Techmeme: Samsung Electronics says it has won a $6.6B order to provide 5G wireless solutions to Verizon in the US (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)

Top News

Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac:

Report: Apple has hired Tim Connolly, a former executive at Hulu and Quibi, to work on Apple TV+, as the company explores bundling content — In addition to expanding the amount of content on the service, Apple has shown an interest in bundling Apple TV+ with other properties.

Source: Telegraph. More: iMore, MacRumors, New.blicio.us, and AppleInsider. Tweets: @annemariebridy

See also Mediagazer

Steven Levy / Wired:

Qualcomm founder Irwin Jacobs on the “Holy Wars of Wireless” and why there is no US equivalent to Huawei that is pioneering next gen wireless infrastructure — Plus: Wireless at the turn of the century, a highly anticipated question, and a surprise in the stratosphere.

More: Financial Times, New.blicio.us, and Beyond Search. Tweets: @jaygoldberg

Dawn Chmielewski / Forbes:

Profile of Reed Hastings as Netflix thrives during the pandemic, adding ~1M subscribers/month in the US and Canada and another 2M/month globally since March — The man responsible for keeping the world entertained does so, at least this day, alone in front of a computer screen, in his son's largely unadorned childhood bedroom.

Tweets: @forbes

Maureen Dowd / New York Times:

Interview with Reed Hastings, on the future of Hollywood, the US election and social media, his new book about Netflix's aggressive company culture, and more — Netflix started with sending DVDs — remember them? — through the mail, but now the streaming pioneer sits atop a Hollywood it has thoroughly upended.

More: New.blicio.us. Tweets: @mwanikih, @nytimes, @nytimesbusiness, @harper4nc, @sub8u, @shannon_liao, @nuitseracalme, @mbrandolph, @morganhousel, @maureendowd, and @ericliptonnyt

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Italy's antitrust authority says it has opened an inquiry into Google, Apple, and Dropbox over cloud computing services, including “unfair clauses in contracts” — Italy's competition authority has opened an investigation into cloud storage services operated by Apple …

More: SiliconANGLE, Reuters, AppleInsider, Thurrott, Tech Xplore, Engadget, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNBC, MacRumors, and Cult of Mac

Patrick McGee / Financial Times:

How iOS app developers draw on behavioral psychology to design user ratings pop-ups that appear at opportune times, like after a high score or on payday — Rating an iPhone app takes just a second, maybe two. “Enjoying Skype?” a prompt will ask, and you click on a 1-5 star rating.

More: Tom's Guide and Slashdot

Tweets: @bzamayo, @joshspero, @ftopinion, @financialtimes, @daveleeft, @carnage4life, @patrickmcgee_, and @faktoider

Sohee Kim / Bloomberg:

Samsung Electronics says it has won a $6.6B order to provide 5G wireless solutions to Verizon in the US — - It's one of Samsung's largest so far in 5G networking — Samsung is pushing hard to compete with Nokia and Ericsson — Samsung Electronics Co. won a 7.9 trillion won …

More: International Business Times, SiliconANGLE, Wall Street Journal, Reuters, Nikkei Asian Review, CNET, Light Reading, ZDNet, Reuters, Financial Times, Coinspeaker, Android Headlines, South China Morning Post, Neowin, and ajudaily.com

Tweets: @lanceulanoff, @vijayshekhar, and @adrianweckler

Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch:

Apple says it stores Hong Kong users' iCloud data in US and that HK authorities' data requests go through DOJ, after saying it was “assessing” HK's security law — After Beijing unilaterally imposed a new national security law on Hong Kong on July 1, many saw the move as an effort …

Tweets: @zackwhittaker

Andreessen Horowitz:

Traditional tabletop games are being reinvented by digital tools such as live-streaming, UGC, and audio to provide new experiences and reach larger audiences — Dungeons & Dragons, the granddaddy of all role-playing games, has never been more popular than it is today.

Tweets: @alexhern and @a16z

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Four employees of SF-based sales document management startup PandaDoc arrested in Belarus on fraud charges after the founders joined protests against Lukashenko — Yesterday the four employees (pictured) of US-headquartered enterprise startup PandaDoc were arrested in Minsk by the Belarus police …

Jeanne Whalen / Washington Post:

US government is considering putting export restrictions on SMIC, which would block US companies from selling SMIC tech without a license; stock down 20%+ — Pentagon says the Trump administration is weighing possible trade sanction on SMIC — The Trump administration …

More: BBC, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Financial Times, Engadget, Reuters, MSPoweruser, Softpedia News, MediaNama, XDA Developers, Bloomberg, Android Headlines, Coinspeaker, Interconnected, CNBC, Bloomberg, and Digital Trends

Tweets: @benktallmadge, @danrdimicco, @markseibel, and @jchengwsj

Ernesto Van der Sar / TorrentFreak:

A historic drop in releases of pirated content has followed a US-led bust targeting SPARKS and other piracy communities, with dozens of topsites taken down — Every day, millions of people download or stream pirated content including movies, TV-shows, games, MP3s, and books.

More: BBC and TorrentFreak. Tweets: @campuscodi

Sponsor Posts

ElevenLabs:

ElevenAgents by ElevenLabs — You know us for voice. Now meet ElevenAgents — featuring Expressive Mode, our most human-sounding AI voice technology in 70+ languages with ultra-low latency. Hear it for yourself.

Intel:

5G's most deployed platform — Powering live networks with built-in Inference across Core and RAN. That's the power of Intel Inside®

Zoho:

Introducing intelligent document processing with Zoho RPA — Documents are a major bottleneck at many organizations. Invoices, contracts, forms, ID cards, receipts: They all arrive in different shapes and sizes …

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.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:

More OpenAI Executive Drama, Is Siri Seriously Broken?, Meta's Elusive Next Hit

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.

Grit:

How Kevin Mandia Built the Most Trusted Name in Cybersecurity

Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

Anthropic's $1B to $19B growth run: how Claude became the fastest-growing AI product in history | Amol Avasare

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.

Hard Fork:

The Future of Addictive Design + Going Deep at DeepMind + HatGPT

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.

Great Chat:

Go touch some grass (but don't tweet about it)

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.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Ryan Roslansky: Turning AI Anxiety into Skills for the Future of Work

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:50 PM ET, September 7, 2020.

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.