|
November 16, 2018, 10:00 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| CNBC: |
Google says Diane Greene will step down as Google Cloud CEO in early 2019, will be replaced by Oracle's former president of product development Thomas Kurian — Diane Greene, who was hired three years ago to build Google's cloud-computing business, is being replaced in that job by former Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.
More:
Google Cloud Blog, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, Financial Times, The Register, New York Times, Business Insider, The Information, Silicon Valley Business …, Wired, ZDNet, 9to5Google, Light Reading, Business Insider, CRN, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Bloomberg, and Reuters
Tweets: @danprimack, @alexrkonrad, @bdsams, @vijayasankarv, @vambenepe, @rmac18, and @rhatr
| Brad Sams / Thurrott.com: |
Sources: Microsoft to release a disc-less Xbox in 2019 that will cost $200 or less, will let users trade in discs for digital game downloads — In the wake of the news that Sony will not be attending E3 next year, Microsoft's hardware plans for 2019 will likely be a huge win for the brand and for gamers.
More:
GeekWire, Business Insider, IGN, TechSpot, Engadget, SlashGear, Neowin, CNET, ExtremeTech, Mashable, KnowTechie, On MSFT, MSPoweruser, VG247, Windows Central, GamesIndustry.biz, Ars Technica, Gamasutra, and Fast Company
Tweets: @robertmclaws, @thurrott, @philipberne, @peteskerritt, @playstationbrah, @db, and @iansherr
| New York Times: |
How Definers provided reporters with ammunition to suggest senators grilling Sheryl Sandberg were hypocritical for criticizing Facebook — SAN FRANCISCO — A small firm called Definers Public Affairs brought the dark arts of Washington's back-room politics to Silicon Valley when …
More:
Tim Miller, Definers Public Affairs, TechCrunch, NBC News, Fast Company, Business Insider, New York Times, The Verge, Wired, The Guardian, Forbes, and New Republic
Tweets: @timodc, @arstechnica, @dhh, @tayhatmaker, @hshaban, @zackwhittaker, @dhh, @daiwaka, @stevesilberman, @jacknicas, @allmattnyt, @jguynn, @alexstamos, and @matthewstoller
| Sheryl Sandberg: |
Sheryl Sandberg says allegations that she and Zuckerberg hid info about Russian interference are untrue, claims she didn't know Facebook hired Definers — I want to address some of the claims that have been made in the last 24 hours. — On a number of issues - including spotting …
More:
Recode, Bloomberg, New York Times, CNN, Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune, Music Technology Policy, Business Insider, TechCrunch, CBS News, Axios, Silicon Republic, MacDailyNews, BGR, and ResearchBuzz
Tweets: @marygrove, @dhh, @hannahkuchler, @danprimack, @juliacarriew, @ceciliakang, @sarahfrier, @digiphile, @sarahfrier, @raju, @jguynn, and @zeynep
| New York Times: |
More:
CNN, The Next Web, Slate, Engadget, Business Insider, Nieman Lab, Politico, CBS San Francisco, AppleInsider, SiliconANGLE, Vanity Fair, Quartz, Newser, and The Guardian
| Alistair Barr / Bloomberg: |
More:
Slate, Business Insider, Mercury News, Forbes, Tom's Guide, CNET, New York Times, Longreads, Investor's Business Daily, Telegraph, ExtremeTech, Financial Times, and The Next Web
Tweets: @mikeisaac, @willoremus, @shiraovide, @shaunking, @anandwrites, @dhh, @jguynn, @wadhwa, @matthewstoller, @sheeraf, @willoremus, @jguynn, @caseynewton, @kurtwagner8, @espiers, @mikeisaac, @jguynn, @jguynn, @stevekovach, @jwherrman, @iansherr, @willoremus, @sfiegerman, @zeynep, @waltmossberg, and @sarahfrier
| Makena Kelly / The Verge: |
Verizon's My Numbers app lets users add up to four additional numbers with separate voicemail and text messaging boxes on a single phone for $15/mo per number — The service is $15 a month per number — Carrying multiple phones for personal and business uses might be over for Verizon Wireless users.
More:
Verizon Fios & Custom TV, App Store, Digital Trends, Android Police, MacRumors, Droid Life, Engadget, Android and Me, Android Central, CNET, Android Authority, iPhone Hacks, and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @_tm3k
| Dave Michaels / Wall Street Journal: |
SEC settles with Paragon Coin and CarrierEQ, which agree to start filing audited financial reports and refund investors of 2017 ICOs who want their money back — Agreements require startups to comply with investor-protection rules — WASHINGTON—Two startups that raised money …
More:
U.S. Securities …, U.S. Securities …, Decrypt Media, CoinDesk, Preston Byrne, Bloomberg, Crunchbase News, CryptoSlate, ETHNews, blockchainreporter, CNBC, NewsBTC, Bitcoin Magazine, CryptoGlobe, Fortune, Crypto Briefing, GeekWire, Bitsonline, and The Block
Tweets: @nic__carter, @coincenter, @sec_news, @arbedout, @wsj, @awrigh01, @mdudas, @rnr_0, @tuurdemeester, @dylanljmartin, @katherineykwu, @alansilbert, @readdanwrite, and @davidamichaels
| Christina Farr / CNBC: |
Alphabet's Verily says it's pausing its glucose-sensing contact lens project because, after four years of study, lenses didn't gauge blood sugar levels reliably — - In a show of transparency, Verily posted a blog post on Friday explaining why it is hitting the pause button on its glucose-sensing contact lens.
More:
Verily Blog, Gizmodo, CNET, The Verge, Reuters, Engadget, STAT, Fortune, SlashGear, and 9to5Google
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott.com: |
Microsoft is testing ads in the Windows 10 Mail app; Microsoft says it's an experimental feature never intended to be tested broadly and is being turned off — Update: Microsoft's head of communications claimed on Twitter that ads on the Mail app were “never intended” to be tested broadly …
More:
The Register, Windows Central, Engadget, Forbes, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Windows Latest, On MSFT, SlashGear, Neowin, The Verge, MSPoweruser, BetaNews, and Digital Trends
Tweets: @fxshaw, @tomwarren, @mehedih_, @reneritchie, and @mehedih_
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
Amazon will now allow AWS account owners to set the default access setting for all of their account's S3 buckets as non-public to prevent accidental data leaks — New settings will prevent accidental S3 bucket leaks —if customers take the time to apply them.
More:
AWS News Blog, Fortune, GeekWire, The Register, Decipher, Telegraph, SecurityWeek, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @jeffbarr, @zackwhittaker, @gossithedog, @zackwhittaker, @theregister, @mliebow, and @ywxwy
| Liam Tung / ZDNet: |
Microsoft is now accepting 64-bit ARM apps for the Microsoft Store, updates Visual Studio to support recompiling Win32 apps to run natively on ARM devices — Developers can now recompile Win32 apps to run natively on Windows 10 on Arm devices. — With new Lenovo and Samsung Windows 10 …
More:
Windows Developer Blog, The Verge, The Register, Windows Central, On MSFT, Neowin, VentureBeat, and Digital Trends
| Reuters: |
Canaan, a maker of bitcoin mining hardware, let its application for a Hong Kong IPO to raise at least $400M lapse — HONG KONG (Reuters) - Canaan Inc, one of the world's leading cryptocurrency mining equipment makers, has let its application for a Hong Kong IPO of at least $400 million lapse …
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
Amazon announces Wake-on-Lan Controller, which enables Alexa to switch on devices over Wi-Fi or ethernet when they can not be woken up via the cloud — Have a smart device with a sleep mode that would normally prevent it from power toggling remotely? Amazon today announced Wake-on-Lan Controller …
More:
Amazon Developer Services and SlashGear
| Paul Sawers / VentureBeat: |
BlackBerry to acquire cybersecurity firm Cylance, which provides an AI-based advanced threat detection platform, for $1.4B in cash — The rumors, it seems, were true — BlackBerry is acquiring cybersecurity startup Cylance in an all-cash deal worth $1.4 billion.| Steve O'Hear / TechCrunch: |
Pirate Studios raises $20M for its self-service music studios that offer recording, live streaming, and cloud software that handles mixing and mastering — Pirate Studios, the music technology company that operates fully automated and self-service 24 hour music studios, has secured $20 million.| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Code reveals Facebook is testing a new feature that would let users watch videos together on Messenger and chat about them — Netflix and chill from afar? Facebook Messenger is now internally testing simultaneous co-viewing of videos. That means you and your favorite people could watch …
More:
CNET, iPhone in Canada Blog, The Verge, iPhone Hacks, KnowTechie, and Engadget
| John Herrman / New York Times: |
A look at how Amazon is stealthily launching numerous brands on Amazon, from Amazon-owned and Amazon-exclusive to Amazon-affiliated, a classic retailer strategy — The infinite retailer appears to be ushering untold numbers of stealth brands into your life, even as it plans to take over the East Coast.| Mike Minotti / VentureBeat: |
Sony says it has sold 86.1M PlayStation 4 units and 777.9M copies of software for the console since its launch five years ago — Sony revealed today that the PlayStation 4 has sold over 86.1 million systems. The info came in a blog post celebrating the console's fifth anniversary.| Brian Crecente / Variety: |
More:
Game Informer, GamesIndustry.biz, USA Today, VentureBeat, TechSpot, Firstpost, Digital Trends, and Neowin
Tweets: @jessicachobot, @tomwarren, @bdsams, and @halbringman
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
Gemini 2.5 Pro: Our most intelligent AI model — Gemini 2.5 Pro is now available, with thinking capabilities, enhanced performance, and improved accuracy. Try it at no cost in the Gemini app.
UiPath:
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
UiPath Unveils 10 Innovations that Will Shape the Agentic Future — Orchestration engine, API workflows and agentic testing among key features of new UiPath Platform™ for agentic automation, launched at UiPath DevCon 2025
Zoho:
Zoho Books now enables direct VAT filing with EmaraTax — We're excited to announce that Zoho Books is now recognised as a Digital Tax Integrator by the Federal Tax Authority, enabling direct VAT return filing from within your favorite accounting software.
Zoho Books now enables direct VAT filing with EmaraTax — We're excited to announce that Zoho Books is now recognised as a Digital Tax Integrator by the Federal Tax Authority, enabling direct VAT return filing from within your favorite accounting software.
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
Hard Fork:
Google DeepMind C.E.O. Demis Hassabis on Living in an A.I. Future
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.
Spotlight On:
VBSR 1.01: RTO is back (again) + data moats dry up + Sara vibecodes
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Techmeme Ride Home:
OpenAI Acquihires Jony Ive!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
BG2 Pod:
AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America
Open-source podcast on all things tech, markets, investing, and capitalism, hosted by Brad Gerstner and Bill Gurley.
Subscribe to BG2 Pod.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi is okay with reinventing the bus
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Lenny's Podcast:
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26, ex-Binance Head of Product)
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 10:00 PM ET, November 16, 2018.
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
Washington Post:Kate Knibbs / Wired:
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: |
More:
Self-Driven, Axios, Engadget, Ford Motor Company, MIT Technology Review, Ars Technica, and Pulse 2.0. Tweets: @tombamonte
Earlier Picks
| CNBC: |
More:
NVIDIA Newsroom, TechCrunch, Silicon Valley Business …, PC Gamer, GamesIndustry.biz, Business Insider, CryptoGlobe, Fortune, and VentureBeat. Tweets: @benbajarin
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
More:
Facebook, The Mac Observer, Social Media Today, Firstpost, and Engadget
Tweets: @tbridis, @facebook, @facebook, @kurtwagner8, and @theryanford
| Brian Fung / Washington Post: |
More:
Federal Communications …, The Verge, Big Think, Silicon Republic, SiliconANGLE, and Fast Company
Tweets: @wintonark, @tsrandall, @thespacegal, and @philliplarson