|
January 18, 2019, 11:05 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Washington Post: |
Sources: FTC commissioners have met to consider a record fine against Facebook for potentially violating a 2011 consent decree about user privacy — U.S. regulators have met to discuss imposing a record-setting fine against Facebook for violating a legally binding agreement with the government …
More:
New York Times, Business Insider, CNBC, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, Associated Press, Engadget, The Verge, Neowin, The Hill, PYMNTS.com, Silicon Valley Business …, CNET, Ars Technica, Axios, and Notes from Silicon Valley
Tweets: @tonyromm, @cnbcnow, @ariezrawaldman, @kurtwagner8, @caseynewton, @amyklobuchar, @tonyromm, @lam_barrett, @b52malmet, and @tonyromm
| Financial Times: |
Sources: Spotify plans to launch a ~$100 voice-controlled in-car music player with preset buttons that correspond to Spotify playlists later this year — Spotify has a new target as it makes a break for independence from devices made by Apple, Google and Amazon: the car dashboard.| Alex Heath / Cheddar: |
Sources: Snap fires security chief over secret relationship with a consultant and pushes out his boss, the head of HR, amid multiple departures in recent months — Snap's global security chief has been fired after an internal investigation found that he had an undisclosed relationship …
More:
Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, Recode, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @alexeheath, @nycjim, and @alexeheath
| Dami Lee / The Verge: |
Verizon says its spam and robocall protection service, previously available as a $3 add-on, will be free to all subscribers starting in March — Verizon announced this week that it will offer free spam and robocall protection to its subscribers starting in March.
More:
Verizon Fios & Custom TV, Engadget, Android Police, and Fortune
| Paul Hill / Neowin: |
Amazon says ~200K SMBs generated $100K+ in sales via Amazon stores in 2018, 50K exceeded $500K, and the number of SMBs that sold $1M+ grew by 20% — Amazon has announced that it has helped more than 50,000 small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) generate more than $500,000 in sales in 2018 … | Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: |
Max Schrems files GDPR complaints against Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify, YouTube, others for failing to provide required info about data they collect on users — European privacy campaigner Max Schrems has filed a fresh batch of strategic complaints at tech giants, including Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Spotify and YouTube.
More:
Reuters, 9to5Mac, The Verge, PYMNTS.com, MacRumors, Telegraph, Dark Reading, and Cult of Mac
| Reuters: |
Chinese drone maker DJI says it has discovered several cases of serious corruption at the company and expects 2018 losses of more than $150M as a result — SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's SZ DJI Technology Co Ltd, the world's largest maker of consumer drones, has discovered several cases …
More:
DroneDJ, The Star Online, Neowin, TechCrunch, and Digital Photography Review
Tweets: @athertonkd and @globaltimesnews
| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Airbnb held informal talks to buy discounted hotel booking app HotelTonight; HotelTonight was valued at $463M in a March 2017 funding round — A deal would give the home-sharing company more inventory and help it move into hotel bookings — Airbnb Inc. has held talks … | Janko Roettgers / Variety: |
A postmortem of AR startup Meta, as the company's CEO says the unnamed investor who acquired its assets will continue to support Meta's existing products — “It's a pretty dramatic moment in my life.” — To say that Meron Gribetz, co-founder of the augmented-reality headset startup Meta … | Jon Porter / The Verge: |
Facebook starts wide rollout of its redesigned Messenger app, which it first announced at F8 last May with limited availability in October — The update started its long rollout in October last year — Facebook Messenger's redesign, which was first announced at Facebook's F8 developer conference last May, is finally here.
More:
Neowin, Android Authority, Geek.com, 9to5Mac, iPhone Hacks, and Engadget
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook confirms it is testing LOL, a feed of funny videos and GIF-like clips pulled from News Feed posts by top meme Pages — How do you do fellow kids? After Facebook Watch, Lasso, and IGTV failed to become hits with teens, the company has been quietly developing another youthful video product.
More:
The Next Web, The Verge, Mashable, Neowin, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Engadget, Business Insider, FutureSin, SlashGear, CNBC, Adweek, Pocket-lint, and CNET
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @alexia, @caseynewton, @mattnavarra, @sophiakunthara, @genepark, @techcrunch, @thestalwart, @fatrat, and @sapere_vivere
| Manish Singh / VentureBeat: |
The owner of Reliance Retail, India's biggest retailer, and Jio, a disruptive telecom, announces an online retail platform to compete with Flipkart and Amazon — As Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart scramble for ways to work around the impending new strict ecommerce policy in India …
More:
Financial Times, Livemint, The Financial Express, The Hindu, Bloomberg, and PYMNTS.com. Tweets: @rajit_h
| Jordan Crook / TechCrunch: |
HyperScience, which uses AI to extract structured data from hand-filled and other business forms, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $50M — HyperScience, the machine learning company that turns human readable data into machine readable data, has today announced the close …
More:
FinSMEs
| Shannon Liao / The Verge: |
Michigan now allows digital license plates, joining California and Arizona, but the plates, which are made by just one contractor, remain expensive at $499+ — But they cost a lot — Digital license plates are now allowed in Michigan thanks to a new state law.| Julia Reda: |
EU's copyright reform with “link tax” and “upload filters” suffers a setback as 11 member states vote against the proposal, making adoption in May less likely — Today, Council firmly rejected the negotiating mandate that was supposed to set out Member States' position ahead …
More:
Electronic Frontier Foundation, The Verge, Boing Boing, Techdirt, and TechSpot. Tweets: @ambermac
Sponsor Posts
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.
SignalFire:
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups — We build AI too. It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.
SignalFire raises another $1 billion to back applied AI startups — We build AI too. It tracks 650M tech employees so we can help companies with recruiting and GTM across enterprise, infra, healthcare, security, and consumer.
Zoho:
Mileage tracking made easy with Zoho Expense — When just a swipe of your finger could raise mileage expenses, why waste time remembering and logging every mile driven on your spreadsheets, emails, or shared files?
Mileage tracking made easy with Zoho Expense — When just a swipe of your finger could raise mileage expenses, why waste time remembering and logging every mile driven on your spreadsheets, emails, or shared files?
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
Spotlight On:
CrowdStrike's George Kurtz on building a generational company
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Techmeme Ride Home:
FTC As Today's Main Character
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Invest Like the Best:
Matt Huang - Investing At The Frontier
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
Diggnation:
Tiki Bar TV, Appendixes, and Rideable Robot Horses
Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht give you their unique, sometimes awkward, and always hilarious take on the edges of the internet.
Subscribe to Diggnation.
Grit:
No Reset Button: Reinventing Amplitude in a Post-AI World (Spenser Skates)
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Acquired:
Epic Systems (MyChart)
Learn the playbooks that built the world's greatest companies - and how you can apply them as a founder, operator, or investor.
Subscribe to Acquired.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:05 PM ET, January 18, 2019.
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
New York Times:Dietrich Knauth / Reuters:
Luc Cohen / Reuters:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Sapna Maheshwari / New York Times: |
| Matthew Panzarino / TechCrunch: |
More:
Nike News, Wired, Six Colors, Socialnomics, Telecoms.com, Wired, and Yahoo! Finance
Tweets: @wired and @ctowerscbs
| Business Insider: |
More:
The Verge, SiliconANGLE, 9to5Mac, OnMSFT.com, Digital Trends, Wired, ExtremeTech, RAIN News, iPhone Hacks, GeekWire, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Windows Central, VentureBeat, PYMNTS.com, iPhone in Canada Blog, Thurrott, Neowin, Softpedia News, BetaNews, MSPoweruser, bit-tech.net, and The Register
Tweets: @manan, @gamoid, and @maryjofoley
Earlier Picks
| Ashley Feinberg / HuffPost: |
More:
Mashable, CNET, Mercury News, Yahoo News, and The Daily Beast
| Sara Salinas / CNBC: |
More:
Netflix, Eurogamer.net, Washington Post, SlashGear, Digital Trends, Tubefilter, KnowTechie, Quartz, MediaNama, Reuters, Neowin, Gamasutra, Investor's Business Daily, TechSpot, iPhone in Canada Blog, PYMNTS.com, GameSpot, CNN, Light Reading, iPhone Hacks, Forbes, IGN, Mashable, USgamer.net, BBC, GeekWire, Gizmodo, Polygon, 9to5Mac, Digiday, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @peterrojas, @ranimolla, @sjeneris, @howardlindzon, @mattrosoff, @carnage4life, @xpangler, @genepark, @chartier, @hedgemind, @recode, and @pkafka
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
Twitter Help Center, BBC, The Hacker News, Adweek, Threatpost, Engadget, TechSpot, Inquirer, CNET, The Register, SecurityWeek, Security Affairs, The Next Web, Digital Trends, The Verge, SlashGear, Android Authority, Mashable, BleepingComputer, ZDNet, Android Central, BGR, 9to5Google, and Gizmodo
Tweets: @twittersupport, @gcluley, and @securityexpert
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
More:
KnowTechie, Tom's Guide, Silicon Republic, Business Insider, Inquirer, TechSpot, Digital Trends, SlashGear, bit-tech.net, Neowin, TechCrunch, Mashable, TechnoBuffalo, Engadget, CNET, and Android Authority
Tweets: @kevinroose, @boztank, @iainthomson, @davechensky, @joannastern, @rmac18, and @edbott
| Paul Lamkin / Wareable: |
More:
MacRumors, CNBC, Fossil Group, TechCrunch, Engadget, FierceWireless, TechCrunch, AnandTech, iPhone in Canada Blog, Inquirer, Firstpost, Silicon Republic, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, XDA Developers, Softpedia News, Gizmochina, Android Beat, Ars Technica, Bloomberg, BGR, PYMNTS.com, ZDNet, Phandroid, Pocket-lint, Wired, ExtremeTech, KnowTechie, Forbes, AndroidGuys, CNET, and TechSpot
Tweets: @laurengoode, @cnbcnow, @ohmdee, @ampressman, @julianchokkattu, @andrewmartonik, and @reneritchie
| Tim Cook / TIME: |
More:
Business Insider, Washington Post, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Patently Apple, Daring Fireball, The Guardian, The Mac Observer, USA Today, MacRumors, Inquirer, Bloomberg, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, Fast Company, The Hill, and Neowin
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @reckless, @thomholwerda, @shiraovide, @reckless, @johnbattelle, @stevekopack, @nickconfessore, and @s8mb
| Nathaniel Gleicher / Facebook: |
More:
TIME, The Next Web, Dark Reading, Fortune, ABC News, Social Media Today, and The Daily Caller
Tweets: @alexstamos, @wiczipedia, @wiczipedia, @wiczipedia, @wiczipedia, @mattburgess1, @markdistef, @benimmo, @vermontgmg, @mollymckew, @christopherjm, and @benimmo