|
July 24, 2019, 12:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
FTC announces a $5B fine against Facebook for repeated privacy violations as part of a settlement that requires federal oversight of its business practices — The settlement between the Federal Trade Commission and Facebook ends a 16-month probe that began after revelations of the tech giant's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica
More:
Federal Trade Commission, Facebook, NBC News, Federal Trade Commission, CNBC, The Verge, Axios, CNBC, VentureBeat, Inquirer, Digital Trends, NPR, ZDNet, The Next Web, Vox, TechCrunch, CNN, 9to5Mac, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reuters, Engadget, Boing Boing, Bloomberg, Adweek, gHacks Technology News, PYMNTS.com, Tom's Guide, iDownloadBlog.com, Android Central, Cult of Mac, Silicon Republic, iPhone Hacks, Politico, CNBC, CBS New York, Fortune, and CNET
Tweets: @ftc, @ashk4n, @rkslaughterftc, @chopraftc, @ashk4n, @b_fung, @chopraftc, @chopraftc, @reckless, @chopraftc, @tonyromm, @peard33, @tonyromm, @facebook, @mikeisaac, @ftcphillips, @ftcphillips, @nickconfessore, @nickconfessore, @nickconfessore, @pkafka, @fercany, @rkslaughterftc, @chopraftc, @tonyromm, @rkslaughterftc, @rkslaughterftc, @rkslaughterftc, @chopraftc, @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @janschakowsky, @ow, @daveleebbc, @wongmjane, @matthewstoller, @donie, @tonyromm, @stevekovach, @cat_zakrzewski, @tonyromm, and @donie. Thanks:@tonyromm
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Facebook cuts off access to friend data for Microsoft and Sony, the last two of its legacy partners, under FTC deal, says allowing them access was “our mistake” — One more consequence of the FTC's investigation of Facebook, which culminated in a record $5 billion settlement announced today … | Bloomberg: |
FTC's Facebook settlement does little to hamper the company's ad business or data collection practices, mostly re-committing Facebook to previous goals — - Social media giant agreed to ‘changes’ it's already made — Massive data collection, ad targeting won't be affected
More:
TIME and Washington Post
| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
Facebook agrees to pay a $100M fine to the SEC over charges of making “misleading disclosures” related to the Cambridge Analytica scandal — Facebook isn't just settling with the FTC over the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The social network has also agreed to pay …
More:
U.S. Securities …, Business Insider, Bloomberg, CNET, Reuters, and Boing Boing
| The Keyword: |
Google launches Gallery Go, a lightweight 10MB photo gallery app for organizing and editing photos, designed to work offline — Today, at Google for Nigeria we introduced Gallery Go: a photo gallery, designed to work offline, that uses machine learning to automatically organize and make your photos look their best.
More:
The Verge, Android Police, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Engadget, XDA Developers, 9to5Google, Droid Life, VentureBeat, Neowin, and gHacks Technology News
Tweets: @sundarpichai and @anilfromoz
| Harry McCracken / Fast Company: |
As Google Photos crosses the billion-user threshold, Anil Sabharwal, the Google VP who led its creation, shares how the app was spun out of Google+ — In a tech industry obsessed with scale, no aspiration is more iconic than building something that reaches a billion users.
More:
The Keyword, 9to5Google, Engadget, and The Verge
| Richard Lawler / Engadget: |
DoorDash CEO to change tipping policy “in the coming days”, says it will add all customer tips to driver's earnings, after a renewed backlash — Earlier this year, news reports exposed that not only did DoorDash (and others, like Instacart) sometimes lower its payout to delivery workers …
More:
Gizmodo, New York Times, Business Insider, NBC News, Eater, and Fast Company
Tweets: @t_xu, @t_xu, @t_xu, @digiphile, @t_xu, @kevinroose, @yashar, @bizcarson, @teddyschleifer, @jrivanob, @jeneps, @alexqgb, @porters, and @mtsw
| Brent Kendall / Wall Street Journal: |
DOJ is opening an antitrust review of whether tech giants are unlawfully stifling competition, examining search, social media, and retail services platforms — Inquiry signals Barr's deep interest in tech sector, poses threat to companies such as Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple
More:
U.S. Department of Justice, New York Times, MIT Technology Review, The Verge, Windows Central, Bloomberg, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Business Insider, Android Authority, TechSpot, 9to5Mac, BetaNews, CNBC, iDownloadBlog.com, AppleInsider, Coinspeaker, Thurrott, Axios, Inquirer, Telecoms.com, NBC Bay Area, Vanity Fair, MediaNama, Engadget, Neowin, and Silicon Republic
Tweets: @cnbcnow, @aprilaser, @ewarren, @hawleymo, @petergklein, @karlbode, @zck, @josh_wingrove, @jathonwsj, @cnbcnow, and @stillgray
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
Netflix launches a $2.80 per month mobile-only subscription plan in India, restricted to one mobile device at 480p standard definition — Netflix has a new plan to win users in India: make its service incredibly cheap. The streaming giant today introduced a lower-priced mobile plan in the country that costs Rs 199 ($2.8) per month.| Alex Kantrowitz / BuzzFeed News: |
Interviews, including with the dev who led the team that built the retweet button, discuss the power of retweets and shares and ways to limit their virality — Developer Chris Wetherell built Twitter's retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day.| Bijan Stephen / The Verge: |
As streaming offerings get more expensive and convoluted, people are setting up their own platforms via Plex servers to share media, including pirated content — Have you heard about the best new streaming platform on the internet? It's totally customizable, works on any device, and, best of all, is basically free.
More:
Windows Central. Tweets: @onejarednewman, @theryanford, @jpbach, @naterethorn, @mgsiegler, @jasondunn, @carnage4life, @withinrafael, @ryanlcooper, and @videograndpa
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
GM's Cruise says it will not meet its 2019 target to deploy a commercial robotaxi service in San Francisco, citing performance and safety concerns — GM's Cruise is postponing plans for a fully driverless taxi service, which it previously said would launch by year-end 2019.
More:
Cruise, Reuters, Bloomberg, Axios, Business Insider, TechCrunch, The Verge, Electrek, and Roadshow
| Patrick Klepek / VICE: |
Nintendo memo tells customer service to fix a Joy-Con in-game “drift” issue for free, even out of warranty, following a Kotaku report and a class-action lawsuit — The company will repair devices free of charge, even outside of the warranty period. — IMAGE COURTESY OF NINTENDO
More:
Business Insider, Mashable, Polygon, Destructoid, KnowTechie, Inquirer, TechSpot, VG247, Engadget, GameSpot, SlashGear, GamesIndustry.biz, Neowin, Ars Technica, iMore, USgamer.net, and The Verge
Tweets: @directfeedgames, @austin_walker, @patrickklepek, and @patrickklepek
| Bloomberg: |
Filings: Apple has asked the Trump administration for exclusion from import tariffs of 25% for components of a computer that is likely to be the new Mac Pro — - Trump has promised relief for companies in certain cases — High-end computer was only major Apple product made in U.S.| Washington Post: |
Fake accounts, pages, and groups purporting to represent or sell Libra digital currency have sprung up across Facebook and Instagram — A wave of fakes purporting to sell or represent Facebook's not-yet-available Libra currency have swept onto the social-media giant's platforms …
More:
Bitcoinist.com, Ethereum World News, CoinGeek, ALTCOIN MAGAZINE, The Next Web, NewsBTC, and Anycoin.news
| Christine Fisher / Engadget: |
OpenTable adds restaurant deliveries to its iOS app in 90 US cities through partnerships with Uber Eats, Caviar, and Grubhub — As of today, you can use OpenTable's updated iOS app to book dinner reservations or have your food delivered. OpenTable announced that it's partnering with Uber Eats …
More:
PR Newswire, VentureBeat, and Business Wire
| Kellen / Droid Life: |
Google Store page updates the availability of the Google Nest Hub Max, its $229 10-inch smart display, from 9/9 in the US, UK, and Australia to “coming soon” — Google's new Nest Hub Max arrives on September 9, folks. That date has now been confirmed by the Google Store …
More:
CNET, Inquirer, 9to5Google, Mashable, TalkAndroid.com, Engadget, TechCrunch, Android Authority, Firstpost Tech, Neowin, and The Next Web
| Danny Crichton / TechCrunch: |
Gusto, which offers payroll and HR software for SMBs, raises $200M Series D co-led by Fidelity and Generation Investment Management — Every employee loves receiving their paycheck. It just so happens though that paying employees can be a royal pain, what with incredibly diverse labor laws across all 50 U.S. states.
More:
Business Wire, FinSMEs, Business Insider, Crunchbase News, Forbes, and PE Hub Blog
| Kate Clark / TechCrunch: |
Bravado, a community platform for sales professionals, comes out of stealth with $12M in backing from Redpoint Ventures, Freestyle Capital, and others — Take a moment to imagine the most successful salesperson you know. — Is it someone you respect? Probably not.
More:
Business Insider, Startups News, and Redpoint Ventures
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.
Zoho:
Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs a place where students, teachers, and administrators can find one another, communicate …
Introducing Campus: The digital home for educational institutions — Every educational institution needs a place where students, teachers, and administrators can find one another, communicate …
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.
Soxton:
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!Featured Podcasts
Big Technology Podcast:
Anthropic's IPO Leak, OpenAI's Dots vs. Meta's Muse, Visual Turing Test
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:
OpenAI's Dots lead on the future of ChatGPT
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.
Great Chat:
What does the tech industry owe San Francisco?
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.
Uncapped with Jack Altman:
David George from a16z
Conversations with people I admire about things I'm genuinely interested in.
Subscribe to Uncapped with Jack Altman.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
David Ellison's Paramount-Warner Empire & The Fight That Comes Next
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:05 PM ET, July 24, 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
David Ellison / @ellisonskydance:New York Times:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC: |
More:
AdExchanger, PYMNTS.com, Business Insider, Gizmodo, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @megancgraham, @wired, @qwongsj, @turnernovak, @daveleebbc, @lexnfx, @dlberes, @cnbc, @lanceulanoff, @jboorstin, @lanceulanoff, @kurtwagner8, @somospostpc, @kurtwagner8, @lexnfx, @sarahfrier, @alex, and @alexeheath
| Charlie Osborne / ZDNet: |
More:
Gizmodo, MSPoweruser, Lifehacker, BetaNews, Firstpost Tech, gHacks Technology News, SlashGear, Boing Boing, and PC Gamer
Tweets: @gregghoush and @eset
| Jessica Dolcourt / CNET: |
Tweets: @craignewmark, @cnet, @georgiadreid1, @blkbaer, @richardjnieva, @jasonhiner, and @jdolcourt. Thanks:@jasonhiner
| Tripp Mickle / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
The Overspill, Inquirer, Softpedia News, Macworld, TechSpot, and Gizchina