|
April 23, 2020, 1:35 PM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: Apple aims to sell Macs with its own chips by 2021 and is working on three Mac processors based on the 5nm A14 chip in the next iPhone — - New processors to be based on iPhone designs, replacing Intel — Transition will be gradual, start with less-powerful computers
More:
The Next Web, Gizmodo, The Verge, SiliconANGLE, Forbes, Tom's Hardware, Digital Trends, VentureBeat, AppleInsider, Macworld, Business Insider, Laptop Mag, 9to5Mac, South China Morning Post, TechRadar.com, Mashable, Neowin, TechCrunch, The Mac Observer, Yahoo Finance, iMore, Thurrott, MSPoweruser, 9to5Mac, Tom's Guide, Wccftech, AppleInsider, iDownloadBlog.com, BGR, SlashGear, MacDailyNews, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, CNET, New York Post, and MACお宝 …
Tweets: @markgurman, @reneritchie, @caro_milanesi, @never_released, @_harshilshah, @markgurman, @waltmossberg, @markgurman, and @markgurman
| Dana Mattioli / Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon employees often consulted sales info on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise, contrary to assertions to Congress — Contrary to assertions to Congress, employees often consulted sales information on third-party vendors when developing private-label merchandise
More:
Business Insider, The Hill, CNBC, and Seeking Alpha
Tweets: @halsinger, @gregbensinger, @jason_kint, @trippmickle, @wsj, @michaelcbender, @newley, @aaronwall, @mattmday, @mattmday, @pankajontech, and @lachlan
| Megan Graham / CNBC: |
Google to require all advertisers to verify their identities, starting in the US; existing advertisers will have 30 days to complete the verification process — - Google began requiring political advertisers wanting to run election ads on its platform to verify their identity back in 2018.
More:
The Keyword, CNET, The Verge, Axios, Business Insider, TechCrunch, AdExchanger, The Daily Dot, Input, Neowin, Android Central, Engadget, Beyond Search, and Search Engine Journal
Tweets: @tri_becca90, @jeffjarvis, @joshuaumww, @borthwick, @karenkornbluh, @femme_mal, @associatesmind, @alexweprin, @loupas, @megancgraham, @luca, and @jeffjarvis
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Apple Music app is now available on Samsung's smart TV models from 2018 and later — Another Apple service comes to Samsung's sets, available now — Apple Music is getting an app on Samsung's most recent smart TVs, the two companies announced today. It's the latest expansion …
More:
Samsung US Newsroom, 9to5Mac, International Business Times, TechHive, Thurrott, AppleInsider, Gizmodo, CNET, MacRumors, iMore, Neowin, Engadget, MSPoweruser, The Mac Observer, and Cult of Mac
Tweets: @bzamayo and @markgurman
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
Report: EU commissioner says Tim Cook told him Apple and Google's contact tracing API will be available to developers from April 28 — The first version of Apple and Google's jointly developed, cross-platform contact tracing API should be available to developers as of next week …
Source:
Les Echos. More:
9to5Mac, MacRumors, CNET, Reuters, Engadget, Input, iDownloadBlog.com, Cult of Mac, iPhone in Canada Blog, and AppleInsider
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
FCC adopts a proposal that opens the 6GHz band for unlicensed Wi-Fi use, freeing up more than 1,200MHz of additional bandwidth for next-gen Wi-Fi 6E devices — The unanimous decision opens 1,200MHz of new bandwidth for Wi-Fi 6E devices that are expected to begin arriving this year.
More:
The Verge, Wi-Fi Alliance, Ars Technica, ZDNet, and Telecompetitor
Tweets: @googlepubpolicy, @ajitpaifcc, @jt_teran, @rycrist, @reckless, @nvcidambi, @wifialliance, and @stshank
| Nico Grant / Bloomberg: |
Zoom CEO says it hit more than 300M DAUs on April 21, up from about 200M on April 1 — Zoom Video Communications Inc. has been lambasted for its security flaws, but the backlash hasn't slowed growth. The company reported a 50% surge in use of the online meeting application in the past three weeks.| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
More:
Zoom Blog, Zoom Blog, The Verge, Digital Trends, Mashable, Bloomberg, Silicon Valley Business …, CNET, Reuters, Forbes, Windows Central, Social Media Today, Gizchina, Silicon Republic, The Irish Times, Android Authority, ComputerWeekly.com, MSPoweruser, iPhone in Canada Blog, SecurityWeek, Telecoms.com, Firstpost Tech, Engadget, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @carnage4life, @jwangark, and @profwoodward
| Karen Weise / New York Times: |
Jeff Bezos, who sources say only worked on projects that posed a major risk to the company, has taken an active leadership role at Amazon amid COVID-19 — The chief executive, who had distanced himself from day-to-day management, is closely involved in the company's response to the pandemic.
More:
New York Post and Business Insider
Tweets: @spencersoper, @sub8u, @glennf, @nytimesbusiness, @nytnational, @dmccabe, and @puiwingtam
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
AWS launches Amazon AppFlow, an integration service for developers to easily transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications — AWS today launched Amazon AppFlow, a new integration service that makes it easier for developers to transfer data between AWS and SaaS applications like Google Analytics …
More:
ZDNet, AWS News Blog, Business Wire, TechRepublic, DEVCLASS, Amazon Web Services, TechRadar.com, and Neowin
Tweets: @msrivastav13, @rseroter, and @__steele
| BBC: |
Israel's parliament blocks extension of emergency measures to use phone location data to enforce quarantine past this week — The use by Israel's police of mobile-phone location data to enforce quarantine has been halted because of privacy concerns. — The government had approved the use … | Aaron Sankin / The Markup: |
Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people — While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in"pseudoscience"| Patrick Shanley / Hollywood Reporter: |
SuperData: worldwide digital video game spending reached a record $10B total in March, up 11% YoY, with $5.7B for mobile games, up 15% YoY — Console, PC and mobile games also saw significant revenue bumps amid the coronavirus lockdown. — Digital video game spending hit a record high …
More:
SuperData, a Nielsen Company, Input, Destructoid, GamesIndustry.biz, Telecoms.com, TechSpot, GamingBolt, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @_superdata, @crococlock, @_superdata, and @pshanley88
| Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: |
Research tracking tech company layoffs finds 29,463 employees were laid off from 292 companies between March 11 and April 21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — Today, the U.S. Labor Department reported some sobering figures: The number of unemployment claims filed over the past five weeks surged to 26.4 million.
More:
International Business Times and CNBC
| Mike Masnick / Techdirt: |
France is hypocritical to ask Google and Apple to ease their privacy protections for a French contact-tracing app, while being such a vocal critic of big tech — We keep trying to explain to people that privacy is always about trade-offs, and arguing for privacy laws that protect “privacy” …
Tweets: @alecstapp, @alexstamos, @lam_barrett, @pegobry, @alexhern, and @antoniogm
| Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Boston Dynamics says its quadruped Spot robot is in use at one Boston hospital for remote triage of patients suspected of having COVID-19 — The company has ambitious plans for using robots to assist COVID-19 treatment — Robot maker Boston Dynamics announced on Thursday that its quadruped Spot robot …
More:
VentureBeat, Boston Dynamics, TechCrunch, and Mashable
Tweets: @bostondynamics, @thejewishdream, @rob__mccallum, and @mcwm
| Julia Black / The Verge: |
Following layoffs at Bird, interviews with 16 former employees paint a picture of a workplace with high-turnover and an erratic, careless leadership — Inside the electric scooter startup with big workplace problems — Emma* was up late working on a complex analysis from her laptop in bed for Bird.
Tweets: @knguyen, @andyjayhawk, @andyjayhawk, @tomgara, @andyjayhawk, @andyjayhawk, @tomgara, and @reckless
| Paddy Baker / CoinDesk: |
Binance launches Bundle, a no-fee social payments app for users in Africa, starting in Nigeria with support for the naira, bitcoin, binance coin, and BUSD — A crypto payments app backed by global exchange Binance has launched in Nigeria, kicking the contest to become Africa's chief digital asset provider into high gear.
More:
The Block and coinspeaker.com
| Ron Miller / TechCrunch: |
Digital whiteboard maker Miro raises $50M Series B led by Iconiq Capital, bringing its total raised to around $75M — Miro is a company in the right place at the right time. The makers of a digital whiteboard are seeing usage surge right now as businesses move from the workplace and physical whiteboards.| Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / VICE: |
Researchers say they found two actively exploited iOS 0-days, present since at least iOS 6, including a remote zero-click flaw in Mail; Apple says patch coming — In the summer of 2016, researchers at a digital rights organization and a cybersecurity firm announced they had caught …
More:
ZecOps Blog, TechCrunch, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, Naked Security, The Register, Mashable, The Verge, HackRead, MacDailyNews, TechRadar.com, BetaNews, SecurityWeek, Computer Business Review, Pocket-lint, ComputerWeekly.com, Gizchina, The Hacker News, Pocketnow, Wccftech, Malwarebytes Labs, SlashGear, BBC, TechSpot, IT Management, and Ubergizmo
Tweets: @ryanaraine, @lorenzofb, @adamfowler_it, @theregister, @viss, @matthew_d_green, @antiviruslv, @kennwhite, @kennwhite, @lukolejnik, @wsj, and @newley
| Lauren Feiner / CNBC: |
Expedia is raising $3.2B in new capital with $1.2B in equity sale to Silver Lake and Apollo Global Management and $2B in new debt financing — Expedia is raising $3.2 billion in new capital as the coronavirus pandemic has stalled travel around the world. — The company is raising $1.2 billion …
More:
GeekWire, TechCrunch, PR Newswire, and PR Newswire
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Stripe says it now offers card issuing services directly to businesses and launches an AI-powered “revenue optimization” tool for transaction approvals — At a time when more transactions than ever are happening online, payments behemoth Stripe is announcing three new features to continue expanding its reach.
More:
PYMNTS.com
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
UK competition authority approves the $7.6B Just Eat-Takeaway merger, as the pair raises $756M in the form of new shares and convertible bonds — On the heels of Amazon getting approval from the competition authority to proceed with an investment leading a $575 million round … | Brian Heater / TechCrunch: |
Twitter says it now prioritizes the removal of COVID-19 tweets that incite “harmful activity” or could lead to the destruction of 5G infrastructure — Ever since it first started rolling out, 5G skeptics have attempted to link the next-gen cellular technology to all manner of health issues.
More:
ABC News, Forbes, TechSpot, Telecoms.com, The Daily Dot, Engadget, 9to5Mac, SlashGear, Silicon Republic, Mashable, and Adweek
Tweets: @twittersafety, @digiphile, @hadas_gold, @patrick_hruby, @tonyromm, and @allergykidsdoc
| BBC: |
UK's Communication Workers Union says it's had reports of about 120 cases of abuse, including murder threats, directed at engineers believed to be working on 5G — Telecoms engineers have told Radio 1 Newsbeat they're being threatened and harassed by people who believe they're working on 5G …
Tweets: @jimwaterson, @ldrogen, @offbeatorbit, and @cwunews
| Todd Spangler / Variety: |
Snap to raise $750M through a private-placement debt offering, along with an option for buyers to purchase up to an additional $112.5M of convertible securities — Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, plans to launch a $750 million private-placement debt offering, along with the option … 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:
5 reasons why digital signatures are a must-have for small and medium enterprises — Every morning, Hazel stops by her favorite corner cafe, where the barista already knows her order—a double espresso, no sugar.
5 reasons why digital signatures are a must-have for small and medium enterprises — Every morning, Hazel stops by her favorite corner cafe, where the barista already knows her order—a double espresso, no sugar.
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:
Mooooaaar Models!
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe to Techmeme Ride Home.
Decoder with Nilay Patel:
How Trump's tariffs actually work on the ground
A show from the Verge about big ideas - and other problems.
Subscribe to Decoder with Nilay Patel.
Great Chat:
Imposter syndrome is due for a rebrand
A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.
Subscribe to Great Chat.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
How to make money in Washington, with Punchbowl's Jake Sherman
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.
Spotlight On:
*RSA Preview* 1Password's Jeff Shiner on balancing B2B and B2C customers in a rapidly evolving tech landscape
A podcast from Accel about how companies are built, from the people doing the building.
Subscribe to Spotlight On.
Invest Like the Best:
Neil Mehta - Finding Future S&P 500 Companies
The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.
Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:35 PM ET, April 23, 2020.
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
Paul Hiebert / Adweek:Nosheen Iqbal / Vogue UK:
Financial Times:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Manish Singh / TechCrunch: |
More:
The Next Web, Livemint, Times of India, YourStory.com, and The Financial Express
Tweets: @vijayshekhar, @koolhead17, @pankajontech, @mkvenu1, @retailprophet, @amitranjan, @abhinavagarwal, and @jonerlichman
| Adi Robertson / The Verge: |
More:
AdExchanger and Center for Democracy …
Tweets: @ellanso, @cendemtech, @epirkova, @accessnow, and @cendemtech
| Yoolim Lee / Bloomberg: |
Earlier Picks
| Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Fortune, Bloomberg, CNBC, and TechCrunch
Tweets: @hkanji, @wsjmarkets, @kateclarktweets, @tomgara, @ychernova, @scottmaustin, and @fdestin
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
More:
About Facebook, Search Engine Journal, TechSpot, Input, and SiliconANGLE
Tweets: @ngleicher, @chey_cobb, @bernardkeane, @benimmo, @mosseri, and @brandonsilverm
| Lily Hay Newman / Wired: |
More:
The Keyword, Threatpost, and Mashable
Tweets: @z3rotrust, @mrisher, @razhael, @ryanaraine, @razhael, @jenn_elias, and @campuscodi. Thanks:@aaronjstein
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
More:
Daring Fireball, Android Central, Wired, Android Authority, Fox News, KnowTechie, Pocketnow, Yahoo Finance, The Irish Times, Macworld, Forbes, and TechRadar.com
Tweets: @tldtoday, @mims, @dhh, @halidecamera, @reneritchie, @journeydan, @androidcentral, @dhh, @fmanjoo, @tomwarren, @mcwm, @thurrott, @reckless, @julianchokkattu, @waltmossberg, and @chillmage