|
March 15, 2021, 11:50 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Queenie Wong / CNET: |
Facebook debuts tools to promote COVID-19 vaccinations: helping US users find slots, partnering with health authorities on WhatsApp, labeling all vaccine posts — Facebook said Monday it's releasing new tools to make it easier for people to get vaccinated against COVID-19 …
More:
About Facebook, Insider, Engadget, Gizmodo, Forbes, The Hill, PCMag, Reuters, 9to5Mac, BGR India, Fast Company, Axios, Pocketnow, Neowin, and CSO
Tweets: @alexvoica and @fbnewsroom
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Internal docs: a Facebook study about US users' vaccine hesitancy finds “substantial harm” from content that doesn't violate the company's rules — Internal study finds a QAnon connection and that content that doesn't break the rules may be causing ‘substantial’ harm
More:
TechCrunch, Mashable, The Verge, Vox, KnowTechie, and BGR
Tweets: @glichfield, @ashleevance, @lizzadwoskin, @qorigins, @aslavitt, @jason_kint, @markruffalo, @colgo, @jason_kint, @russellsieg, @jason_kint, @katestarbird, @jason_kint, @grandmagrit, @qorigins, @shannonpareil, @hypervisible, @donie, @sam64754068, @noupside, @donie, @jkr_on_the_web, @mollyjongfast, @capuletpoehner, @alkapdc, @mattdoyle76, @bricey16, @dr_scottk, @davidaxelrod, @alkapdc, @tlowdon, @rjcc, @jameshohmann, @caseynewton, @frankluntz, @timnitgebru, @clarajeffery, and @aaschapiro
| Financial Times: |
Stripe raises $600M from Sequoia Capital and others at a valuation of $95B, becoming the most valuable private company in Silicon Valley — Payments provider becomes Silicon Valley's most valuable private company — Stripe has become the most valuable private company Silicon Valley has produced …
More:
Stripe, TechCrunch, Silicon Republic, Wall Street Journal, Crunchbase News, New York Times, Insider, CNBC, SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, The Next Web, Neowin, TechRadar, PYMNTS.com, The Economic Times, Reuters, FinLedger, and equalocean.com
Tweets: @tim, @patrickc, @destraynor, @levie, @jasoncwarner, @ryan_browne_, @alexeheath, @ow, @kr00ney, @martindshanahan, @jasonlk, @mulligan, @derekpetey, @sarthakgh, @ingridlunden, @sehaj23, @paddycosgrave, @rohangrey, @carnage4life, @philbak1, @stonkresearch, @tanayj, @ryan_browne_, @katie_roof, @paddycosgrave, @akindolu, @paschald, @michaelbatnick, @techcrunch, @can, @martinsfp, @patrickmcgee_, @nycsouthpaw, @bigblackjacobin, @noelrock, and @edwinwee
| Benjamin Mayo / 9to5Mac: |
Kuo: Apple AirPods 3 will not enter mass production until Q3 2021; AirPods shipments will decline from 90M in 2020 to 78M in 2021 due to increasing competition — Despite a flurry of leaks surrounding next-gen AirPods in the last couple of weeks, Ming-Chi Kuo this morning said that new AirPods …
More:
MacRumors, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, Laptop Mag, XDA Developers, AppleInsider, MSPoweruser, TechSpot, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, iMore, MACお宝 …, Tom's Guide, techadvisor.co.uk, phonearena.com, Cult of Mac, iMore, Apple Terminal, iPhone in Canada Blog, BGR, Wccftech, and iPhone Hacks
Tweets: @apple_tomorrow, @saranbyte, and @bzamayo
| Dylan Martin / CRN: |
AMD launches 3rd-gen EPYC Milan CPUs for enterprise and cloud computing workloads, a few weeks before Intel's expected debut of new Xeon Scalable chips — The new server processors come with big price-performance and total cost of ownership benefits over Intel's Xeon Scalable chips, according to AMD.| New York Times: |
After US intel agencies, FBI, and DHS missed Chinese and Russian hacks, White House is looking to overhaul cyber defenses, including new industry partnerships — The intelligence agencies missed massive intrusions by Russia and China, forcing the administration and Congress to look for solutions …
More:
Beyond Search. Tweets: @julianbarnes, @peterwsinger, @julianbarnes, @julianbarnes, @julianbarnes, @julianbarnes, @nytimes, and @divinetechygirl
| Reuters: |
Sources: Microsoft stands to receive $150M in US cybersecurity spending, nearly 25% of cybersecurity funds from COVID-19 relief bill, angering some lawmakers — SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Microsoft stands to receive nearly a quarter of Covid relief funds destined for U.S. cybersecurity defenders …
Tweets: @williamturton, @lanceulanoff, and @blmohr
| Zheping Huang / Bloomberg: |
Tencent shares fell 4% on Monday and 4.4% on Friday, wiping out $62B, as sources say China's regulators will focus on Tencent following Ant Group crackdown — - Its fintech, payments business worth $120 billion: Bernstein — Shares fall a second day on concern over regulatory scrutiny| Steven Bertoni / Forbes: |
Low-code database service Airtable raises $270M Series E at a $5.77B valuation led by Greenoaks Capital, following $185M Series D at a $2.5B valuation last year — Howie Liu, the cofounder and CEO of cloud software start-up Airtable, has raised a $270 million Series E round at a valuation of $5.77 billion.
More:
TechCrunch
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Match Group invests in Garbo, a nonprofit that lets people run background checks with a first name and phone number, and will add the service to Tinder — Only a last name or phone number needed — Tinder and other Match Group-owned apps are going to let their users run background checks on possible dates.
More:
TechCrunch, Engadget, TechSpot, MUO, and phonearena.com
Tweets: @ashleyrcarman, @ashleyrcarman, and @ashleyrcarman
| Tim Hardwick / MacRumors: |
Apple says App Store supports over 330K jobs in the UK, up 10% YoY, with £3.6B in total earnings, up 22% YoY; App Store supports 1.7M jobs in Europe, up 7% YoY — Apple says its App Store now supports more than 330,000 jobs in the U.K., a 10% increase over the past year …
More:
Apple Newsroom, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, TechRadar, iMore, iPhone in Canada Blog, Daily Mail, and Telegraph
| Kim Lyons / The Verge: |
Clubhouse says it won't require access to users' phone contacts anymore, and announces a creator accelerator program that will initially accept 20 participants — The voice chat app will provide users with resources and help them monetize their shows — During Clubhouse's weekly town hall on Sunday …
More:
Gizmodo, Engadget, We Are Social UK, MUO, The Economic Times, Techpoint Africa, Social Media Today, and 9to5Mac
| Christoph Rauwald / Bloomberg: |
Inside Volkswagen's $30B plan to boost its software efforts, to compete with Tesla, hampered by internal battles, technical glitches, and a complex structure — Internal battles, technical glitches and a complex structure have hampered the German auto giant's software efforts
Tweets: @johnfraher, @crtrud, and @hyper_drive
Sponsor Posts
Command Line:
Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making — Our new model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform other models.
Introducing Microsoft-Decision-1, our model for fast decision-making — Our new model delivers top performance in latency and quality on structured decision tasks to outperform other 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
Big Technology Podcast:
Meta & Microsoft's Claude Slowdown, His Agent Leaked His Banking Info, Don't Bully Your AI
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:
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.
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 11:50 AM ET, March 15, 2021.
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
New York Times:A.J. Katz / The Wrap:
Ted Johnson / Deadline: