|
February 13, 2015, 1:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
Apple enables two-step authentication for iMessages and FaceTime — Additional login step brings extra layer of protection against hackers for Apple's messaging and video chat, but more can be can be done say experts — Apple is finally enabling two-step authentication to help protect users …
More:
Official Apple Support, MacRumors, Re/code, Engadget, Tech2, Medium, TechnoBuffalo, Ars Technica, CNET, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Lifehacker, SlashGear, Gizmodo, iPhone in Canada Blog, iDownloadBlog.com, Pocket-lint, The Next Web, App Advice, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, iMore, iLounge, The Verge, Apple World Today, Gigaom, MacDailyNews and AppleInsider
| Federico Viticci / MacStories: |
Apple Promoting “Great Games with No In-App Purchases” on App Store Front Page — Apple has started promoting games that don't have any In-App Purchases on the front page of the App Store. Currently featured in the UK App Store and likely expanding to the U.S. store later today as part …
More:
9to5Mac, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, Ubergizmo, iMore, Touch Arcade, The Next Web, TechnoBuffalo, BGR and New York Times. Tweets: @monkbent
| Chris Strohm / Bloomberg Business: |
Zuckerberg, Page, and Mayer decline invitations to attend Obama's cybersecurity summit at Stanford, a possible sign of ongoing tensions over NSA — Three of Tech's Top CEOs to Skip Obama Cybersecurity Summit — (Bloomberg) — The top executives of Google Inc., Yahoo! …
More:
National Journal, US News, ZDNet, The Hill, SiliconBeat and Business Insider. Tweets: @selenakyle. Thanks:@elizwasserman
| Jason Del Rey / Re/code: |
Pinterest Is Working on a Plan to Introduce a ‘Buy’ Button as Soon as This Year — Move over, Pinning. Here comes buying. — Pinterest, the digital scrapbooking service, is laying the groundwork for an e-commerce offering with a “Buy” button that could launch in as little as three to six months, according to multiple sources.
More:
Digital Trends, The Verge, Adweek, ReadWrite, Consumerist, Ubergizmo, SlashGear, Marketing Land, Business Insider, WebProNews, PandoDaily, Gigaom, SocialTimes, Ink, Bits, & Pixels, Engadget, Cult of Mac, Forbes and AppleInsider
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @digitalshields, @rrhoover and @eringriffith
| New York Times: |
Lyft in talks to raise about $250M valuing the company at $2B — Ride-Hailing Service Lyft Is Said to Be in Talks to Raise $250 Million — By Michael J. de la Merced and Mike Isaac — Lyft, the buzzy young ride-hailing service, is currently in talks to raise about $250 million in new financing …
More:
New York Post, CNET, VentureBeat, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Mashable, Seeking Alpha and The Verge
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Xiaomi's Mi.com marketplace to launch in US this year, will sell accessories like its headphones and fitness band, but not phones or tablets — China's Xiaomi to open shop in the US this year, but not for phones — Xiaomi is holding a press conference in San Francisco today as a way to tell …
More:
TechCrunch, Gigaom, Re/code, BetaNews, CNET, Tech in Asia, Ars Technica, ReadWrite, Forbes, internetretailer.com, PC World, Business Insider, Wall Street Journal, Liliputing, The Next Web, ABC News, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Mashable, Pocket-lint and SlashGear
Tweets: @neiltwitz, @tim and @geoffblaber
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Apple Brings Groups To TestFlight — Apple has introduced groups to TestFlight, the app beta testing tool it acquired with its purchase of Burstly last year. The TestFlight Groups feature allows developers to split their beta testers into easily-managed groups, to which they can send …
More:
9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TechnoBuffalo, MacRumors, App Advice, iMore and The Next Web
| John Cook / GeekWire: |
Candy Crush maker King buys Seattle gaming startup Z2 for up to $150M, creating first U.S. studio — Battle Nations meet Candy Crush. Z2, the Seattle mobile gaming company known for titles such as Battle Nations and Metalstorm, is being acquired for up to $150 million in cash by King Digital Entertainment.
More:
King, SiliconANGLE, VentureBeat, Brier Dudley's blog, VentureBeat and Re/code. Tweets: @triciad. Thanks:@taylor_soper
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
Phorm iPad mini case, which adds tactile keyboard buttons that rise out of screen as needed, available for pre-order at $99 — Phorm iPad mini case has physical ‘key guides’ that appear and disappear when you need them — A unique idea that isn't quite ready for prime time
More:
TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Re/code, Gigaom, SlashGear, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, BGR, MacRumors, Engadget, The Next Web and VentureBeat
| Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
Obama expected to announce executive order directing government and companies to share more cybersecurity threat information — Exclusive: Obama set to announce executive order on cybersecurity threat data — (Reuters) - President Barack Obama is expected to announce an executive order directing …
More:
GeekWire, Associated Press and bizjournals
| Matthew Zeitlin / BuzzFeed: |
Slack has over 500K daily active users after one year, quadrupling in last six months; hits $12M in annual recurring revenue — On Its First Birthday, Slack Declares Itself The “Fastest Growing Business App” Ever — And its daily users have doubled twice in six months. — kris krüg / Via flic.kr| Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Visa launches Mobile Location Confirmation to its banking partners, a service that tracks smartphones to help prevent credit card fraud for travelers — Visa hopes to track smartphone locations to prevent credit card fraud for travellers — Currently most of us have to inform our bank …
More:
Visa Corporate, Finsphere Blog, Gigaom and Tnooz
| Eric Johnson / Re/code: |
Zynga misses Q4 expectations with $182M in sales, but 60% of sales came from mobile in 2014, up from 27% in mid-2013 — Most of Zynga's Money Is Now Coming From Mobile — Words With Friends and FarmVille creator Zynga said today that its mobile reinvention is making progress …
More:
Yahoo! Finance, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and Fortune
| Karen Kaplan / Los Angeles Times: |
Researchers create $34 smartphone dongle that can detect HIV and syphilis within 15 minutes — ‘Dongle’ turns smartphone into mobile lab to diagnose HIV, syphilis — Engineers have taken an ordinary smartphone and made it a whole lot smarter. — They created a compact … 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.
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.
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:
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.
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.Featured Podcasts
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Meta's Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites
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:
Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI
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.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:05 AM ET, February 13, 2015.
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
Deadline:John Koblin / New York Times:
Wall Street Journal:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Arik Hesseldahl / Re/code: |
More:
New Relic, Inc., ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily, VentureBeat and Gigaom
| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
Blogging Windows, MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, Windows Central, Ars Technica, BGR, Gotta Be Mobile, The Register, Windows Central, Gigaom, PC World, The Next Web, WMPoweruser, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Ubergizmo and Pocketnow. Tweets: @msicc
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Quartz, Ubergizmo, AppleInsider, iClarified, GeekWire, Gigaom and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer
Earlier Picks
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
LinkedIn revamps its developer program to focus on partnerships, will limit its APIs on May 12, 2015
More:
LinkedIn Developer Network, ITworld.com, TechCrunch, The Next Web and Mashable
Tweets: @cdixon and @mikeisaac
| Nathan Ingraham / The Verge: |
More:
Dell, AnandTech, PC World, BetaNews, Android Authority, Android Police, Android Central, Gigaom, Liliputing, SlashGear, Business Insider, Engadget, Laptop Mag, Gizmodo and 9to5Google
Tweets: @stevesi and @tomwarren
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
| Mark Stockley / Naked Security: |
| Geoffrey A. Fowler / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Facebook, Facebook, PC World, Gigaom, The Next Web, TechCrunch, TIME, The Verge, Mashable, Tech Times, CNET, Socialnomics, Neowin, SocialTimes, Fox News, Silicon Republic, ZDNet, CBS San Francisco, Quartz, Inquirer, Business Insider, SlashGear, iDownloadBlog.com, Forbes, WebProNews, The Daily Dot, Laughing Squid, CNET, abc7news.com, BetaBoston, Fortune, BuzzFeed, Gigaom, Re/code, Wired, CraveOnline, PandoDaily, TechSpot, Gizmodo, Neatorama and Engadget