|
June 5, 2014, 5:10 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Namo Media Blog: |
Twitter acquires Namo Media to boost native mobile ads, will integrate it with MoPub — We are excited to announce that Twitter is acquiring Namo Media! — We started Namo Media with the belief that mobile banner ads don't work for users, publishers, or advertisers.
More:
The Twitter Blog, Wall Street Journal, CNET News, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, The Next Web, ZDNet, Re/code, WebProNews, Mashable and Gigaom. Tweets: @namomedia
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Buys Mobile Native Ad Startup Namo Media For Around $50M — Twitter has made another acquisition to build the social network's ad tech business — specifically in the area of native ads. It has acquired Namo Media, a specialist in “native ad” content that integrates with the site …
More:
AdExchanger, PandoDaily, StrictlyVC and silicontap.com. Tweets: @joshconstine. Thanks:@ingridlunden
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Verizon sends Netflix cease and desist over streaming quality warnings — Verizon has sent a cease and desist order to Netflix demanding that it stop presenting its subscribers with messages blaming Verizon's network for poor streaming performance, according to CNBC.| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Dropbox Acquires Stealth Messaging Startup Droptalk — Dropbox has swallowed up another early stage startup, this one a stealthy company called Droptalk which was developing a tool that allowed you to share links privately with friends via a Chrome extension, to be followed by both iOS and Android applications.| Leena Rao / TechCrunch: |
Tinder introduces “Moments”, allowing users to share self-destructing photos with their matches for 24 hours — With Moments, Tinder, Too, Decides Photos Shouldn't Always Last Forever — While Tinder has made quite a few romantic matches, the hot new dating app has long …
More:
Bloomberg, PC World, TechHive, Gigaom, Digital Trends, Daily Dot, Mashable, The Verge, TIME and WebProNews
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
Still reeling from Heartbleed, OpenSSL suffers from crypto bypass flaw — A researcher has uncovered another severe vulnerability in the OpenSSL cryptographic library. It allows attackers to decrypt and modify Web, e-mail, and virtual private network traffic protected by the transport layer security … | Brad Molen / Engadget: |
A look at Google's Tegra K1-powered 3D-mapping Project Tango tablet dev kit, available for $1024 later this month for post — Google's secretive 3D-mapping project now has a tablet: here it is — Comprehending the world around us is something we humans take for granted, but it's not so easy for our technology.| Peter Burrows / Bloomberg: |
Apple Shifts TV Ads In-House as Chiat\Day Rift Widens — Apple Inc. (AAPL) has shifted to producing more of its own television advertisements instead of relying on agency TBWA\Chiat\Day, underscoring how the longtime partnership responsible for the company's most memorable ads is fraying.| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More:
Re/code, CNET News, MacDailyNews, Business Insider and MacRumors
| Matthew J. Belvedere / CNBC: |
Marc Andreessen: Snowden is “obviously a traitor”, secrets he revealed have damaged US tech companies — Snowden a ‘traitor’: Andreessen — NSA leaker Edward Snowden is a “traitor,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen told CNBC. The secrets he's revealed have hurt Silicon Valley …
More:
Valleywag, VentureBeat, CNET News, The Hill, Mashable and Stowe Boyd
Tweets: @declanm, @declanm, @moorehn, @mathewi, @pmarca, @ggreenwald, @sarahjeong, @migueldeicaza, @wmconlow and @dangillmor
| Larry Hryb / Xbox Live's Major Nelson: |
PC Drivers for the Xbox One Controller Now Available — Beginning today, new PC drivers for the Xbox One controller will be available for download, offering PC gamers a better way to play using the Xbox One controller. We're planning to release the drivers as part of a Windows update in the near future …
More:
Xbox Wire, The Next Web, Digital Trends, PC World, BetaNews, PC Magazine, Engadget, Ars Technica, CNET News, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, Forbes, The Verge, Softpedia News, GeekWire, Gizmodo UK, Ubergizmo, Gizmodo, Load the Game, The Tech Report, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, Gotta Be Mobile, AmongTech, Polygon, SlashGear, DailyTech, VG247, TechCrunch, TIME, AfterDawn.com, destructoid, Gamasutra, Eurogamer.net and Joystiq
| Rene Ritchie / iMore: |
Swift: Apple's next-generation programming language 4 years in the making — Swift, Apple's new programming language billed as taking the C out of Objective-C, was one of the biggest surprises at WWDC 2014. The Swift project started at Apple roughly 4 years ago as one of several explorations … | Steven Levy / Wired: |
Inside the new Healthcare.gov set to debut at the beginning of the next enrollment period, November 15 — Why the New Obamacare Website Is Going to Work This Time — The drama of the Healthcare.gov Ad Hoc team is now a modern tech fable: a small cadre of young geeks from Silicon Valley … | Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Fab to Buy European Company, May Create New Furniture Shopping Site — Fab's board of directors has approved yet another new strategic plan for the e-commerce company that will include the purchase of a European furniture company and the likely creation of a new shopping site … | Katrina Brooker / Newsweek: |
Cover story: behind the scenes with Greylock Partners — How Greylock Partners Finds the Next Facebook — One sunny day in March, Gagan Biyani, the young and hugely ambitious CEO of Sprig—a company so new you probably have never heard of it—stepped into the main conference room at 2550 Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
More:
Stowe Boyd. Tweets: @greylockvc, @chrisyeh, @ebekiel, @mikeolson, @jerrychen, @christianhern, @nicoleperlroth, @johnolilly, @newsweek, @sg, @jyarow and @gregbensinger
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:
Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM — Most CRM data problems don't look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run.
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:
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.
Sources:
Satya Nadella on Microsoft's agent bet and AI's trust problem
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.
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.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:10 PM ET, June 5, 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
Scott Nover / Washington Post:Christofer Hamilton / The Wrap:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom: |
More:
ZDNet, VentureBeat and WebProNews
| Janko Roettgers / Gigaom: |
More:
Shelby.tv/blog, Re/code and VentureBeat
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
More:
Business Wire, CNET, Electronista, Fortune, GeekWire, TechSpot, The Verge, Reuters, SamMobile, PC World, Gigaom, VentureBeat, AndroidGuys, Inquirer, The Next Web, Android Authority, ZDNet, LAPTOP Magazine, Android Central, 9to5Google, Phones Review, TIME, Softpedia News, Gizmodo, ZDNet, Wall Street Journal and Engadget. See also Mediagazer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
PE Hub Blog, hypebot and PR Newswire UK
Earlier Picks
| Tom Brewster / Guardian: |
More:
VentureBeat, PandoDaily, Inquirer, Ars Technica, Telegraph, Mashable, TechPresident, The Verge, BetaNews and Electronista
| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
More:
Eurogamer.net, Polygon, BGR, Geek.com, SlashGear, Technabob, Gizmodo, TechSpot, CNET News, The Verge, bit-tech.net, GamesIndustry International, Engadget, Polygon, Neowin, VG247, Gamasutra, AfterDawn.com, Ubergizmo and Gizmodo UK
Tweets: @xboxp3 and @majornelson
| Jason Koebler / Motherboard: |
More:
DSLreports and Electronista
| Ben Sisario / New York Times: |
| Alex Wilhelm / TechCrunch: |