| Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents: |
Motorola wants 2.25% of Apple's sales in return for license to standard-essential wireless patents — In my previous post (on Motorola's lawsuits against the German Apple Stores), I said that a statement by Apple's counsel at yesterday's Mannheim trial made me aware of a discovery request … | John Battelle / John Battelle's Search Blog: |
It's Not Whether Google's Threatened. It's Asking Ourselves: What Commons Do We Wish For? — If Facebook's IPO filing does anything besides mint a lot of millionaires, it will be to shine a rather unsettling light on a fact most of us would rather not acknowledge: The web as we know it is rather … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Google hires a senior director at Apple for a top secret project (exclusive) — Google has pulled off a coup by hiring an Apple senior director of product integrity for a secret project, VentureBeat has learned. — The recruiting feat is historic since Google has never hired such a senior person away from Apple.| David Kocieniewski / New York Times: |
Zuckerberg's Big Tax Bill May Benefit Facebook — Few billionaires are willing to reveal much about their taxes. — But the Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has indirectly done so in the documents for his company's public stock offering later this year.| Richard Waters / Financial Times: |
| Dan Frommer / SplatF: |
How Does Facebook Make Money? — Facebook's IPO filing this week confirmed what we already knew: Facebook makes the vast majority of its money by selling ads on its site. — But now we know just how much of its revenue comes from advertising: 85% in 2011, with the remaining 15% coming from payments and other fees.| Robert McMillan / Wired.com: |
AMD Eyes ARM Alliance in War on Intel — Could the low-power chip design that's used in your iPhone someday show up inside the chips built by Intel rival Advanced Micro Devices? — Definitely maybe. Or as AMD's brand new Chief Technology Officer Mark Papermaster put it to us: “The answer is not no.”| Danielle Kucera / Bloomberg: |
| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
AT&T Starts Throttling Unlimited Data Users after 2GB of Monthly Usage — In October, AT&T announced that they would start throttling data usage amongst mobile Unlimited Data Plan users. While AT&T no longer offers an Unlimited Data plan to new customers, many of the original iPhone purchasers are still grandfathered into that plan.| Arnold Kim / MacRumors: |
Apple Revises Snow Leopard Security Update and Pulls 10.7.3 Delta Update — After a couple of issues with some software updates, Apple has made some quiet revisions to address the problems. — The first was a Snow Leopard security update which inadvertently caused problems with Apple's PowerPC emulation layer Rosetta.| Noel Randewich / Reuters: |
Micron appoints Durcan CEO after Appleton's death — (Reuters) - Memory chipmaker Micron Technology's board appointed company veteran Mark Durcan as chief executive a day after longtime Chairman and CEO Steve Appleton was killed in a plane crash. — Hours after Appleton's death on Friday morning … | T.C. Sottek / The Verge: |
Accidental espionage: how iMessage conversations end up in the wrong handsets — Terrifying tales have surfaced recently of unsuspecting iPhone users that have had their private conversations swiped by thieves or intercepted by accident, and through our own independent test we've confirmed … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Apple Kicks Chart Topping Fakes Out Of App Store — Temple Jump, Tiny Birds, Numbers With Friends. These are not the apps you love. They're fakes designed to scam you out of $1.99 when you go to buy Temple Run, Tiny Wings, or Words With Friends. Today Apple took a stand against plagiarism …
Fast, affordable law for startups — Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
Accelerate AI Adoption at F5's AI Virtual Summit — Learn how to architect, secure, and scale AI for production with real-world insights from industry leaders on June 23. Register now to save your spot.
Website traffic analytics: How to read your data and take action — Traffic is up. Sessions look healthy. The dashboard is full of green arrows and yet — conversions are flat, revenue targets are slipping, and the leads coming through aren't closing.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:55 AM ET, February 5, 2012.
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.
| Brad Stone / Business Week: |
| Daniel Eran Dilger / AppleInsider: |
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
| Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog: |
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |