18
| Marc Vartabedian / Wall Street Journal: |
Facebook's General Counsel Colin Stretch, who led the company's investigation into Russian election interference, is leaving at the end of the year — Colin Stretch's announced exit marks the second high-level departure in recent weeks — Facebook Inc.'s FB 1.78% top lawyer …
More:
Recode, New York Times, Engadget, Business Insider, CNET, CNBC, and Fortune
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
Source: Chinese government has withdrawn its approval for Facebook's new subsidiary in the country — SHANGHAI — For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. — For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang.
More:
Quartz, Business Insider, Engadget, The Verge, Axios, Reuters, BBC, and Telegraph
Tweets: @jacobshap and @niubi
| Cate Cadell / Reuters: |
More:
Engadget, New York Times, TechCrunch, CNBC, Fortune, Mashable, The Hill, Tech in Asia, Associated Press, Slate, Bloomberg, and MIT Technology Review
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
Facebook rolls out Watch Party, a feature that lets users simultaneously watch, comment, and react to Facebook videos together, to all users — Facebook has made it clear that it wants to make video a crucial part of its business, as it looks to compete with the likes of YouTube, Amazon and Netflix.
More:
Facebook, TechCrunch, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, Neowin, iPhone in Canada Blog, KnowTechie, and NBC Bay Area. Tweets: @edbott
| Phil LeBeau / CNBC: |
Waymo partners with Walmart, AutoNation, Avis, and others to ferry their customers to various locations in Phoenix, Arizona — Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google's former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country's largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles.
More:
Waymo, Engadget, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Digital Trends, Quartz, USA Today, TechCrunch, and Reuters
| Anthony Ha / TechCrunch: |
Grubhub to acquire Boston-based LevelUp, which offers a platform to manage digital ordering, payments and loyalty, for $390M in cash — Grubhub announced this morning that it's agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. — Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions …
More:
The Verge
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
Gym membership startup ClassPass raises $85M Series D led by Temasek, bringing the total funding raised to $255M — ClassPass today announced the close of an $85 million Series D financing round led by Temasek, the same firm that led the startup's Series C financing.
More:
Bloomberg and PE Hub Blog
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / Cyberscoop: |
Google unveils Titan Security Key, a Yubico-like phishing resistant 2FA device, currently available to Google Cloud customers and soon to everyone, pricing TBA — Google says its workforce has been phish-proof for more than a year. The impressive security stat is due to small USB security keys issued … | Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
GeekWire, TechCrunch, The Register, Inquirer, Hacker Noon, Google Cloud Platform Blog, CNBC, The New Stack, and ZDNet
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Steam is rolling out Steam Chat, with new text and voice features to compete with gaming chat app Discord, to all users — In a bid to keep Discord from dominating the social space around PC gaming — Steam has begun rolling out its new text and voice features, as well as its updated friends list, to all users beginning today.| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Equidate, a San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them, raises $50M Series B — Equidate, a 4.5-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace that makes privately held shares available to accredited investors wanting to buy them …
More:
PE Hub Blog
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google now offers businesses a stand-alone version of Google Drive, apart from G Suite, that costs $8 per month per active user and $0.04 per GB — If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription …
Tweets: @alex
| Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
BitTorrent confirms it has been acquired by blockchain startup Tron; filings suggest about $126M in cash was paid for the company — File sharing veteran BitTorrent has finally confirmed that it has a new owner: “We are excited to announce that Tron has officially closed its acquisition of BitTorrent … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Line Corp. acquires a majority stake in Korean game developer NextFloor and sets up Line Games as new publisher of mobile games — Japanese mobile messaging firm Line Corp. has acquired a majority stake in game developer NextFloor and it has set up Line Games as a new publisher of mobile games.
More:
Tech in Asia
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
Q&A with Sen. Ron Wyden, who co-wrote Section 230 of Communications Decency Act, on privacy, content moderation, First Amendment, and tech giants like Facebook — There may not be a lawmaker in Congress who has done more to shape the internet than Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR).| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
DARPA sets aside $75M for partners under the Electronics Resurgence Initiative, which is expected to receive $1.5B over the years to fund new ideas in chip tech — The Defense Department's research arm, DARPA, is throwing a event around its “Electronics Resurgence Initiative,” …
More:
EE Times, National Defense Magazine, IEEE Spectrum, Science, and EE Times. Tweets: @techcrunch
| Sahil Patel / Digiday: |
Snapchat has been showing non-exclusive video shows from publishers like BuzzFeed, Wired, GQ, and Complex Networks in its Discover feed since June — Complex Networks' “Sneaker Shopping,” which follows host Joe La Puma as he goes shopping with celebrities ranging from Kevin Hart to Marshawn Lynch … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Washington AG says Facebook signed legal agreement to change ad platform so third parties can't discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation — The agreement with Washington state forces Facebook to make nationwide changes — Facebook has signed a new …
More:
Gizmodo, Mercury News, Ars Technica, Washington State, Engadget, Fast Company, GeekWire, Reuters, Axios, and Bloomberg. Tweets: @propublica
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Chrome 68, rolling out today, shows a “not secure” warning for any HTTP website; in October the warning's color will change to red — Three and a half years ago, Google predicted the day would come when Chrome would warn us all of the security risks of using the web's seminal HTTP technology …
More:
Wired, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, BetaNews, The Keyword, Troy Hunt, Search Engine Roundtable, The Next Web, International Business Times, Scripting News, Ars Technica, WordPress Tavern, The Mac Observer, Neowin, VentureBeat, TechCrunch, The Hacker News, AskWoody, XDA Developers, Lifehacker, BleepingComputer, KnowTechie, PCWorld, The Register, Gizmodo, and Inquirer
Tweets: @thehackersnews, @chromiumdev, @firt, and @mattburgess1
| Catalin Cimpanu / BleepingComputer: |
Encryption bug found in many Bluetooth implementations and OS drivers, affecting vendors including Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm; some fixes are on way — A cryptographic bug affects the Bluetooth implementations and operating system drivers of Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, and possibly other hardware vendors.
More:
Cult of Mac, Inquirer, TechSpot, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, Intel, MacRumors, The Hacker News, and CNET
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 12:30 PM ET, July 25, 2018.
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
| Theodore Schleifer / Recode: |
| Tanaya Macheel / Cheddar: |
Tweets: @alexeheath
| Michelle Castillo / CNBC: |
Earlier Picks
| Dan Ackerman / CNET: |
More:
VentureBeat, Motherboard, Inquirer, Macworld, Fast Company, Six Colors, The Verge, Mashable, AppleInsider, BetaNews, 9to5Mac, Boing Boing, Ubergizmo, CNBC, MacRumors, Thurrott.com, Wired, iPhone Hacks, TechnoBuffalo, USA Today, Gotta Be Mobile, The Next Web, The Register, Tom's Guide, Neowin, ZDNet, Softpedia News, and Ars Technica