|
April 16, 2019, 11:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| CNBC: |
Qualcomm and Apple settle all worldwide litigation between the two companies, as Apple makes a payment to Qualcomm; Qualcomm's stock closes up 23% — - Apple and Qualcomm have settled a royalty and patent dispute that went to trial this week in San Diego, California.
More:
Nikkei, Business Wire, The Verge, CNET, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, Reuters, 9to5Mac, Telegraph, Washington Post, Axios, AnandTech, PCWorld, The Seattle Times, CNET, The Register, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Fast Company, Axios, FOSS Patents, Bloomberg, Telegraph, AppleInsider, Computerworld, Fortune, 9to5Mac, Daring Fireball, MSPoweruser, The Hill, iPhone Hacks, BGR, Light Reading, Neowin, Silicon Valley Business …, iMore, Cult of Mac, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Xconomy, SlashGear, Mashable, Patently Apple, Quartz, Thurrott, Reuters, XDA Developers, SiliconANGLE, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @macrumors, @sharatibken, @tonyromm, @saschasegan, @andrewmartonik, @reckless, @benbajarin, @webster, @cnet, @benbajarin, @rogoway, @neilcybart, and @ldignan
| Intel Newsroom: |
Intel says it is exiting the 5G smartphone modem business — Intel Corporation today announced its intention to exit the 5G smartphone modem business and complete an assessment of the opportunities for 4G and 5G modems in PCs, internet of things devices and other data-centric devices.
More:
South China Morning Post, Engadget, MacRumors, The Verge, CNET, CNN, AppleInsider, Wired, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Reuters, Business Insider, Bloomberg, The Information, CNET, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, MobileSyrup, CNBC, and Oregonian
Tweets: @neilcybart, @lexnfx, @reckless, @andrewmartonik, @edbott, @stshank, @tomwarren, @benbajarin, @bzamayo, @journeydan, @rogoway, @rdrv3, @scottthurm, @anshelsag, @bzamayo, @benbajarin, @stshank, @stevekovach, and @neilcybart
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: DOJ staffers have told T-Mobile and Sprint that their planned merger is unlikely to be approved as currently structured — DOJ staff told wireless rivals deal is unlikely to be approved as structured, according to people familiar with the matter — Justice Department staffers …
More:
AppleInsider, USA Today, Digital Trends, Reuters, Fox Business, Financial Times, Bloomberg, Android Authority, Droid Life, and Android Police
Tweets: @passantino, @wsj, @krisketzkmbc, and @leojtravis10
| NBC News: |
About 4,000 pages of leaked Facebook documents from 2011-2015 shed light on its approach to sharing and selling data, giving more access to friendly companies — Facebook's leaders seriously discussed selling access to user data — and privacy was an afterthought.
More:
Vox, Firstpost Tech, ComputerWeekly.com, CNBC, BREAKERMAG, Mashable, and Komando.com
| Wired: |
Interviews with 65 current and former employees on the meltdown inside Facebook over the last 15 months as the Cambridge Analytica scandal unfolded — Scandals. Backstabbing. Resignations. Record profits. Time Bombs. In early 2018, Mark Zuckerberg set out to fix Facebook.
More:
Business Insider, The Verge, and Boing Boing
| BuzzFeed News: |
Overview of high-profile male executives in tech who were accused of sexual misconduct and are now getting second chances — Silicon Valley says it's committed to improving diversity, but high-profile male executives accused of sexual misconduct are getting second chances. Some advocates are wondering why.
Tweets: @daveyalba, @clairlemon, @rmac18, @mat, @lizthegrey, @mhbergen, @ceodonovan, @buzzfeednews, @teddyschleifer, @jessicalessin, @rmac18, @jackiehluo, @theferocity, and @lizthegrey
| Ian Sherr / CNET: |
Microsoft announces Xbox One S All-Digital Edition, a disc-free Xbox One S launching May 7 for $249 with a 1TB HDD and three games; preorders open now — Microsoft is preparing to sell a new Xbox unlike any it's offered before. The gadget is missing a disc drive.
More:
Xbox Wire, The Guardian, The Verge, BetaNews, Polygon, Gamasutra, Wall Street Journal, Best Buy, iMore, Windows Central, Comic Book, TechRadar.com, CNBC, Pocket-lint, Destructoid, BGR, Windows Blog, Game Informer, USgamer.net, Cultured Vultures, YouTube, Variety, Business Insider Australia, USgamer.net, Wccftech, The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Central, Windows Central, Kotaku Australia, GameSpot, Niche Gamer, Ars Technica, OnMSFT.com, Neowin, Charlie INTEL, and Ars Technica
Tweets: @domsplaying, @xbox, @twthereddragon, @wario64, and @stanhoraczek
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
IGN, Xbox Wire, CNET, GameSpot, Xbox Wire, Engadget, Gamasutra, VentureBeat, SlashGear, GamesIndustry.biz, Destructoid, Windows Central, Polygon, DualShockers, Neowin, GameSpot, and Gematsu
Tweets: @nenjutsupsync and @ikenny_j
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Netflix reports Q1 revenue surpassed $4.52B, up 22% YoY, vs $4.50B est.; net subscriptions grew 9.6M, up 16% YoY, with 1.74M in the US and 7.86M internationally — - The company reported $4.52 billion, vs. $4.50 billion expected, per Refinitiv consensus estimate.| Reuters: |
Google has removed the popular video app TikTok from its Play Store in India to comply with a state court's directive — NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Google has blocked access to the hugely popular video app TikTok in India to comply with a state court's directive to prohibit its downloads … | Twitter: |
Twitter to test option to hide a tweet's replies in June, suspends 3x more abusive accounts reported within 24 hours than last year, relies less on user reports — We want people to feel safe on Twitter. Last year, we shared that building a Twitter free of abuse, spam and other things …
More:
Axios, Fast Company, TED Blog, Fortune, Recode, Engadget, SlashGear, The Hill, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @twittersafety, @biz, @oneunderscore__, @kantrowitz, @delbius, @policy, @selinawangtv, @kayvz, @reuters, @mattnavarra, @oneunderscore__, @anonycraig, @find_evil, @vijaya, and @hash_tigre
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
Google announces support for Signed Exchanges in Chrome, which will show the original, correct URL for a page in the address bar for AMP pages — It's only supported on Chrome right now — When you click a link on your phone with a little lightning bolt next to it in Google search, you're getting something in the AMP format.
More:
Google Webmaster Central Blog, The Cloudflare Blog, 9to5Google, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, and TechCrunch. Tweets: @backlon
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Report: Sony says it made rules that limit sexual content in its games globally; sources: the effect of sexual material on Sony's brand in the US worried execs — Many have suspected that Sony was implementing strict rules on sexual content in PS4 games, and those hunches have just been validated.| Sahil Chinoy / New York Times: |
Using 9 hours' worth of footage of a park in NYC from public cameras and Amazon Rekognition, NYT detected 2,750 faces, matching many to real identities, for $60 — Most people pass through some type of public space in their daily routine — sidewalks, roads, train stations.
Tweets: @nytopinion, @nachristakis, @alexisohanian, @privacyproject, @profcarroll, @privacyproject, and @justinhendrix
| Emily Dreyfuss / Wired: |
At TED 2019 interview, Jack Dorsey evaded pointed questions about the state of Twitter by providing vague answers, frustrating the interviewers and the audience — ON TUESDAY, JACK Dorsey, the CEO of Twitter, came to TED 2019 to answer for the sins of his platform.| Guilherme Rambo / 9to5Mac: |
Sources: Apple is planning a desktop extension feature for macOS 10.15 that allows users to send any window of any app to an external display, including an iPad — It's undeniable that one of the best characteristics of every Apple product is its display. Apple ships computers …
More:
Daring Fireball, Ars Technica, Neowin, The Mac Observer, Apple Must, MSPoweruser, BGR, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @hallstephenj, @ow, @viticci, @sammyguichelaar, @adambanksdotcom, @filipepina, @stroughtonsmith, and @bzamayo
| Giancarlo Valdes / VentureBeat: |
Kickstarter says game projects on the site have brought $1B+ in donations to creators since 2009, with $236M going to video games and $21M to gaming hardware — Games represent one of the biggest categories on Kickstarter, and it looks like it'll stay that way.
More:
Kickstarter
| Brady Dale / CoinDesk: |
Report: blockchain startup incubator ConsenSys' pitch deck forecasts $100M burn rate for 2019, says it had $21M in revenue in 2018, projecting $52.3M in 2019 — ConsenSys believes it can become a valuable company, provided it can get through the next year.| Joe Rossignol / MacRumors: |
With the release of macOS 10.14.4, the MacBook Air (2018) was updated with a display brightness of up to 400 nits, compared to up to 300 nits previously — As noted on Reddit, Apple has updated its tech specs for the 2018 MacBook Air to indicate that the notebook now has a display brightness …
More:
iPhone Hacks, Cult of Mac, and Digital Trends
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Mozilla executives reflect on how Google web products would often break in Firefox but not Chrome and on other issues perceived as anti-competitive tactics — Former and current Mozilla engineers are reaching their boiling points. — A former high-ranking Mozilla executive has accused Google …
Tweets: @johnath, @youngbloodjoe, and @encthenet
| Ben Schoon / 9to5Google: |
Google Pay adds Gmail importing for automatically adding movie tickets, loyalty cards, coupons, airline boarding passes, and more from your inbox — Back in February, it was spotted that Google was testing out a new feature for Google Pay which would import data from Gmail automatically.
More:
SlashGear, Mashable, XDA Developers, and MSPoweruser
| Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch: |
Now-patched security flaw in EA's Origin client for Windows, used by tens of millions of gamers to buy and download games, exposed PCs to remote code execution — Electronic Arts has fixed a vulnerability in its online gaming platform Origin after security researchers found they could trick … Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Soxton:
AI-powered law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
AI-powered law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Zoho:
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements — 2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements — 2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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:
Alex And Ranjan's 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
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.
Hard Fork:
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
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.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Naughty Citizen', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt's Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
BG2 Pod:
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
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 11:35 PM ET, April 16, 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
Alex Ritman / Variety:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Peter Rubin / Wired: |
More:
GeekWire, TechCrunch, Digital Trends, The Daily Dot, Polygon, VentureBeat, The Verge, AnandTech, IGN, Android Central, Variety, Fortune, USA Today, The Esports Observer, Business Insider, TechSpot, Road to VR, BBC, USgamer.net, ExtremeTech, The Next Web, PC Gamer, GameSpot, InvestorPlace, and The Tech Report
Tweets: @lisasu, @notpatrick, @pressstartkofi, @leojtravis10, @serkantoto, @zhugeex, @puertorock77_, and @megmeg203
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |