Open Links In New Tab Archives
Mobile Mini
Techmeme
May 22, 2012, 6:15 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboard About Site News Sponsor

Top News

Larry Page / The Official Google Blog:
We've acquired Motorola Mobility  —  The phones in our pockets have become supercomputers that are changing the way we live.  It's now possible to do things we used to think were magic, or only possible on Star Trek—like get directions right from where we are standing; watch a video on YouTube …
Reuters:
SEC, FINRA to review Facebook issues, Nasdaq sued  —  (Reuters) - Two top U.S. financial regulators said the issues around the initial public offering of Facebook should be reviewed, putting fresh pressure on the company, its embattled lead underwriter and the Nasdaq.
More: Firstpost and Firstpost
Michael Wolff / Technology Review:
The Facebook Fallacy  —  For all its valuation, the social network is just another ad-supported site.  Without an earth-changing idea, it will collapse and take down the Web.
Alistair Barr / Reuters:
Insight: Morgan Stanley cut Facebook estimates just before IPO  —  (Reuters) - In the run-up to Facebook's $16 billion IPO, Morgan Stanley, the lead underwriter on the deal, unexpectedly delivered some negative news to major clients: The bank's consumer Internet analyst, Scott Devitt, was reducing his revenue forecasts for the company.
Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
EXCLUSIVE: Here's The Inside Story Of What Happened On The Facebook IPO  —  And now for some more bombshell news about the Facebook IPO...  Earlier, we reported that the analysts at Facebook's IPO underwriters had cut their estimates for the company in the middle of the IPO roadshow, a highly unusual and negative event.
Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:
Kleiner Perkins Sued By Partner Ellen Pao For Alleged Sexual Harassment, Gender Discrimination  —  Kleiner Perkins Caulfield and Byers, one of the most storied and well-respected venture capital firms in Silicon Valley, has been sued by Ellen Pao, an investment partner with the firm.
Dan Primack / Fortune:
Kleiner investors blindsided by discrimination suit  —  Kleiner Perkins blew its response to lawsuit.  —  FORTUNE — “You're kidding.  Send me a copy of the complaint.”  —  That was the 10-word email I received earlier today from a limited partner with Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers …
Carl Franzen / Livewire:
Facebook Begins Testing Redesigned “Timeline” View  —  Days after it first began offering stock in a rocky initial public offering, Facebook has quietly begun testing a new look for user profiles, or “Timelines,” the company confirmed to TPM.  —  Here is a view of the new Timeline view Facebook …
Dan Levine / Reuters:
Facebook settles lawsuit over “Sponsored Stories”  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Inc. has agreed to settle a proposed class action lawsuit that alleged the site's “Sponsored Stories” feature publicized users' “likes” without compensation or the ability to opt out, according to a court document filed on Tuesday.
NBC Bay Area:
VP of Palo Alto's SAP Arrested in LEGO Bar Code Scam  —  A San Carlos software engineer is charged with four counts of felony burglary.  —  A Silicon Valley executive could soon be trading LEGO blocks for cell blocks.  It's a story you will only see on NBC Bay Area News.
Matthew Humphries / Geek.com:
VIA launches $49 Android PC  —  The Raspberry Pi has set the price bar very low for a fully functional PC, and no one has managed to get anywhere near it yet.  VIA is within spitting distance though, with the announcement today of a $49 Android PC (APC) system.
More: Ars Technica.  Tweets: @davezatz
Dylan Tweney / VentureBeat:
Larry Page on Charlie Rose: “We're still waiting” for Facebook to unlock user data  —  Google chief executive Larry Page appears on PBS show “Charlie Rose” this evening at 11 p.m. local time.  —  In the show, Page addresses a wide range of topics, starting with today's surprising news …
Matt Thompson / The Mozilla Blog:
Introducing “Mozilla Webmaker:” helping the world make the web  —  Today, we're proud to launch “Mozilla Webmaker,” a new program to help people everywhere make, learn and play using the open building blocks of the web.  —  The goal: help millions of people move from using the web to making the web.
Jeff John Roberts / paidContent:
Facebook loses trademark fight against adult social network  —  A federal judge has refused to order a Norwegian website that describes itself as “the number one socializing porn and sex network” to turn over its name to Facebook.  —  U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White last week ruled …
Jason D. O'Grady / ZDNet:
TiVo streaming coming to iOS this summer  —  TiVo fans rejoice!  Streaming from the original DVR is finally coming to iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone this summer.  —  During the 2012 NCTA Cable Show which opened today in Boston TiVo announced two new devices.
Ryan Spoon:
Announcing Spindle.  —  It's a bold vision: “build the discovery engine for hte social web”... and that's precisely what excites us about Spindle.  Based in Cambridge, MA and started in Dogpatch Labs, Spindle aims to deliver actionable information and news that you wouldn't have found otherwise …
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
100 Most Valuable Brands: Apple Tops Again; Nokia Disappears  —  WPP's Millward Brown published its annual BrandZ study, ranking the world's leading brands, which are increasingly technology companies.  According to the research house, four of the top five global brands and seven of the Top 10 are tech firms.
Kenneth Wong / Bloomberg:
SAP Agrees to Buy Ariba in $4.3B Deal  —  SAP AG (SAP), the largest business- management software maker, agreed to buy Ariba Inc. (ARBA) (ARBA) to add a cloud-computing applications maker in a transaction valued at about $4.3 billion.  —  SAP offerd $45 a share for Ariba …
More: ZDNet and Reuters
Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:
Airbnb Will Now Cover up to $1M Worth of Property Damage  —  Airbnb is putting up some cash to build a reputation around the safety and security of its hosts' property.  The company today committed to cover as much as $1 million in damage resulting from a booking.
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
Someone Is Asking The USPTO To Invalidate Zuckerberg's News Feed Patent, But Yahoo Says Not Us  —  One idea floated when Ross Levinsohn took the reins as the interim CEO of Yahoo is that he might represent a kinder, gentler phase in the Internet company's contentious patent fight against Facebook.
More: WebProNews
Joanna Stern / ABC News:
ooVoo: 12-Way Video Calling Comes to Facebook and the iPad  —  Skype and FaceTime might be the household names when it comes to video calling these days, but ooVoo doesn't want that to be the case for much longer.  —  The video chat service announced today that it's bringing its 12 …
Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
AmEx to Offer a Prepaid Debit Card That Rewards Users in FarmVille Cash  —  American Express and Zynga are rolling out a rewards program today that will allow players to earn virtual currency when they spend money in the real world.  —  FarmVille fans willing to jump through a number of hoops …
Fairfax News:
Startup Act 2.0 Aims to Jumpstart the Economy  —  U.S. Senator Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) and three colleagues today introduced bipartisan legislation, Startup Act 2.0, to help jumpstart the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses and jobs.  It is based upon research showing …
John Ribeiro / PC World:
ICANN's GTLD Application System Back in Action  —  Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) said Monday that its application system for new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) has reopened, more than a month after it was brought down because of a software glitch.

Sponsor Posts

Channel 9:
Windows Store Weekly  —  This week we take a look at: Star Trek App, Box, Fling Theory, StumbleUpon, and wordBrush.
Cloud Foundry:
Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry  —  In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …
Rackspace Blog:
DevOps: Improved Productivity, Higher Value  —  Those of us who have been aligned with DevOps for some time already know that the greater agility and closer collaboration it enables deliver real business value for our organizations.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Get Started with Hadoop on Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows  —  We are excited to release the Hortonworks Data Platform 1.1 for Windows as a Generally Available product.
Unison's blog:
Skype in the browser  —  Whether you like the Skype app or not, until now, you've had no choice but to download something to make voice and video calls — either an app like Skype, or a Flash plugin (yikes) for your browser.
Sponsor Techmeme
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 6:15 PM ET, May 22, 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.

From Mediagazer

Christine Haughney / New York Times:
Press Sees Chilling Effect in Justice Dept. Inquiries

Andrew Beaujon / Poynter:
Emilio Garcia-Ruiz is The Washington Post's new managing editor …

Meg James / Los Angeles Times:
News Corp. to take up to $1.4-billion write-down in publishing

More News

Earlier Picks

Richard Lawler / Engadget:
Amazon Appstore's Test Drive try before you buy feature now available on Android phones
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboard About Site News Sponsor