|
August 6, 2014, 12:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bloomberg: |
China bans iPads and MacBooks from government use over security fears — China Said to Exclude Apple From Procurement List — China's government excluded Apple Inc. (AAPL) iPads and MacBook laptops from the list of products that can be bought with public money because of security concerns … | New York Times: |
Russian gang holds 1.2B username/password combos, stolen from 420K vulnerable websites scanned via botnet, say security researchers — Russian Gang Said to Amass More Than a Billion Stolen Internet Credentials — A Russian crime ring has amassed the largest known collection …
More:
Hold Security, Guardian, Inquirer, Help Net Security, TIME, Washington Post, Consumerist, Nextgov, theWHIR.com, MacDailyNews, www.thehostingnews.com, USA Today, The Hill, BBC, Gigaom, InfoWorld, WebProNews, Tech Times, Naked Security, TechCrunch, CNNMoney.com, bizjournals, Neowin, Softpedia News, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Trakin' the india …, SiliconANGLE, Engadget, TheDomains.com, TIME, Digital Trends, ZDNet, PC Magazine, Boing Boing, SmallBusiness.com, Ars Technica, The Register, Re/code, Reuters, NEWS.com.au and Slate
| Kashmir Hill / Forbes: |
Firm That Exposed Breach Of ‘Billion Passwords’ Quickly Offered $120 Service To Find Out If You're Affected — The New York Times dropped the freakiest security story since Heartbleed Tuesday, warning people that a “Russian gang has amassed over a billion passwords.”
More:
TechPresident. Tweets: @ashedryden, @forbes, @ahess247, @caseynewton and @lorenzofb. Thanks:@aatilley
| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
More:
Guardian, Federal Computer Week, Tech Times and TheDomains.com
| Adam Satariano / Bloomberg: |
Apple, Samsung Agree to End Patent Suits Outside U.S. — Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) are starting to wind down their global patent battle. — The companies said in a joint statement today that they have agreed to drop all suits against each other in countries outside …
More:
Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters, Re/code, ZDNet, The Next Web, SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, AppleInsider, NEWS.com.au, InfoWorld, DailyTech, BGR, SlashGear, Ars Technica, TechSpot, TechnoBuffalo, Android Beat, bizjournals, TUAW, iPhone, english.yonhapnews.co.kr, MacDailyNews, SamMobile, SlashGear, iMore, Inquirer, Gizmodo, OSNews, BetaNews, Softpedia News, Electronista, FierceWireless, iLounge, Fortune, Agence France-Presse, New York Times, Cult of Mac, TechCrunch, MacRumors, The Register, Reuters, 9to5Mac and Engadget. Tweets: @fosspatents
| Gregg Keizer / Computerworld: |
Microsoft's Q2 loss on Surface estimated at $363M, total since launch two years back $1.7B — Surface damage mounts at Microsoft as red ink reaches $1.7B — The tablet business has lost money each quarter, and each fiscal year — Microsoft continued to lose money on its Surface tablets throughout …
More:
Inquirer, The Verge, ITProPortal, Gigaom, Windows Phone Central, Business Insider, MacDailyNews and Pocketnow
| Ellis Hamburger / The Verge: |
Foursquare 8.0 review: the ultimate food-finder — The check-in is dead, but Foursquare is alive — It's almost 11. If I don't make a move soon, I'm going to hit the brunch rush and have to wait two hours for a decent breakfast. The problem is, I don't know what I want. I'm not in the mood for anything.
More:
Ben's blog, AVC, The Foursquare Blog, New York Times, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, ReadWrite, VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Business Insider, Re/code, Bloomberg and SlashGear. Tweets: @jcro
| Roger Cheng / CNET: |
Sprint taps Brightstar CEO Claure as new CEO — Claure replaces Dan Hesse, who has served as CEO since December 2007. — Sprint on Wednesday named Marcelo Claure its new president and CEO, starting a new chapter for the embattled carrier. — Claure, who is the 43-year-old founder and CEO …
More:
Sprint, Re/code, Tech Trader Daily, GeekWire, ZDNet, DSLreports, Engadget, PC World, Gigaom, Fortune, The Verge and Tech Times
| Evgeny Morozov / New York Times: |
Internet.org's project to connect the developing world is a gateway drug to Facebook — Facebook's Gateway Drug — SILICON VALLEY was once content to dominate the tech world. But recently, its leading companies have ventured deep into areas well outside its traditional bailiwick …
More:
Business Insider, BGR, SiliconBeat, Business Insider and AllFacebook
Tweets: @markhurst, @evgenymorozov and @fredericjacobs
| Kevin Poulsen / Wired: |
With Operation Torpedo, FBI installs “drive-by” spyware on Tor web servers to identify visitors — Visit the Wrong Website, and the FBI Could End Up in Your Computer — Security experts call it a “drive-by download”: a hacker infiltrates a high-traffic website and then subverts …
More:
Softpedia News, Forbes and Naked Security
| Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Wikipedia reveals 56 requests for user data in first transparency report; 50 links removed under Right to be Forgotten — Wikimedia Attacks Europe's Right To Be Forgotten Ruling As Threat To Its Mission — The Wikimedia Foundation, the not-for-profit organization behind Wikipedia … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Dev Ittycheria To Be New CEO Of Database Unicorn MongoDB As Schireson Steps Down — Billion-dollar database company MongoDB has announced a new CEO, outsider Dev Ittycheria, after just one year with Max Schireson at the helm. A former software CEO turned investor, Ittycheria will become president … | Edward C. Baig / USA Today: |
Timex Ironman One GPS+ smartwatch to debut this fall for $399 with AT&T cellular connectivity and a Qualcomm mobile OS — Timex enters smartwatch category. No phone needed. — NEW YORK — All the early smartwatches generating buzz (if not a lot of sales) come not from traditional watch brands …
More:
Gizmodo, Gigaom, VentureBeat, TechHive, Re/code, Digital Trends, FierceMobileIT News, socalTECH.com, TechCrunch, The Verge and Reuters. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Paul Carsten / Reuters: |
China anti-trust regulator conducts new raids on Microsoft, Accenture — (Reuters) - A Chinese anti-trust regulator conducted new raids on Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and partner in China Accenture PLC (ACN.N), the agency said on its website on Wednesday, after saying last week Microsoft is under investigation for anti-trust violations.
More:
CNET, Softpedia News, WindowsITPro and Neowin
| Julian Chokkattu / TechCrunch: |
Doctor On Demand Raises $21M Series A And Adds Comcast As A Customer — Doctor on Demand, the service that lets you video connect with a U.S. physician on Android and iOS for $40, closed a $21 million Series A round led by Venrock, Shasta Ventures and angel investor Sir Richard Branson.
More:
The Next Web, VatorNews and Re/code
| Greg Otto / FedScoop: |
FCC opens entire set of net neutrality comments to public — The Federal Communications Commission released files Tuesday containing the full library of more than 1.1 million public comments directed at the commission's Open Internet plan. — Six XML files were released …
More:
FCC.gov, TechCrunch, The Hill, Washington Post, Techdirt and Softpedia News
Tweets: @digiphile and @gregotto
Thanks:@gregotto| Jay Yarow / Business Insider: |
AOL misses EPS estimates, but beats expectations on Q2 revenue, up 12% to $606.8M — AOL Reports Another Strong Quarter, Makes Marissa Mayer and Yahoo Look Even Worse — AOL delivered a solid earnings report Wednesday morning. — It beat expectations on revenue and EPS, which was down 3% compared with a year ago.
More:
TechCrunch, VentureBeat, MarketWatch, Re/code, Reuters, ValueWalk and RTTNews. See also Mediagazer
| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Facebook's Parse releases PHP SDK, its first for a server-side language and its first to be open source — Parse today released the Parse PHP SDK, which you can download yourself from GitHub. The Facebook-owned company says the release is its first SDK for a server-side language as well as the first to be “truly open-source.”
More:
Parse Blog and AllFacebook
| Joan E. Solsman / CNET: |
Pandora strikes deal with artists through a group representing over 20,000 independent labels — Hear that? Pandora and artists finally reach sweet harmony — Pandora's first ever direct deal with labels marks a new age for artist relations at the Web's top streaming-music service … | Adam Clark Estes / Gizmodo: |
Inside DARPA's Transformative Apps program, the military's own app ecosystem making smartphones battle-ready — Inside the Military's Secretive Smartphone Program — When I recently set out for the Pentagon's R&D department, I instead found myself in front of a downtrodden shopping mall in Arlington, Virginia.
Tweets: @darpa
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Google's HTML5 Web Designer Gets Animation Tools, Deeper AdWords And DoubleClick Integrations — Last September, Google launched Web Designer, a free tool for Mac, Windows and Linux that makes it easy for anybody to build interactive HTML5 sites and ads. Since its launch … | Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch: |
Felicis Raises New $96M Fund, Pledges To Always Vote Shares With Founders — Five to ten years ago, the notion of a super-angel, or an angel backed with a notable but still small-sized fund, was relatively new concept. — There were players like Aydin Senkut, Jeff Clavier and Dave McClure.| John Paczkowski / Re/code: |
Apple to hold iPhone event on Sept. 9 — Code/red: Apple to Hold iPhone Event on Sept. 9 — New iPhones to Suck All the Air Out of the Tech News Cycle on Sept. 9 Onstage at our inaugural Code conference earlier this summer, Apple SVP Eddy Cue described the company's fall product pipeline …
More:
Business Insider, VentureBeat, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, Fox News, BGR, Tech2, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, USA Today, Computerworld, WebProNews, ITworld.com, PC Advisor, Phones Review, ZDNet, Tech Times, ITProPortal, Inquirer, Forbes, Technology Personalized, The Register, NEWS.com.au and GeekWire
Tweets: @macrumors and @fmanjoo
| Kyle Russell / TechCrunch: |
Uber announces UberPool, a ride-sharing, cost-splitting experiment to begin Aug. 15 in SF — UberPool Lets You Split Uber Fares With Other Passengers Along The Same Route — In the ongoing war between Uber, Lyft, and all of the other me-too ride-sharing services, competitors are looking …
More:
Uber Blog, Businessweek, Business Insider, Consumerist, CBS San Francisco, Gigaom, WebProNews, SlashGear, Engadget, Electronista, The Verge, Digital Trends, CNET, Mashable, iMore, The Next Web and GeekWire. Tweets: @swaaanson. Thanks:@ryanlawler
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 04/19 - All The News About Llama 3
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:00 PM ET, August 6, 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
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
More:
Softpedia News and Tech Times
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |