Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Advertise Site News
Techmeme
January 22, 2023, 12:50 AM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter

Top News

Lucas Shaw / Bloomberg:
Q&A with Netflix co-CEOs Greg Peters and Ted Sarandos about shared leadership, what role Reed Hastings may play, adding FAST channels, the ad tier, and more  —  So that's what an orderly transfer of power looks like.  —  While Disney chief Bob Iger ousted every potential threat …
Aaron Tilley / Wall Street Journal:
Apple's lean hiring may help the company avoid layoffs; Apple's workforce grew ~20% from 2019 to 2022, Amazon's grew 100%, Meta 94%, Alphabet 57%, Microsoft 53%  —  The iPhone maker's workforce grew 20% in the past three years, a far slower pace than rivals  —  Tech Layoffs Pile Up as Bosses Reverse Course
Jez Corden / Windows Central:
Microsoft has laid off the entire teams behind the virtual reality platform AltspaceVR, which will shut down in March, and the Mixed Reality Tool Kit framework  —  HoloLens, Virtual Reality, and Mixed Reality are all but dead at Microsoft.  —  What you need to know
New York Times:
Emails and sources: Google fired 16% of its ~400-person Fuchsia OS team, Research cut jobs in lower traction areas, and Cloud cut operational and other roles  —  The layoffs amount to about 6 percent of the global work force at the company, the latest tech giant to make cuts after a pandemic hiring spree.
Bloomberg:
Alphabet plans to cut ~12,000 jobs, 6%+ of its global workforce; CEO Sundar Pichai says he takes “full responsibility for the decisions that led us here”
More: The Information, Livemint, Bloomberg, The Keyword, Wall Street Journal, The Verge, Reuters, CNBC, TechSpot, The Economic Times, Insider, MarketWatch, Associated Press, TechCrunch, CNBC, NPR, 9to5Google, BBC, Pixel Envy, Fortune, Tech.co, TIME, Ars Technica, PYMNTS.com, GeekWire, PCWorld, GamesIndustry.biz, WinBuzzer, Patently Apple, TechRadar, Fast Company, Thurrott, NBC Bay Area, IGN, DCD, PhoneArena, Coinspeaker, Tech Xplore, Micky, Mashable, Appuals.com, Search Engine Land, ZDNet, TheGamer, Gizmodo, Tech Monitor, TechCircle, Deadline, City A.M., Computerworld, Neowin, Variety, Silicon Republic, PCMag, Semafor, WRAL TechWire, TechCrunch, The Hollywood Reporter, Financial Times, Engadget, RTÉ, The Economic Times, Moneycontrol, Business Post, Barron's Online, and Slashdot
Mastodon: @gredelston@cyberplace.social, @tw@cantos.social, @lauren@mastodon …, @kat_kime@hachyderm.io, @zachklipp@androiddev.social, @asg@hachyderm.io, @rklau@sfba.social, @BMorearty@techhub.social, @sladner@mastodon.social, @gredelston@cyberplace.social, @heyjovo@tech.lgbt, @phire@phire.place, @caseynewton@mastodon.social, @Gartenberg@mastodon.social, and @awgonnerman@social.tchncs.de
Tweets: @readdanwrite, @gergelyorosz, @carnage4life, @amberkanwar, @benbajarin, @google_comms, @theinformation, @gergelyorosz, @alphabetworkers, @robgiampietro, @carnage4life, @readdanwrite, @krystalball, @yuhline, @richardjnieva, @daveyalba, @mikegcoleman, @carnage4life, @carnage4life, @kvanaren, @barstoolnate, @mediumsizemeech, @jezcorden, @theferocity, @martinsfp, @jenn_elias, @smydrad, @dcwaladesi, @saxena_puru, @feefyou, @aparanjape, @thee_chadd, @chrisstigall, @mattyglesias, @nixcraft, @ulonnaya, @thetranscript_, @iatalkspace, @rustybrick, @srussolillo, @schuldensuehner, @katebevan, @lhm1, and @mrmbrown
See also Mediagazer
Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
US prosecutors provide a list of nearly $700M worth of Sam Bankman-Fried's seized assets, including ~$525M in Robinhood stock and $94.5M cash at Silvergate Bank  —  Federal prosecutors have seized nearly $700 million in assets from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried in January …
The Daily Dot:
CommuteAir took down a 2019 copy of the US No Fly List, after a researcher said they found it on an unsecured server and that it had 1.5M+ entries, many aliases  —  One of the most sensitive U.S. government documents was left online.  —  An unsecured server discovered by a security researcher …
Can Duruk / Margins:
ChatGPT is a threat to Google mainly because the latter's monopoly position let the search experience degenerate into a spam-ridden, SEO-fueled hellscape  —  I hate monopolies and welcome our AI overlords … I don't really cook often, but I do love making pasta aglio e olio.
Annie Palmer / CNBC:
A look at Amazon's nascent drone delivery unit, which has struggled due to crashes and other safety issues and now faces layoffs and other cost-cutting measures  —  - As part of Amazon's widespread layoffs, some employees in the nascent drone delivery project are losing their jobs, according to people familiar with the matter.
Annie Burky / Fierce Healthcare:
Missouri-based Paytient, which offers health payment accounts to health care and insurance companies, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $63M  —  Paytient, a company that built health payment accounts, announced a $40 million series B funding round.  Paytient snatched up $40 million in series B funds.

Sponsor Posts

Airtable:
Deep analysis for deep questions  —  Introducing Superagent.  A new research product from Airtable: Subagents deeply interrogate your topic and turn it into boardroom-ready reports, slides, docs, or websites.
Clay:
Turn any GTM idea into reality  —  Clay helps GTM teams combine AI agents, enrichment, and intent data to move faster and turn insights into action.
Zoho:
Streamline payment collections in Singapore with PayNow and GrabPay  —  Under the “Smart Nation” initiative, Singapore is making a transformation towards cashless and quick payment options.
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.
Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Big Technology Podcast:
 How Google DeepMind Operates & Experiments — With Lila Ibrahim and James Manyika
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.
Invest Like the Best:
 Josh Kushner - Concentration and Conviction
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
 Janice Min on Hollywood's Crisis; Reed Duchscher on the Creator Boom
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.
The Social Radars:
 Tom Blomfield, Partner, Y Combinator; Co-Founder, Monzo
Come be a fly on the wall as Y Combinator's Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to some of the most successful founders in Silicon Valley about how they did it.
Subscribe to The Social Radars.
Cheeky Pint:
 Ramp founder Eric Glyman on the many ways AI is changing corporate spending
Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.
Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
 His Excellency Khaldoon Al Mubarak: Investing in an AI-Driven World
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.
Add your podcast here
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 12:50 AM ET, January 22, 2023.

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

Jack Dunn / Variety:
Stephen Colbert says CBS released its statement “without ever talking to me” and talk shows have long been exempt from “equal time” rules

Cameron Adams / The Daily Beast:
Sources: CNN restricted staff from using its platforms for self-promotion, after Jake Tapper pushing his Joe Biden book turned into a “rolling infomercial”

Dominic Patten / Deadline:
Netflix sends ByteDance a C&D letter over Seedance 2.0, joining WBD, Paramount, and Disney, saying “forensic evidence” shows “unauthorized derivative works”

More News

Sarah Wynn / The Block:
The US SEC charges Avraham Eisenberg for manipulating Mango Markets' governance token MNGO to steal ~$116M of crypto assets and says MNGO was sold as a security

Earlier Picks

Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Internal records: Twitter now has ~1,300 active employees, including fewer than 550 full-time engineers, and ~1,400 non-working staff who are still being paid
Mia Sato / The Verge:
In a staff call, CNET and Red Ventures executives said they were pausing AI-generated content on CNET and other websites and detailed their proprietary AI tool
Josh Scott / BetaKit:
Thoma Bravo plans to acquire Waterloo-based Magnet Forensics, which develops digital investigation software, for CA$1.8B and combine Magnet with Grayshift
Brian Fung / CNN:
Meta, Twitter, Microsoft, Yelp, Reddit, the EFF, and more file amicus briefs backing Google in Gonzalez v. Google, asking SCOTUS to keep Section 230 protections
Kevin Simauchi / Bloomberg:
Crypto lender Genesis Global files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New York, listing the estimated range for both assets and liabilities as between $1B and $10B
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Events Newsletter