|
February 20, 2019, 1:55 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple plans to let developers port their iPad apps to Mac using a new SDK that will be released as early as June at WWDC — - This year, it will be easier to turn iPad apps into Mac apps — App merger initiative comes as Apple plans its own Mac chips
More:
The Verge, Macworld, Gizmodo, Inquirer, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, Business Insider, Ars Technica, Engadget, Fortune, FierceWireless, VentureBeat, Apple Must, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, SlashGear, CNET, Thurrott, iPhone Hacks, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, Patently Apple, and Mashable
Tweets: @stephennellis, @markgurman, @daniel_rubino, @zacbowden, @martinsfp, and @steipete
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Microsoft says Russia-linked Fancy Bear targeted European research groups and think tanks that work on issues including election security and nuclear policy — SEATTLE — A group of hackers associated with Russian intelligence targeted civil society groups across Europe ahead of May elections there, Microsoft said on Tuesday.
More:
EU Policy Blog, Politico, The German Marshall Fund …, CNN, Threatpost, CNET, Financial Times, CyberScoop, Engadget, The Hill, The Register, Neowin, WinBuzzer, SecurityWeek, Forbes, ZDNet, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, Bloomberg, The Seattle Times, IT PRO, CNBC, Reuters, GeekWire, Axios, and Fortune
Tweets: @politicoeurope, @microsofteu, @olivia_gazis, @jsaryuszwolski, @donie, and @cnn
| Harvard Law Today: |
Mark Zuckerberg talks to Harvard professor Jonathan Zittrain about encryption, “information fiduciaries”, and more, as part of Zuckerberg's 2019 challenge — Should Facebook be considered an “information fiduciary” when it comes to the privacy of its clients?
More:
CNBC, The Verge, and CNET
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @facebook, @sfiegerman, @drewharwell, @bernstein, @kurtwagner8, @kurtwagner8, @rmac18, @rmac18, @caseynewton, and @sarahfrier
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
Xiaomi debuts Mi 9 with three rear cameras, 6.39" AMOLED display, Snapdragon 855, 6GB RAM, and 20W wireless charging, for ~$446 in China, shipping on Feb. 26 — Xiaomi has officially launched the Mi 9 at an event in China after months of teasers. The triple-camera flagship is powered …
More:
DxOMark, XDA Developers, South China Morning Post, Thurrott, Gizmodo, Android Central, Android Authority, 9to5Google, XDA Developers, Gizmochina, iMore, Engadget, Digital Trends, AndroidGuys, Android Central, Tom's Guide, Fossbytes, Android Authority, The Verge, and MSPoweruser. Tweets: @xiaomi
| K.G Orphanides / WIRED UK: |
Investigation: YouTube is monetizing sexualized videos of minors, many with comments from predators; Epic Games pauses all pre-roll ads following inquiry — Scores of YouTube videos with tens of millions of views are being inundated with comments by paedophiles, with adverts from major brands running alongside the disturbing content
More:
The Verge, Tubefilter, Adweek, Business Insider, KnowTechie, and Mashable
Tweets: @mat, @jtemperton, @jtemperton, @mattburgess1, @kgorphanides, @kgorphanides, @jtemperton, @jtemperton, @mrpassingham, @wireduk, @wireduk, @mattburgess1, and @wireduk
| eMarketer: |
eMarketer predicts that US digital ad spending will surpass traditional in 2019, growing 19% YoY to $129.34B, of which mobile will account for ~$87B — Amazon's ad business to grow more than 50%, taking bite out of duopoly — This year will mark a major milestone in the world of advertising.| Nick Bastone / Business Insider: |
Google says the built-in microphone in Nest Secure devices, which it had never disclosed earlier in the tech specs, was “never intended to be a secret” — - In early February, Google announced that Assistant would work with its home security and alarm system, Nest Secure.
More:
The Verge, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, CNET, Axios, USA Today, Washington Post, The Register, Telegraph, Mashable, Engadget, Inquirer, Mercury News, IT PRO, Security Boulevard, Forbes, MSPoweruser, BBC, Pocketables, TechSpot, Fortune, and Neowin
Tweets: @joshelman, @arrington, @matthewstoller, @zeynep, @wongmjane, @mattmcgee, @ckindel, and @karissabe
| Dani Deahl / The Verge: |
SoundCloud adds a self-distribution feature to its Premier tier, currently in beta, that lets artists publish and monetize their songs on other platforms — SoundCloud announced today that it is adding distribution to its self-monetization Premier program.| Chris Morris / Fortune: |
Industry sources: Google will reveal details about its Project Stream game streaming service during its keynote at the Game Developers Conference on March 19 — Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo might want to brace themselves. Googleis about to enter the lucrative video game sector with its Project Stream.
More:
The Verge, GamesIndustry.biz, Thurrott, Android Authority, 9to5Google, Engadget, Polygon, TalkAndroid.com, Variety, Neowin, Inquirer, TechRadar.com, Android Police, Droid Life, WinBuzzer, SYFY WIRE, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech, HotHardware, Tom's Guide, TechSpot, SlashGear, USA Today, Pocket Gamer.biz, Pocketnow, MSPoweruser, Android Central, and VentureBeat
| Rhett Jones / Gizmodo: |
Pinterest says it's stopped returning vaccine-related search results as most spread anti-vax disinformation, part of its broader approach against “false cures” — The anti-vaccination movement has become so widespread that the World Health Organization added it to its list of the top threats to global health in 2019.| Facebook: |
Facebook introduces new location controls for Android, letting users limit location data collection, and will prompt iOS and Android users to check settings — Android and iOS are by far the two most popular mobile operating systems, but their location settings work differently.
More:
BetaNews, The Verge, Thurrott, CNBC, Mashable, Axios, MSPoweruser, and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @shiraovide
| Dan Primack / Axios: |
Keith Rabois is leaving Khosla Ventures and joining Peter Thiel's Founders Fund to become its ninth partner — Venture capitalist Keith Rabois is leaving Khosla Ventures in order to join Founders Fund as a partner, Axios has learned. — Why it matters: Rabois is responsible …
Tweets: @mattrosoff
| Nicole Kobie / WIRED UK: |
Citymapper announces a £30-£40/month subscription service for London transport with access to its Ride car-sharing service, TfL trains, and Santander bikes — The company's transport as a service plan combines Transport for London services with other ways of getting around the city under one subscription
More:
Citymapper, TechCrunch, Engadget, 9to5Mac, and The Verge
| Natasha Korecki / Politico: |
Analysis of data from social platforms: Democratic 2020 candidates are being targeted by a coordinated campaign of misinformation focused on sensitive issues — A coordinated barrage of social media attacks suggests the involvement of foreign state actors.| Chloe Bryan / Mashable: |
A look at “Reply Guys”, a harmless but annoying Twitter phenomenon where one or two men reply to every tweet from a woman — On Twitter, a place where a lot of bad things happen, there's a mostly harmless but decidedly annoying phenomenon. A lot of people, mostly women …
Tweets: @sbarolo, @the_shitface, @amandamull, @edyong209, @taylorlorenz, @chloebryan, @raxkingisdead, @taylorlorenz, and @taylorlorenz
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
WinRAR, a file compression app with ~500M users, has fixed a 14-year-old flaw that made it possible for attackers to run code when targets open a malicious file — If you're one of the 500 million utility users, now would be a good time to patch. — WinRAR, a Windows file compression program …
More:
ZDNet, Check Point Research, and The Mac Observer
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Arm unveils two new products for cloud and edge applications, the Neoverse N1, which focuses on compute speed, and the Neoverse E1, focusing on throughput — For the longest time, Arm was basically synonymous with chip designs for smartphones and very low-end devices.
More:
AnandTech, ZDNet, The Register, Cloud Native Computing …, GeekWire, Phoronix, FierceTelecom, and CRN
| Wolfie Zhao / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Binance DEX, a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network, for public testing — Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has rolled out public testing for a decentralized trading platform built on its own blockchain network.
More:
Forbes, Ledger, TechCrunch, Crypto Daily, The Next Web, The Block, Bitsonline, CryptoGlobe, CoinSpeaker, and Ethereum World News
| Wall Street Journal: |
The DoD will investigate some of the complaints raised by Oracle in a lawsuit over the JEDI cloud computing contract, which is expected to be won by Amazon — A federal judge delayed a lawsuit over a massive Pentagon cloud-computing contract Amazon.com was favored to win while the government continues … | Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
Cisco Visual Networking Index: by 2022, 5G will power as much as 9% of mobile data connections in North America, versus 6.5% in Western Europe and 4% in Asia — U.S. policymakers keep wringing their hands over a competition with China to build the world's first mass-market 5G wireless network.| Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek: |
CrowdStrike: Russian state-sponsored hackers take less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally in a targeted organization's network after an initial breach — It takes Russian state-sponsored hackers less than 20 minutes to start moving laterally within a targeted organization's network …
More:
ZDNet, Crowdstrike, CrowdStrike, Bloomberg, CyberScoop, Forbes, NBC News, The Next Web, Business Wire, Help Net Security, Federal Computer Week, TechNode, and Threatpost
Tweets: @marquardta, @kennwhite, @crowdstrike, and @padresj
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Fabless semiconductor company Peraso, which is developing wireless networking chips based on WiGig, has raised $42M Series D, bringing total raised to $79.3M — Peraso Technologies, a Toronto-based fabless semiconductor company developing wireless networking chips based …
More:
Globe and Mail, FinSMEs, MobileSyrup, Wi-Fi NOW Events, FierceWireless, Peraso, and BetaKit
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
German insurance giant Allianz increases the size of its VC fund, Allianz X, from €430M when it launched in 2016, to €1B, making it one of the largest in Europe — Allianz X, the venture capital arm attached to German insurance giant Allianz, has increased the size of its fund to €1 billion …
More:
FinSMEs and PE Hub Blog
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ThousandEyes, which provides a network intelligence platform to monitor performance, raises $50M Series D led by GV — ThousandEyes, a San Francisco cloud analytics startup founded in 2010 by UCLA Internet Research Lab grad students Mohit Lad and Ricardo Oliveira, today announced …
More:
FinSMEs, ThousandEyes, Network Intelligence Blog, Crunchbase News, and PE Hub Blog
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26 — Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Shopify: Revolutionizing Commerce with Winter Edition '26 — Over 150+ new features transform how merchants build, design, and grow—with technology that amplifies creative vision.
Zoho:
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
Email fatigue is real: Here's how smart email tools help you regain control — Picture this: It's Monday morning. You walk into the office feeling energized and ready to take on the week.
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box 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 & Box 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:
OpenAI's 2026 Priority, Disney's AI Play, Datacenter Buildout Trouble
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:
Australia Kicks Kids Off Social Media + Is the A.I. Water Issue Fake? + Hard Fork Wrapped
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.
Access:
Why the next AI frontier is phone calls, with Beside CEO Maxime Germain
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Great Chat:
So what happens after AGI?
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:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
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.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Lachlan Cartwright Started in Tabloids. Now He's a Must-Read Media Gossip.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:55 PM ET, February 20, 2019.
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
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:Sam Roberts / New York Times:
Pamela McClintock / The Hollywood Reporter:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
More:
Geek.com, Robotics Business Review, KnowTechie, MacRumors, VentureBeat, IEEE Spectrum, Pocket-lint, Hackaday, and Feld Thoughts. Tweets: @captain_primate
Earlier Picks
| Emil Protalinski / VentureBeat: |
More:
The GitHub Blog, Threatpost, Inquirer, BetaNews, Fossbytes, The Register, and BleepingComputer
Tweets: @iancoldwater, @j_winterton, and @github
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
More:
Strategy Analytics, Strategy Analytics …, Cult of Mac, Thurrott, MacDailyNews, Recode, SiliconANGLE, PYMNTS.com, and CNET
| Colin Lecher / The Verge: |
More:
Committee on Energy …, The Verge, missingconsent.org, Gizmodo, Washington Post, The Mac Observer, STAT, The Hill, ZDNet, Multichannel News, Bloomberg Law, The Economic Times, CNET, Engadget, and The Telegraph
Tweets: @donie, @frankpasquale, @ravindranize, and @matthewstoller
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
More:
Google Cloud Blog, Modern data plumbing, cloudcomputing-news.net, cloudpro.co.uk, and ZDNet
Tweets: @ymatias, @aloomainc, and @sallyshin
| Jon Russell / TechCrunch: |
| Jon Porter / The Verge: |
More:
Qualcomm, ZDNet, Patently Apple, PYMNTS.com, Android Beat, Mashable, SiliconANGLE, and Bloomberg
Tweets: @neiltwitz and @patrickmoorhead