|
November 22, 2019, 6:25 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| BBC: |
Russia to ban sale of gadgets including smartphones, computers, and smart TVs that are not pre-installed with Russian software starting July 2020 — Russia has passed a law banning the sale of certain devices that are not pre-installed with Russian software.
More:
Engadget, AppleInsider, CNET, Decrypt, iPhone Hacks, Android Central, Firstpost Tech, Gizchina, Patently Apple, Gizmodo, The Next Web, Telecoms.com, Xinhua News Agency, and CircleID
Tweets: @campuscodi, @el33th4xor, and @grady_booch
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Sources say Apple AirPods shipments are expected to double to 60M in 2019, driven by “much higher” than expected demand for the AirPods Pro model — - Demand for AirPods Pro ‘much higher’ than original estimate — Wearables drive Apple's growth as smartphone shipments plateau| Deirdre Bosa / CNBC: |
Airbnb announces that COO Belinda Johnson will step down from her role in March 2020, but will join the company's board of directors as its ninth member — - Airbnb's Belinda Johnson announces she is stepping down as COO in March in an email to staff sent Friday that was viewed by CNBC.| Jon Fingas / Engadget: |
FCC bans carriers from using federal subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei and ZTE, considers ordering subsidy recipients to replace current Chinese equipment — The FCC is acting on its vow to keep Chinese technology out of American wireless networks. Commissioners have unanimously approved …
More:
Federal Communications …, Reuters, Washington Post, Reuters, Axios, Android Authority, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, PCMag, Politico, The Verge, Light Reading, Light Reading, Seeking Alpha, CNET, Telecompaper, GeekWire, CRN, and MacDailyNews
Tweets: @repjimbanks, @sentedcruz, and @fcc
| Katie Williams / Sensor Tower Blog: |
There were 29.6B app downloads from 792K publishers globally in Q3 across App Store and Google Play; 1% of top publishers accounted for 80% of all downloads — New data from Sensor Tower's Store Intelligence platform reveals that the top-performing 1 percent of publishers globally accounted … | Shannon Liao / CNN: |
Facebook says it has signed Jeremy Wang, better known as Disguised Toast, with 1M+ followers on Twitch, onto Facebook Gaming, its game live streaming platform — New York (CNN)Facebook (FB) just nabbed a major player for its gaming platform as it continues to ramp up efforts to compete in the video game streaming wars.
More:
Engadget, Washington Post, Polygon, The Esports Observer, Hollywood Reporter, and The Verge
Tweets: @dotesports, @comicbook, @thr, @daniel_duan, @dotodoya, @disguisedtoast, and @mattnavarra
| Matthew Boyle / Bloomberg: |
Walmart's Jet.com is shutting its fresh-food delivery business just a year after introducing the service in NYC; source: Jet was losing about $20 on every order — - Retailer will close warehouse, eliminating more than 200 jobs — Jet's grocery service has struggled since its debut a year ago| Jan Wolfe / Reuters: |
Appeals court says Apple infringed only two of four VirnetX patents, vacates $503M jury award, sends the case back to Texas court to recalculate damages — (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Friday set aside a jury's calculation that Apple Inc should pay $503 million for infringing …
More:
AppleInsider, iMore, Bloomberg Law, Patently Apple, MacRumors, and Seeking Alpha
| Tom Metcalf / Bloomberg: |
Travis Kalanick has sold ~$1.5B worth of Uber stock since a post-IPO lockup expired on Nov. 6; a Nov. 11 filing suggests Kalanick could offload his entire stake — - Uber co-founder has sold more than half his stake in November — Stake in ride-hailing company is now a minority of his fortune| Nicolas Vega / New York Post: |
Sources: at an AWS conference in July, Amazon banned participating companies from mentioning its cloud competitors and using phrases such as “multi-cloud” — Online retailing giant Amazon has a new strategy for dealing with threats to its cash-cow cloud business: Pretend they don't exist.
Tweets: @counternotions, @nickcald, and @delrey
| Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters: |
Filing: outside the US and China, Airbnb had $2.42B in revenue in 2018, up 35%+ YoY, and $46.47M in profits, compared to a $97.22M loss in 2017 — (Reuters) - Airbnb's business excluding the United States and China turned a net profit of $46.47 million in 2018 compared with a loss … | Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
REX, a real estate broker that claims its AI allows it to price homes more accurately and charge lower commissions, raises $40M, bringing total raised to $115M — REX, an Austin-based licensed residential real estate brokerage using AI and big data, has raised another $40 million in what it describes as a “C1” round.
More:
Built In Austin, SiliconHills, HousingWire, and FinSMEs
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Twitter rolls out its “Hide Replies” feature to all users globally — Twitter's radical “Hide Replies” feature, one of the biggest changes to how Twitter works since the invention of the Retweet, is now available to Twitter's global user base. The company says the feature …
More:
Twitter Blog, Marketing Land, Reclaim The Net, KnowTechie, Gizchina, Geek.com, The Next Web, Memeburn, Android Police, NPR, CNN, Social Media Today, SiliconANGLE, iMore, Digital Trends, SlashGear, help.twitter.com, Neowin, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @twitter, @maltiq, @ryansatin, @__gershom, @twittersupport, and @_dml
| Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: |
ZecOps, which automates detection, analysis, and response to cyberattacks on endpoints and servers, raises $10.2M seed round — Juniper Research pegs the number of digital records that will be stolen in 2023 at 33 billion, compared with the 12 billion stolen in 2018.
More:
PR Newswire and Pulse 2.0
| Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge: |
A look at Syniverse, the company behind the delayed Valentine's Day texts, and the hardball tactics which have given it power over routing SMS between carriers — On November 7th, tens of thousands of people across the US woke up to strange text messages from friends and loved ones …
Tweets: @waltmossberg, @jake_k, and @reckless
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
VTEX, an end-to-end ecommerce platform used by clients like Walmart and Sony as they expand to Latin America, raises $140M led by SoftBank's Latin American fund — E-commerce now accounts for 14% of all retail sales, and its growth has led to a rise in the fortunes of startups that build tools to enable businesses to sell online.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:
Leveraging design tool extensions in Cliq: A designer's guide to Figma, Lucidchart, and Miro — Picture this: you're deep in a pixel-perfect Figma mock-up, bouncing between chats and emails, when someone pings you for feedback on a Lucidchart workflow.
Leveraging design tool extensions in Cliq: A designer's guide to Figma, Lucidchart, and Miro — Picture this: you're deep in a pixel-perfect Figma mock-up, bouncing between chats and emails, when someone pings you for feedback on a Lucidchart workflow.
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
Techmeme Ride Home:
Microsoft Build 2025
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:
Tines's Eoin Hinchy on rejecting the playbooks
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Invest Like the Best:
Gustav Söderström - How Spotify Thinks
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:
Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott on how AI can save the web, not destroy it
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Grit:
From Scaling Cisco to Seeding AI: John T. Chambers on Speed, Strategy, and Reinvention
Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.
Subscribe to Grit.
Lenny's Podcast:
Microsoft CPO: If you aren't prototyping with AI you're doing it wrong | Aparna Chennapragada
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 6:25 PM ET, November 22, 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
Matt Stevens / New York Times:Theodore Schleifer / New York Times:
Dan Kennedy / Media Nation:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Stephen Hall / 9to5Google: |
More:
ExtremeTech, Chrome Unboxed, Thurrott, Ars Technica, TechSpot, gHacks Technology News, MSPoweruser, The Verge, Engadget, SlashGear, Droid Life, AskWoody, Neowin, PCWorld, Seeking Alpha, Android Police, TalkAndroid.com, XDA Developers, and Liliputing. Tweets: @edbott
| Catalin Cimpanu / ZDNet: |
More:
CyberScoop, The Verge, TechCrunch, Gizmodo, Lifehacker, SecurityWeek, Graham Cluley, Adweek, Windows Central, iPhone in Canada Blog, Android Police, Engadget, Inquirer, The Next Web, SlashGear, Firstpost Tech, 9to5Mac, and Mashable
Tweets: @twittersafety, @kayvz, @twittersupport, @josephfcox, @nditech, @peter_szilagyi, @eff, @mrbond_zhp, @alexkoppelman, @dellcam, @agilethumbs, @evacide, @robpegoraro, @jcmi, and @astepanovich
| Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch: |
More:
Y Combinator, Nikkei Asian Review, KrASIA, Wall Street Journal, and China Money Network
Tweets: @pinboard, @jorgezaccaro, and @ruima
| Mehedi Hassan / Thurrott: |
More:
G Suite Updates Blog, ExtremeTech, Digital Trends, Firstpost Tech, BrianMadden.com, Android Authority, Engadget, and Android Central
Tweets: @jamestitcomb and @tech_missc
| Daniel Rubino / Windows Central: |
More:
VentureBeat, International Business Times, TechSpot, WinBuzzer, Softpedia News, Digital Trends, Pocketnow, and Android Police
Tweets: @panos_panay, @raywongy, @markgurman, and @daniel_rubino
Earlier Picks
| Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: |
More:
Google Online Security Blog, ZDNet, Security Boulevard, Android Headlines, Threatpost, The Hacker News, Digital Trends, Business Insider, Softpedia News, SiliconANGLE, Security Affairs, CNET, Android Central, 9to5Google, SecurityWeek, XDA Developers, Android Police, and Forbes
Tweets: @k8em0 and @campuscodi
| Julia Alexander / The Verge: |
More:
YouTube Creator Blog, The Startup, International Business Times, Adweek, TechSpot, Tubefilter, Social Media Today, Gizmodo, Mashable, SlashGear, Engadget, and CNBC
Tweets: @teamyoutube and @swodinsky
| Jack Nicas / New York Times: |
More:
The Verge, International Business Times, Washington Post, MarketWatch, KnowTechie, CNN, Mashable, Financial Times, Gizmodo, Bloomberg, Austin American-Statesman, AppleInsider, 9to5Mac, and Business Insider
Tweets: @realdonaldtrump, @jacknicas, @jacknicas, @ddale8, @nycsouthpaw, @david_j_roth, @starincali, @chillmage, @jacknicas, @reckless, @anildash, @mikeisaac, @jacknicas, @keithboykin, @radleybalko, @karaswisher, @mrbromwich, @stevekovach, @deaconblues0, @jbillinson, @brianstelter, @carlquintanilla, @owensdamien, @jacknicas, @kantrowitz, @ddale8, @samstein, @jacknicas, and @jason_kint
| NBC News: |
More:
Anti-Defamation League, The Guardian, Blockonomi, Business Insider, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Boing Boing, CCN.com, Vox, and Vanity Fair
| New York Times: |
More:
Financial Times, New York Times, Ars Technica, Slate, CNN, Wired, Quartz, Search Engine Journal, infosecurity-magazine.com, Washington Post, Gizmodo, BuzzFeed News, Memeburn, KnowTechie, The Next Web, and TechSpot
Tweets: @getongab, @emilybell, @fbnewsroom, @walterisaacson, @ellenlweintraub, @tarletong, @squawkcnbc, @rasmus_kleis, @damiancollins, @glynmoody, @shanegoldmacher, @luca, @jillianiles, @mhbergen, @bradonmessage, @mikeisaac, @indianexpress, @zachmontellaro, @wilsonwpa, @longhornderek, @sarafischer, @juddlegum, @teddyschleifer, @shanegoldmacher, @henshaw, @tarawlevy, @ecmclaughlin, @davmicrot, @mikeisaac, @natematias, @juliarosen, and @ddayen