|
January 31, 2022, 7:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
Sony Interactive Entertainment announces it is buying Bungie, which makes Destiny and other games, for $3.6B; Bungie will become an independent subsidiary — Destiny studio will remain multiplatform, able “to self-publish and reach players wherever they choose to play”
More:
Bungie.net, PlayStation.Blog, GamesIndustry.biz, The Verge, SIE Blog - English, CNBC, GeekWire, The Verge, VentureBeat, Business Wire, TechRadar, Video Games Chronicle, news.com.au, Windows Central, SiliconANGLE, Sportico, Seattle Business Journal, Tom's Guide, Associated Press, PCMag, Polygon, The Guardian, IGN, Club386, GameSpot, Game Rant, thegamer.com, PC Gamer, Tom's Hardware, Android Central, PCWorld, Game Developer, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Digital Trends, ZDNet, Ars Technica, XDA Developers, Mashable, AppleInsider, Barron's Online, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, HotHardware.com News, Neowin, The Wrap, Gameranx, Android Headlines, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gamereactor UK, TechSpot, Eurogamer.net, Engadget, MCV/DEVELOP, Dexerto, Washington Post, KnowTechie, Kotaku, TrueAchievements, Wccftech, SlashGear, t3.com, Input, The Shortcut, BGR, Protocol, Forbes, Dot Esports, OnMSFT.com, Stadia Source, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch
| The New York Times Company: |
The New York Times acquires Wordle, the simple word game that has amassed “millions of daily players”, for “an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures” — Wordle, Josh Wardle's stimulating and wildly popular daily word game, is joining The New York Times's portfolio of original …
More:
New York Times, New York Times, The Verge, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Washington Post, The Irish Times, Gizmodo, Forbes, Axios, NBC News, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, GamesIndustry.biz, XDA Developers, Insider, TechCrunch, CNBC, PhoneArena, Techdirt, New York Post, Android Central, TouchArcade, MobileSyrup, Financial Times, SlashGear, PC Gamer, Variety, IGN, Input, Liliputing, iPhone in Canada Blog, Polygon, and Pocket-lint
Tweets: @powerlanguish, @nytimes, @lpolgreen, @marcatracy, @daveyalba, @karaswisher, @jason_kint, @levie, @smalljones, @lpolgreen, @mattmcgee, @katierogers, @acedtect, @maggiekb1, @parkermolloy, @cmclymer, @krisholt, @scottnover, @youseegundam, @sallykohn, @jasonschreier, @phillyd, @dylanmatt, @pappiness, @bdsams, @nrarmour, @ofirahy, @wfkars, @ofirahy, @rustybrick, @norabf, @andreawoo, @laurenpelley, @jyarow, @priyavprabhakar, @robertjimison, @grahamstarr, @stshank, @danlamothe, and @christinemhall
| Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: |
Ryan Breslow, co-founder of one-click checkout startup Bolt, steps down as CEO and becomes executive chairman, after his tweets bashing YC and Stripe went viral — Ryan Breslow, who founded the “one-click” checkout tech company Bolt as a Stanford student and dropped out of college to build it …
More:
Bloomberg and Protocol
Tweets: @theryanking, @theryanking, @shaunmmaguire, @joshqharris, @theryanking, @theryanking, @garrytan, @ellenhuet, @anothercohen, @ulonnaya, @akm1410, @danprimack, @mi_abaga, @omarbessa, @sama, @kaepora, @garrytan, @ekanardini, @krrishd, @xavierhelgesen, @steviebuckley, @zevlapin, @pmarca, @twobitidiot, @sarthakgh, @brianmcc, @austinj, @cookie, and @chandrarsrikant
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Meta rolls out updated 3D avatars across Facebook, Messenger, and Instagram Stories in the US, Canada, and Mexico — It's a step toward the company's concept of the metaverse — Facebook parent company Meta is introducing 3D avatars to Instagram Stories and direct messages and updating …
More:
Meta, VentureBeat, PCMag, Facebook Technology, TechCrunch, Android Headlines, The Information, Neowin, 9to5Mac, Engadget, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Central, UploadVR, and Social Media Today
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @instagram, @sb2749, @taartfart, @kellymakena, @meta, @boztank, @wongmjane, @andresegers, @dianelyssa, @wongmjane, @hondanhon, and @ericstephen
| New York Times: |
Current and former Meta employees say the company's metaverse moves have caused disruption and uncertainty, as some feel funneled towards AR and VR initiatives — Shifting a 68,000-person social networking company toward the theoretical metaverse has caused internal disruption and uncertainty.
More:
Wired, New World Notes, and MacRumors
| Sam Byford / The Verge: |
Joe Rogan posts a video to Instagram defending booking contentious guests, apologizes to Spotify for the backlash, and says he may book more “experts” — 'I'm very sorry that this is happening to them.' — Joe Rogan has issued a response to the ongoing controversy …
Source:
Instagram. More:
Billboard, Engadget, New York Magazine, Protocol, and Fortune
| Daniel Ek / Spotify: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, Protocol, NBC News, CNBC, New York Times, Wired UK, TheStreet, Garbage Day, Quartz, CNN, Yahoo Entertainment, RAIN News, and Mindless Drivel
Tweets: @eldsjal, @joerogan, @mikeisaac, @cakemusic, @sarafischer, @spotifynews, @reckless, @kevinroose, @pkafka, @issielapowsky, and @bostonjoan
| Frank Chaparro / The Block: |
Crypto exchange FTX raises a $400M Series C from SoftBank, Paradigm, Tiger Global, and others at a $32B valuation, up from $25B in October 2021 — The frothy venture capital market continues to buoy the empire of billionaire trader and entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried.
More:
PR Newswire, CoinDesk, CNBC, FinSMEs, Axios, PitchBook, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin News, CoinGape, Cointelegraph, Crypto Briefing, Forbes, TechCrunch, Blockworks, Decrypt, Cryptonews, and Financial Times
Tweets: @jcoviedo6, @zackseward, @davemcclure, @fintechfrank, @anthony, and @silvermanjacob
| Wall Street Journal: |
Antenna: Apple TV+, Disney+, HBO Max, and others struggle to retain US subscribers who joined to watch a hit show; some subscribers only stay for a few months — Roughly half of U.S. viewers who joined right after ‘Hamilton’ and ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ were gone in six months, data show
More:
MacRumors, iMore, and Too Much TV Newsletter
Tweets: @benmullin, @benmullin, @iansherr, @alexsalvinews, and @ballmatthew
| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
Silvergate Bank confirms it's purchasing the Diem Association's IP and other assets, issuing $132M in stock and paying an additional $50M in cash for the deal — The Diem Association is shutting down. — Silvergate Bank confirmed Monday that it's purchasing the technology and other assets from Diem …
More:
Bloomberg, Engadget, The Block, Diem, American Banker, Seeking Alpha, Politico, TradingBTC.com, SEC.gov, and Business Wire
Tweets: @diemassociation, @davidmarcus, @davidmarcus, @juthica, @ccatalini, @ccatalini, and @ccatalini
| Chavi Mehta / Reuters: |
BlackBerry agrees to sell mobile, messaging, and wireless patents to Catapult IP Innovations for $600M, after ending support for its phones earlier in January — BlackBerry Ltd (BB.TO), said on Monday it will sell its legacy patents primarily related to mobile devices …
More:
BlackBerry, AppleInsider, PCMag, SiliconANGLE, iPhone in Canada Blog, Liliputing, Barron's Online, Slashdot, and MobileSyrup
| Yogita Khatri / The Block: |
Phantom, a Solana wallet similar to Ethereum's MetaMask, raises a $109M Series B at a $1.2B valuation, debuts an iOS app, and promises Ethereum support in 2022 — Quick Take — Phantom has raised $109 million in Series B funding and is now a unicorn. — The Solana wallet is looking …
More:
Phantom, Nairametrics, TechCrunch, Cointelegraph, CoinDesk, Decrypt, CoinGape, and Crypto Briefing
Tweets: @fehrsam, @jessewldn, and @to
| Samuel Stolton / Politico: |
Doc: the US is pressing EU officials to revise the Digital Markets Act to focus less on tech giants and ensure that the act covers tech firms outside of the US — The United States is pressing the EU to revise rules targeting digital giants to make them focus less on American companies …
More:
Protocol. Tweets: @auerdirk, @auerdirk, @adamkovac, @kkomaitis, @viacristiano, @schneideringrid, @andreas_schwab, @samuelstolton, and @apolyakova
| Bloomberg: |
Gay dating service Grindr removed its app from Apple's App Store in China, citing difficulties keeping it in compliance with the country's privacy law — Operators of the Grindr gay-dating service in China removed the app from Apple Inc.'s App Store, citing difficulties keeping it in compliance …
More:
Quartz, 9to5Mac, dot.LA, ChinaTechNews.com, The Verge, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Insider, Forbes, and New York Post. Tweets: @laurengoode
| John Luttig / luttig's learnings: |
A deep dive into Microsoft: unpacking its success with Azure, which hit a $10B run rate faster than AWS, how it could become the first $10T company, and more — Understanding the behemoth in Redmond teaches us valuable lessons in cloud infrastructure, startup strategy, and the future of software.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.
Cloudflare:
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.
Zoho:
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
Generate Sample Data the Way You Want It Using AI, for Free — Finding good sample data is harder than it should be.If you've ever tried to test a dashboard, build a demo, or train a team on an analytics tool, you know the drill.
IDrive:
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.
IDrive Autonomy: low-cost L2+ driver assistance with AI — L2+ driver assistance with a scalable AI stack built for automotive companies and laying the foundation for the autonomous future.Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Cloudflare CEO: We're Ready To Block Millions of Websites From AI — With Matthew Prince
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Data Centers, Elon Musk, and the New Politics of Tech, with David Weigel
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.
Access:
Sam Altman on OpenAI's next model and the AI backlash
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Brian Singerman from GPx
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Training Data:
Making Cities Awesome: Peregrine's Nick Noone & Ben Rudolph
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
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 7:45 PM ET, January 31, 2022.
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
Max Tani / Semafor:Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
More:
The Block, Finextra, PYMNTS.com, CoinDesk, Crypto Briefing, and Axios
Tweets: @alexisohanian, @jowyang, @cdixon, @alex, @alex, and @joemccann
| Ryan Weeks / The Block: |
More:
COPA, CoinDesk, Bitcoinist.com, Blockworks, and Crypto Briefing