|
November 17, 2013, 11:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
Apple Aiming at PrimeSense Acquisition, but Deal Is Not Yet Done — Several sources confirm that Apple is in talks to buy 3-D sensing company PrimeSense, following a report in the Israeli publication Calcalist. However, those sources stressed that the deal is not yet done …
More:
The Verge, The Next Web, Digits, VentureBeat, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, Cult of Mac, CNET, Softpedia News, Engadget, Electronista, iClarified, Mashable and PE Hub Blog
Tweets: @danprimack and @jyarow
| Chris Davies / SlashGear: |
Apple reportedly acquires PrimeSense, company behind original Kinect 3D sensor tech, for $345 million — Apple reportedly buys Kinect tech-creator PrimeSense — Apple has reportedly acquired PrimeSense, the motion-tracking company responsible for the technology in the original Xbox 360 Kinect …
More:
Reuters, MacRumors, GeekTime, Business Insider, iMore, everythingiCafe, iDownloadBlog.com, WinBeta, Yankee Sabra Limey, 9to5Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog and App Advice
Tweets: @joshblake and @markgurman
| Farhad Manjoo / Wall Street Journal: |
Young people aren't reliable predictors of tech trends. So where does that leave Snapchat? — We all tend to assume that young people are on the technological vanguard, knowing what ‘the next big thing’ will be. But they are often wrong.
More:
New York Times. Tweets: @mikeisaac, @alex, @mikeisaac, @ezraklein, @mat, @danprimack, @mikeisaac, @drew, @reddy, @fmanjoo and @drew
| New York Times: |
Rejected bid for Snapchat underscores difficulties Facebook has in keeping its cachet — Facebook, Still Dominant, Strives to Keep Cachet — When Evan Spiegel peered into a crystal ball to divine a future for his company, Snapchat, he did not see Facebook.
More:
The Next Web, NYT Bits, TIME and Forbes
| Violet Blue / ZDNet: |
Forced Google Plus integration on YouTube backfires, petition hits 112,000 — Summary: The backlash against Google forcing YouTube commenters to use Google Plus is now too big to ignore. But will Google listen? OPINION. — Violet Blue — Google's war on anonymity during its involvement …
More:
Hank's Tumblr, Adrian Holovaty, Andi S - Google+, Edward Morbius, Rocket Jump, howto.cnet.com, The Switch, Search Engine Watch, CNET, WebProNews and TIME
Tweets: @matthewkeyslive, @totalbiscuit, @notch, @caseynewton and @hueypriest
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple Stores to implement iBeacon location technology to improve service, boost sales — iOS 7's flashy launch earlier this year with an entirely new design and streaming music functionality overshadowed a breakthrough new feature: iBeacons, a location-based technology with profound implications for industries such as retail.
More:
iMore, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, I4U News, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, CNET, iClarified and MacRumors
Tweets: @howardlindzon, @markgurman and @markgurman
| Danny Sullivan / Marketing Land: |
Google's Broken Promises & Who's Running The Search Engine? — For two years in a row now, Google has gone back on major promises it made about search. The about-faces are easy fodder for anyone who wants to poke fun at Google for not keeping to its word.
More:
Dare Obasanjo's weblog and Erik McClure. Tweets: @felixsalmon and @owenthomas. Thanks:@sidharthdassani
| PR Newswire: |
PlayStation 4 Sales Surpass 1 Million Units In North America In 24 Hours — Gamers Immerse Themselves In a New Era of Gaming and Entertainment Only Available on the PS4 system—Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. (SCE) today announced that the highly anticipated launch of the PlayStation®4 …
More:
The Verge, Digits, IGN, Joystiq, Softpedia News, HotHardware.com News, GeekWire, destructoid and Engadget
Tweets: @yosp, @amboyes and @iconmaster
| Adario Strange / Mashable: |
More:
The Verge, SlashGear, Tapscape and The Next Web
| Agam Shah / PC World: |
Dell's Sputnik 3 touchscreen laptop has Ubuntu Linux, Intel's Haswell — Dell has started selling a thin and light touchscreen laptop called the XPS 13 Developer Edition, which will have Ubuntu Linux OS and Intel's fourth-generation Core processors, code-named Haswell.
More:
Maximum PC, Liliputing, HotHardware.com News, The Register, SlashGear, Barton's Blog and Gigaom
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
How Amazon Studios went from grassroots idealist to Hollywood threat — The small army of comedians that swarmed Portland, Ore., last April for the Bridgetown Comedy Festival were sleeping off their hangovers from the previous night's festivities, or still drunkenly stumbling through the hallways of the Hotel Fifty.Thanks:@zackwhittaker
| Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press: |
American Eagle, Target, and other retailers follow Wal-Mart in opening labs in Silicon Valley — Retailers Take On Silicon Valley — SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Software engineers wearing jeans and flip flops test the latest smartphone apps. Walls and windows double as whiteboards where ideas are jotted down.
Tweets: @qthrul and @andreawass
| James Chapman / Daily Mail: |
Google and Microsoft to improve filtering of results for child porn queries — Google block on child porn: At last! Internet giant axes links to vile sex-abuse websites in stunning victory for Mail campaign — Internet search results linked to child abuse are to be blocked across the world in a stunning U-turn by Google.
More:
CNET, The Next Web, AllThingsD, BBC, The Independent and Guardian
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:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
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.
Sources:
Factory CEO on why AGI is already here
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:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Lenny's Podcast:
The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Meta's Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites
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.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:35 PM ET, November 17, 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
Joe Flint / Wall Street Journal:Tierney Sneed / CNN:
Deadline:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Glenn Peoples / Billboard: |
More:
A.V. Club, NME, The Trichordist and Digital Trends
| Derrick Harris / Gigaom: |
| Ashlee Vance / Businessweek: |
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
More:
Mashable, Business Insider, AllThingsD, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, SiliconBeat and Droid Life
Earlier Picks
| Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech: |
More:
Mashable, PC Magazine, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Daring Fireball and MacRumors. Tweets: @drbarnard
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
Tweets: @jeff, @basti and @davemorin
| Scott Sayare / New York Times: |