|
December 18, 2015, 4:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Andrew Pollack / Bloomberg Business: |
Apple and Samsung ink separate agreements with China's UnionPay to introduce their competing mobile payments systems in the country, expect early 2016 launch — Apple, Samsung Agree With UnionPay for China Payments From 2016 — Agreements in China subject to certification from regulators
More:
SAMSUNG NEWSROOM, Fortune, Apple, bizjournals, International Business Times, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, Reuters, VentureBeat, SiliconANGLE, Yonhap News Agency, Pocketnow, SlashGear, iMore, Ubergizmo, SamMobile, Financial Times, CNET, BBC, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, Engadget, ZDNet, AppleInsider, Re/code, New York Times, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Next Web and MacRumors
| CNN: |
FBI investigating breach at Juniper; US officials say attack likely to be state-sponsored; DHS assessing scope of compromised communications — First on CNN: Newly discovered hack has U.S. fearing foreign infiltration — Washington (CNN)A major breach at computer network company Juniper Networks …
More:
Juniper Networks
| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Juniper discovers three-year-old backdoor in its NetScreen enterprise firewalls that allows decrypting VPN traffic, admin access, says to patch immediately — Juniper Patches ScreenOS Backdoor — Juniper Networks today has released an emergency patch that removes what it's calling …
More:
Juniper Forums, CSO, Ars Technica, Data Center Knowledge, Re/code, eWeek, Adam Caudill, Techdirt, FierceCIO News, Forbes, BBC, PCMag Australia Feed, Security Affairs, The Hacker News, Network World, Petri IT Knowledgebase, Tech Times, Neowin, The Register, The Next Web, SecurityWeek, Help Net Security, PCWorld, bit-tech.net, Light Reading, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Engadget and iTnews
Tweets: @kentindell, @searchio, @pritunl, @vincib, @kaepora, @thegrugq, @binitamshah, @declanm, @ioerror, @thegrugq, @thegrugq and @jaimeblascob
| David Harris / Cargo Facts: |
Sources: Amazon building its own overnight US airfreight operation, negotiating with Boeing for twenty 767 widebody freighters — [EXCLUSIVE] Amazon building its own overnight airfreight operation, sources say — Amazon.com Inc. is creating a logistics operation that will include overnight air operations …
More:
The Seattle Times, Marketing Land, The Verge, Business Insider, Reuters, USA Today, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, bizjournals, Bidness ETC, InvestorPlace, Entrepreneur, Bloomberg Business, Business Insider, Newsy and Seeking Alpha. Tweets: @jimhirshfield. Thanks:@bankinnovation
| Nandita Bose / Reuters: |
Exclusive: Target in initial development of its own mobile wallet - sources — Target Corp is in early stages of developing its own mobile wallet, three people familiar with the matter said, signaling a potential threat to new entrants like Apple Pay a week after Wal-Mart Stores Inc announced its own plans.
More:
TechCrunch, ZDNet, Digital Trends, MacNN, MacRumors, The Verge, SlashGear, Engadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, App Advice, 9to5Mac, Consumerist, iPhone Hacks, PhoneDog.com, Fortune, iMore and NFC World+
Tweets: @imagethief, @squiffy, @benbajarin, @alexjamesfitz, @brianroemmele and @frank_spin
| Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Evernote is killing Skitch for Android, iOS, and Windows on January 22, but not Mac — Note-taking app company Evernote today delivered some sad news for users of the image annotation app Skitch. The iOS, Android, and Windows versions of Skitch will be going away on January 22.| Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet: |
Windows Phone 8.1 users won't get Windows 10 Mobile update until 2016 — Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 Mobile available to existing Windows Phone 8 and 8.1 users starting in early 2016, rather than this month, officials are now saying. — Even though Microsoft officials …
More:
Windows Blog, BetaNews, Windows Central, Brad Sams, GeekWire, Engadget, InfoWorld, Fone Arena, Microsoft News, International Business Times, Gizmodo, TechnoBuffalo, PCMag Australia Feed, The Verge, Tech Times, SlashGear, ITProPortal, Nokiapoweruser, FierceMobileIT News, MobileSyrup.com, PhoneDog.com, Pocketnow, WinBeta, Ars Technica, Neowin and WMPoweruser. Tweets: @psawers
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
Microsoft acquires Metanautix, an analytics startup that helps big companies navigate their data — Microsoft has acquired a young Palo Alto startup called Metanautix, a firm specializing in helping large enterprises filter through their hordes of in-house data. Terms of the deal haven't been disclosed| Michael Mimoso / Threatpost: |
Facebook and security researcher clash over disclosure best practices and compensation over Instagram bug and researcher's further systems probing — Facebook, Researcher Spar Over Instagram Vulnerabilities — A security researcher is in a bit of a scrum with Facebook over vulnerability disclosures …
More:
EXFiLTRATED, Facebook, The Hacker News, Forbes, Engadget, International Business Times, HackRead, Business Insider, Softpedia News, ZDNet and SecurityWeek
Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @shipilev, @ow, @sambowne, @fesja, @petecheslock and @mramsmeets
| Reuters: |
Facebook offers employees $10K to buy or rent a home within 10 miles of its Menlo Park headquarters — Facebook puts a price on suburban living for employees — Facebook Inc is offering employees at its Silicon Valley headquarters at least $10,000 to move closer to the office …
More:
SiliconBeat, The Next Web and Wall Street Journal
Tweets: @asaxena, @cmyang, @beechv35pilot and @fmanjoo
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
San Francisco-based Lily announces $15M in funding, delays its drone from February until summer 2016 — Drone Maker Lily Announces a Product Delay and New Funding — People who order innovative new drones from start-ups without track records have good reason to be nervous.| Jean-Baptiste Kempf / Yet another blog for JBKempf: |
VLC for Chrome OS, built using Android Runtime for Chrome, is now available to download — Announcing VLC for Chrome OS — VLC on ChromeOS — ChromeOS is one of the last Operating Systems where you could not run VLC and play all your media as you wished.
More:
PCWorld, SlashGear, Engadget, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Laptop Mag, 9to5Google, Liliputing, Android Central and The Next Web
| Garrett Reim / Los Angeles Business Journal: |
Ultrasound wireless charging startup uBeam, backed by a16z, Marissa Mayer, Founders Fund, others, closes $2.6M of $4.7M goal on crowdfunding platform OurCrowd — Maker of Wireless Charger Losing Investment Power? — Wireless energy startup uBeam Inc. of Santa Monica seems to be raising its financing in reverse order.
Tweets: @joshconstine and @joshconstine
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:
Microsoft retires EWS: What it means for Microsoft 365 to Zoho Mail migrations — Microsoft has officially announced the retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS) for Exchange Online.
Microsoft retires EWS: What it means for Microsoft 365 to Zoho Mail migrations — Microsoft has officially announced the retirement of Exchange Web Services (EWS) for Exchange Online.
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
Lenny's Podcast:
This CPO regrets that product management exists | Tom Verrilli (CPO of Whatnot)
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.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'What's in Louie's Wallet', With Louie Mantia
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Big Technology Podcast:
Leopold Blows Up, OpenAI Drastically Cuts Prices, Microsoft's Best Day
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:
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.
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 4:05 PM ET, December 18, 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
Rebecca Rubin / Variety:Terrence O'Brien / The Verge:
Justin Fox / Bloomberg:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jason Cipriani / Fortune: |
| Anthony Noto / bizjournals: |
More:
VentureBeat, Alex Iskold, bizjournals and Mattermark
| Julia Love / Reuters: |
More:
Street Fight, Eater and bizjournals
Earlier Picks
| Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac: |
More:
The Loop, Computerworld, TechEye, The Register, Adweek, Business Insider, Daring Fireball, AppleInsider and Insanely Great Mac. Tweets: @markgurman
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
More:
TechCrunch, AppleInsider, Tech Times, App Advice, CutCableToday, Engadget, Ubergizmo, MacNN, CNET, The Next Web, The Hill, The Hill, TmoNews, Phandroid, Ars Technica, Los Angeles Times, GeekWire, Bloomberg Business, AndroidHeadlines.com, BGR, MacRumors and ExtremeTech. Tweets: @counternotions. See also Mediagazer
| Matthew Lynley / TechCrunch: |
More:
Pinterest Blog, VentureBeat, Newsy, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, WebProNews, Racked, Digital Trends, Marketing Land, The Next Web, internetretailer.com, SocialTimes and Seventeen. Thanks:@jamiefavazza
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
Windows Blog, Windows Central, Inquirer, BetaNews, SiliconANGLE, PCMag Australia Feed, Digital Trends, Tech Times, The Netflix Tech Blog and The Next Web
Tweets: @gcaughey and @simevidas