|
February 8, 2022, 8:45 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Chance Miller / 9to5Mac: |
Apple unveils Tap to Pay, letting US merchants accept payments with an iPhone and a partner-enabled app “later this year”; partners include Stripe and Shopify — Apple has officially announced a new Tap to Pay feature for iPhone. This feature, coming later this year …
Source:
Apple. More:
Stripe, Wall Street Journal, MacRumors, TechRadar, Livemint, Forbes, 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, Gizchina, The Verge, American Banker, iMore, Ars Technica, SlashGear, Engadget, Macworld, CNET, PhoneArena, Laptop Mag, TechEBlog, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, MacRumors, XDA Developers, Gizmodo, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @patrickc, @tobi, @edwinwee, @deitaone, @jerrycap, @lukemiani, @nyse, @callumj, @collision, @patio11, @ishanagarwal24, and @callebtc
| Devlin Barrett / Washington Post: |
The US DOJ arrests two people in New York and seizes ~$3.6B worth of bitcoin allegedly stolen in a 2016 Bitfinex hack, its “largest financial seizure ever” — The Justice Department announced Tuesday it had seized more than $3.6 billion in bitcoin allegedly stolen as part …
More:
CoinDesk, Wall Street Journal, U.S. Department of Justice, BuzzFeed News, iTnews, Bloomberg, BBC, The Hill, New York Times, NPR, Associated Press, CNBC, The Register, The Verge, ZDNet, Security Affairs, CNET, The Daily Hodl, Bitcoinist.com, Bitcoin News, Finextra, TechCrunch, Reuters, The Block, PCMag, Blockworks, Cryptopolitan, Crypto Briefing, Financial Times, Cointelegraph, Engadget, The Record, Decrypt, Chainalysis, CoinJournal, SecurityWeek, and Newser
Tweets: @bitfinex, @eamonjavers, @nkulw, @sgurman, @mattzeitlin, @sarahnemerson, @harrylitman, @ericgeller, @epro, @freddieraynolds, @pwnallthethings, @ldrogen, @fintechfrank, @justinhendrix, @fintechfrank, @davidgura, @real_vijay, @burgessct, @eamonjavers, @saylor, @cobie, @bitcointina, @zhusu, @ericgeller, @tuurdemeester, @susanlitv, @eamonjavers, @smorgasboredom, @silvermanjacob, @nktpnd, @mylegacykit, @campuscodi, @scottmelker, @lorenzofb, @jon_christian, @joshdcaplan, and @weldpond
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Microsoft is in talks to acquire cybersecurity research and incident response company Mandiant, whose stock closed up 17.86% on Tuesday — Microsoft Corp. is considering making a bid for cybersecurity-research and incident response company Mandiant Inc., according to a person familiar …
More:
iTnews, CRN, VentureBeat, Windows Central, MarketWatch, ZDNet, SiliconANGLE, Channel Futures, MSSP Alert, Business Wire, and Reuters
Tweets: @hackinglz, @tsgiles, @tomwarren, and @dinabass
| Cara Lombardo / Wall Street Journal: |
Peloton CEO John Foley will step down and ex-Spotify and Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy will take over; Peloton will cut ~2,800 jobs and cancel its Ohio factory — Exercise-equipment maker to name former Spotify CFO Barry McCarthy as successor, overhaul board and cut costs
More:
Insider, Peloton Interactive, Inc., BBC, The Verge, CNN, CNBC, AppleInsider, New York Times, The Irish Times, Digital Trends, NBC News, Business Wire, Washington Post, Financial Times, New York Post, Forbes, Crunchbase News, iPhone in Canada Blog, Gizmodo, Fortune, ZDNet, Newslit Daily, MobiHealthNews, PCMag, and MobileSyrup
Tweets: @silviakillings, @realbengilbert, @cararlombardo, @lisatozzi, @asymco, @sam_l_shead, @stevekovach, @cararlombardo, @jeffnolan, @johnbiggs, @ryxcommar, @silviakillings, @deniseyu21, @feitsbarstool, @ldignan, @carnage4life, @asymco, @joannastern, @carlquintanilla, @carnage4life, @parismartineau, @tomgara, @charlesarthur, @neilcybart, @carnage4life, and @wsj
| Jay Peters / The Verge: |
Sony's second PS5 beta adds a “Hey PlayStation” voice command feature, for US and UK accounts at first, alongside party chat changes and new UI settings — Sony is also making changes to the way parties work — Sony announced that it will begin rolling out its second PS5 software beta …
More:
PlayStation.Blog, CNET, Engadget, VentureBeat, Gematsu, Destructoid, Dot Esports, IGN, Video Games Chronicle, GameSpot, and Polygon
Tweets: @playstation, @tcmf2, @falco_x, and @kirkrooster
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
Nvidia and SoftBank call off Nvidia's Arm acquisition, following regulatory scrutiny; Arm CEO Simon Segars resigns, replaced by Arm IP group president Rene Haas — Nvidia's deal to acquire Arm is off, the two companies and Arm owner SoftBank announced Tuesday. — With this, there is also a major leadership change at Arm.
More:
Arm, Reuters, SoftBank Group Corp., The Information, Bloomberg, Ars Technica, Creative Strategies, OSnews, Japan Today, Financial Times, Wired, MarketWatch, CNBC, Business Wire, Protocol, The Register, The Next Platform, Financial Times, Gizmodo, Liliputing, iPhone in Canada Blog, ZDNet, SlashGear, PYMNTS.com, and ServeTheHome
Tweets: @nathanbenaich, @patrickmoorhead, @underfox3, @darrenpjones, @etherealmind, @ryan_browne_, @sam_l_shead, @arm, and @cmagovuk
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
As Meta dips under a $600B market cap, it may avoid antitrust liability since it falls below the threshold set by recent US House bills as a “covered platform” — - Facebook owner Meta closed with a market cap below $600 billion on Tuesday for the first time since May 2020.
Tweets: @lauren_feiner, @cliffordasness, @scottlincicome, @mmasnick, @levie, @karlbode, @sama, @lutherlowe, @wexler, @danprimack, @jason_kint, @itai_leshem, @samro, @carnage4life, and @lutherlowe
| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple plans to improve benefits for full- and part-time US retail workers, including doubling paid sick days and increasing PTO, amid a tight labor market — Apple Inc. plans to significantly increase its benefits for U.S. retail store workers as it grapples with a tightening labor market …
More:
Engadget, CNBC, 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacDailyNews, and iMore
Tweets: @markgurman and @zoeschiffer
| CNBC: |
Amazon Care rolls out its telehealth service nationwide, expands in-person care to more US cities, and adds Whole Foods, Silicon Labs, and TrueBlue as customers — - Amazon is launching its telehealth program, known as Amazon Care, nationwide and has signed up a handful of new companies to use its services.
More:
About Amazon, CNET, SiliconANGLE, Fierce Healthcare, Becker's Hospital Review, ZDNet, Neowin, Forbes, Bloomberg, GeekWire, The Verge, and STAT
Tweets: @samzeb and @daniel_kraft
| Emma Roth / The Verge: |
Google rolls out Journeys for Chrome on desktop, letting users revisit old browsing sessions, based on searches from the omnibar, organized by subject matter — Journeys groups your search history together by category — Google Chrome is rolling out Journeys, a feature that lets you revisit … | Jessica Bursztynsky / CNBC: |
Lyft Q4: revenue of $970M, vs. $940M est. and up from $570M YoY, average revenue per rider of $51.79, up 14% YoY, but 18.73M active riders, down from 18.94M QoQ — - Lyft reported fourth-quarter earnings after-the-bell on Tuesday. — Lyft reported 18.73 million active riders in the last quarter of 2021.
More:
Lyft, Inc., Barron's Online, Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Reuters, and SiliconANGLE
| Darren Loucaides / Wired: |
A deep dive into the CEO and history of Telegram, which has about 30 core employees, minimal content moderation, and, until recently, no ongoing revenue — Hundreds of millions of users. No algorithm. No ads. Courage in the face of autocracy. Sound like a dream? Careful what you wish for.
Tweets: @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @brianfishman, @caseynewton, @jsrailton, and @ukzak
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
TikTok updates its policies to improve safety for LGBTQ users, including banning misgendering and deadnaming, adds tools for age-appropriate content, and more — Months after TikTok was hauled into its first-ever major congressional hearing over platform safety, the company is today announcing …
More:
TikTok, Variety, Engadget, The Verge, BBC, Social Media Today, GLAAD, Insider, dot.LA, and 9to5Mac
Tweets: @lesbiantech, @mattnavarra, @dickiminaj, @glaad, @tiktokcomms, and @issielapowsky
| Ben Thompson / Stratechery: |
A review of digital advertising in 2022, which has shifted from a Google-Meta duopoly to one where Amazon and potentially Apple are major forces — Six years ago tomorrow, in The Reality of Missing Out, I wrote that the digital advertising market was settled, and Google and Facebook won:| John Markoff / New York Times: |
As data centers grow, engineers at Meta, Google, and other companies worry about the reliability of ever-smaller chips and hardware failures with unclear causes — As the largest computer networks continue to grow, some engineers fear that their smallest components could prove to be an Achilles' heel.| Tiernan Ray / ZDNet: |
GlobalFoundries reports Q4 revenue of $1.85B, up 74% YoY, net income of $43M, up 108% YoY, and FY 2021 revenue of $6.59B, up 36% YoY — GlobalFoundries CEO Caulfield says company will produce “another year of strong growth in revenue and profitability in 2022.”
More:
SiliconANGLE, Bloomberg, Globalfoundries Inc., MarketWatch, and Investor's Business Daily. Tweets: @tiernanraytech
| John Gruber / Daring Fireball: |
A look at Apple's IAP changes for Dutch dating app developers: its proposal seemingly isn't compliant, reducing the commission by just 3% is spiteful, and more — The continuing saga of Apple's conflict with the Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) — the Dutch equivalent …
More:
Philip Elmer‑DeWitt, Infrequently Noted, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @volkring, @keleftheriou, @volkring, @brianamerige, @volkring, @tolmasky, @tolmasky, @stroughtonsmith, @ia, @steipete, @tolmasky, @adhalls, @thijsniks, @mluisbrown, and @tolmasky
| Tage Kene-Okafor / TechCrunch: |
Partech Partners report: African startups raised a record $5.2B in 2021 across 681 deals, up from $1.43B across 359 deals in 2020 — Last year was record-breaking for African startups. I know I'm probably starting to sound like a broken record, but the astronomical growth is worth highlighting again and again.| Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg: |
Twitter tells US Senator Wyden that it's “transitioning” away from using Mitto for passcodes, as the text message services firm faces surveillance accusations — Twitter Inc. told a U.S. senator it is cutting ties with a European technology company that helped it send sensitive passcodes to its users via text message.| Jeff John Roberts / Decrypt: |
Crypto infrastructure startup Alchemy raises a $200M Series C extension from Lightspeed and Silver Lake at a $10.2B valuation, up from $3.5B in October 2021 — Alchemy, a startup that provides blockchain tools, has been growing fast: It raised buckets of money last year and attracted dozens …
More:
Alchemy Blog, Crunchbase News, CNBC, DeCential, Cointelegraph, Forbes, and Financial Times. Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts
| Shiona McCallum / BBC: |
The UK's Online Safety Bill would mandate that porn websites verify users' ages or face fines; similar proposals were quietly dropped in 2019 after criticism — Porn websites in the UK will be legally required to verify the age of their users under new internet safety laws.
More:
GOV.UK, The Verge, The Register, KnowTechie, and ComputerWeekly.com
Tweets: @dcms, @jonesyfay, @sajidjavid, @doctorow, @paulbernaluk, and @mikestabile
| Shubham Sharma / VentureBeat: |
Airmeet, which offers online event hosting services, raises a $35M Series B, and says it helped 120K+ event organizers stream 150M minutes of video in 2021 — Delaware-based Airmeet is offering a dedicated platform to help enterprises make their big events truly virtual and interactive.
More:
Entrackr, FinSMEs, and Airmeet HUB
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
Soxton:
AI-powered 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!
AI-powered 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!
Zoho:
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements — 2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements — 2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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:
Alex And Ranjan's 2026 Outlook: ChatGPT 1 Billion, AI Shopping, Apple's Big Year, AI Love Boom
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:
Where Is All the A.I.-Driven Scientific Progress?
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.
The Talk Show With John Gruber:
'A Naughty Citizen', With Quinn Nelson
The director's commentary track for Daring Fireball. Long digressions on Apple, technology, design, movies, and more.
Subscribe to The Talk Show With John Gruber.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
Podcast Pioneer PJ Vogt's Second Act: Less Budget, More Control
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.
BG2 Pod:
AI Enterprise - Databricks & Glean
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
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.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:45 PM ET, February 8, 2022.
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
Alex Ritman / Variety:Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:
Henry Blodget / Regenerator:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Dade Hayes / Deadline: |
More:
AppleInsider, MacRumors, 9to5Mac, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The Economist, The Independent, Deadline, The Wrap, Deadline, The Hollywood Reporter, The Loop, GoldDerby, Los Angeles Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Axios, CNET, Deadline, Engadget, GeekWire, iMore, and The Hollywood Reporter
Tweets: @filmupdates, @theacademy, @dadehayes, and @tedhope