|
August 29, 2016, 11:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Harrison Weber / VentureBeat: |
Fitbit unveils $100 ‘swim-proof’ Flex 2 and $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring — Meet Fitbit's next Fitbits. — The fitness-tracker company is unveiling two new devices today, the $150 Charge 2 with heart rate monitoring and a larger screen, and the smaller, “swim-proof” … | Patrick Howell O'Neill / The Daily Dot: |
While Hillary Clinton's stance on encryption is unclear, her campaign staffers are reportedly required to use “Snowden-approved” encrypted messaging app Signal — Hillary Clinton wants Edward Snowden in jail but that doesn't mean her campaign won't eagerly take the whistleblower's advice …
More:
Vanity Fair, Techdirt, Motherboard, Fortune, Security Affairs, Washington Times and Gizmodo
Tweets: @matthew_d_green, @fredericjacobs, @josephfcox, @kennwhite, @marcprecipice, @marasawr, @thegrugq, @patrickruffini, @csoghoian, @digiphile, @alignedleft, @csoghoian, @el33th4xor, @cybertaters, @josephmenn, @trevortimm, @blakehounshell, @ericgeller, @thegrugq, @micahflee, @csoghoian and @nickbilton
| Wall Street Journal: |
US federal court convicts Russian hacker Seleznev in theft and sale of credit cards resulting in $169M in losses; he could face up to 40 years in prison — Roman Seleznev could face between four to 40 years in prison — The son of a Russian lawmaker was convicted Thursday in federal court … | Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Square brings payment and capital offerings to TouchBistro and Vend customers — Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could've been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro. Square will now offer Vend and TouchBistro's restaurant …
More:
The Next Web, Fortune, VentureBeat and Recode
| Devindra Hardawar / Engadget: |
Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Yoga (OLED) review: incredible screen but expensive compared to LCD models, meager battery life during typical use, stylus is uncomfortable — The dream of large OLED screens has, for the past few years, seemed perpetually on the horizon.
More:
9to5Google, Laptop Mag, Digital Trends, Aperture Games, CNET and SlashGear
| Ken Yeung / VentureBeat: |
Boomerang for Gmail creators launch Respondable to help you write better emails using A.I. — The battle over how to make our lives more productive continues, especially on the email front. Baydin has spent the past six years helping people bring a degree of normalcy to their inbox through its Boomerang for Gmail plugin.
More:
Boomerang for Gmail, Business Insider, ZDNet, Engadget and Lifehacker
| Quentin Hardy / New York Times: |
Massive data centers in small towns mostly create low-wage, temporary jobs for the locals, high-tech workers at these facilities are usually outsiders — BOYDTON, Va. — A giant Microsoft facility just outside this very small town hides behind a quarter-mile berm and a guard house …
More:
Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Tweets: @nytimesbusiness, @tomiogeron and @puiwingtam. Thanks:@ravichandrans25
| Barb Darrow / Fortune: |
Nutanix is acquiring cloud storage startup PernixData and DevOps automation firm Calm.io — Nutanix, which combines server, storage, and virtualization into a single “converged” piece of data center gear, said it is in the process of buying PernixData and has completed an acquisition of Calm.io.
More:
PCWorld, Forbes, eWeek, Bloomberg, Reuters, SiliconANGLE, ZDNet, diginomica and Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check
| Quartz: |
Sources: Facebook letting go of entire Trending Topics editorial staff, consisting of 15-18 workers contracted through a third party — Facebook will no longer employ humans to write descriptions for items in its Trending section, which attracted controversy over allegations of political bias in May.
More:
Gizmodo, Newser, The Verge and BuzzFeed
Tweets: @albertwenger, @cherylshoe, @yoavgo, @glennf, @charlesarthur, @amyxzh, @dseetharaman, @digiphile, @mattdrange and @mdudas
Thanks:@davegershgorn. See also Mediagazer| Facebook Newsroom: |
More:
The Verge, Bloomberg, Vanity Fair, tech.co, TechSpot, SiliconANGLE, Reuters, Ubergizmo, ResearchBuzz, Mashable, Recode, CIO.com, Washington Post, BBC, Breitbart, Tech Times, Social Media Today, Digital Trends, New York Magazine, Fortune, CNNMoney, Wall Street Journal, WGN-TV, GeekWire, USA Today, iPhone in Canada Blog, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, ZDNet, SiliconBeat, SocialTimes, CNET, Forbes, Business Insider and POPSUGAR
Tweets: @marshallk and @dannysullivan
| Jeremy Hsu / Backchannel: |
Amazon's $970M bet on Twitch in 2014 gives Amazon an edge as Facebook, Google, and others jockey to own live video — In 2014 Amazon surprised many by buying Twitch. Today it has an edge as Facebook, Google and others jockey to own live video. — 2015, Twitch viewers watched … | Saritha Rai / Bloomberg: |
Source: Indian digital payments startup Paytm raising $300M at a $5B valuation led by Taiwan's MediaTek — Indian digital-payments and e-commerce startup Paytm is raising $300 million in a funding round led by Taiwan's MediaTek Inc. and other investors, more than doubling its valuation to $5 billion …
Tweets: @brianroemmele
| Lara O'Reilly / Business Insider: |
Snapchat's head of revenue operations says the company is planning to introduce behavioral ad targeting in Q3 2016 — Snapchat is planning to introduce behavioral targeting for advertisers, the company's director of revenue operations Clement Xue revealed in an eMarketer report published earlier this week.| Jordan Pearson / Motherboard: |
AlphaBay, the largest darknet market, begins supporting Monero, a cryptocurrency meant to be more anonymous than Bitcoin — Not even bitcoin is anonymous enough for some criminals on the dark net. — For years, the cryptocurrency has been the payment method of choice for people buying …
More:
Bitcoin Magazine, Wired, NEWSBTC and CCN
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Environmental impact of remote support: Reducing carbon footprints in IT — Information technology is essential for powering core business processes and facilitating communication.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
Magatte Wade, Unlocking Prosperity in Africa (#53)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 04/19 - All The News About Llama 3
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:05 AM ET, August 29, 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
Ruth La Ferla / New York Times:Todd Spangler / Variety:
Andrew Beaujon / Washingtonian:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Peter Kafka / Recode: |
More:
MacRumors, iMore, Om Malik, Pocketnow, Ubergizmo, Tech Times, TechnoBuffalo, Fortune, SlashGear, CNET, TechCrunch, BGR, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, 9to5Mac, Digital Trends, Cult of Mac, The Loop, Engadget, iPhone Hacks and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @pkafka