Techmeme: Rdio launches in the UK and France (Thomas Houston/The Verge)

May 3, 2012, 6:50 AM

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Exclusive: $99 Xbox 360 + Kinect bundle launching next week with two-year subscription — Microsoft is planning to launch a $99 Xbox console package with a monthly subscription as early as next week, according to our sources. The software giant will offer the 4GB console with a Kinect sensor …

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Liquidmetal Inventor: Apple Will Use It In A ‘Breakthrough Product’ — We've been hearing a lot about Liquidmetal lately, mostly because of rumors that Apple could be using the alloy in its next iPhone. — But what exactly is Liquidmetal? What makes it so special that Apple decided to license the rights to use it in its products?

More: App Advice, Phones Review, AppleInsider, msnbc.com, PadGadget, CNET, Mobile, iDownloadBlog.com, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog, 9to5Mac, MacRumors and iClarified

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Hires 14 Yahoo Researchers to Kickstart New NYC Research Lab — Over the weekend, I reported that Duncan Watts, the well-known social network researcher, had left Yahoo to join Microsoft. Turns out he's not the only one. — Microsoft snatched up not only Watts …

More: CNET, TechNet Blogs, The Verge, Microsoft Corporation, Technology Review, GeekWire, Social Media Collective, Bits and The Next Web

Forbes:

The Midas List — 2012's Top Tech Investors — 1 Jim Breyer Accel Partners Facebook — 2 Marc Andreessen Andreessen Horowitz Skype — 3 Reid Hoffman Greylock Partners LinkedIn — 4 David Sze Greylock Partners Facebook — 5 Peter Fenton Benchmark Capital Twitter — 6 Josh Kopelman …

More: The Next Web and Forbes. Tweets: @joshelman, @joelmoxley, @martinvars, @peterpham, @danprimack, @birsic and @cdixon

New York Times:

Target, Unhappy With Being an Amazon Showroom, Will Stop Selling Kindles — Target, signaling its growing irritation with its rival Amazon, announced on Wednesday that it would stop selling the online retailer's Kindle e-readers. — Target, with almost 1,800 stores, is one of the bigger carriers …

Ross Miller / The Verge:

It's official: Target will phase out all Kindle-branded products this spring

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Apple Is Beating Android In The U.S., Despite Reports To The Contrary — Apple appears to have taken control of 50% of the smartphone market in the first quarter of 2012, despite a report to the contrary by NPD this morning. — NPD put out a press release saying Android …

More: TechCrunch, parislemon, I4U News and Daring Fireball

Paul McNamara / Network World:

EXCLUSIVE: Watch Steve Jobs play FDR in Apple's long-lost takeoff on famous ‘1984’ Macintosh TV commercial — If all you want to see is Steve Jobs playfully portraying Franklin Delano Roosevelt - right down to the cigarette holder - here's that short clip before we get to the longer version …

More: Techland, Macgasm, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, The Verge, Engadget, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, WebProNews, MacStories and App Advice

Thomas Houston / The Verge:

Rdio launches in the UK and France — We're seeing reports on Twitter that music streaming service Rdio has launched in the UK and France with a 7-day free trial of unlimited listening. There's no official word yet from Rdio, but we've also been able to successfully sign up for the free trial …

More: TechCrunch and The Next Web

David Cohen / AllFacebook:

Facebook Introduces Open Graph Action Links — Move over, action verbs, and make way for action links, which Facebook introduced today as a way for users to interact directly with timeline applications. Action links are customizable links that permit app developers to allow users …

More: The Next Web, Facebook Developer Blog, CNET, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, Mashable!, internetretailer.com and WebProNews

Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Pirate Bay Enjoys 12 Million Traffic Boost, Shares Unblocking Tips — Last Friday the UK High Court ruled that several of country's leading ISPs must censor The Pirate Bay website having ruled in February that the site and its users breach copyright on a grand scale.

More: ZDNet, Guardian, NevilleHobson.com, NEWS.com.au, Guardian, gHacks Technology News, WebProNews, GamePolitics blogs, Washington Post and Softpedia News

Tero Kuittinen / Forbes:

Is the OMGPOP Acquisition Haunting Zynga? — Zynga's much-anticipated quarterly report was very close to being a non-event - ten minutes after the press release, the share price was within 0.3% of the close. Yet ZNGA declined from nearly $16 to $8 between early March and late April.

More: CNET, Gotta Be Mobile, The Atlantic Wire, BGR, New York Times, Pocket-lint and Know Your Mobile

Wil Wheaton / WWdN: In Exile:

Google is making a huge and annoying mistake. — I like Google Plus. Some of the smartest people I've ever read are on Google Plus, and the Hangout is amazing. — But Google is doing everything it can to force Google Plus on everyone, and it's pissing me off. — Yesterday, I tried to like a video on YouTube.

More: GigaOM, Business Insider, Marketing Land, parislemon and CNET

Jim Edwards / Business Insider:

Tumblr Wants $25,000 Per Ad—Here's What They Look Like — Tumblr, the blogging platform with a massive audience but negligible revenues, has set its entry-level ad price at $25,000, the company said in an email. — The ad spots are on Tumblr Radar and Tumblr Spotlight …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, TechCrunch, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable!, Digital Trends, Betabeat, The Next Web, The Next Web, WebProNews and Adotas. Tweets: @tumblr. See also Mediagazer

Joel Schectman / The CIO Report:

Skype Knew of Security Flaw Since November 2010, Researchers say — Skype was told a year and a half ago about a security flaw that allows for the location tracking of customers, but left it unfixed, the security researchers who first discovered the vulnerability told CIO Journal.

More: Naked Security, Wired, eWeek and Digits

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Novel Android Malware Spotted on Compromised Web Sites — Demonstrating the increasing sophistication of mobile malware, a new Android Trojan is spreading via compromised Web sites and could potentially be used to crack corporate and government networks. — The bug, dubbed NotCompatible …

More: ZDNet, The Official Lookout Blog, PC World, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, PandoDaily and msnbc.com

Stephen Lawson / Computerworld:

Judge again orders Apple, Samsung to streamline claims in iPad patent case — The companies' lawyers have until Monday to simplify the case enough for a scheduled July 30 trial — Apple and Samsung Electronics have until Monday to further boil down the number of claims to be considered …

More: AppleInsider and CNET

Daniel Frankel / paidContent:

Demand and Google leave farm fight behind with “premium” YouTube channels — It was only about 14 months ago that Google made headlines for targeting Demand Media with algorithmic pesticides, classifying the Santa Monica, Calif.-based company's freelancer-produced content …

More: WebProNews

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Yelp's Post-IPO Earnings: $27.4M in Revenue, Up 66% From A Year Earlier, But Net Loss Triples — In its first ever earnings report as a publicly-traded company, Yelp said it earned $27.4 million in revenue in the first quarter, up 66 percent from the $16.5 million it made in the same time a year ago.

More: Business Insider, VatorNews, WebProNews and VentureBeat

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

Thorsten Talks: RIM CEO Sounds Off On Licensing, Updating Devices, And The U.S. Market — Just because the first day of BlackBerry World is over doesn't mean we mobile geeks have run out of BlackBerry-related tidbits to pick apart. — Oh, far from it — in fact, RIM CEO Thorsten Heins took the stage …

More: ZDNet, PhoneArena, The Verge and Shiny Objects

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Oracle Claims $777 Million Damages in SAP Infringement Case — Oracle Corp. (ORCL) said it will claim damages of $776.7 million in its retrial of a copyright- infringement lawsuit against SAP AG (SAP), the biggest maker of business-management software. — Oracle decided in February to pursue …

Jennifer Baker / PC World:

Programming Languages Not Copyrightable Rules Top EU Court — Europe's top court ruled on Wednesday that the functionality of a computer program and the programming language it is written in cannot be protected by copyright. — The European Court of Justice made the decision in relation …

More: TechEye, Jan Wildeboer, Ars Technica, Techdirt, Paints The Future, ZDNet, The Register and Inquirer

Regan Clark / Yodel Anecdotal:

Yahoo! Small Business Launches Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard — A free offering that changes the way small business manage their online marketing and reputation — Today, Yahoo! Small Business launched the Yahoo! Marketing Dashboard, a free tool that helps entrepreneurs discover …

More: Marketing Pilgrim, the Econsultancy blog, Screenwerk, WebProNews, Marketing Land, Screenwerk, TechCrunch, ClickZ and ZDNet

Jessica Dolcourt / CNET:

Verizon's LTE-powered in-home broadband goes national — While Sprint and T-Mobile are struggling to launch their 4G LTE networks, Verizon apparently has enough LTE to power your devices at home. — Starting Thursday, Verizon's HomeFusion Broadband service will bring LTE-powered Internet access nationwide.

More: Gizmodo, The Verge, IntoMobile, PC World, ZDNet, PhoneArena, dailywireless.org, SlashGear and Engadget

Eric Eldon / TechCrunch:

Weebly Adds Slick iOS App To Its Quietly Huge Web Site Creation Business — I keep hearing rumors about the ridiculous amounts of money that Weebly is making. But the San Francisco company, which provides a set of tools for small businesses and other organizations to easily create their own web sites …

More: AllThingsD, Technorati, San Francisco Chronicle, iClarified and PandoDaily

John Cook / GeekWire:

Zillow to buy RentJuice for $40M in cash, posts record revenue and profits — Zillow is using some of its new-found cash to gobble up San Francisco's RentJuice, adding a new set of technologies that help landlords and property managers more easily keep track of properties, upload photos, manage revenue and deals.

More: The Seattle Times, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily and WebProNews. Thanks:@toddbishop

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Updates Google Docs With 450 New Fonts, 60 New Templates And More — Google today announced that it is bringing web fonts to Google Docs. Thanks to this update, you can now use 450 new fonts in your Google documents. These are the same 450 fonts Google already features on its Web Fonts site for web designers.

More: Docs Blog, Softpedia News, Simply Zesty, Ars Technica, VentureBeat, Techland, Engadget, The Verge and The Next Web

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