Techmeme: Cloud darling Docker gets $40M in funding to push its container technology (Jonathan Vanian/Gigaom)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

September 16, 2014, 9:10 AM

Top News

Buster Hein / Cult of Mac:

Apple confirms iPhone 6 NFC chip is restricted to Apple Pay — Apple finally added NFC to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, but if you were hoping the company's new NFC chip will allow you to pair speakers or integrated NFC tags into your favorite apps, however you won't be able to do any of the when …

More: Gizmodo, BGR, Inquirer, The Verge, 9to5Mac, InfoWorld, Digital Trends, Business Insider, iMore, CNET, PC Advisor, Neowin, Geek.com, MacRumors, iPhone, AppleInsider, Ubergizmo, App Advice, ITProPortal and SlashGear

Austin Carr / Fast Company:

Tony Fadell on the evolution of Nest, working with Jobs and Page, and integrating Google's culture — The $3.2 Billion Man: Can Google's Newest Star Outsmart Apple? — Google is betting big on Nest CEO Tony Fadell, who helped invent the iPod and iPhone. Here, a look inside his design revolution.

More: Business Insider. Tweets: @austincarr

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:

Paypal attacks Apple Pay security with full-page ad in NYT referencing recent iCloud celebrity photo hack — “We the people want our money safer than our selfies.” PayPal goes after Apple in a full page NYT ad — As the rumors of an Apple payments platform swirled leading up to last week's keynote …

More: BGR, CNET, DailyTech, TechCrunch, ReadWrite, MacRumors, Patently Apple, TechRadar.com, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, App Advice and TUAW

Tweets: @rabois, @halthomas, @rabois, @ow, @arj, @cjc, @lessien, @delrey and @carnage4life

Jonathan Vanian / Gigaom:

Cloud darling Docker gets $40M in funding to push its container technology — The closing of the funding round ends a momentous summer for the container management startup in which companies like Google, Microsoft and VMware have all pledged support and a bunch of startups have sprung up to take advantage of the Docker platform.

More: TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Docker Blog, The Register, Wall Street Journal, Data Center Knowledge, InfoWorld and PE Hub Blog

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft announces Windows 9 event in San Francisco on September 30th — Microsoft is preparing to detail its next major version of Windows. We had been expecting the company to hold a press event later this month, and now it's official. Microsoft will hold a “Windows event” in San Francisco on September 30th.

More: ReadWrite, Re/code, Computerworld, The Register, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, CNET, PC World, Electronista, TechSpot, Laptop Mag, MobileSyrup.com, Pocketnow, CIO.com, Mashable, Liliputing, Windows Phone Central, GeekWire, BGR, WinBeta and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check. Tweets: @zpower

Ben Popper / The Verge:

Why parents are raising their kids on Minecraft — Microsoft's latest purchase has remarkable intergenerational appeal — Back in June of 2011, David Pakman's daughter and son, at the time age 10 and eight, asked him for a copy of Minecraft. “At the time I didn't know what that was …

More: Re/code and GeekWire. Tweets: @a91g and @cwarzel

Markus Persson / notch.net:

Markus “Notch” Persson on selling and leaving Mojang: “It's not about the money. It's about my sanity.”

More: Medium, Wired, Forbes, Bloomberg, CNET, Polygon, USA Today, VentureBeat, Tubefilter, Computerworld, The Register, PC Gamer, Cult of Mac, TechnoBuffalo, BuzzFeed, Re/code, Business Insider, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, DisplayBlog, PC Advisor, ReadWrite, NPR, ParisLemon and TIME

Tweets: @pmarca, @notch, @garrynewman, @geoffkeighley, @therealcliffyb, @bfod, @bgurley, @joshmedia, @dalmaer, @paullicino and @mcpe_news

Ben Thompson / stratechery:

Minecraft fits into Nadella's new vision for Microsoft, but the Xbox business creates conflict

More: Gamasutra, Softpedia News, ITworld.com, Mobile Magazine, THE CORNERPLAY, Polygon, CNET and iPhone in Canada Blog

Derrick Harris / Gigaom:

Facebook launches an open source organization and releases new routing tech — Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along with other big-name companies) to help foster open source efforts.

More: Facebook Code, Facebook Code, New York Times, Help Net Security, AllFacebook, PC World, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Re/code, Bloomberg, Inside Facebook, Data Center Knowledge and ZDNet

Tim Peterson / AdAge:

Amazon tops list of Google's biggest search advertisers, spent $158M on search ads in 2013 — Amazon Tops List of Google's 25 Biggest Search Advertisers — Online Retail Giant Spent $158M on Search Ads in 2013 — One of Google's emerging rivals for online ad dollars is also its biggest search-ad buyer.

More: Digiday, Business Insider, ECPM BLOG, ScreenwerkScreenwerk and Marketing Land. Tweets: @jyarow

Stephen Wolfram / Wolfram Blog:

Wolfram launches cloud-based Mathematica Online that works in the browser — Launching Today: Mathematica Online! — It's been many years in the making, and today I'm excited to announce the launch of Mathematica Online: a version of Mathematica that operates completely in the cloud …

More: The Next Web

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Mail.ru Takes Over 'Russia's Facebook' Vkontake In $1.47B Deal, Settles Durov Suit — Some big shareholder shifts at Vkontake, the social network with 92 million monthly active users that's often described as Russia's Facebook and has been embroiled in political controversies that resulted in the ousting of its founder, Pavel Durov.

More: Mail.ru Group, PandoDaily, Gigaom, The Next Web, New York Times, Reuters, Webrazzi, ABC News and Bloomberg

Tweets: @ingridlunden and @jonrussell

Adam Lashinsky / Fortune:

Silicon Valley's view of Alibaba: a competitor only for investments, and a potential acquirer — How Silicon Valley sees Alibaba — Wall Street is seeing green this week regarding the Chinese e-commerce company Alibaba. It hopes to raise more than $20 billion.

Tweets: @jonrussell

Wall Street Journal:

Alibaba increases IPO price range to $66-68 a share, from $60-66, could raise as much as $25B

More: Associated Press, New York Times, SiliconBeat, Gigaom, Tech Trader Daily, Forbes, Bloomberg, Reuters and CNET. Tweets: @wsjbreakingnews

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Roku has sold over 10 million of its streaming players — Roku just hit a milestone: over 10 million of its streaming players have been sold to this point, stretching from the company's original set-top box — which debuted in 2008 — through today. It's a big number, and it establishes Roku …

More: The Official Roku Blog, Tech Times, Engadget, CNET, Ubergizmo, Re/code, Multichannel News, Fast Company, Gigaom and The Next Web. See also Mediagazer

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

500px Co-Founder And Former CEO Ousted From The Startup — Toronto's 500px photo portfolio site and marketplace is undergoing some major changes, as co-founder Oleg Gutsol is out from the company he started. The executive shared the information on Facebook on Monday, saying that he was …

More: BetaKit. Tweets: @rcnaturephotos

Bloomberg:

Apple Watch Privacy Questioned by Connecticut AG Jepsen — Apple Inc. (AAPL) faces questions by Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen over privacy protections for users of the company's watch, which includes features such as health tracking, unveiled last week as part of its lineup of new products.

More: State of Connecticut, Digital Trends, CNET, Hartford Courant, New Haven Register, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR and MacRumors

Tweets: @evilbachus and @parislemon

Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:

Macy's rolls out retail's largest beacon installation — Summary: Macy's expects to complete the installation by early fall, just in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season. — Following a test run during last year's holiday shopping season at its flagship stores in New York City and San Francisco …

More: Search Engine Watch, MacRumors and SlashGear

Todd Spangler / Variety:

Digital Studio JibJab Acquires Startup Behind ‘Hello Santa’ Video Service — JibJab Bros. Studios, the company whose backers include Sony Pictures Entertainment best known for its political satires, announced that it has acquired Make Believe Studios, creators of the “Hello Santa” …

More: PandoDaily, L.A. Biz and TechCrunch

Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader:

Your Amazon Account Can be Hacked via a Kindle eBook — Amazon might not have a security issue at Audible but they do have one on their main website. — A security researcher has reported, and I can confirm, that Amazon has a security hole on the “manage Your Kindle” page - one which is relatively easy to fix.

More: B.FL7.DE, The Verge, Gizmodo, Business Insider, Engadget, Digital Book World, ITProPortal and Good E-Reader

Charlie Osborne / ZDNet:

Gartner: 75% of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in 2015 — Majority of mobile apps will fail basic security tests in the future: Gartner — Summary: The research firm claims that 75 percent of all mobile applications will fail basic security tests next year — leaving the enterprise vulnerable.

More: Gartner and SecurityWeek

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:

The 90-day recognition cliff: Why praise programs fade, and what keeps them alive — Recognition programs often start with enthusiasm. Employees participate, managers share shoutouts, and teams have a new way to celebrate achievements.

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

Big Technology Podcast:

SAP CEO: AI Won't Kill Software, But It Will Change Your Job — With Christian Klein

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:

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.

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.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:10 AM ET, September 16, 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.