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July 19, 2012, 4:10 PM

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Wall Street Journal:

Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones — Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone …

More: IntoMobile, digitaltrends.com, Los Angeles Times, Mobile, Washington Post, Digits, Gizmodo UK, 9to5Mac, Apps blog and PhoneArena

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Nokia's Bad News Not Completely Horrible — Shares Soar — Posting second-quarter earnings this morning, Nokia reported a loss of $1.74 billion and smartphone sales that fell 39 percent to 10.2 million. Gruesome financials, to be sure. But, remarkably, Nokia's stock has rallied on them.

More: The Next Web, Computerworld, ZDNet and The Verge

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold

More: eWeek, Computerworld, Bloomberg, The Verge, ZDNet, The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Daily, Tech Trader Daily, BetaNews, Nokia, CNET, New York Times, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Gizmodo, GeekWire, ZDNet, Reuters, The Register, The Tech Trade, Business Insider, Inquirer, Mashable!, GigaOM, TechCrunch, Engadget and Guardian

Tweets: @benedictevans and @asymco

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

CEO Elop Hints Nokia Will Be 1st To Windows Phone 8, Weighs In On China And Android

More: Techie Buzz, LAPTOP Magazine and The Verge

Kevin Weil / Twitter Advertising:

New targeting adds greater relevance to your Promoted Tweets — It's a fact — brands have been on Twitter since our earliest days. They use the platform to connect with consumers in meaningful ways, offering everything from special discounts and exclusive content to new product information.

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Next Web, The Verge, Marketing Land, Pulse2 Technology …, LaptopMemo, WebProNews, Mashable! and The New Persuaders. Thanks:@hornokplease

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Expands iTunes Movies in the Cloud to Over 35 New Countries [Updated] — In addition to today's iTunes Match expansion to Hungary and Poland, Apple has also undertaken a significant expansion of its iTunes in the Cloud feature, adding movies to the list of eligible items in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

More: The Next Web, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, MacNN, 9to5Mac and iClarified

BuzzFeed:

The Original iPad Was Gigantic — Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out. It still looks like an iPad, but crossed with an old iBook. And man oh man it is FAT.

Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:

Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+ — A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between Google Search and Google+. Reed spotted a new option in the results that showed up next to the URL, a “Share” link.

More: Google Operating System, BetaNews, Pulse2 Technology …, the Econsultancy blog, State of Search, Search Engine Roundtable and ITworld.com

Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

Rich Kids of Instagram Epitomize Everything Wrong with Instagram — While the Internet has had a good time making fun of these rich kid Instagram photos, haters should be careful. These postings are emblematic of the entire medium we all use. To be certain, these wealthy kid pix are particularly funny …

More: Celebrity Rehab … and Gizmodo. Tweets: @cjoh, @fmanjoo and @sarahintampa

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Continues Legal Fight in Occupy Wall Street Protester Trial — Twitter announced on Thursday that it will appeal a recent ruling in an ongoing legal battle between the state of New York and a Twitter user, in which a judge ordered Twitter to hand over information on one of its users.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Bits, Betabeat, Pulse2 Technology … and GigaOM

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Made in America: Apple's supply chain increasing US production — Over the last year, some of Apple's key component suppliers have begun increasing their U.S.-based production, which could be a sign that more of the iPhone is already made in America than one might think.

More: PadGadget, Macgasm, TUAW and MacNN. Tweets: @ldignan

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Say Media Raises $27 Million and Gets Ready to Start Shopping — Got a Web site to sell? You may want to talk to Matt Sanchez: The CEO of SayMedia just raised $27 million, and he wants to spend a bunch of it building out his media company. — This is technically SayMedia's first round …

More: TechCrunch, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, paidContent, Say Media, SAY Daily, Venture Capital Dispatch and silicontap.com

Lisa Rapaport / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Hires Pollster Penn To Lead Consumer Initiatives — Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has hired Mark Penn as corporate vice president for strategic and special projects, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer as the company readies new offerings for the tablet-computer market.

More: Digits, Daring Fireball, GeekWire, GigaOM and The Next Web

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:

Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop — Summary: After adding its own cloud service to its Linux desktop, Ubuntu is now integrating Web applications into its currently shipping desktop Linux. — Follow @sjvn — Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical …

Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:

Bat-Signal Heralds Launch of Internet Defense League — The Internet Defense League (IDL) launches today, looking to formalise the action that made such a statement 6 months ago. Until recently, protests tended to be single-site activities, but opposition to SOPA and PIPA was so widespread …

More: digitaltrends.com, PC Magazine, Computerworld, Tech Daily Dose, Washington Post, Ars Technica, NewAmerica.net, Softpedia News, CNET, Wired, Examiner, InformationWeek, UK News and Opinion, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews, The Register, Engadget and ThreatPost

Mat Honan / Wired:

Flickr Posts Ingenious Single-Serving Site in Response to Internet Outcry — Not long after Marissa Mayer was named the new CEO of Flickr, Sean Bonner launched a single-serving site, Dear Marissa Mayer, that blew up all over Twitter and the Web. Bonner's site is a simple open letter to Mayer …

More: blogs.ft.com, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tweets: @waxpancake, @sampullara and @davewiner

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Posts $192M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue — Microsoft just released its Q4 2012 earnings report, posting a loss of $192M due to the writedown the company took because of its failed aQuantive acquisition. Revenue for this quarter was $18.06 …

More: Microsoft Investor Relations

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Oracle's Fifth Deal of 2012 Is for Skire — Enterprise software giant Oracle made its fifth acquisition of the year. It announced that it will acquire the assets of Skire, a maker of cloud-based software used to manage capital projects, facilities and real estate.

More: VentureBeat, InfoWorld, Wall Street Journal, eWeek and Reuters

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

K9 Ventures raises $40M micro-VC fund — K9 Ventures has raised $40 million for its second fund, a tech-focused micro-VC fund. The K9 Ventures II fund will be run by Manu Kumar, who headed the earlier fund. — K9 Ventures started invested its first fund of $6.25 million in 2009.

More: Social Markets, The Next Web and PE Hub Blog

Google Investor Relations:

Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2012 Financial Results — Google Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2012 Results — Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced financial results for the quarter ended June 30, 2012. — “Google standalone had a strong quarter with 21% year-on-year revenue growth …

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Microsoft completes $1.2B acquisition of Yammer — YammerSoft is a go, folks. — Less than one month after officially confirming numerous reports that it was going to buy enterprise social network Yammer, Microsoft today announced that the $1.2 billion deal is in the bag.

More: PC World, ZDNet, GeekWire, Engadget and The Next Web

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

How fast is your ISP? A new report tells all. — Cablevision and Verizon FiOS are the mostly likely to deliver better than advertised download speeds, while any provider offering DSL — AT&T, Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink- struggle to deliver on their promises.

More: Tech Daily Dose, DSLreports, FCC.gov, Cable Tech Talk and PC Magazine

Brad Sams / Neowin:

Firefox mobile OS breaks cover, coming in 2013 — Mozilla, the creators of Firefox, are about to enter a crowded marketplace with a new mobile OS. The OS is based on Linux and Gecko and contains everything you would expect from a modern day platform. — Mozilla claims that the OS …

More: Business Insider, TechWeekEurope UK and iDownloadBlog.com

Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:

Dish Network Lost 10,000 Subs in Second Quarter — Analysts had expected the satellite TV firm to lose more customers. — Satellite TV giant Dish Network on Thursday said it lost approximately 10,000 net subscribers in the second quarter, well below the 135,000 it had lost in the year-ago period.

More: Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg and Reuters

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

eBay's John Donahoe Seeing a “Staggering Surge” in Mobile Shopping — EBay has revised its mobile revenue figures, once again. — In what is becoming a routine move, the company said today during its second-quarter earnings release that it is now expecting eBay and PayPal mobile to each transact $10 billion in volume this year.

More: The PayPal Blog, fiercemobilecontent.com, A VC, Marketing Pilgrim, the Econsultancy blog, GadgeTell, The Verge and TechCrunch

Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:

Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence — Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile. That's the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence …

More: paidContent, BetaKit, SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch

Spencer Ackerman / Wired:

Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling — In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists. It's invaded countries where they operated (and ones where they didn't). It's tried to win the backing of foreign populations in which the terrorists hide.

More: TechEye, Gizmodo UK, Betabeat and Slashdot

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