|
September 3, 2022, 7:25 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Josh Sisco / Politico: |
Sources: the FTC has begun a review of Amazon's $1.7B takeover of iRobot to assess if the deal violates antitrust law and illegally boosts Amazon's market share — The FTC has officially begun a review of Amazon's $1.7 billion takeover of robot vacuum maker iRobot to decide … | Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
Filing: the FTC is investigating Amazon's $3.9B deal to buy One Medical — Probe adds to issues Amazon faces at antitrust enforcement agency — Amazon vs. Walmart: How the Giants Look to Each Other to Best Each Other — Created with sketchtool.| TechCrunch: |
Samsung says hackers stole some customer data, including names, contact and product registration information, in a breach of its US systems in late July 2022 — U.S. electronics giant Samsung has confirmed a data breach affecting customers' personal information.
More:
Samsung Newsroom, BleepingComputer, Livemint, BetaNews, PCMag, SamNews 24, The Hacker News, DataBreaches.net, BigTechWire, Security Affairs, iPhone in Canada Blog, SiliconANGLE, Phandroid, SlashGear, Sammy Fans, ZDNet, Android Authority, SamMobile, MobileSyrup, Forbes, Android Central, GSMArena.com, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Engadget, AppleInsider, Reuters, and Droid Life
| Reed Albergotti / Semafor: |
Sources: Biden considers EOs to limit US investments in China, collection of US citizens' data by Chinese companies, and selling of US tech to Chinese customers — President Biden plans to sign an executive order that could dramatically limit U.S. investments in China, according to three people with knowledge of the plans.
More:
South China Morning Post, FOSS Patents, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @semaforben, @nbashaw, @karaswisher, @zaidjilani, @jessicalessin, @reedalbergotti, and @fbermingham
| Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal: |
The IRS says it inadvertently posted confidential information involving about 120,000 individuals on its website before discovering the error and removing it — Tax agency says error led to posting about some taxpayers with IRAs — WASHINGTON—The Internal Revenue Service inadvertently posted …
More:
Slashdot, CNN, PYMNTS.com, Internal Revenue Service, Bloomberg, FedScoop, and The Hill
Tweets: @repjasonsmith, @mdrache, and @logandobson
| Krisztian Sandor / CoinDesk: |
Bankruptcy filing: Celsius says it expects ~$70M of “proceeds from the repayment of USD denominated loans”, which could help it operate through the end of 2022 — The extra cash from loan repayments, previously believed to be in stablecoins, means a much needed boost for the cash-strapped lender.
More:
United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York and CryptoSlate. Tweets: @coindesk
| Varun Mishra / Counterpoint Research: |
The global premium smartphone average selling price rose 8% YoY to $780 in Q2 2022, driven by sales of $1,000+ devices; Apple captured 57% of the premium market — - The global premium smartphone market ($400 and above wholesale price) average selling price (ASP) grew 8% YoY to reach $780, a second-quarter record, in Q2 2022.
More:
Barron's Online, PhoneArena, MacRumors, Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Sammy Fans, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daring Fireball, CNET, Redmond Pie, BGR, Softpedia News, Insider, MacDailyNews, Apple Must, TechRadar, Financial Times, and Patently Apple
Tweets: @benwood and @neiltwitz
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Taiwanese prosecutors indict the head of Luxshare, a Chinese iPhone assembler, for allegedly using a shell company to take over local company Speed Tech in 2012 — Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted the head of Luxshare Precision Industry Co. for using a shell company to surreptitiously … | TechCrunch: |
A look at Snap's decision to close Zenly, popular in Europe and Asia with a claimed ~35M MAUs earlier in 2022, to “focus on Snap Map”, which has 300M+ MAUs — Snapchat's parent Snap became the latest tech company to announce a huge round of layoffs, confirming ongoing rumors yesterday … | Denny Jacob / Wall Street Journal: |
UBS and robo-adviser Wealthfront agree to terminate their $1.4B merger deal; UBS says it will buy a $69.7M convertible note in Wealthfront at the same valuation — Deal announced in January was for all-cash transaction valued at $1.4 billion — UBS UBS .71%▲ Group AG …
More:
ThinkAdvisor, Business Wire, Wealthfront Blog, Reuters, Barron's Online, Wealth Management, Financial Times, and The Block. Tweets: @wealthfront
| Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times: |
A Washington court rules Meta repeatedly violated the state's campaign finance transparency law for political ads and must pay penalties yet to be determined — Meta, Facebook's parent company, repeatedly and intentionally violated Washington campaign-ad transparency law and must pay penalties yet …
More:
Washington State Office of the Attorney General, Washington Post, KIRO 7 News Seattle, and GeekWire
Tweets: @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @bobfergusonag, @carycmoon, @chaseburnsy, @ira_hyman, @melissaryan, @cruickshank, @rcalo, @stilldelvingh, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @cathygellis, @spokanerising, @kbkev78, @washingtoncog, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @samred, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, @elijsanders, and @elijsanders
| Aaron Gordon / VICE: |
Yandex confirms hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow on September 1 by ordering dozens of taxis from Yandex Taxi to converge on the same location — Attackers attempted to disrupt ride-hailing app service on Thursday, the company confirmed. — Hackers created a traffic jam in Moscow …
More:
The Register. Tweets: @runews, @lorenzofb, @euan_macdonald, @motherboard, @brfreed, @hiddenmarkov, and @_kshitijmishra
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:
Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.
Automate your scheduling workflows with Zoho Calendar — Your calendar can do more than schedule meetings Creating a calendar event takes only a few seconds. But scheduling is rarely just about creating the event.
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
Big Technology Podcast:
A Sober Conversation About AI Existential Risk — With Nate Soares
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:
AI Wants to Shop for You. What Could Go Wrong?
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Michael Moritz - Lessons From 40 Years of Investing and Writing
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Sources:
Baseten's CEO on why every company will want to own its AI
Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.
Subscribe to Sources.
Training Data:
Box's Aaron Levie: On Reinventing Yourself in the AI Age and Enterprise Diffusion
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
Andrew Feldman from Cerebras
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:25 AM ET, September 3, 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
CNBC:Oliver Darcy / Status:
Mark Keierleber / Straight Arrow:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
ChinaTechNews.com, CNBC, Pandaily, Coinspeaker, South China Morning Post, Nikkei Asia, and TechNode
Tweets: @shenlulushen, @arjunkharpal, and @ruima
| Sara Fischer / Axios: |
More:
Insider, Bloomberg, New York Times, Pixel Envy, Digit, The Verge, The Hill, Engadget, 9to5Google, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @sarafischer, @parler_app, @sarafischer, and @ryan
| The Verge: |
More:
Only Third Party and Platformer
Tweets: @caseynewton, @jgo4justice, @tomgara, @bborrman, @danieljkelley, @reckless, @zoeschiffer, @caseynewton, and @caseynewton
Earlier Picks
| Reuters: |
More:
Qualcomm, Gizchina, Road to VR, Invezz, Gadgets 360, tanidiklarim.com, The Verge, CNET, UploadVR, The Register, Neowin, Thierry's Connectivity …, SiliconANGLE, BigTechWire, Channel NewsAsia, Business Standard, Silicon Valley Business …, Telecoms.com, Forbes, Android Central, TechCircle, Engadget, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, PCMag, YouTube, Total Telecom, CNBC, Coinspeaker, and IDC
| Lauren Forristal / TechCrunch: |
More:
The Register, YouTube Official Blog, The Hill, Bloomberg, Engadget, The Keyword, SiliconANGLE, Adweek, Tech Policy Press, CNN, Social Media Today, and Reclaim The Net
Tweets: @m_dot_brown, @m_dot_brown, @m_dot_brown, @m_dot_brown, @m_dot_brown, @m_dot_brown, @kent_walker, @nealmohan, and @youtubeinsider
| Vikas SN / Moneycontrol: |
More:
Google Support, Android Central, GSMArena.com, PYMNTS.com, The Verge, TechCrunch, Livemint, Business Standard, BGR India, 9to5Google, and The Economic Times. Tweets: @tsuvik. Thanks:@tsuvik