|
January 24, 2016, 10:40 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Re/code: |
Sources: Twitter media head Katie Jacobs Stanton and product head Kevin Weil leaving, company to announce the hire of a prominent CMO on Monday — Big Exec Departures at Twitter: Media Head Stanton and Product Head Weil Leaving — In a major executive upheaval, two of Twitter's top executives …
More:
New York Times, Digital Trends, USA Today, Reuters, ITworld.com, SiliconBeat, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, PE Hub Blog, Business Insider, The Huffington Post, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Hollywood Reporter, PC Magazine, Fortune, Variety and Engadget
Tweets: @sacca, @digiphile, @mikeisaac, @mathewi, @sacca, @hunterwalk, @verge and @caseynewton
See also Mediagazer| Re/code: |
Sources: Twitter engineering head Alex Roetter is leaving; other possible departures include Vine head Jason Toff, business development head Jana Messerschmidt — Also Out at Twitter: Engineering Head Roetter (and More to Come) — In what is shaping up to be a big executive upheaval tomorrow …
More:
Re/code, GeekWire, TechCrunch, BuzzFeed, Forbes and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @heyheyesj, @jasontoff, @jasontoff, @mdudas, @mikeisaac, @schwa and @hunterwalk
| Brad Heath / USA Today: |
FBI acknowledges it ran a website distributing more than 23,000 child porn images for 13 days in 2015 as part of a sting operation — FBI ran website sharing thousands of child porn images — WASHINGTON — For nearly two weeks last year, the FBI operated what it described …
More:
SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Washington Post, WebCulture, The Inquisitr News, RT, Telegraph, BetaNews, Talking Points Memo and SC Magazine
Tweets: @bradheath, @marshallproj, @snowden, @whatthebit, @csoghoian and @csoghoian
| Joseph Cox / Motherboard: |
Child Porn Sting Goes Global: FBI Hacked Computers in Denmark, Greece, Chile — In early 2015, the FBI carried out an unprecedented hacking campaign, deploying malware on at least one thousand computers that had been used to visit a certain child pornography site.| Richard Trenholm / CNET: |
Samsung to open VR movie studio in New York: ‘We love stories’ — The company behind the Gear VR virtual-reality headset partners with the Sundance film festival to foster new immersive experiences.
More:
SlashGear, Digital Trends, Ubergizmo, PC Magazine, Engadget, SamMobile and Tech Times
| Chris Messina: |
How chat apps could usher in a new wave of services that are easier to deploy and access — 2016 will be the year of conversational commerce — As — I've surveyed the landscape collecting startups and apps that fit into this paradigm, talked with the press, observed how marketers … | AnandTech: |
iPad Pro Review: great display, A9X chip has no real competition in the ARM SoC space, Apple Pencil is the best tablet stylus but Smart Keyboard is a letdown — The Apple iPad Pro Review — At this point it probably isn't a secret that tablet sales have leveled off, and in some cases they have declined.
More:
Cult of Mac, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, International Business Times, 9to5Mac and MacDailyNews. Thanks:@iancutress
| Matthew Braga / Motherboard: |
The story behind f.lux, an app that adjusts the color of computer displays to emit less blue light at night — The Story Behind f.lux, the Night Owl's Color-Shifting Sleep App of Choice — In 2005, Lorna Herf left her job at Google and took up painting.| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
How CityBridge is approaching security for the new LinkNYC WiFi hubs — How secure are New York City's new Wi-Fi hubs? — The first of New York City's public Wi-Fi hubs went live yesterday, offering free gigabit-fed Wi-Fi to anyone within 150 feet of the stations on Third Avenue.
Tweets: @josephschmitt
| Daisuke Wakabayashi / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Apple veteran overseeing Project Titan electric-car initiative, Steve Zadesky, leaving company — Apple Veteran Overseeing Electric-Car Project Leaving Company — Steve Zadesky said to be leaving for personal reasons — The Apple Inc. veteran tasked with spearheading … | Walt Mossberg / Re/code: |
Smartwatches need more smart, phone-independent functions: fitness tracking and easy notification access aren't enough — Mossberg: Smartwatches Need to Get Smarter — Welcome to Mossberg, a weekly commentary and reviews column on The Verge and Re/code by veteran tech journalist Walt Mossberg …
More:
DISPLAYBLOG, Tech Times, The Verge, Mashable, iMore, Forbes, MacNN, Redmond Pie, Ubergizmo, Fone Arena, MacRumors and iDownloadBlog.com
Tweets: @dsilverman and @joshdickson40
| William D. Cohan / Fortune: |
Floundering tech stocks raise questions about the IPO process, cause problems for IPO-bound unicorns — Silicon Valley's $585 Billion Problem — VCs have pumped up the value of the “unicorn” startups. Now tech IPOs are in trouble. Good luck getting out.
Tweets: @mims, @ellenhuet and @katiefehren
| Alex Wilhelm / Mattermark: |
Tweets: @om
| Nitish Kulkarni / TechCrunch: |
Google and RailTel launch free WiFi at Mumbai Central railway station, plan to eventually offer access points at 400 Indian rail stations — Google's WiFi for Indian Train Stations Launches At Mumbai Central Railway Station Tomorrow — Google's long-anticipated Wi-Fi for railway stations … Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making — Our new model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform other models.
Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making — Our new model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform other models.
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.
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:
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
Zoho Books now supports CT600 & Final Accounts Filing as an add-on in the FREE plan — Managing end-of-year filing for limited companies in the UK is often expensive and multi-layered.
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
Big Technology Podcast:
Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don't Bully Your AI
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.
Sources:
Qualcomm's CEO on the coming AI phone supercycle
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.
The Upstarts Podcast:
Bringing Back Mammoths And Building Noah's Ark 2.0 | Colossal's Ben Lamm
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.
Great Chat:
The launch industrial complex
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Larry Ellison's Media Ambitions & Kevin Roose on AI's Biggest Gamble
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:
Google's AI Infrastructure Chief, Amin Vahdat, on the Physics & Economics of Frontier AI
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:40 PM ET, January 24, 2016.
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
New York Times:New York Times:
A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Eric Yoder / Washington Post: |
More:
Motherboard, Engadget, The White House, New York Times, Federal Times, Federal Computer Week and The National Law Review
Tweets: @usopm and @privacyforum
| Conor Dougherty / New York Times: |
More:
Gizmodo UK and Beyond Search. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @nytimesbusiness, @feardept, @shiraovide and @daiwaka. Thanks:@steverubel
| James Risley / GeekWire: |
More:
PCWorld, PC Magazine, Engadget, GeekWire, The Next Web, Android Police, TechnoBuffalo, SlashGear and Ubergizmo
| Paul Thurrott / Thurrott.com: |