|
March 22, 2019, 11:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Source: Apple has signed up Vox for its upcoming news subscription service; other Vox Media properties will not participate initially — Apple Inc. signed Vox to be part of an upcoming subscription service for newspaper and magazine readers, according to a person familiar with the matter …
More:
9to5Mac, Silicon Valley Business …, Reuters, Cult of Mac, The Mac Observer, AppleInsider, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @shiraovide, @markgurman, @stroughtonsmith, and @jbenton
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
More:
The Information, Fox News, Wired, Philip Elmer-DeWitt, Macworld, 500ish Words, BGR, Digiday, Forbes, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Slashdot, Cult of Mac, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, and iPhone in Canada Blog
Tweets: @pkafka, @jessicalessin, @jwsherrod, @mgsiegler, @pierce, @mollywood, @pkafka, @benbajarin, @fmanjoo, and @pkafka
| Julia Carrie Wong / The Guardian: |
Court filing by DC AG: Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica data misuse months before it was first reported; Facebook says it did not mislead about timeline — Company confirms suspicions of separate incident following Washington DC attorney general court filing
More:
TechCrunch, District of Columbia, BBC, Inquirer, ZDNet, Business Insider, Fast Company, Engadget, and CNET
Tweets: @profcarroll, @damiancollins, @juliacarriew, @profcarroll, @carolecadwalla, and @carolecadwalla
| Andrew E. Freedman / Tom's Hardware: |
Intel confirms it will not develop new Compute Card products — Intel will not develop new Compute Cards, the company has confirmed to Tom's Hardware. Compute Cards were Intel's vision of modular computing that would allow customers to continually update point of sale systems, all-in-one desktops, laptops and other devices.| Ali Breland / Mother Jones: |
Since the Christchurch shootings, Reddit's r/CringeAnarchy and r/The_Donald continue to host anti-Muslim hate speech justifying it and violence against Muslims — And the platform doesn't seem to care. — Days after the tragic shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand …
More:
Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Register, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, and KTLA
Tweets: @motherjones, @rmac18, @alibreland, @karolcummins, and @raju
| Joe Carlson / Star Tribune: |
DHS warns of two vulnerabilities affecting about 750,000 Medtronic implantable defibrillators worldwide, which could allow hackers to take control of devices — Alert from Medtronic, Homeland Security says 750K defibrillators are at risk. — As many as 750,000 heart devices …
More:
ICS-CERT Critical …, Ars Technica, CyberScoop, Threatpost, TechCrunch, CNET, The Hacker News, Boing Boing, TechSpot, Engadget, Gizmodo, Slashdot, and The Register
Tweets: @geeknik and @pkedrosky
| Monojoy Bhattacharjee / What's New in Publishing: |
Report: YouTube is now responsible for 37% of all mobile internet traffic, ahead of Facebook's 8.4%; media time spent on mobile in US rose from 21% to 24% YoY — Smartphones are the big gainers in media consumption year-over-year, according to the just-released Nielsen's Q3 2018 Total Audience Report.| Maureen Farrell / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Pinterest has sped up the timing of its IPO, plans to make its filing public as early as Friday and list its shares on the NYSE in mid-April — Pinterest Inc. has sped up the timing of its initial public offering as the image-search company looks to tap into a red-hot market for new issues … | Isabel Woodford / The Block: |
Sources: Intercontinental Exchange subsidiary Bakkt is being valued at around $740M following its $182.5M Series A — Bakkt, ICE's yet-to-launch crypto exchange, is being valued at around $740 million following a recent Series A round of funding, sources close to the project tell The Block.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
Report: Apple acquires Italian startup Stamplay, which specializes in backend automation, for about €5M — Apple has acquired Italian startup Stamplay, which offered an API-based back-end development platform, according to Italian newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore. The report claims Apple paid around five million euros for the company.
More:
VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, MacDailyNews, InvestorPlace, and Cult of Mac. Tweets: @justinthetechie
| Anand Murali / FactorDaily: |
With the global market for AI data preparation expected to reach $1.2B by the end of 2023, India is emerging as a hub for data labelling and annotation work — Kumaramputhur is a tiny village some 45 km northwest of Palakkad in Kerala, home to some 3,500 families and probably not much bigger than an average Bengaluru suburb.
Tweets: @kris_sg and @pankajontech
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
A look at some of Y Combinator's Winter 2019 cohort who secured funding before Demo Day due to early interest from those connected to the YC network — Meet the startups that raised venture capital, or got acquired, before Demo Day — Hundreds gathered this week at San Francisco's Pier 48 …
More:
Crunchbase News. Tweets: @kateclarktweets, @joshconstine, @kateclarktweets, and @kateclarktweets
| Emma Hinchliffe / Fortune: |
Cleo, a parenting support app for working parents offered through employers, raises $27.5M Series B, says its app now reaches 475,000+ families in 50+ countries — When Jeff Immelt was running GE, he noticed that the company, like many, struggled with attrition.
Tweets: @forbeswomen
| Jai Vardhan / Entrackr: |
Sources: Tencent has partnered with three Indian banks to enter the country's payments market with WeChat Pay, to be launched by the end of May or June — Ever since its launch in April 2016, Unified Payment Interface (UPI) has been growing quickly and reached a milestone of Rs 1 trillion worth monthly transactions in December 2018.| Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News: |
An ad fraud scheme that runs video ads behind banner images targeted popular Android apps, including many using Twitter's MoPub ad platform — Julien is an independent developer who built and maintains one of the most popular audio apps in the Google Play store.
More:
Engadget, Android Authority, The Verge, IT PRO, Gizchina, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @wolfiechristl, @craigsilverman, and @craigsilverman
| Eric Newcomer / Bloomberg: |
Source: Uber picks the NYSE for its upcoming IPO; Lyft will start trading next week on Nasdaq — - Listing is likely to be the biggest public offering this year — Company expected to officially file for its IPO in April — Uber Technologies Inc. has selected the New York Stock Exchange … | Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft launches Windows Virtual Desktop in public preview and Microsoft Defender ATP for macOS in limited preview — Microsoft today made a slew of announcements to help IT pros reduce costs, increase security, and boost employee productivity. The headline items are the launch …
More:
Microsoft Security, Microsoft Tech Community, Ars Technica, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, Microsoft 365 Blog, Windows Help, The Hacker News, ExtremeTech, Dark Reading, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @maryjofoley, @guygregory, @tomwarren, @epro, @msftsecurity, @wdsecurity, @anderson, @jarwidmark, and @gcluley
| Max Chafkin / Bloomberg: |
Trump to nominate Michael Kratsios to be his first US CTO; Kratsios is currently US deputy CTO and was formerly chief of staff at Thiel Capital — For the first time in two years—and for the first time under President Trump—the U.S. is set to have a chief technology officer.
More:
Fortune, Axios, Washington Examiner, CNET, The Hill, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @josheidelson, @chafkin, @digiphile, @garyshapiro, and @mattdrange
| Nicholas Fandos / New York Times: |
Jared Kushner's lawyer told the House Oversight Committee late last year that Kushner uses WhatsApp for official WH business, including with foreign contacts — WASHINGTON — Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law and senior adviser, uses an unofficial online messaging service …
More:
Politico, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @nycsouthpaw, @therickwilson, @mattyglesias, @tomgara, @hshaban, @bartongellman, @refsrc, and @courtneyknorris
| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Q&A with Vishal Shah, Instagram's head of product who previously ran Instagram's business products, on e-commerce as a revenue driver, IGTV, and more — Instagram's new product chief talks about the app's push into e-commerce, life after the departure of Instagram's two cofounders …
Tweets: @mosseri, @ow, @alexeheath, @thekenyeung, @ohmdee, @skuranda, @dhof, and @alexeheath
| Taylor Lorenz / The Atlantic: |
More:
The Interface, Nieman Lab, CNN, Motherboard, The Verge, Gizmodo, The Hill, Beyond Search, and Engadget
| Pedro Canahuati / Facebook: |
Facebook says it will notify hundreds of millions of Facebook users and thousands of Instagram users after it found passwords were stored in a readable format — As part of a routine security review in January, we found that some user passwords were being stored in a readable format within our internal data storage systems.
More:
TechCrunch, Wired, Android Authority, Petri, CSO, Engadget, Motherboard, The Verge, NBC News, The Hacker News, CNBC, CNN, International Business Times, Fortune, Security Affairs, Digital Trends, Security Boulevard, and Pocketnow
Tweets: @willoremus, @jonswaine, @vladsavov, @jjvincent, @amyklobuchar, @malwarejake, @tonyromm, @chrismessina, @hadas_gold, @bdsams, @sfiegerman, and @joshuaumww
| Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: |
More:
Techdirt, Wired, XDA Developers, Business Insider, NPR, Reuters, Digital Photography Review, MIT Technology Review, Wall Street Journal, WeLiveSecurity, New York Times, IT News Africa, MediaNama, Inquirer, Coinspeaker, Thurrott, Silicon Republic, The Next Web, OneZero, Geek.com, PaymentsSource, Social Media Today, Firstpost, Geek News Central, The Block, Security Boulevard, Slate, KnowTechie, Yahoo Finance, BGR, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, Ars Technica, Cult of Mac, CrackBerry.com, ExtremeTech, Dark Reading, Fast Company, Newser, BBC, The Guardian, BuzzFeed News, Neowin, Naked Security, Adweek, Pocket-lint, Forbes, Android Police, MacRumors, TIME, and The Register
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
App Spotlight: Grow Payments for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
App Spotlight: Grow Payments for Zoho CRM — App Spotlight brings you hand-picked solutions that enhance your Zoho apps and tools. Visit Zoho Marketplace to explore all of our apps, integrations …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce 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 & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Grit:
The Sales Framework Every Founder Needs | Mark Roberge
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
How tech workers actually feel about AI in 2026 | Annual AI sentiment survey (Noam Segal)
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI Finally Ships Its Superapp, Meta's AI Price War, ChatGPT Cheating At Brown
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Radical AI's Joseph Krause: The Scientist Building The 'Waymo' Lab For New Materials
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Hard Fork:
Do Social Media Bans Work? + A Conversation About A.I. Consciousness + Tool Time
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:30 AM ET, March 22, 2019.
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
New York Times:New York Times:
Nilay Patel / The Verge:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
More:
Comcast, The Verge, KnowTechie, MacRumors, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Telecompetitor, GeekWire, Light Reading, and Zatz Not Funny!
Tweets: @db, @backlon, @benbajarin, and @comcast
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Sean O'Kane / The Verge: |
More:
CNN, Reuters, The Register, Business Insider, TechNode, Wired, The Hill, Electrek, TechCrunch, CNET, and Mashable
Tweets: @lylejmorris, @ryanfelton, @quirkyllama, and @sokane1
| James Vincent / The Verge: |
More:
Boing Boing, OpenStreetMap Blog, Upvoted, Slate, Global Voices Advocacy, and Techdirt
Tweets: @mathewi, @wikimedia, @asta_fish, @mpawlo, and @edri
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
More:
Daring Fireball, Macworld, Asymco, Engadget, Digital Trends, CNBC, Wired, KnowTechie, Fast Company, Six Colors, and MacStories
Tweets: @stevesi, @stevesi, @smccready, @james_gross, @mgsiegler, @mgsiegler, @cnet, and @reckless
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |