|
February 13, 2014, 10:30 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ron Amadeo / Ars Technica: |
New Android OEM licensing terms leak; “Open” comes with a lot of restrictions — The least understood area of the Android ecosystem has always been the highly secretive Google Play Apps licensing process. While Android is open source, the Google applications, like the Play Store, Gmail … | Farhad Manjoo / New York Times: |
To avoid obsolescence, buy Apple's hardware, use Google's services, and buy Amazon's media — How to Survive the Next Wave of Technology Extinction — Don't mock the beleaguered Nook owner. That could have been you. — Five years ago, when the nation's largest chain of bookstores released …
Tweets: @binarybits and @edbott
| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
Tweets: @thestalwart, @mhelft, @stldreiling, @mattyglesias, @drew, @fmanjoo, @willoremus, @fxshaw, @davegirouard, @mikeisaac, @mims, @ganeshtoday and @karaswisher
| Alistair Barr / USA Today: |
Google working on 10 gigabit Internet speeds — Project to develop ‘next generation’ of the Internet is part of Google's broader obsession with speed, CFO says — SAN FRANCISCO - Google is working on technology that will provide data transfer speeds over the Internet that are many times faster … | Andy Greenberg / Forbes: |
Silk Road 2.0 ‘Hack’ Blamed On Bitcoin Bug, All Funds Stolen — The same bug that has plagued several of the biggest players in the Bitcoin economy may have just bitten the Silk Road. — On Thursday, one of the recently-reincarnated drug-selling black market site's administrators posted …
More:
Deep Dot Web, The Verge, TechCrunch, MoneyBeat and SlashGear
| TechCrunch: |
Facebook Opens Up LGBTQ-Friendly Gender Identity And Pronoun Options — Facebook has just updated to let users choose the gender pronoun they associate with. Aside from the usual “male” and “female” options, users can choose up to 10 different gender definitions to describe themselves …
More:
Facebook Diversity, GLAAD, BBC, Associated Press, CNN, Computerworld, ZDNet, CNET, Re/code, GeekWire, BetaNews, VatorNews, Business Insider, Inside Facebook, Slate, SlashGear, Salon, Gigaom and Gizmodo. Tweets: @tomscott
| Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Yahoo Acquires Technical Recruiting Startup Distill — Yahoo just acquired a San Francisco-based startup called Distill, which was working on a way to make technical recruiting easier by pairing video interviews and programming challenges. They had raised $1.3 million in funding … | Lisa Jennings / Nation's Restaurant News: |
Taco Bell testing mobile ordering for in-store pickup, will roll out nationally this year — Taco Bell to offer mobile ordering nationwide — Taco Bell is preparing to roll out mobile ordering nationwide later this year, a move that will likely fuel a trend expected to shake up the quick-service world.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Windows 8 passes 200 million license sales — Microsoft has been rather quiet about its risky Windows 8 bet. The company passed 100 million license sales of Windows 8 after around six months, but a year on the market came and went without any real update on its progress.| Bloomberg: |
Lenovo Projects End to Motorola Losses With China Phone — Lenovo Group Ltd. (992), which posted a 29 percent surge in profit today, expects to end losses at Motorola Mobility within quarters of completing a deal as it reintroduces the smartphone brand to China.
More:
Digits, TechnoBuffalo, MobileSyrup.com, Phandroid, Droid Life, ExtremeTech, FierceWireless and The Verge
| Neil Hughes / AppleInsider: |
Apple set to discontinue legacy, non-Retina iPad 2 — After nearly three years on the market, Apple's second-generation iPad, which sports an A5 processor and non-Retina display, is now on the chopping block, and is expected to be discontinued in the near future, AppleInsider has learned.| Ina Fried / Re/code: |
Nathan Myhrvold's Intellectual Ventures Cutting Five Percent of Workforce — Intellectual Ventures, the invention house and patent consolidator run by former Microsoft executive Nathan Myhrvold, is cutting five percent of its workforce. — “We continue to refine our business and in doing …
More:
GeekWire and SiliconBeat
| Michael Isikoff / NBC News: |
Exclusive: Snowden Swiped Password From NSA Coworker — A civilian NSA employee recently resigned after being stripped of his security clearance for allowing former agency contractor Edward Snowden to use his pers...
More:
New York Times, Boing Boing, Mashable, TheBlot, Slate, Nextgov, TheHill and The Switch
| Kara Swisher / Re/code: |
Rizvi Traverse to Lead $250 Million Investment in Jawbone at $3.3 Billion Valuation — Jawbone, the maker of innovative consumer electronic devices such as the activity-tracking Up wristband, is poised to complete a new $250 million round of funding that values the company at $3.3 billion …
More:
CITEworld, StrictlyVC, Computerworld, VatorNews, Mashable, Venture Capital Dispatch, TechCrunch, Gigaom, VentureBeat, bizjournals and PE Hub Blog. Tweets: @danprimack
| Sam Biddle / Valleywag: |
Pando Spikes a Post Critical of a Company It Shares Investors With — The crookedest little bloghouse in Silicon Valley just hit a new low, it appears: A negative story about Birchbox, a beauty-product site with which Pando shares investors, was deleted shortly after being published.| Jason Clampet / Skift: |
Study indicates 2/3 of Airbnb's 19.5K NYC listings have offsite owners, violating city law — Airbnb in NYC: The Real Numbers Behind the Sharing Story — The five biggest neighborhoods for Airbnb are in parts of Brooklyn and Manhattan with few hotels. Skift / Mapbox
More:
Valleywag, The Verge, The Airbnb Public Policy Blog and CNET
Tweets: @antderosa, @curtwoodward, @rafat, @rafat, @rafat and @rafat
| Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo: |
NYC's Touchscreen Subway Maps Are Finally Here, and They're Amazing — New York subway riders first were promised futuristic touchscreen wayfinding maps a year ago. But the plan to install the futuristic infrastructure stalled as the design team took a step back to improve the hardware.| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Wall Street Journal: |
Pandora to let advertisers target listeners based on its sense of their political leanings starting next week — Internet Radio Service Builds Profiles of Its Audience — Pandora Hopes to Build Ad Revenue by Pinpointing Likely Voting Preferences — Next time you listen to a Bob Marley channel … | Martyn Williams / Computerworld: |
Phil Schiller up again in next round of Apple-Samsung battle — The Apple executive is one of a handful of people Samsung said it will call to the court — Apple marketing chief Phil Schiller is among the witnesses that lawyers for Samsung plan to call when the two companies return to court in California in late March.
More:
9to5Mac, Network World, AppleInsider, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com
| Wall Street Journal: |
Apple TV's scaled-back plans would rely on cable providers to acquire programming rights — Apple in Talks to Revamp Set-Top Box — Scaled-Back Plans Would Rely on Cable Providers to Acquire Programming Rights — Apple Inc. appears to be scaling back its lofty TV industry plans.
More:
DealBook, Coyote Tracks, PadGadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, CNNMoney.com, everythingiCafe, Computerworld and App Advice. Tweets: @wsjd. See also Mediagazer
| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Comcast and Time Warner Cable: Forget TV, it is all about broadband — If it is allowed to gobble up its number two rival, Time Warner Cable, Philadelphia-based Comcast will become the largest broadband provider in the United States, and perhaps the largest outside China.
More:
Quartz, Comcast Voices Blog, PandoDaily, Computerworld, Salon, Currency, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, CNET, Guardian, Washington Post, CNN, Business Insider, Techdirt, The Verge, Bloomberg, AppleNApps, Free Press, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, Public Knowledge, The Huffington Post, CNNMoney.com, Gigaom Research, Gizmodo, The Switch, VideoNuze Analysis, dailywireless.org, Zatz Not Funny!, Digits, PE Hub Blog and GeekWire. Tweets: @kevinctofel. See also Mediagazer
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Open source OS Tizen gains 15 more allies; Sprint rejoins the list — BY MARIELLA MOON @MARIELLA_MOON FEB 13TH 2014 11:33AM — In the world of mobile platforms, Tizen's but a new entry that's been through some tough times since its inception. The circle of 36 companies … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Aerohive Networks files for $750M IPO — Breaking: Wireless Company Aerohive Networks Publicly Files For IPO — Aerohive Networks is going public. — The wireless access point maker based in Sunnyvale, CA submitted a public S-1 form to the Securities and Exchange Commission Thursday.
More:
Business Wire and TechCrunch
Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code? — Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting. Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach. — Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books — The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
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:
Anthropic IPO Panic, A Spy At OpenAI?, The Great Food Slop Debate
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:
What happened to tech's backbone?
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The $7B Startup Mapping Your Health In Just One Hour | Neko's Hjalmar Nilsonne
Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.
Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.
Cheeky Pint:
The company building underwater drones for $50,000
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
BG2 Pod:
Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:30 PM ET, February 13, 2014.
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
New York Times:Washington Post:
Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Claire Cain Miller / NYT Bits: |
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
More:
FireEye Blog, The Verge, Ars Technica and SecurityWeek
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
More:
VatorNews and Techvibes Global News
| Rich McCormick / The Verge: |
More:
SiliconBeat, Uber Blog and TechCrunch
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
| Bambi Francisco Roizen / VatorNews: |
More:
VentureBeat, PE Hub Blog and I4U News
Earlier Picks
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
More:
CNET, squareup.com, Engadget, TechnoBuffalo, VentureBeat, Re/code and WebProNews
| Cromwell Schubarth / bizjournals: |
More:
Tintri, Gigaom, Business Insider, Venture Capital Dispatch and PE Hub Blog
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
Skype Blogs, TechCrunch, PC World, ZDNet, GeekWire, Computerworld, Electronista, Android Central, Inquirer, CNET and The Next Web. Tweets: @tomwarren
| Michael Gorman / Engadget: |
| Sarah Silbert / Engadget: |
More:
The Register, Phandroid, CNET, NYT Bits, Gigaom, Android Community, Geeky Gadgets, Gotta Be Mobile, Geek Beat Technology News, TechnoBuffalo, App Advice, eWeek, Bloomberg, AndroidGuys, DSLreports, WebProNews, dailywireless.org, BGR, VentureBeat, The Verge, iMore and Droid Life. Tweets: @johnlegere