Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors
Techmeme
September 23, 2013, 4:30 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Microsoft:
Microsoft unveils Surface 2, Surface Pro 2 and new accessories  —  Pre-order will begin at 8 a.m. EDT Sept. 24.  —  Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that the Microsoft Surface family of tablets is growing.  Two new Surface models — Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2 — along with an expanded portfolio …
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge:
Microsoft announces Surface Pro 2 with Haswell Core i5 processor, improved battery life, and two-position kickstand starting at $899  —  Microsoft announces Surface Pro 2 with updated kickstand and Haswell processor  —  Microsoft has unveiled the Surface Pro 2, a new version of its flagship 10.6-inch Windows tablet.
BlackBerry:
BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial  — BlackBerry entitled to go-shop during due diligence period, subject to payment of a termination fee in the event alternative offer accepted  —  Waterloo, ON - BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY; TSX:BB) …
Bernd Leger / Localytics:
iPhone 5s Outsells 5c by a Factor of 3.4x in the United States Opening Weekend  —  With Apple launching not just one but two new phones on Friday, there's been much speculation about which of the two phones would emerge as the early adopter favorite.  After just a little more than 48 hours after launch …
Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Apple's iPhone 5s And iPhone 5c Sell 9M Units Over Opening Weekend, Topping 5M For iPhone 5 Last Year  —  Apple has just issued a press release revealing it sold 9M iPhones during the launch weekend of its iPhone 5c and iPhone 5s.  As is typical for the company with new hardware …
Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Exclusive: Flipboard Raises $50 Million More on $800 Million Valuation  —  According to sources close to the situation, Flipboard has raised $50 million in new funding, in a round led by Rizvi Traverse Management and Goldman Sachs.  —  The new funding puts the valuation of the Silicon Valley startup …
Sean Hollister / The Verge:
Valve announces SteamOS, a living room operating system for games  —  Valve is done teasing.  Today, Valve has revealed SteamOS, its own operating system based on Linux, designed for living room gaming PCs.  It's the first step towards Valve's Steam Box, its vision for an open video game console.
Brian Klug / AnandTech:
Moto X Update Dramatically Improves Camera Quality  —  In my Moto X review, I characterized camera performance and quality as very bimodal.  In some scenes it could take great photos, in others it seemed to struggle and either produce images that looked somewhat washed out with weird white balance or aggressive noise reduction.
Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:
Exclusive: BlackBerry's newer low cost BlackBerry 10 smartphone slides in below Q5 on price, features  —  I don't think I have the words for this, but here we go... Thanks to a close source of ours, we have received pictures and information about one of BlackBerry's upcoming lower cost handsets, codenamed Kopi.
Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:
AngelList Beefs Up Syndicates With New Backers Model, Lets Accelerators Raise Funding Too  —  With the loosening of the SEC's restrictions around general solicitation or public fundraising by startups, AngelList is launching a suite of products that could extend its influence (and its revenue model) in the tech ecosystem today.

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.
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.
Zoho:
Introducing Zoho AgentInbox: Email infrastructure built for AI agents  —  Most AI agents doing real work eventually need to send or receive email.  The default move is to hand them access to someone's existing inbox …
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

Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
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.
Great Chat:
 Doomers at Dreamforce
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
 YouTube CEO Neal Mohan: Why We're Betting On AI And Not Afraid Of It
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.
Sources:
 Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack
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.
Invest Like the Best:
 Gabe Stengel - Building Investing Superintelligence
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Grit:
 Inside the AI Startup Making Customer Support 65% Cheaper
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:30 PM ET, September 23, 2013.

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

Reuters:
A US federal judge orders the Trump administration to lift its White House ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico for 14 days, calling it likely unconstitutional

Todd Spangler / Variety:
Paramount says it is raising another $7.5B in debt to pay for its WBD acquisition and pay down other debt, bringing the total debt it intends to raise to $44.4B

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Barry Diller withdraws People's bid to buy the stake in MGM Resorts it didn't already own, in a deal valuing the company at ~$12.4B; People holds ~27% of MGM

More News

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Retail Giant Tesco Follows In Amazon's Footsteps With Hudl, A Cut-Price, Own-Brand Android Tablet

Earlier Picks

Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter