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June 14, 2012, 1:20 PM

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Diana ben-Aaron / Bloomberg:

Nokia To Cut 10,000 Jobs As Elop Tries To Stanch Losses — Nokia to Cut Up to 10,000 Jobs to Halt Losses — Nokia Oyj (NOK1V) cut its earnings forecast for this quarter and said it will eliminate as many as 10,000 jobs and shut production and research sites in three countries …

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Nokia: Microsoft is giving us ‘specific support’ to compete with Android at even lower prices — Nokia made mention of a broader Lumia phone range coming as part of its major strategy shakeup, but it wasn't clear just where the Windows Phone line was heading.

More: TechCrunch, Business Insider, Nokia, The Verge, MobileSyrup.com and IntoMobile

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Amidst layoffs and leadership changes, Nokia buys assets of mobile imaging firm Scalado — Buried in a press release announcing 10,000 additional lay-offs and 3 top executives stepping down from the company, mobile phone maker Nokia said it has acquired assets of Swedish mobile imaging technologies company Scalado.

More: BetaNews, Tech Trader Daily, VatorNews, Los Angeles Times, LAPTOP Magazine, GeekWire, CNET, eWeek, Nokia, Engadget, BGR, Nokia, The Next Web, The Verge, Gizmodo, CrackBerry.com, Techie Buzz and Business Insider

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Nokia sells Vertu luxury phone arm to EQT, keeps 10 percent stake

More: CNET, AllThingsD, Nokia, LiveSide.net, Computerworld, Guardian, TechnoBuffalo, Phones Review, digitaltrends.com, The Register, GigaOM, Mashable!, Softpedia News and Inquirer. Tweets: @asymco

Owen Thomas / Business Insider:

Microsoft Is Buying Yammer, According To People At Yammer — UPDATE: Bloomberg is now reporting that Microsoft is in talks to buy Yammer for more than $1 billion, with a deal coming as soon as Friday. — EARLIER: We just heard from a source inside Yammer that the office has been abuzz since Monday …

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Why The Rumored Microsoft Deal for Yammer Rings True — Rumors have been in the water for awhile now that Microsoft was interested in buying out the social enterprise software company Yammer. A report in Bloomberg News, plus a Tweet about a conversation overheard at a Silicon Valley ice cream shop has raised them to a fever pitch.

More: Venture Capital Dispatch, Business Insider and PandoDaily

Samsung Tomorrow:

The rumor regarding a project named ‘Samsung Facebook’ is groundless — There have been inquiries and a few articles claiming that Samsung Electronics is going to offer a Facebook-like service, being developed under a code-name called ‘Samsung Facebook.’ However this is not true and the rumor is groundless.

More: PC Magazine, Business Insider, BGR, PC World, CNET, VentureBeat, Macgasm, The Next Web, Engadget, SlashGear, Inquirer, Pulse2 Technology …, Pocketnow, PhoneArena and Pocket-lint

Mark Lee / Bloomberg:

Baidu To Share Revenue With Apple On China Iphone Search — Baidu Inc. (BIDU) said Apple Inc. (AAPL) will be entitled to a share of advertising sales after the Chinese company's search-engine was added as part of a software upgrade for iPhones in China. — The revenue-sharing agreement …

More: AllThingsD, Search Engine Land, 9to5Mac, Macgasm, Pulse2 Technology … and MacNN

Ki Mae Heussner / GigaOM:

TechStars NYC 2012: 7 startups to watch — Thirteen would-be darlings of New York's tech scene are hitting the stage today. In downtown Manhattan, startup incubator TechStars NYC is hosting its third Demo Day to present its latest class of graduates. The 13 companies, which were culled …

More: TechCrunch, PandoDaily, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Betabeat

Dong Ngo / CNET:

WD joins networking big time with My Net router family — WD shows off the My Net N900 HD router's Web interface at launch. — (Credit: Dong Ngo/CNET) — Once in a while there's a big change, and Western Digital is having one of its own. — The major storage vendor today unveiled …

More: DSLreports, Forbes, Computerworld, AllThingsD, FT Blogs, Digits, The Verge, WebProNews, Macgasm, SlashGear and Mashable!

Jeff Blagdon / The Verge:

Online electronics dealer ‘taxes’ IE7 users 6.8 percent for having old browser — If you insist against upgrading from Internet Explorer 7, Aussie electronics dealer Kogan is going to “tax” you an extra 6.8 percent for using the “antique browser” — 0.1 percent for every month since its release.

More: Telegraph, Kogan, Lifehacker Australia, TechCrunch, TechnoBuffalo, Geek.com, Platform Wars, Neowin, Inquirer, I4U News, newlaunches.com and Delimiter

Tom Simonite / Technology Review:

What Facebook Knows — The company's social scientists are hunting for insights about human behavior. What they find could give Facebook new ways to cash in on our data—and remake our view of society. — Cameron Marlow calls himself Facebook's “in-house sociologist.”

More: Gizmodo

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Twitter's expanded tweets are a double-edged sword — As we reported on Wednesday, Twitter is in the process of rolling out what it calls “expanded tweets,” a new feature on both the web and mobile version that shows additional content for certain publishers and services, such as the New York Times and ABC News.

More: Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog and Twitter Developers. See also Mediagazer

Michael Sippey / Twitter Blog:

Experience more with expanded Tweets

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, GigaOM, fiercemobilecontent.com, PC World, Softpedia News, Fortune, AllTwitter, Ubergizmo, memeburn, TechnoBuffalo, Tecca, SocialTimes, API Voice, digitaltrends.com, InfoWorld, hypebot, LYTRO BLOG and Android Phone Fans

Federico Viticci / MacStories:

Reeder 3.0 Review — In 2009, reading news on the iPhone was different. The App Store was only one year old; Twitter wasn't the information network adopted by mass media and millions of users we interact with today; there was no iPad, no universal apps, and no Flipboard.

More: iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge, App Advice, everythingiCafe, Phones Review, Macgasm and Lifehacker. See also Mediagazer

Richard Lawler / Engadget:

Redesigned YouTube rolling out to some users, reflects the influence of Google+ — From the looks of this screenshot posted by one of our readers, it appears YouTube is testing a new homepage styled more like the look that recently rolled out on Google+. The current default look rolled …

More: Google Operating System and YouTube Redesign

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Apple, Time Inc. Solve Their Subscription Squabble — Apple and Time Inc. have settled their differences: The giant publisher is now selling subscriptions to its iPad magazines directly from the apps themselves. — If that seems like non-news, consider that it took the two companies two years to figure this out.

More: Engadget, MacRumors, everythingiCafe, PadGadget, TUAW, iLounge, New York Times, Macgasm, The Verge, CNET, iPhone and AppleInsider. See also Mediagazer

John Koetsier / VentureBeat:

Opera 12: new version, new features, new competitive challenges — Opera is releasing version 12 of the Opera browser today, with new features for theming, controlling your computer's hardware from the browser without using a plugin, speed, and security. — VentureBeat talked …

More: TechCrunch, WebProNews, Softpedia News, CNET and ZDNet

Ryan Naraine / ZDNet:

‘State-sponsored attackers’ using IE zero-day to hijack GMail accounts — Summary: Microsoft's advisory speaks of “active attacks” and follows a separate note from Google that references the IE flaw “being actively exploited in the wild for targeted attacks.”

More: Computerworld, TechSpot, blog.chron.com, Blog Central, Softpedia News, Ubergizmo, Ars Technica, TechNet Blogs and CNET

Sean Portnoy / ZDNet:

Acer Aspire S5 is world's thinnest Ultrabook, first with Thunderbolt port — Summary: The Ivy Bridge-packing S5 weighs in at a lean 2.65 pounds and is a mere 0.44 inches at its thinnest point. — Acer has upped the Ultrabook ante today with the Aspire S5, which the company claims is the world's thinnest.

More: LAPTOP Magazine, CNET and Electronista

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

YouTube Star Managers The Collective Buy Web Video Pioneer Metacafe — Metacafe was a Web video pioneer that fell behind YouTube and never caught up. And now it has a new, slightly unconventional home: Hollywood management agency The Collective is buying the video site.

More: VentureBeat

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Google, Twitter and Facebook rally to fight “bad ads”, malware and online trust issues — Google, Twitter and Facebook are among the Internet industry giants that are giving their names and efforts to a non-profit campaign aimed at taking action against bad ads, malware and other schemes that abuse trust online.

More: The Official Google Blog, The H Security, The Verge, The New Persuaders, Marketing Land, StopBadware Blog, Betabeat, Business Wire, CNET, memeburn and Inquirer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Google Play preloads on Kobo Vox; Books on Google Play launches in Germany — The Kobo Vox tablet now come preloaded with the Google Play app. Current Kobo Vox owners will see the app the next time their device updates. — “Supporting Google Play is one more way we're delivering …

More: The Verge, Inquirer, The Next Web, TechCrunch and Liliputing

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

ARMSTRONG WINS! AOL Shareholders Side With Management, Vanquish Proxy Challengers — AOL shareholders have voted to re-elect all of the company's directors, defeating a proxy challenge from Starboard. — Here's a statement from the company: — “On behalf of AOL's Board and management team …

More: Reuters

Chris Velazco / TechCrunch:

AT&T To Launch The $99, LTE-Capable Sony Xperia ion On June 24 — Though an errant Google ad gave away some of the surprise a few weeks back, AT&T has just announced that the Sony Xperia ion will be hitting all of the carrier's sales channels on June 24 for $99 with a two-year contract.

More: GigaOM, The Verge, Ars Technica, Gotta Be Mobile, CNET and Engadget

Krishna Panicker / The Big Blog:

Skype 5.8 for Mac: Your Contact List Just Got Slimmer, While Video Calls with Mobile Users and Group Screen Sharing Got Even Better. — Today, we're pleased to announce the launch of Skype 5.8 for Mac. With this update we're improving the usability of the Skype for Mac client, while also delivering a bunch of new features.

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, GigaOM, Softpedia News, MacStories, Ubergizmo and 9to5Mac

Darrell Etherington / BetaKit:

Pulse Launches Video Channels With 30 Publishing Partners — News curation app and Flipboard competitor Pulse is introducing new video channels today, designed to give users access to short, easy-to-digest clips from the same kinds of publishing partners that have helped it gain so many users …

More: The Next Web, VentureBeat and TechCrunch

Wall Street Journal:

Turf War Erupts in Red-Hot Mobile Videogames — Japan's Little Known Gree and DeNA Go After Zynga in the U.S.; Converting Players to Buyers — A turf war is breaking out in the videogame industry and, for once, it has nothing to do with Nintendo, Microsoft and Sony.

T.C. Sottek / The Verge:

Kindle iOS, Android, and Cloud Reader apps now support children's books, comics, and graphic novels — Amazon has released updates for its iOS, Android, and Cloud Reader apps with support for children's books, comics, and graphics novels, and says that over 1,000 titles are available including titles …

More: GeekWire, 9to5Mac, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Google, Computerworld, Engadget, The Next Web, LAPTOP Magazine, Gotta Be Mobile, TechCrunch and fiercemobilecontent.com

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Cloud Wars: Amazon Web Services cuts premium support prices, adds new features — Amazon Web Services this morning announced a series of changes in its support plans, aiming to make its cloud computing and storage more attractive to companies and software developers in an increasingly competitive market …

More: ZDNet, Amazon.com, GigaOM and TechFlash

Amy Schatz / Wall Street Journal:

Web Video Companies Crank Up Lobbying — WASHINGTON—Online video companies are ramping up their lobbying of lawmakers and regulators, but their adversaries—traditional cable-TV companies and Internet-service providers—have far deeper pockets on K Street.

More: Bloomberg and business.time.com

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