|
May 21, 2015, 8:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
iPad roadmap: dual-app viewing mode that may debut at WWDC, with multi-user login support and 12-inch “iPad Pro” models to follow — Future of iPad: Dual-app viewing mode, then J98/J99 ‘iPad Pros,’ multi-user support — Facing slowing growth for the first time since the iPad's 2010 debut …
More:
ZDNet, TIME, Apple Gazette, Engadget, Ubergizmo, The Verge, USA Today, AppleInsider, Macworld, Business Insider, iLounge, PhoneDog.com, TodaysiPhone.com, Redmond Pie, SlashGear, MacRumors, Neowin, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Pocket-lint, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, MacStories and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @viticci and @joannastern
Thanks:@mikebeas| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Google developing Internet of Things OS called Brillo, designed to run on devices with perhaps as little as 32MB RAM — Google Developing ‘Brillo’ Software for Internet of Things — Google wants its software to power any electronic device that connects to the Internet, whether or not it has a digital screen.
More:
Ars Technica, Fortune, ReadWrite, Engadget, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Seeking Alpha, ZDNet, Tech Times, Droid Life, Phandroid, Ubergizmo, The Geek Byte, The Verge, Technology Personalized, TechnoBuffalo, The Next Web, Pocketnow, SlashGear, Pocket-lint, PCWorld, MobileSyrup.com, Android Central and AndroidGuys. Tweets: @amir
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
Apple readies Transit subway, train + bus guides for iOS 9 Maps, deploys robots for indoor mapping — Having originally planned to add a new transit directions feature to Maps last year, only to pull the feature before WWDC 2014, Apple now hopes to launch its Transit service with iOS 9, according to sources.
More:
Digital Trends, ReadWrite, Daily Mail, MacRumors, Computerworld, BGR, PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Ubergizmo, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, TodaysiPhone.com, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Pocket-lint, Forbes, Macworld, Search Engine Land, iLounge, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, The Mac Observer, Neowin, TIME, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Register, iMore, Phones Review and The Geek Byte. Tweets: @9to5mac
| CBC News: |
US, Canada, UK, Australia, and New Zealand planned to hijack Google and Samsung app stores to implant spyware on smartphones — Spy agencies target mobile phones, app stores to implant spyware — Users of millions of smartphones put at risk by certain mobile browser gaps, Snowden file shows
More:
The Intercept, The Citizen Lab, Ars Technica, Ubergizmo, Slate, ExtremeTech, The Verge, Techdirt, Tech News Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Engadget, PandoDaily, Ars Technica UK, ZDNet, Android Central, theWHIR.com, Digital Trends, PhoneDog.com, Neowin, HotHardware.com News, Gizmodo, Tech Times, ITworld.com, PhoneArena, MobileSyrup.com, Phandroid, SecurityWeek, International Business Times, 9to5Google, TechSpot, Mashable and SC Magazine. Tweets: @csoghoian
| Charlie Warzel / BuzzFeed: |
Medium refines strategy, emphasizing network value over Total Time Read, considers tying contributor bonuses to metrics like follows and recommendations — What's Going On At Medium? — The publisher/publishing platform is rejiggering itself as a social network for readers and writers … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Ev Williams' Obvious Ventures closes $123,456,789 fund — Obvious Ventures, the venture capital firm cofounded by Twitter's Evan Williams, announced the close of its very first fund today. — Guess how much it raised? $123,456,789. No joke. — The close of this fund follows … | Sarah Frier / Bloomberg Business: |
Twitter lacks size and ad tracking technology necessary to reverse sales slowdown, which was in part due to a lack of demand for its results-focused pricing — Twitter Hand-Holding for Clients No Defense for Growth Slowdown — Twitter Inc.'s ad team will do just about anything to win …
Tweets: @tsgiles, @sarahfrier and @satariano
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android will display biographical info of non-friends sending messages, like job title and location, in US, UK, France, and India — Facebook Messenger Eyes Non-Friend Conversations With Chat ID — Is that a message from some rando, a spammer, or the nice guy you met yesterday?
More:
Android Police, Ubergizmo, Mashable, The Next Web, WebProNews, Technology Personalized and SocialTimes
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
| Marco Arment / Marco.org: |
Apple's new MacBook, with its shallow keyboard and Force Touch trackpad, makes major usability compromises for thinness — Mistake One — MacBook “One”, 15-inch Retina MacBook Pro, and Hops for scale. — I've had mixed luck with impulse buys. — As a kid, I impulse-bought Marble Madness for my Sega Genesis.| Geoff White / Channel 4 News: |
Dating site Adult FriendFinder hacked, personal information of 3.9M users leaked, including sexual preferences, emails, usernames, IP addresses — Adult dating site hack exposes millions of users — Hackers have struck one of the world's largest internet dating websites …
More:
BBC, Guardian, USA Today and Mirror.co.uk
| Joseph Bernstein / BuzzFeed: |
Google Adding Fingerprint Authentication To Next Version of Android — Scheduled to be announced next week, Android M will will include one-touch log-in for supported apps. — Google's new mobile operating system, Android M, will include native fingerprint authentication, BuzzFeed News has learned.| Eugene Kim / Business Insider: |
Dropbox isn't growing its enterprise business fast enough to be worth $10B — The clock is ticking for Dropbox, valued at $10 billion more than a year ago — Dropbox's rise has been impressive: Since its launch in 2007, it has added 300 million new users across 200 countries.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Microsoft overhauls Outlook.com with new interface, “Clutter” email filtering, add-ins, improved Skype integration, more; rolls out to test group today — Microsoft is overhauling Outlook.com with a new look and features — Microsoft is migrating its Outlook.com email service …
More:
Office Blogs, VentureBeat, WinBeta, SuperSite for Windows, GeekWire, BetaNews, CNET, Ubergizmo, Digital Trends and The Next Web
| Josh Beckerman / Wall Street Journal: |
HP misses Q2 revenue targets with $25.5B, down 7% YoY, but hits earnings targets — H-P's Earnings Top Views Despite Revenue Drop — Tech company names financial chiefs for its separate businesses after the split — Hewlett-Packard Co. reported a 7% drop in revenue for the April quarter … | Joseph Menn / Reuters: |
US proposes tighter export controls limiting sales of zero-day flaw information outside US without special license — U.S. aims to limit exports of undisclosed software flaws — The U.S. Commerce Department proposed new export controls Wednesday that would treat unknown software flaws …
More:
Federal Register, PandoDaily, ZDNet, ExportLawBlog, CIO.com, Threatpost and The Register
Tweets: @cbekrar, @virusbtn, @randcorporation and @csoghoian
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Sling TV Expands To Android TV, Strikes Deal With Google To Offer Discounted Nexus Players — Sling TV, Dish Network's Internet TV service designed for cord cutters, is now available on the Android TV platform, the company is announcing this morning, including Google's Nexus Player.| Russell Brandom / The Verge: |
Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive FIDO certification for products and services designed to replace passwords — Google, Samsung, and 16 others receive post-password certification — This morning, the plot to kill the password got a little stronger. 18 different companies received …
More:
FIDO Alliance
| Bloomberg Business: |
Shopify shares close up 51% on NYSE at $25.68 on trading debut, after raising $131M in IPO — Shopify Surges in Debut After Larger Than Expected IPO … Shopify Inc. jumped in its trading debut, after the company raised a larger than expected $131 million in its initial public offering.| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google launches YouTube shopping ads that let advertisers overlay purchase information for products featured in video ads — Google Wants YouTube Viewers to Shop While They Watch — YouTube is the monster of online video, but has yet to generate big profits for Google .
More:
Inside AdWords, Re/code, Re/code, ABC News, Adweek, Marketing Land, Search Engine Land, The Next Web and VentureBeat. Tweets: @amir
| Pew Internet: |
Pew Report: 69% of US adults are not confident social networks will keep their data private and secure — Americans' Attitudes About Privacy, Security and Surveillance — The cascade of reports following the June 2013 government surveillance revelations by NSA contractor Edward Snowden …
More:
Marketing Land, tech.co, Washington Post, PandoDaily, Los Angeles Times, bizjournals, Guardian, E-Commerce Times, Mercury News, SiliconBeat, Nextgov and The State of Security
Tweets: @pewinternet and @pewresearch
| Alistair Barr / Wall Street Journal: |
Google gives retailers reports on store visits that follow clicks on mobile ads to encourage ad spending; select retailers including Target get purchase data — Google Says New Store Data Help Mobile Ads — Google says its technology shows better link between mobile ads, retail purchases
More:
Social Media Today
| Madeline Stone / Business Insider: |
Brit Morin, the Martha Stewart of Silicon Valley, just raised $23 million for her DIY site — Brit Media, best known for its lifestyle site Brit + Co., has raised $23 million, according to a form filed Thursday with the SEC. — A spokesperson for founder and CEO Brit Morin confirmed the round with Business Insider.
More:
VentureBeat and Fortune
Sponsor Posts
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
F5:
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Zoho:
10 essential project management reports every team should use — Let's be honest about how projects usually go sideways. A task gets blocked and nobody notices. A dependency changes and nobody updates the plan.
10 essential project management reports every team should use — Let's be honest about how projects usually go sideways. A task gets blocked and nobody notices. A dependency changes and nobody updates the plan.
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
Great Chat:
After you ring the bell
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
AI Fact or Fiction: The Fable Ban, Tokenmaxxing, Saaspocolypse — With Ara Kharazian
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.
Hard Fork:
'Hard Fork' Live Part 2: Dylan Field on Standing Out in the A.I. Era
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
A Hollywood Manager Explains the New Rules of Show Biz
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.
Training Data:
Simulating Humans at Scale: Simile's Joon Sung Park
Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies and their implications.
Subscribe to Training Data.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
AI's Mythos Moment: Rishi Sunak on preparing governments for AI
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:05 PM ET, May 21, 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
Ellise Shafer / Variety:Thomas Escritt / Bloomberg:
The Colorado Sun:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Alexander Martin / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
SiliconBeat
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
| Samuel Gibbs / Guardian: |
More:
ITProPortal, Gawker, The Mary Sue, Wired.co.uk, Raw Story, International Business Times, Softpedia News, Telegraph, SFist, BuzzFeed, Fortune, Business Insider, Gizmodo and The Verge. Tweets: @caitlin_roper
| Josh Lowensohn / The Verge: |
More:
TechCrunch, The Geek Byte, Macworld, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Re/code. Tweets: @hunterwalk
Earlier Picks
| Chris O'Brien / VentureBeat: |
More:
iMore, The Verge, Business Wire, GeekWire, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Engadget and CNET
| Elizabeth Weise / USA Today: |
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
More:
The Daily Dot and Poynter. Tweets: @edzitron, @chillmage, @fmanjoo, @jyarow, @jbrodkin, @caseynewton, @jordankahn, @miriamgottfried, @joannastern, @jtemple, @hunterwalk, @tayhatmaker, @llsethj, @hunterwalk, @apollozac, @mikeisaac, @benpopper, @mikeisaac and @davemcclure. See also Mediagazer