|
October 24, 2019, 11:00 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Twitter misses Q3 estimates with revenue of $823.7M, up 9% YoY vs. $874M expected; 145M monetizable DAUs, up 17% YoY; stock down ~20% at open — Twitter today reported its earnings for the quarter that ended September 30, and the numbers delivered a big surprise, falling on both sales and earnings per share.
More:
Engadget, VentureBeat, CNBC, The Verge, The Guardian, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, ZDNet, Axios, Associated Press, Engadget, CNET, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider, Reuters, ZDNet, Market Realist, Fast Company, and Financial Times. Tweets: @craigsilverman
| Tony Romm / Washington Post: |
At a hearing on Libra, Mark Zuckerberg was grilled by House lawmakers from both parties on the proposed cryptocurrency, privacy, diversity, and misinformation — The social media giant's chief executive took an early lashing Wednesday over the company's policies to spot and prevent the spread disinformation.
More:
C-SPAN.org, New York Times, The Next Web, The Verge, Fortune, MIT Technology Review, WBUR, Reason, Vox, The Atlantic, CNBC, The Guardian, Firstpost Tech, Modern Consensus, Vanity Fair, Mashable, Gizmodo, Fast Company, Firstpost Tech, Social Media Today, CryptoGlobe, The Guardian, and CNBC
Tweets: @bubbaprog, @kurtwagner8, @tonyromm, @andrewkimmel, @juddlegum, @benthompson, @tomselliott, @tonyromm, @aprilaser, @balajis, @vladzamfir, @vanitaguptacr, @hshaban, @marawilson, @ceciliakang, @jbouie, @joshconstine, @tonyromm, @owillis, @sheeraf, @rmac18, @thekenyeung, @lopezlinette, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @b_fung, @b_fung, @thekenyeung, @cwarzel, @cwarzel, @tonyromm, @joshconstine, @thekenyeung, @kellymakena, @teddyschleifer, @ddayen, @b_fung, @rmac18, @mikeisaac, @ashleyfeinberg, @kevinroose, @joshconstine, @mikeisaac, @kevinroose, @ceciliakang, @can, @rowlsmanthorpe, @caseynewton, @kellymakena, @b_fung, @matthewstoller, @kantrowitz, @markscott82, @willoremus, @juliacarriew, @alexeheath, and @stevekopack
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Apple TV app launches on Amazon Fire TV devices starting with the Fire TV Stick 4K and HD models, with support for other devices and models coming soon — Apple today released the Apple TV app for Amazon TV devices, starting with the Amazon Fire TV Stick 4K and the older HD model.
More:
Amazon Fire TV Blog, The Verge, Thurrott, TechCrunch, Engadget, iMore, GeekWire, AppleInsider, MacRumors, CNET, and MacStories. Tweets: @bzamayo
| Paris Martineau / Wired: |
New report says the proliferation of right-wing content on YouTube is driven by both supply and demand rather than the platform's recommendation algorithm — In a new report, Penn State political scientists say that it's not the recommendation engine, but the communities that form around right-wing content.
Tweets: @parismartineau, @wired, @parismartineau, @yxphdghvdgg, @annisch, @timcast, and @primalpoly
| Microsoft: |
Microsoft reports Q1 revenue of $33.1B, up 14% YoY, as net income rises 21% YoY to $10.7B; Intelligent Cloud revenue rose 27% YoY to $10.8B, driven by Azure — REDMOND, Wash. — October 23, 2019 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended September 30 …
| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Google employees accuse the company of making an internal tool to monitor attempts to organize meetings; Google says it's only to prevent calendar spam — - Company says it's an effort to curb calendar, meeting spam — Allegation underscores tensions between employees, leadership
More:
Inquirer, Politico, The Next Web, SiliconANGLE, Gizmodo, NBC News, The Hill, The Daily Dot, Business Insider, and Firstpost Tech
| Jim Baker / Lawfare: |
Former FBI general counsel explains why US law enforcement needs to embrace encryption to protect the country against existential cybersecurity threats — I. Embrace Reality and Deal With It — From 2012 to 2014, I worked for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund located in Connecticut.
More:
9to5Mac and iMore
Tweets: @caparsons, @lawfareblog, @qjurecic, @riana_crypto, @ch402, and @lawfareblog
| Brendan Sinclair / GamesIndustry.biz: |
As Google opens its first gaming studio in Montreal, head of Stadia Jade Raymond discusses its strategy, including building several first-party studios — As Google unveils new Montreal development studio, Stadia Games & Entertainment boss Jade Raymond discusses the platform strategy
More:
The Keyword, Engadget, VentureBeat, Android Authority, Android Police, SlashGear, Android Central, Pocket-lint, 9to5Google, and PC Games Insider
Tweets: @nibellion, @gibiz, @gibiz, and @zhugeex
| BBC: |
BBC News launches dark web mirror of its international site, accessible via Tor, as it seeks to thwart censorship from states such as China, Iran, and Vietnam — The BBC has made its international news website available via Tor, in a bid to thwart censorship attempts.
More:
Engadget, The Verge, Yahoo Finance, The Register, BetaNews, bbc.co.uk, and IT PRO
Tweets: @arawnsley, @marietjeschaake, @nscrutables, and @zackwhittaker
| Alexi McCammond / Axios: |
Memo from a departing chief of White House security lays out how an ongoing reorg under the Trump administration has left its networks more vulnerable to attack — An internal memo on cybersecurity, obtained by Axios, warns that “the White House is posturing itself to be electronically compromised once again.”
More:
Ars Technica and Business Insider
| Lauren Kaori Gurley / VICE: |
Forty music festivals including SXSW, Coachella, and Bonnaroo promise they will not use facial recognition tech, following a musician- and activist-led campaign — Activists declare the first major victory against the spread of commercial facial recognition technology in the United States.| Reuters: |
Samsung rolls out a patch for Galaxy S10 and Note10 to fix the fingerprint sensor flaw that caused 3D patterns in screen protectors to be read as fingerprints — SEOUL (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) has updated software to fix problems with fingerprint recognition features …
More:
Android Central, MacRumors, SamMobile, Thurrott, The Overspill, Digital Trends, SlashGear, The Verge, and Android Headlines
| iFixit News: |
Microsoft Surface Laptop 3 (15") teardown: seems pretty repairable with an easily accessible SSD, but there's one big drawback: its battery is firmly glued down — Teardown of the Surface Laptop 3 reveals a shocking turnaround in repairability on what used to be our least-favorite laptop design.
More:
Tom's Hardware, Engadget, Inquirer, The Register, Thurrott, OnMSFT.com, BetaNews, Softpedia News, SlashGear, and MSPoweruser
| Stephen Shankland / CNET: |
Samsung unveils Exynos 990, its new flagship SoC that's 20% faster overall and 2x faster on AI-specific tasks, and a new 5G modem, both made with a 7nm process — If you buy next year's flagship Samsung Galaxy phone, it might come with a performance boost from a new processor the Korean electronics giant announced Wednesday.
More:
Samsung Global Newsroom, XDA Developers, Engadget, Thurrott, The Verge, Inquirer, VentureBeat, Android Central, SlashGear, and Firstpost Tech. Tweets: @samsung
| Sarah Lacy / Pando: |
Sarah Lacy and Paul Carr sell Pando, seven years after launching it, to ad-tech company BuySellAds, which bought Digg in 2018 — If there is a single moment when it seemed like my journalism career suddenly caught fire, it was the 2006 Business Week cover story I wrote about the rise of Web 2.0 companies.
More:
Business Insider. Tweets: @strngwys, @mcarney, @mathewi, @yaelwrites, @johnjcook, @ajdomanico, @dceiver, @film_girl, @edzitron, @lkherman, @moneyries, @sarahcuda, @profjeffjarviss, @simonowens, @granteb, and @martinsfp
| Annie Musgrove / Tech.eu: |
Switzerland-based Coople, an on-demand jobs platform connecting companies with job seekers, raises $32M Series C led by One Peak Partners — Coople, the largest European platform for on-demand hiring, has raised a $32 million Series C round led by One Peak Partners and the growth equity arm of Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking.
More:
EU-Startups, FinSMEs, PR Newswire, and PE Hub Blog
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, which provides online symptom checking and triage tools to companies that are looking to route patients to the right place — - Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a start-up founded by emergency medicine doctor David Thompson, the company confirmed to CNBC.
More:
Engadget, PYMNTS.com, and Coinspeaker
| Craig Timberg / Washington Post: |
Facebook to unveil news tab at an event Friday with News Corp's Robert Thomson; sources: direct payments to 200 publishers will go up to millions of dollars — Facebook plans to launch a “News” tab on Friday that will offer stories from hundreds of news organizations, some of which will be paid fees … | Alex Konrad / Forbes: |
Robotic process automation company UiPath says it is laying off between 300 and 400 employees, or about 11% of its workforce, months after being valued at $7B — Covering venture capital, software and startups — Investors looking for fresh signs the party is over for high-valued tech companies got … | George Anadiotis / ZDNet: |
Grafana Labs, the company behind open source analytics platform Grafana, raises $24M Series A led by Lightspeed Venture Partners — The best observability platforms today are open source, and it should be all about choice, says Grafana Labs — Observability is among the buzzwords of our times.
More:
TechCrunch, Blog on Grafana Labs, and Startups News
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.
Cape:
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.
Equals:
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into auditable spreadsheet models and dashboards. Build once, iterate for years.
Zoho:
Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
Zoho WorkDrive named a Leader in the Nucleus Research CSC Technology Value Matrix 2026 — Enterprise content management is evolving rapidly with about 80% of the data unstructured. The growing challenge is not about storing information anymore.
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:
OpenAI's Bots Break Containment and Hack Hugging Face Autonomously — With Alex Stamos
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.
Great Chat:
Too big to laugh: how tech lost its sense of humor
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:
Substack Wants To Become A Social Network; Beehiiv Wants To Stay Invisible
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:
Factory's Matan Grinberg: The Coming 'Dark Factory' Where Software Builds Itself
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.
Invest Like the Best:
Matthew Smith — Natural Gas: The Next Bottleneck
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:00 AM ET, October 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
Todd Spangler / Variety:Samuel Stolton / Bloomberg:
The Guardian:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| CNBC: |
More:
Financial Times, Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, The Bulwark, Bloomberg, Vox, Vox, The Guardian, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Reuters, Inc42 Media, and Crunchbase News
Tweets: @profgalloway, @shiraovide, @financialtimes, @ritholtz, @kateclarktweets, @bchappatta, @walldo, and @carnage4life
| Cade Metz / New York Times: |