|
December 27, 2013, 9:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Jemima Kiss / Guardian: |
Facebook ‘dead and buried to teens’, research finds — Comprehensive European research has found that teens are leaving the service in droves - and the biggest deterrent is their parents — Teens are being put off Facebook by friend requests from their parents Getty
More:
Wired, The Technology Chronicles, PC Magazine, ReadWrite, Telegraph, VentureBeat, SlashGear, Forbes, The Next Web, WebProNews, ANIMAL, BetaNews, SiliconBeat, InvestorPlace, Digital Media Wire, CNET, Mashable and Business Insider
Tweets: @qthrul, @nxthompson and @digiphile
| Daniel Cooper / Engadget: |
Nokia pulls Here Maps from the App Store, blames iOS 7 — In the wake of Maps-gate, Nokia was one of several outfits that rushed to Apple's aid with a navigation app of its very own. A year later, however, and that same offering has been yanked from the App Store before it could send a note to its neighbors.
More:
The Indian Express, CNET, Gigaom, The Verge, iMore, NPU, Electronista, Pocket-lint, Digital Trends, PC Magazine, everythingiCafe, MacRumors, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5Mac, IntoMobile, AllThingsD, iPhone in Canada Blog, Redmond Pie, iDownloadBlog.com, ZDNet, The Register, The Next Web, T3 News, App Advice, SlashGear, Softpedia News and Mashable
| Om Malik / Gigaom: |
Dear Quartz, maybe it's you that needs new glasses and a map. 2013 was not a lost year for tech — If anything, in 2013 it became even more fashionable for some of our fellow scribes and righteous founders to lament the lack of innovation in Silicon Valley.
More:
PandoDaily, Silicon Valley Watcher, Gigaom Research and Quartz
Tweets: @paulsingh, @eldon, @katiefehren, @coryhaik, @jayrosen_nyu, @rr, @jeffturner and @jennydeluxe
Thanks:@jeffjohnroberts| John Herrman / BuzzFeed: |
The Year Megaplatforms Ruled The Internet — On the web we lost, the web we deserve, and the web we want. — A visitor looks at portraits of Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg at solo exhibition The Face of Facebook by Chinese artist Zhu Jia at a gallery in Singapore, Oct. 30, 2013.| Chris Welch / The Verge: |
Target confirms encrypted debit PIN data was stolen during hack — Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers …
More:
Target Pressroom, NYT Bits, Engadget, Gigaom, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, Computerworld, USA Today, Mashable, Guardian, AllThingsD, Gizmodo, Nextgov, BestTechie, The Next Web, BGR, TechnoBuffalo, Business Insider, SlashGear, WebProNews and Gawker. Tweets: @darylsurat
| Wall Street Journal: |
Behind UPS's Christmas Eve Snafu — Unexpected Surge in Online Orders Overwhelmed Louisville, Ky., Hub. In the earliest hours of Dec. 24, packages poured into United Parcel Service Inc. 's main air hub in Louisville, Ky. And they were piling up. Employees responsible for sorting packages … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Snapchat Downplays Phone Number Matching Hack, Says It's Added New Counter-Measures — Following security researchers publishing a way to match Snapchat usernames to phone numbers, Snapchat has published a skimpy statement making the hack sound impractical and noting “We recently added …
More:
Snapchat, The Register, ReadWrite, The Verge, Threatpost and Los Angeles Times
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
Google Play is giving away ‘Yeezus’ and top singles from 2013 — Google's making it easy to catch up on some of the best music of the year. As part of what it's calling Play Picks 2013, it's offering Kanye West's Yeezus and Chvrches' The Bones of What You Believe free for a limited time …
More:
Betabeat, The Technology Chronicles, Phandroid, Electronista, Business Insider, Gigaom and hypebot. Tweets: @caseynewton
| Maureen Farrell / MoneyBeat: |
After unexplained 5% rise on Thursday, Twitter's stock dropped 13% today — Twitter's Selloff Accelerates: Market Cap Falls By $4 Billion … The drop in shares of Twitter Inc. accelerated near the close of trading Friday, with its stock dropping more than 10%.| Guardian: |
NSA mass collection of phone data is legal, federal judge rules — Judge William Pauley noted the dragnet program was ‘controversial but lawful’ and dismissed lawsuit brought by ACLU — A federal judge has ruled that the National Security Agency's mass collection of telephone data is legal …
More:
New York Times, Engadget, The Next Web, Reuters, Wall Street Journal, The Switch, The Verge, Associated Press, BetaNews, ACLU, CBS News, The Wire, Al Jazeera English, BBC, Threatpost, Gigaom, Bloomberg, CNET, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Just Security and VentureBeat
Tweets: @declanm, @aclu, @adammc123, @declanm, @drance, @attackerman, @pbump, @adamserwer, @prism_nsa, @eff, @charlie_savage, @brettlogiurato and @thedextriarchy
| David Beren / 9to5Google: |
HTC details the Android software update process with one long infographic — Years after Android hit store shelves and even after the lengthy and sometimes arduous update process has been detailed, HTC releases a new infographic taking a look at the whole process from beginning to end.| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Apple to put Carl Icahn's $50 billion stock buyback plan up for vote at next shareholder meeting, advises to vote against it — Carl Icahn stock proposal on ballot for Apple shareholder meeting — Carl Icahn, shown in 2006, wants Apple to increase its stock buyback program.
More:
9to5Mac, AllThingsD, CNET, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and AppleInsider
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Zoho:
Zoho Sign is a “high growth performer” in the Frost & Sullivan's Frost Radar™ for electronic signature software, 2024 — We are happy to announce that Zoho Sign has clinched a position as a high growth performer …
Zoho Sign is a “high growth performer” in the Frost & Sullivan's Frost Radar™ for electronic signature software, 2024 — We are happy to announce that Zoho Sign has clinched a position as a high growth performer …
Hamming:
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Make AI Voice Agents trustworthy — Hamming AI automatically tests AI voice agents and continuously monitors them in production.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more — We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics. Download reports immediately for just $100.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 11/07 - More Election Stuff
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 9:25 PM ET, December 27, 2013.
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
Benjamin Mullin / New York Times:Dade Hayes / Deadline:
Taylor Lorenz / User Mag:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Jordan Robertson / Bloomberg: |
| Aries Poon / Wall Street Journal: |
| Mikey Campbell / AppleInsider: |
More:
FOSS Patents, The Register, PhoneArena, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com and SlashGear
| Lauren Hockenson / Gigaom: |
More:
Nintendo, The Next Web, CNET, Engadget, Ars Technica, Kotaku, SlashGear, destructoid, VentureBeat, TechnoBuffalo, Siliconera, WebProNews, Joystiq, Softpedia News, Kotaku, Polygon, DSLreports and Polygon
| Elyse Betters / Pocket-lint: |
More:
BBC, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, T3 News, Electronista, Telegraph and The Next Web
Earlier Picks
| Ryan Huang / ZDNet: |
More:
Engadget, dna, RBI, The Hindu, The Verge, TechCrunch, CoinDesk, TechSpot, Wired, Softpedia News, The Next Web, VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Tell, Tech in Asia, newsBTC, The Financial Express and The Econonomic Times
Tweets: @r and @pirateorg
| David Hamilton / Web Host Industry Review: |
More:
theWHIR.com, VentureBeat, Gigaom and Talkin' Cloud
| David Streitfeld / New York Times: |
| Grant Gross / PC World: |