Techmeme: Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

December 6, 2013, 12:35 PM

Top News

Barbara Ortutay / Associated Press:

Apple to begin using iBeacons at 254 US stores enabling in-store notifications in updated app — APPLE GUIDES SHOPPERS INSIDE STORES WITH IBEACON — NEW YORK (AP) — GPS will tell you how to get to the nearest Apple store. With iBeacon, Apple hopes to guide you around once you're inside …

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Spotify Will Launch Limited Free Mobile Access At Dec 11th Event, Source Confirms — Spotify plans to make mobile access to its music service free, The Wall Street Journal reports. Now a source confirms with TechCrunch that the free mobile tier will launch December 11th at a press event in New York.

More: Business Insider, I4U News, Android Community and hypebot

Hannah Karp / Wall Street Journal:

Spotify to Introduce Free Mobile Music Service

Kevin Fitchard / Gigaom:

Verizon quietly unleashes its LTE monster, tripling 4G capacity in major cities — We've already logged a few sightings of Verizon's powerful new LTE network in New York and other cities, but in the last few months Verizon has been rapidly working behind the scenes on upgrading its LTE infrastructure across the country.

Nathaniel Popper / DealBook:

In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud Is Quicker Than the Law — The call went out on Twitter: “For insane profits come and join the pump.” — It was an invitation to a penny stock-style pump-and-dump scheme — only this one involved Bitcoin, the soaring, slightly scary virtual currency …

More: SlashGear. Tweets: @nathanielpopper

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg:

Bitcoin Boom Spreads to IPhones With Mobile-Payment Apps: Tech

Tweets: @gli_ph

Adrianne Jeffries / The Verge:

Bank of America says Bitcoin could become a ‘major means of payment’

More: Bloomberg, SiliconANGLE, Digital Trends, DealBook, Forbes and The Register

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Why Microsoft needs three—or more—operating systems — At the moment, Microsoft has a bunch of consumer-facing Windows-derived brands: Windows 8.1 for x86 and x64 PCs, Windows RT for ARM PCs, and Windows Phone for smartphones. According to research firm Canalys, that's at least one too many …

More: Softpedia News

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

To Comply With FDA, 23andMe Won't Give New Customers Genetic Analysis — The personal genetics startup 23andMe announced this evening that it will stop giving new customers access to health reports tied to their genes, after being warned by the FDA over compliance issues.

More: CNET, Business Wire, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, Gizmodo, Washington Post, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Verge, The Switch, Reuters, Business Insider, Forbes, AllThingsD and David Dobbs's NEURON CULTURE

Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:

Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore — Regular cost declines with each new generation of silicon are coming to an end — At a wine bar in San Francisco on Wednesday, Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli delivered some sobering news: Moore's Law isn't making chips cheaper anymore.

More: Telegraph and TechEye

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Interview with Facebook News Feed Manager Over Content Changes — In 2011, Google changed the way it ranked websites, in an effort to punish spammers and “content farms” that showed up high in search results but delivered crummy pages. — Google's “Panda” changes had giant ripple effects throughout …

More: Digits and The Verge. Tweets: @niemanlab. See also Mediagazer

@reutersbiz:

The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to decide standards for software patent eligibility #breaking

Tweets: @fedcourtjunkie

Nick Summers / The Next Web:

David Cameron offers UK Exceptional Talent visa route to tech leaders, as Tech City gets 300Mbps 4G — British Prime Minister David Cameron will allow Tech City, a government-backed body that promotes technology companies across London, to begin working with the Home Office …

More: Guardian, Guardian, ZDNet, Telegraph, Techworld.com, Tech City News and The Register

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

BitTorrent Sync doubles users in a single month, growing ‘2 times as fast as Dropbox’ — On Nov. 5, BitTorrent Sync, the free “private cloud” solution to syncing files between your desktop, laptop, and mobile devices, hit one million users. Today, the company announced that it has hit two million users.

More: The Official BitTorrent Blog, The Next Web, BetaNews, InfoWorld and Digital Trends. Tweets: @calebgarling

Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times:

New cybersecurity boom arrives in Silicon Valley — Venture capital firms are pumping funding into security start-ups, which are getting gobbled up by big companies that see cybersecurity as a source of new revenue. — During Hewlett-Packard's most recent earnings report …

More: The Switch. Tweets: @marladickerson

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Apple Puts iOS 7 Adoption At 74% Based On App Store Usage Numbers — Apple has just updated its developer website for the iOS App Store to show the distribution of devices on different versions of iOS, and iOS 7 now commands a significant league, with 74 percent of devices using …

Jeremy Kirk / PC World:

‘ZeroAccess’ click-fraud botnet disrupted, but not dead yet — Microsoft and law enforcement agencies said Thursday that they disrupted a botnet that defrauded online advertisers of US$2.7 million a month but that the malicious network hasn't been completely eliminated.

More: Microsoft Corporation, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, The Official Microsoft Blog, Digital Trends, The Next Web, Krebs on Security, The Register, Geek.com, BBC, Naked Security, SlashGear, Inquirer, BetaNews and ZDNet

Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters:

Twitter to be available on mobile phones without Internet — (Reuters) - Twitter Inc is tying up with a Singapore-based startup to make its 140-character messaging service available to users in emerging markets who have entry-level mobile phones which cannot access the Internet.

More: Engadget, AllThingsD, TechPresident, NPR, PalmAddict, BGR India, Mashable, Digital Trends, Softpedia News, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @kenyanpundit

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's Voice Search On Android And iOS Can Now Answer Questions In German, French And Japanese — Google has long had a thing for voice search, but until now, the only language it fully supported was English. Even though voice search itself is available for a few dozen languages …

More: Inside Search, The Next Web, IntoMobile, I4U News, Geeky Gadgets, Android Beat, Softpedia News, Android Central, App Advice, Engadget, iDownloadBlog.com, CNET, Search Engine Land, SlashGear, Electronista, 9to5Mac and MobileBurn.com

The Information:

Employee Stock Sales Boom, As Square Considers One at $5 Billion — Across Silicon Valley, employees are cashing out. — For years, the Valley's conventional wisdom has held that allowing employees to sell some stock before an initial public offering would reduce their drive and hurt retention.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @scottmaustin, @ericnewcomer, @jessicalessin and @jessicalessin

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Heyday App Is a Journal of Your Life That Writes Itself — An iPhone app called Heyday launches today — it compiles a record of its owner's life, based on places visited and photos taken. — This is a topic I've been particularly interested in, as it becomes more evident …

More: Business Insider, The Next Web, USA Today, PandoDaily and peHUB. Tweets: @blader

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:

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.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

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.

Lenny's Podcast:

90 minutes of unfiltered product advice from Snap and Discord's product chief | Peter Sellis

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:

AI Doom Backlash Arrives, Anthropic & OpenAI IPO Outlook, Frontier Business Momentum Slows

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:35 PM ET, December 6, 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.