|
June 14, 2016, 8:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post: |
Sources: Russian government hackers had access to computer network of the Democratic National Committee for about a year, stole opposition research on Trump — Russian government hackers penetrated the computer network of the Democratic National Committee and gained access to the entire database …
More:
CrowdStrike, The Register, Computerworld, Tech Insider, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Softpedia News, Wired, Ars Technica, eWeek, The Merkle, SlashGear, TechCrunch, CNET, BGR, Guardian, NPR, Breitbart, New York Times, Engadget, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, Slashdot, Fortune, Silicon Valley Business …, CNBC, WebProNews, SecurityWeek, Recode and Schneier on Security
Tweets: @patrickruffini, @philiprucker, @jason_koebler and @csoghoian
| Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica: |
Net neutrality and Title II win in court, as ISPs lose case against FCC — Appeals court decision upholds FCC's net neutrality order. — The broadband industry has lost its lawsuit attempting to overturn the Federal Communications Commission's net neutrality rules and the related reclassification …
More:
Politico, New York Times, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, Techdirt, Associated Press, DSLreports, The Huffington Post, Digital Trends, New York Magazine, Mattermark, VentureBeat, WebProNews, GeekWire, internetretailer.com, ZDNet, Recode, Engadget, Pocketnow, InfoWorld, The Hill, The Atlantic, Los Angeles Times, The Verge and CircleID
Tweets: @tomwheelerfcc, @fcc, @sensanders, @fcc and @superwuster
See also Mediagazer| Ben Popper / The Verge: |
Rhapsody rebrands itself as Napster, the service it acquired in 2011 — Rhapsody is part of the old guard of music streaming services, launched way back in 2001 as Listen.com. It never got the traction of it's rival Spotify, and is now competing against titans like Apple and Google as well.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook adds SMS support back to Facebook Messenger for Android after pulling it in 2012; SMS support is not currently planned for Messenger on iOS — Surround and conquer is Facebook's new strategy for getting people to switch from SMS to Messenger. You can now read and send old-school text messages …
More:
Messenger, Android Police, Android Authority, BetaNews, 9to5Google, TechSpot, The Daily Dot, The Verge, Ubergizmo, Mashable, PhoneDog.com, PCWorld, SocialTimes and The Next Web. Tweets: @peterpham
| CNET: |
OnePlus 3 review: excellent performance, 6GB of RAM, sharp 16MP camera, clean interface design, and fast battery charging; at $400, this is a great phone — With a new aluminum unibody design, the OnePlus 3 looks better than all of OnePlus' past devices (which either had a plastic or glass backing).| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
Twitter Ventures invests in SoundCloud; sources say investment is $70M in a round valuing SoundCloud at about $700M — Twitter wanted to buy the company a couple years ago; now it has invested $70 million instead. — Two years ago Twitter thought about buying SoundCloud, but ended up walking away from the music service.
More:
Fortune, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Business Insider, CNET, USA Today, Reuters, New York Times and Digital Music News
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @jasonlk and @shiraovide
See also Mediagazer| Biz Carson / Business Insider: |
One Kings Lane, once valued at $900M+, acquired by Bed Bath & Beyond in all-cash deal, at a price “not material” to BB&B Inc. — Bed Bath & Beyond has bought One Kings Lane, a home-goods website that, at its peak, was valued at more than $900 million.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Uber has hired Morgan Stanley, Barclays PLC to sell a leveraged loan of $1B-$2B to institutional investors — Loan would bring to some $15 billion the funds the cash-hungry ride-sharing firm has raised — Uber Technologies Inc. is turning to the so-called leveraged-loan market …
More:
TechCrunch, Recode, The Verge, New York Times, Fortune and Business Insider
Tweets: @miriamgottfried, @benbajarin and @danprimack
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook now offers a Store Locator ad unit and tracks in-store visits and purchases through GPS, Wi-Fi, and a partnership with Square, with no user opt out — Facebook has found the Holy Grail of advertising in a set of new partnerships with point-of-sale systems like Square and Marketo …
More:
Facebook, VatorNews, Recode, SocialTimes, Investor's Business Daily, Marketing Land, internetretailer.com, WebProNews and USA Today
Tweets: @recode, @chris_ciaccia and @juliancole
| Andrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: |
LinkedIn's struggling stock price and its reliance on stock-based compensation may be a factor in its sale to Microsoft — “Let me explain why.” — Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn's chief executive, wrote a lengthy memorandum to his employees Monday morning, ticking off a list of reasons behind …
More:
Recode, ZDNet, WinBeta, Gigaom, The Information, LinkedIn Pulse, eWeek, Business Insider, Microsoft, Microsoft, Recode, LinkedIn Pulse and ZDNet
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @alex and @karaswisher
See also Mediagazer| William Alden / BuzzFeed: |
Zenefits is laying off 106 more employees, and will pay others to quit, following February's layoff of about 250 staff — The human resources startup Zenefits will shutter its remote sales office in Arizona, restructure its operational division, and offer to pay employees to quit … | Jordan Novet / VentureBeat: |
Google unveils Springboard, a search and recommendation tool for Google Apps, and redesigns Sites — At its Atmosphere enterprise-focused event in Tokyo today, Google is showing off a redesign of its Google Sites service for creating and posting sites you share with colleagues … Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale models.
Bringing local models and sandboxed tools to Windows and GitHub Copilot — GitHub Copilot will soon determine when a task is best handled by on-device AI and when it needs cloud-scale 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
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.
Big Technology Podcast:
Can AI Keep Growing Exponentially? Let's Ask SemiAnalysis — With Dylan Patel and Jordan Nanos
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:
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 8:05 PM ET, June 14, 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
CNN:Fiona Riley / Forbes:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
More:
Ubergizmo, Telegraph, Mashable, MobileSyrup.com, GeekWire, Engadget and The Next Web
Earlier Picks
| Anil Dash / Medium: |
More:
tech.co and ResearchBuzz. Tweets: @jason_pontin, @drsekula, @dangillmor, @dannysullivan, @backlon, @digiphile, @manuelaristaran, @ginatrapani and @tangentialism
| Andy Greenberg / Wired: |
More:
Business Insider, The Register, Marketing Land, Mashable, Engadget, TIME, ABC News, Naked Security, iPhone in Canada Blog, Tech Times, Techvibes Global News, WebProNews, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Computerworld, SiliconANGLE, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check and Business Wire
Tweets: @ron_miller, @benbajarin, @andrewyng, @reneritchie, @marypcbuk, @jzdziarski, @jzdziarski and @jzdziarski
| Jamieson Cox / The Verge: |
More:
PlayStation.Blog, Technabob, Forbes, Tech Times, InvestorPlace, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, Engadget, The Next Web, TechCrunch, CNET, Gizmodo, Gotta Be Mobile and Forbes