|
March 27, 2017, 7:35 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
Analysis finds ads for big brands placed on politically extreme and derogatory content across the web, highlighting broader issues with programmatic advertising — Follow The Post's tech blog, The Switch, where technology and policy connect. — As the owner of a small business in liberal Massachusetts …
More:
New York Times, New York Times, SiliconANGLE, Beyond Search, Sydney Morning Herald, Axios, and The Guardian
Tweets: @dannysullivan, @mitch_hell, and @dannysullivan
| Tess Townsend / Recode: |
YouTube's ad mess gives advertisers leverage for what they really want: More data — Advertisers are tired of just trusting Google. — As far as advertisers are concerned, there are really only two ways to place ads online: The “open web” where you can track the ads, and “walled gardens” where you can't.
More:
Wall Street Journal, eMarketer and Newsroom Posts, New York Times, Wired, USA Today, Bloomberg, The Verge, Adweek, The Guardian, CNET, Gizmodo, Tech Narratives, Seeking Alpha, and AdExchanger
Tweets: @profcarroll and @alistairmbarr
| Nick Wingfield / New York Times: |
Sources: Amazon exploring retail store concepts for furniture, electronics, and more, including plans for grocery stores in India's vast market — SEATTLE — Last Sunday in Palm Springs, Calif., Jeffrey P. Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, climbed into the cockpit of a 13-foot robot …
More:
Digital Trends, International Business Times, Economist, Gizmodo India, Axios, Ubergizmo, The Tech Portal, Fortune, Engadget, Mashable, Seeking Alpha, and GeekWire
Tweets: @paulpage and @nytimesbusiness
| Bloomberg: |
Uber suspends self-driving car testing following Arizona crash involving one of its cars; police say the Uber car was not at fault, another car failed to yield — A self-driving car operated by Uber Technologies Inc. was involved in a crash in Tempe, Arizona, the latest setback for a company reeling from multiple crises.
More:
ZDNet, Computerworld, Engadget, Mercury News, BBC, Reuters, Quartz, Arizona Republic, The Next Web, TechCrunch, Tech Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Atlantic, Breitbart, EE Times, Silicon Republic, Digital Trends, The Register, SiliconANGLE, KNXV, CleanTechnica, Recode, International Business Times, The Tech Portal, Washington Post, SiliconBeat, Fortune, Seeking Alpha, NBC Bay Area, Newser, BuzzFeed, CNET, Fox News, Business Insider, Wired, Axios, TechSpot, The Verge, SlashGear, Mashable, Arizona Republic, KPNX, and Recode
Tweets: @fresconews, @kibblesmith, @troyhunt, @cernovich, @saloner, @mhbergen, @mims, @ryanfelton13, @mikeisaac, @abc15, @mhbergen, and @delrey
| Christopher Mims / Wall Street Journal: |
Behind the Amazon Marketplace, where top third-party sellers compete using rules-based algorithms and AI, adjusting prices sometimes thousands of times each day — Beneath the placid surface of product pages lies an unseen world of bots, algorithms, flash crashes and fierce competition.
Tweets: @wsjbusiness and @mims
| Washington Post: |
White House team led by Jared Kushner to work with tech titans like Cook, Gates, and Benioff to modernize tech and data infrastructure of all federal agencies — President Trump plans to unveil a new White House office on Monday with sweeping authority to overhaul the federal bureaucracy …
More:
Gizmodo, Politico, The Huffington Post, New York Magazine, CNBC, BBC, Associated Press, The Hill, NBC News, Fox News, The Tech Portal, TechCrunch, The Verge, Axios, and The Forward
| Amir Efrati / The Information: |
Seoul escort bar visit by Uber CEO, Emil Michael, and others in 2014 led to HR complaint; Kalanick's ex-girlfriend says Michael asked her to lie about visit — A woman who dated Uber CEO Travis Kalanick for three years, Gabi Holzwarth, says she was with Mr. Kalanick when he and a team …
More:
The Guardian, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, Daring Fireball, Engadget, The Verge, USA Today, Mashable, Gizmodo, Fortune, Business Insider, Engadget, and Slashdot
Tweets: @jessicalessin, @jonfortt, @gaberivera, @pt, @adampasick, @ktbenner, @ktbenner, @brian_solomon, @sarahcuda, @sarahcuda, @theinformation, @kerrymflynn, and @amir
| Zack Whittaker / ZDNet: |
Users unwittingly exposed sensitive docs on Microsoft's Docs.com due to default “share publicly” setting; Microsoft initially responded by turning off search — Microsoft has quietly removed a feature on its document sharing site Docs.com that allowed anyone to search through millions …
More:
Network World, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, and MSPoweruser
Tweets: @zackwhittaker, @zdnet, and @zackwhittaker
| Wall Street Journal: |
As Netflix spends an expected $6B+ on 70+ original shows this year, TV rivals who once saw Netflix as a partner say the firm is driving up costs, hogging talent — The streaming-video service is hogging talent and pushing up prices, spurring pushback from rival TV producers who once saw it as a partner; 70 new titles this year| Garrett M. Graff / Wired: |
Inside the FBI's hunt for notorious Russian hacker and Zeus malware creator Evgeniy Bogachev, who has intelligence ties and a $3M bounty on his head — On the morning of December 30, the day after Barack Obama imposed sanctions on Russia for interfering in the 2016 US election … | South China Morning Post: |
Beijing court overturns ruling that said Apple's iPhone 6 violated a defunct Chinese phone maker's design patent — Beijing Court quashes city's intellectual property bureau's ruling that US tech giant had violated defunct Shenzhen firm's design patent — A Beijing court has overturned …
More:
Inquirer, CNET, ZDNet, SlashGear, Softpedia News, AppleInsider, Engadget, iPhone Hacks, Patently Apple, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors
| Mark Sweney / The Guardian: |
UK regulator Ofcom proposes rules that would force ISPs to automatically compensate customers for slow repairs or missed deadlines and appointments — Telecoms watchdog proposes making providers pay automatic compensation for 7.2m customer service failings each year
More:
Inquirer, The Stack, Press Association, Hull Daily Mail, campaignlive.co.uk, City A.M., The Sun, walesonline, TrustedReviews, newstalk.com, The Times & The Sunday Times, eurocomms.com, Which? News, v3.co.uk, The Independent, Financial Times, The Independent, Telecompaper, Silicon UK, domain-b.com, The Times & The Sunday Times, RNS press releases, Inquirer, Engadget, and The Register. Tweets: @ofcom
Sponsor Posts
TELUS Digital:
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Are you ready for the era of agentic AI? — Tech leaders are always talking about what's next, and right now, agentic AI is dominating the discourse. Equip yourself with the info you need in this recorded webinar.
Tribe AI:
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
State of AI: Adoption, Challenges and Recommendations — Examining the current state of AI, the key challenges organizations face, and practical recommendations for utilizing AI integration alongside other best practices.
Zoho:
Introducing captions, dynamic cross-references, table of tables and figures, and more in Zoho Writer — Easily ensure that your documents—reports, manuals, research papers, or thesis—are neatly structured …
Introducing captions, dynamic cross-references, table of tables and figures, and more in Zoho Writer — Easily ensure that your documents—reports, manuals, research papers, or thesis—are neatly structured …
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
Channels with Peter Kafka:
NYT publisher AG Sulzberger on Trump, OpenAi and the economy
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.
Techmeme Ride Home:
It's Already Starting...
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Spotlight On:
Corelight's Brian Dye on What He's Learned About Scaling
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Invest Like the Best:
Michael Ovitz - Turning Potential into Prominence
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
UiPath CEO Daniel Dines on AI agents replacing our jobs
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Grit:
Brex 3.0: Inside the Radical Turnaround with Pedro Franceschi
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:35 AM ET, March 27, 2017.
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
Andrew Goudsward / Reuters:Josh Xiao / Bloomberg:
Joshua Rothman / New Yorker:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Masashi Isawa / Nikkei: |
More:
Ubergizmo, NDTV Gadgets 360, Geek.com, MacRumors, iPhone Hacks, destructoid, International Business Times, and TouchArcade
Tweets: @stevestreza and @mgsiegler
| Darla Mercado / CNBC: |
More:
Ubergizmo, TechSpot, SlashGear, The Tech Portal, The Verge, GeekWire, TechnoBuffalo, Axios, and Engadget