|
October 6, 2014, 11:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| New York Times: |
Hewlett-Packard Announces Breakup Plan as Technology Landscape Shifts — Hewlett-Packard confirmed on Monday that it planned to break into two companies. — The company, considered a foundational institution of Silicon Valley, said in a news release that it intended to divide itself …
More:
SiliconBeat, NPR, Bloomberg, NASDAQ.com, The Tech Report, Ubergizmo, bizjournals and Los Angeles Times
Tweets: @qthrul, @nytimesbusiness and @nytimesbits
| Wall Street Journal: |
HP announces split, boosts number of expected layoffs by 5K to 55K — Hewlett-Packard Announces Plans to Break Up Company — H-P Would Separate PC, Printer Business from Corporate Hardware, Services; Expects More Layoffs — Tech company Hewlett-Packard has announced that it will separate …
More:
Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Forbes, Reuters, Bloomberg, Reuters, DailyTech and Fortune
| Barb Darrow / Gigaom: |
HP is better not together — company to split into enterprise and PC/printer businesses — It's true. The HP IT giant is dividing into two smaller, but still large entities, one focusing on enterprise IT, the other on PCs and printers. — Hewlett-Packard is now forging ahead with plans … | Mike Isaac / New York Times: |
Square closes its latest round, raising $150M at a $6B valuation, led by Singapore Investment Corporation — Square Raises $150 Million at a $6 Billion Valuation — It takes money to make money, or so the saying goes. And Square, the e-commerce start-up, wants to make a lot more money.
More:
The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Business Insider, Re/code, bizjournals, Mashable, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and VatorNews
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Hacked Screenshots Show Friend-To-Friend Payments Feature Hidden In Facebook Messenger — Facebook Messenger is all set up to allow friends to send each other money. All Facebook has to do is turn on the feature, according to screenshots and video taken using iOS app exploration developer tool Cycript …
More:
Guardian, SiliconANGLE, PandoDaily, Telegraph, Inquirer, TechSpot, iDownloadBlog.com, The Register, Cult of Mac, Seeking Alpha, Mashable, VentureBeat, 9to5Mac, PC Magazine, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, VentureBreak, memeburn, Tech Digest, Gizmodo, The Verge, NFC World+, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, Business Insider, iMore and CryptoCoinsNews
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @andyplace2, @joshconstine and @dangillmor
Thanks:@joshconstine| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple sapphire crystal supplier GT Advanced files for bankruptcy — Apple sapphire supplier GT Advanced Tech has today released a statement announcing that it is filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 11. Filing for Chapter 11 means the company will be able to continue normal operations until it can resolve issues with creditors.| Se Young Lee / Reuters: |
Samsung Electronics makes $14.7 billion bet with new South Korean chip plant — (Reuters) - South Korean IT giant Samsung Electronics plans to spend $14.7 billion on a new chip facility - its biggest investment in a single plant - leaning on its semiconductor business to bolster profits as its smartphone dominance wanes.
More:
VentureBeat, Bloomberg, Inquirer, Fortune, SamMobile, MacDailyNews, PC World, Wall Street Journal, CNET, ZDNet and Seeking Alpha
| Mat Honan / Wired: |
Adaptive Path's acquisition by Capital One feels like the end of the long-fading Web 2.0 era — Adaptive Path and the Death Rattle of the Web 2.0 Era — You may not have heard of them, but a little company in San Francisco called Adaptive Path has had an outsized effect on the Web we know.
Tweets: @brandonschauer and @trentwalton
| Ravi Sharma / Times of India: |
Skype to block local voice calls from India starting November 10 — NEW DELHI: Internet-based calling service Skype will stop delivering calls on landline and mobile phones in India from November 10. The Microsoft-owned company did not give any reason for this move.
More:
The Next Web, Gigaom, iMore, Phones Review, Tech in Asia, Neowin and WinBeta
| Zachary M. Seward / Quartz: |
The cloud DVR is going mainstream before anyone knows if it's legal — It's perfectly legal in the US to record television programs for personal use, but the situation gets murkier when those recordings touch the web. American courts haven't really decided if cloud DVRs … | Blair Hanley Frank / GeekWire: |
T-Mobile CEO John Legere on consolidation, acquisition rumors, and improving customer service — Full Video: T-Mobile CEO John Legere unleashed on the GeekWire stage (F-bombs, Bendgate and the ‘porn guy’ who runs Iliad) — T-Mobile CEO John Legere rocked the house at the GeekWire Summit yesterday …
More:
Fortune, CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, GeekWire, iMore, 9to5Mac and The PhoneBoy Blog
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Closes WhatsApp Acquisition, Jan Koum To Match Zuckerberg's $1 Annual Salary — Facebook is now the legal owner of WhatsApp, following a filing made with the SEC today. This is the final step in a process begun when Facebook announced its intent to acquire the messaging company in February of this year.
More:
Engadget, Re/code, The Verge, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Android Central and Mashable
Sponsor Posts
Subquadratic:
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.
Zoho:
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
3 smarter updates for your staffing pipeline — Staffing recruiters manage multiple client requirements, large candidate databases, and tight submission deadlines. Finding suitable candidates is only the first step.
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.
WebBrain:
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.
WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano
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:
Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge
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.
Machine Gods:
OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI
The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.
Subscribe to Machine Gods.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad
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:
Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Great Chat:
The case for AI optimism
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:00 AM ET, October 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
Jasper Ward / Reuters:Reuters:
Frédéric Durand / What's on Netflix:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Maureen Morrison / AdAge: |
More:
CNET and Business Insider
| Dawn Chmielewski / Re/code: |
| Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch: |
More:
The Wrap, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter and Forbes
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
VentureBeat, Washington Post, Forbes, PC Magazine, Gigaom, Fortune, The Verge, CNNMoney.com, New York Magazine, Business Insider, TIME, Bloomberg, InfoWorld, Windows Phone Central, DailyTech, Computerworld, MacDailyNews, New York Times, The Register, Light Reading, Gigaom, ZDNet, Engadget, bizjournals, eWeek, SlashGear, Tech Trader Daily, Channel EYE, SiliconANGLE, Ubergizmo, VentureBreak, Mashable, TechSpot, Seeking Alpha, BetaNews, Ars Technica, ITworld.com, The Tech Report, Electronista, SecurityWeek, Mercury News, CNET, VentureBeat, Reuters, Business Insider and bit-tech.net
Tweets: @asymco, @startupljackson, @tomkrazit, @ourielohayon, @obrien, @obrien and @parislemon
Earlier Picks
| Matthew Lynley / BuzzFeed: |
| Jake Swearingen / The Atlantic Online: |
| Matthew Green / A Few Thoughts …: |
| Jeff Elder / Wall Street Journal: |