Techmeme
November 17, 2014, 1:25 PM

Top News

Jane L. Levere / New York Times:
Airbnb launches Pineapple, a quarterly print magazine focused on travel; $12 at select stores  —  Airbnb Introducing Print Magazine, Pineapple  —  Following in the footsteps of other digital brands like CNET and WebMD, Airbnb is getting into the print magazine business.
Catherine Shu / TechCrunch:
Apple Adds UnionPay, China's Largest Bankcard Network, To App Store Payment Options  —  App Store customers in China can now link their UnionPay debit or credit cards to their Apple IDs for purchases, Apple announced today.  —  This is significant for Apple and Chinese consumers because China UnionPay …
Connie Loizos / StrictlyVC:
Nest's hierarchical, meeting-centric culture is said to clash with Dropcam's  —  Unrest at Nest  —  Sitting on stage last week at a San Francisco conference, Greg Duffy, the 28-year-old co-founder and CEO of Dropcam, which makes Internet-connected video cameras, fielded questions from an audience of startup founders.
Tweets: @km, @stevesi and @jyarow
Juro Osawa / Wall Street Journal:
Alibaba co-founder and vice-chairman Joe Tsai talks Apple, M&A and the company's U.S. plans  —  Q&A: Alibaba Senior Executive On Apple, M&A and U.S. Plans  —  After going public in September in a $25 billion initial public offering, Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is gearing up for the next stage of its growth.
Michael J. Casey / Wall Street Journal:
Khosla Ventures, Reid Hoffman, others invest $21M in Blockstream to enable new distributed applications built on bitcoin's blockchain technology  —  Linked-In, Sun Microsystems Founders Lead Big Bet On Bitcoin Innovation  —  Billionaire entrepreneurs who helped lead LinkedIn Corp. …
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
FCC will propose raising annual cap on spending for school Internet needs by $1.5B to $3.9B  —  F.C.C. Chief Aims to Bolster Internet for Schools  —  WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler …
Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:
A new program at San Quentin State Prison is teaching 18 inmates HTML, CSS, and JavaScript  —  How 18 inmates at California's notorious San Quentin prison learn to code  —  SAN QUENTIN, CA—It sounds almost like a parody of Silicon Valley: two wealthy San Francisco Bay Area tech veterans …
More: TechCrunch
Lucian Armasu / Tom's Hardware Guide:
Sony announces IMX230 sensor for 2015, will allow HDR 4k recording, 192-point phase detection auto-focus  —  Sony's IMX230 Sensor To Bring HDR 4k Recording, 192-Point Phase Detection AF  —  Sony announced its next-generation 21 MP smartphone camera sensor that delivers higher image quality …

Sponsor Posts

Command Line:
What will the next generation of developers do when AI writes the code?  —  Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon are betting that the junior devs we train today will be the senior engineers of tomorrow.
Will Reed:
The best sales leaders aren't job hunting.  Here's how to reach them without months of cold outreach.  —  Our team came from Box, Square, and Brex, so we already know the GTM leaders worth meeting.
Zoho:
UK tax compliance with Zoho Books  —  The evolving tax landscape in the UK has added an additional responsibility to business owners, accountants, and bookkeepers to ensure their choice of accounting software supports compliance …
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.

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
Anthropic IPO Panic, A Spy At OpenAI?, The Great Food Slop Debate
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.
Great Chat:
What happened to tech's backbone?
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
The $7B Startup Mapping Your Health In Just One Hour | Neko's Hjalmar Nilsonne
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:
The company building underwater drones for $50,000
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
BG2 Pod:
Jensen Huang | Does AI Revenue Justify Capex, '27 AI Bottlenecks, Singularity, Open vs Closed & more
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to Run a Political Campaign in the TikTok Era (And How Not To)
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.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:25 PM ET, November 17, 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.

More News

Earlier Picks

Jason Abbruzzese / Mashable: