Techmeme: This is Vudu Spark, Walmart's very own Chromecast competitor (Janko Roettgers/Gigaom)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

November 7, 2014, 10:55 PM

Top News

Financial Times:

Uber looking to raise another $1B, at a higher valuation than the $17B secured during June round — Uber looks to raise another $1bn — Uber is not done with fundraising this year. The San Francisco car-hailing service is in early talks with investors about raising at least $1bn in new capital …

More: Wall Street Journal, Re/code, GeekWire, Business Insider, Gigaom, VentureBeat and Mashable

Tweets: @mikeisaac and @fmanjoo

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Asus ZenWatch to go on sale in US on November 9th at Best Buy for $199 — Asus To Begin Selling Android Wear-Powered ZenWatch In The U.S. Nov. 9 — The Android Wear smartwatch collection is expanding, with a host of new devices hitting pre-holiday season after their initial debut this summer.

More: AndroidHeadlines.com, PC World, Wearables Arena, The Verge, Phandroid, DailyTech, TechnoBuffalo, Android Central, Electronista, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Canadianreviewer.com, PhoneDog, Pocket-lint, Android Police, Engadget and Droid Life

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Unfollow Your Most Annoying Facebook Friends And Pages With “News Feed Settings” — Face it. You've accepted friend requests from some weirdos and over-sharers. Luckily, today Facebook's launched a News Feed Settings tool that shows the friends and Pages taking up the most space in your Feed …

More: Facebook, The Next Web, The Verge, PandoDaily, Gigaom, BGR, Re/code, The Daily Dot, BuzzFeed, Wall Street Journal, ReadWrite, Tech Times, PC World, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, New York Times, Engadget, GeekWire and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @joshconstine, @drsherrypagoto and @joshconstine

Jason Del Rey / Re/code:

Uber hires Tom Fallows, who led Google's same-day delivery service Google Express — Uber Hires Google's Same-Day Delivery Boss — Tom Fallows, head of the Google Express same-day delivery service, is leaving for a job at Uber, multiple sources told Re/code. — Google confirmed Fallows's departure.

More: Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google and CNET

Jennifer Kaplan / Bloomberg:

United Airlines spending $120M to equip restaurant and gate seats with iPads by 2015 in its main terminal in NJ's Newark Liberty International Airport — United Woos Fliers to Newark With IPads: Globetrotter — For travelers awaiting some of the tardiest departures in the U.S. …

More: Ubergizmo, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, MacRumors, MacDailyNews, Electronista, iMore and TUAW

Andy Greenberg / Wired:

Operation Onymous busted several contraband markets, arrested 17, captured $1M in bitcoin, seized 414 “.onion” domains used by Tor — Authorities Begin Scorched-Earth Purge of the Internet Underground — When “Operation Onymous” first came to light yesterday …

Janko Roettgers / Gigaom:

This is Vudu Spark, Walmart's very own Chromecast competitor — Walmart is getting ready to sell its very own streaming stick, but the device is very much a one-trick pony. — Add Walmart to the list of companies that's trying to sell you a Chromecast-like HDMI streaming stick …

More: Phandroid, Mashable, Engadget, Gizmodo, The Verge, Tom's Guide, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends, Electronista, SlashGear, PC World, TechSpot and Liliputing. Thanks:@bizcarson. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

FiLIP 2, A Smartwatch For Kids, Arrives Today At AT&T For $100 — Will Santa stuff children's stockings with smartwatches this holiday season? That's the hope for Filip Technologies which is today launching its FiLIP 2 smartwatch for kids at AT&T stores and online at ATT.com for the discounted launch price of $99.99.

More: AndroidHeadlines.com. Tweets: @markgurman

Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat:

Microsoft offers prorated Office 365 refunds to paid subscribers after making mobile editing free — Following Microsoft's announcement yesterday that you can now create and edit documents using its mobile Office apps for free, there is some good news for Office 365 subscribers regretting their purchase.

More: Gigaom, PC World, BetaNews, Redmond, WinBeta and Apple Gazette

Rachel King / ZDNet:

AT&T buying Mexico wireless provider Iusacell for $2.5 billion — Summary: AT&T outlined ambitions on Friday of establishing “the first-ever North American Mobile Service area” for U.S. customers calling or visiting Mexico, and Mexican customers calling or visiting the United States.

More: about.att.com, Bloomberg, Engadget, Gigaom, PC World, GeekWire, The Verge, Reuters, GlobeNewswire, iMore, Re/code, Associated Press and BGR

Signe Brewster / Gigaom:

Report: Elon Musk eyeing partnership to launch 700 internet satellites — Sources told the Wall Street Journal that Musk is working with Google's former satellite executive to build a factory that could pump out small satellites. — SpaceX and Tesla founder Elon Musk's next venture …

More: Wall Street Journal, CNET, Ars Technica and The Verge. Tweets: @qthrul

Dan Levine / Reuters:

Lyft COO Travis VanderZanden was in talks with several board members to replace CEO Logan Green before leaving for Uber — Exclusive: Ex-Lyft COO, now at Uber, says was in talks to replace Lyft CEO — (Reuters) - The former chief operating officer of Lyft had been in discussions …

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 10:55 PM ET, November 7, 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.