|
December 10, 2015, 10:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bloomberg Business: |
Atlassian closes at $27.78 per share, up 32% from its IPO price, valuing the company at $5.8B — Atlassian Gains in Stock Debut, Sets High Bar for Tech IPOs — Shares gain 32% from $21 IPO price in first day of trading — Company makes collaborative technology used by Twitter, NASA| Tomer Shekel / Google Chrome Blog: |
Chromecast Audio update adds multi-room support, high-resolution audio — Even more to love about Chromecast Audio — A couple of months ago we launched Chromecast Audio to provide an easy way to stream your favorite tunes from your phone, tablet, or laptop to your existing speakers.
More:
CNET, The Verge, GeekWire, Fone Arena, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Ubergizmo, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, Phandroid, Pocketnow, Variety, AndroidGuys, BetaNews, Tech Times, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, Android Police, VentureBeat, 9to5Google, Engadget, Droid Life, WebProNews, SlashGear and Android Central
| Cade Metz / Wired: |
Facebook Open Sources Its AI Hardware as It Races Google — In Silicon Valley, the new currency is artificial intelligence. — Over the last few years, a technology called deep learning has proven so adept at identifying images, recognizing spoken words, and translating from one language to another …
More:
Facebook Code, NVIDIA Newsroom, ZDNet, Computerworld, VentureBeat, Bloomberg Business, The Register, EE Times, Light Reading, eWeek, PCMag India feed, The Official NVIDIA Blog, The Next Web, Engadget, Seeking Alpha, TechSpot, Forbes, Business Insider, Fortune, MIT Technology Review, Popular Science, Re/code and Slashdot
Tweets: @codinghorror, @benhamner and @michaelalim
| David Ruddock / Android Police: |
Google Wallet Will Now Let You Send Money To Anyone With A Phone Number Via SMS (US Only) — In an upcoming update to the Google Wallet app for Android, Google will let you send money to anyone in your contacts list with a valid phone number. The new feature was announced on Google's Commerce Blog … | Kevin Rawlinson / BBC: |
Kickstarter hires reporter to probe mini-drone Zano project that failed after raising $3.4M from 12K backers — Kickstarter hires journalist over Zano take-off failure — The crowdfunding site Kickstarter has hired a journalist to investigate the demise of a mini-drone project that failed, despite record funding.| Kyle Orland / Ars Technica: |
Steam tightens trading security amid 77,000 monthly account hijackings — Traded items will be “held” for days unless you have two-factor security. — Account theft is a common and longstanding problem for all kinds of online gaming services, as I can personally attest after losing … | Katherine Boehret / The Verge: |
Google Photos gains shared albums on iOS, Android, and web — Google Photos' new shared albums aren't designed for a social world — Google is tired of Apple getting all the glory when it comes to photo sharing. Today, the company introduced a feature in its Google Photos app that's designed … | Jordan Kahn / 9to5Google: |
Yahoo's new Video Guide app offers universal search across streaming services — Yahoo today released a new “Yahoo Video Guide” app for mobile devices that acts as one central location for users to find content from across a long list of competitive video services and networks.| Martyn Williams / PCWorld: |
DJI teams up with thermal imaging firm FLIR to create the Zenmuse XT, an infrared camera for use on drones — FLIR to develop infrared cameras for DJI drones — Drones could become much more useful for police, fire, farmers — Thermal imaging camera maker FLIR Systems has started working …
More:
The Verge, CreateDJI, Gizmodo, Fast Company and Re/code
| Samit Sarkar / Polygon: |
EA launching esports division, will be led by Peter Moore — Start practicing your no-scope headshots and your touchdown dances. Electronic Arts is pushing into esports with a new branch of the company: the EA Competitive Gaming Division, CEO Andrew Wilson announced today.
More:
Electronic Arts, CNET, The Verge, Engadget, IGN, Tech Times, Blue's News, GamesIndustry.biz and VG247
| Michael de Waal-Montgomery / VentureBeat: |
Facebook testing News Feed update on mobile that shows cached stories on slow connections, starts rolling out offline commenting — Facebook to show cached stories on poor connections, allow offline commenting — Facebook announced late Wednesday that it's testing tweaks to its news feed … | Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Adobe sees strong Q4 with $1.31B in revenue, 833K new Creative Cloud subscribers — Adobe now has 6.16 million paying Creative Cloud subscribers, the company said in its latest (Q4 2015) earnings report, exceeding the roughly 6 million subscriber goal it set for the year. — This is a bit surprising.
More:
Business Wire, Market Realist and ZDNet
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter Widens Its Advertising Net, Tests Promoted Tweets With Logged-Out Users — It's been over a year since Twitter first said it planned to monetize logged-out users — that is, make money off the 500 million or so people who dip in and read Tweets without being signed in or even registered.
More:
New York Times, CNET, The Twitter Blog, Re/code, InvestorPlace, Social Media Today, CNBC, Gigaom, AdExchanger, VatorNews, Mashable, Marketing Land, Seeking Alpha, Tech Times, Reuters, Engadget, Business Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat and Wall Street Journal. Tweets: @adambain. See also Mediagazer
| Gillian Wong / Wall Street Journal: |
Baidu tests two prototype self-driving cars in Beijing, plans autonomous vehicles for use as public shuttles — Baidu Joins Race to Build Autonomous Cars — Chinese Internet search engine provider pledges to field urban shuttles within three years — BEIJING—Chinese Internet search giant Baidu Inc …
More:
Marketwire, Digital Trends, Wired, TechnoBuffalo, The Verge, InvestorPlace, BBC and Telegraph
| Deborah Gage / Wall Street Journal: |
Cloud integration firm SnapLogic raises $37.5M from Microsoft, Silver Lake Waterman, and other investors — SnapLogic Survives Its Re-do and Raises $37.5 Million … Not all startups are allowed the luxury of redoing their products, and not all CEOs survive the process.
More:
WinBeta, bizjournals, PE Hub Blog, FinSMEs, SiliconANGLE, TechCrunch and silicontap.com
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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Zoho:
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
Do you need a Zoho Partner? Here's why working with one can benefit you. — Zoho offers over 60 applications, each one built for a unique use case. From sales and marketing to finance, HR, and customer support …
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
Hard Fork:
Open Model Wars + Claire Stapleton's Dishy Google Memoir + Substack's Slop Fight
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.
Great Chat:
Tech's short-term era
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.
Access:
Meet the most AI-pilled CEO on Earth
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Basis's Matt Harpe: Why AI Won't Replace Accountants — It'll Make Them Richer
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Lucas Shaw on Warner Bros' Limbo, Netflix's Anxiety, and Hollywood's Sort-of Comeback
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.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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 10:40 PM ET, December 10, 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
Lucia Moses / Business Insider:Matt Stout / The Boston Globe:
Nancy Scola / Washingtonian:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Marion Dakers / Telegraph: |
More:
Breitbart, The Verge, Tech Times, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica UK, Ars Technica and Engadget. Tweets: @eddotse
| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
More:
Yahoo, PC Magazine, SlashGear, MobileSyrup.com, Fone Arena, LJ INFOdocket and Digital Trends
| Ariel / appFigures: |
More:
MacNN, SiliconBeat, Ubergizmo, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, Fortune, TechCrunch, App Advice, Engadget, Forbes, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, The Loop, Macworld, Cult of Mac, Pocket-lint, Tech Times, ReadWrite, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear, Mashable, The Verge, USA Today, AppleInsider, USA Today, BGR, iDownloadBlog.com, iPhone Hacks and iMore. See also Mediagazer
Earlier Picks
| Sruthi Ramakrishnan / Reuters: |
More:
Android Police, Business Wire, Forbes, TechnoBuffalo, NPR, FierceWireless, ZDNet, eWeek, Bank Innovation, International Business Times, Computerworld, Fortune, InvestorPlace, 9to5Google, Bloomberg Business, Wired, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Daily Dot, Android and Me, TechSpot, Tech Times, Reuters, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, Business Insider, MacRumors, PhoneDog.com, VentureBeat, MacDailyNews, Re/code, 9to5Mac, Patently Apple, Wall Street Journal, BetaNews, iMore, AndroidGuys, MacNN, USA Today, New York Times, Digital Trends, 9to5Google, SlashGear, Gizmodo, Pocketnow, Neowin, The Verge, Fortune, TechCrunch, CNET, Mashable, Seeking Alpha and AppleInsider
Tweets: @usatodaymoney, @epro and @mdudas
| Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
| Betsy Cameron / Facebook: |