|
July 26, 2018, 8:30 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Facebook: |
Facebook reports Q2 revenue of $13.23B, up 42% YoY, 1.47B DAUs, up 11% YoY, and net income of $5.1B, up 31% YoY — Facebook, Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) today reported financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2018. — “Our community and business continue to grow quickly,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook founder and CEO.
More:
Slate, MarketWatch, Bloomberg, CNBC, Inquirer, BuzzFeed News, New York Times, Bloomberg, Washington Post, Memex 1.1, PYMNTS.com, Axios, CNET, Reuters, Gizmodo, Axios, The Guardian, Fast Company, The Verge, The Daily Caller, AdExchanger, Business Insider, Telegraph, Fortune, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Digital Commerce 360, Ars Technica, Engadget, Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check, Recode, and TechCrunch
Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg. Tweets: @sheeraf, @hannahkuchler, @ynakamura56, @sarahfrier, @chernandburn, @chris_ciaccia, @mikeisaac, @cnbcnow, @jason_kint, @mikeisaac, @benbajarin, @jguynn, @jguynn, @mikeisaac, @nickstatt, @ryanlawler, @tomgara, @willoremus, @chernandburn, @jonerlichman, @joshconstine, @lucas_shaw, and @mikeisaac
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Facebook's Q2 earnings saw MAUs climb just 1.54%, down from Q1's 3.14%, marking its slowest ever growth rate, and revenue of $13.23B missed estimates of $13.36B — Facebook has hit a wall. The social network succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy …
More:
Axios, The Verge, CNBC, Recode, SiliconANGLE, Social Media Today, Firstpost, Mashable, Silicon Valley Business …, and Engadget
Tweets: @ryanlawler, @can, @joshconstine, @hannahkuchler, @stevekovach, and @mikeisaac
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Business Insider and Business Insider
Tweets: @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, @chernandburn, @nycjim, @joshconstine, @joshconstine, and @caseynewton
| Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
More:
Recode. Tweets: @selina_y_wang, @alexeheath, @caseynewton, and @mikeisaac. Thanks:@joshconstine
| Reuters: |
Qualcomm says it will drop its $44B NXP offer as the deadline passed with no approval from China and pay a $2B breakup fee to NXP — SAN FRANCISCO/BEIJING (Reuters) - The deadline for Qualcomm Inc (QCOM.O) to buy NXP Semiconductors (NXPI.O) passed at midnight U.S. eastern time without …
More:
VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Telegraph, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, CNET, The Verge, Axios, CNBC, New York Times, bit-tech.net, Bloomberg, Financial Times, Seeking Alpha, Wall Street Journal, Engadget, and Pocketnow. Tweets: @tmitchpk
| Shara Tibken / CNET: |
Amid patent dispute, Qualcomm says it believes Apple intends to solely use modems from a competitor, likely Intel, for the next iPhone release — Apple appears to be making some big changes to the chips in its upcoming iPhones — and that could mean your next iPhone downloads data slower than rival Android devices.
More:
CNBC, AppleInsider, CNNMoney, Softpedia News, Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Firstpost, SlashGear, Android Police, Reuters, The Verge, Mashable, Cult of Mac, Engadget, and Axios
Tweets: @sharatibken, @sharatibken, @cnet, @cnet, and @patrickmoorhead
| Qualcomm: |
Qualcomm reports Q3 revenues of $5.6B, up 4% YoY, net income of $1.2B, up 41% YoY; says it will terminate proposed acquisition of NXP — SAN DIEGO - July 25, 2018 - Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) today announced results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 24, 2018.
More:
ZDNet, CNBC, Inquirer, 9to5Mac, Reuters, Fortune, Firstpost, Ubergizmo, Pocketnow, iPhone Hacks, MacRumors, Neowin, Financial Times, MarketWatch, and ZDNet
Tweets: @ldignan, @benwood, @alexbarinka, and @patrickmoorhead
| Andrew Martonik / Android Central: |
Samsung announces it is developing flexible OLED display certified as “unbreakable” by Underwriters Laboratories, that survived 26 4-foot drops — This is the direction the industry is heading. — Samsung Display has announced that it has developed a truly “unbreakable” … | Jon Levine / The Wrap: |
Twitter CEO addresses claims about some Republican leaders not appearing in search auto-suggestions, points to a thread that offers explanation and vows changes — The latest allegations of shadow banning on the platform were sparked by a Vice News report — Twitter has hit …
More:
VICE News, The Hill, The Daily Caller, Hit & Run, and USA Today
Tweets: @kayvz, @jack, @kayvz, @kayvz, and @repmattgaetz
| Bloomberg: |
Donald Trump criticizes Twitter for “shadow banning” prominent Republicans, says he will look into this “discriminatory and illegal practice” — Twitter stock extended losses, declining 4 percent in pre-market trading as U.S. President Donald Trump criticized the social network for “shadow banning” Republicans.
| Stina Ehrensvard / Yubico: |
YubiKey maker Yubico says it does not manufacture Google's security keys and that Bluetooth-based keys are not as secure as NFC and USB-based keys — As the principal inventor behind both the Security Key and U2F protocol, we are true supporters of open standards.
More:
BetaNews, TechCrunch, CNET, TechSpot, and Cyberscoop
| Alfred Ng / CNET: |
| Romain Dillet / TechCrunch: |
Coinbase partners with WeGift to let Coinbase customers in Australia and select EU countries convert their tokens to digital gift cards at popular stores — It's still quite hard to buy physical goods using bitcoins or ethers. Coinbase plans to (partially) solve that issue with a new partnership with WeGift.| Nathan Ingraham / Engadget: |
Dropbox launches add-on for Gmail, allowing users to access Dropbox content in Gmail, available now on the web and Android, coming soon to iOS — A few years ago, Dropbox partnered with Microsoft, and the official line about the partnership was that the cloud-storage company wanted to help …
More:
PCMag, Dropbox Blog, TechCrunch, WebProNews, MediaNama, ZDNet, SlashGear, Android Police, and Thurrott.com
| Bloomberg: |
A look at how Google treats its contract workers, some of whom write code, recruit staff, and manage teams, yet don't have access to the firm's celebrated perks — About half of Google's workers are contractors who don't receive the same benefits as direct employees
More:
CNBC, Vanity Fair, and BuzzFeed News
Tweets: @vincemancini, @michalrozworski, @josheidelson, @josheidelson, @techworkersco, and @mikeisaac
| Steve Dent / Engadget: |
Spotify adds 8M paid subscribers in Q2, up 40% YoY, for a total of 83M subscribers and 180M MAUs, with revenue of €1.27B, up 26% YoY, and operating loss of €90M — For its second ever earnings report, Spotify said it now has 83 million paid subscribers, up 8 million … | Erin Teague / YouTube Blog: |
YouTube adds a Watch Together button to its VR app on Daydream View and Samsung Gear VR that lets users watch and discuss videos with others in a virtual space — We love VR at YouTube because it's a powerful way to see and experience the world. Have you ever wondered what it's like in the ice caves of Antarctica?
More:
Digital Trends, SamMobile, YouTube, Neowin, Social Media Today, SlashGear, CNET, UploadVR, The Verge, Droid Life, Thurrott.com, VentureBeat, Engadget, and 9to5Google
| The Verge: |
Twitter begins locking accounts that impersonate celebs like Elon Musk or Bill Gates to help combat cryptocurrency giveaway scams using their names — To combat cryptocurrency scammers dropping deceptive links in Musk's replies — Twitter has implemented a new method for combating cryptocurrency scammers …
More:
The Next Web, SludgeFeed, Gizmodo, Mashable, KnowTechie, Inquirer, Business Insider, and Firstpost. Tweets: @robinwauters
| Dona Sarkar / Windows Blog: |
Microsoft releases Windows 10 test build with Flashlight, which lets VR users look at their physical environment, and a predictive model for starting updates — Hello Windows Insiders! — Today, we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17723 (RS5) to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring …
More:
The Register, CNET, Thurrott.com, The Next Web, The Verge, AskWoody, Microsoft Docs, BetaNews, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, Gizmodo, On MSFT, Neowin, Windows Central, Aggiornamenti Lumia, and ZDNet. Tweets: @stroughtonsmith
| Tom Krazit / GeekWire: |
Google announces its Cloud IoT Edge software and Edge TPU chip, which will be released as a reference design in October, to bring machine learning to IoT — Now that the internet of things is really a thing, Google plans to release a version of its machine-learning chips designed …
More:
The Verge, The Keyword, bit-tech.net, CNET, ZDNet, Hackster Blog, The New Stack, The Register, TechCrunch, Ars Technica, Forrester Blogs, and GeekWire
Tweets: @mtyka, @gcpcloud, @gcpcloud, and @cto_movidius
| Dieter Bohn / The Verge: |
2018 MacBook Pro review: great chip performance after latest software update, keyboard slightly nicer to type on, better security and “Hey Siri” with T2 chip — They have a lot to live up to — Additional reporting and photography by Vjeran Pavic. Video by Felicia Shivakumar and Vjeran Pavic.
More:
PC Gamer and Thurrott.com
| Kevin Parrish / Digital Trends: |
More:
9to5Mac, iDownloadBlog.com, VentureBeat, Cult of Mac, Ubergizmo, iPhone Hacks, The Verge, eWeek, and MacDailyNews
| Ry Crist / CNET: |
Amazon's Cloud ESP, a feature for third-party Alexa devices that lets the device closest to a user respond to a question or command, is now generally available — One of the biggest parts of Amazon's strategy for expanding the voice-activated Alexa ecosystem is to help third-party manufacturers make Alexa gadgets of their own.Sponsor Posts
Meta:
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.
Zoho:
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.
Genesys:
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.
Tribe AI:
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.
Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.Who's Hiring In Tech?
Techmeme Ride Home:
Fri. 12/20 - Gemini Flash Thinking
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 8:30 AM ET, July 26, 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
New York Times:Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
Jack Dunn / Variety:
Upcoming Tech Events
Earlier Picks
| Casey Newton / The Verge: |
More:
Fortune, NBC News, The Outline, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, BetaNews, The Hill, Tubefilter, Mashable, CNET, The Next Web, Fast Company, and Engadget
Tweets: @caseynewton, @willsommer, and @parismartineau
| Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch: |
| Edgar Alvarez / Engadget: |
More:
Facebook, Firstpost, Social Media Today, iMore, Marketing Land, Pocket-lint, TechSpot, Thurrott.com, iPhone Hacks, Mashable, TechCrunch, NBC Bay Area, and Android Police. Tweets: @edbott
| Paul Mozur / New York Times: |
More:
PYMNTS.com, Patently Apple, Business Insider, Fortune, Reuters, Engadget, Slate, Quartz, The Verge, Telegraph, and Axios
Tweets: @ruima, @jacobshap, and @niubi