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July 19, 2012, 5:55 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer to Get $40 Million in Overall Compensation for Yahoo's Top Job — As I reported earlier today it would, Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it was paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of $40 million to turn the company around. — The amount, which is more almost quadruple …

More: Business Insider and BetaNews. Tweets: @cnbc

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission:

Employee Offer Letter — Yahoo! Inc. 701 First Avenue — Dear Marissa: — On behalf of Yahoo! Inc. ("Yahoo!" or the “Company"), I am pleased to offer you the position of President and Chief Executive Officer, reporting to the Company's Board of Directors (the “Board") …

More: Mashable!

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to earn $1M salary, plus giant bonus potential — If the ex-Googler can turnaround Yahoo, she'll become a business legend. She'll also make bank. — Follow @paulsloan — In all the speculation about why Marissa Mayer left Google to take the job at Yahoo, no one has suggested she's doing it for the money.

More: AllThingsD

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue — Microsoft just released its Q4 2012 earnings report, posting just $192M in operating income before taxes and its first ever loss ($492M) due to the writedown the company took because of its failed aQuantive acquisition.

More: Microsoft Investor Relations, The Verge, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, BGR, Marketing Land, Business Insider, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Mashable! and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @parislemon and @theromit

Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Microsoft Just Lost Money For the First Time Ever — Microsoft just posted its fourth quarter results, and for the first time since the tech giant was founded, it lost money. But this isn't necessarly all doom and gloom the beginning of the end—not yet anyway.

More: GigaOM and GeekWire. Tweets: @davidgoldmancnn

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.

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

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, The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Daily, Nokia, New York Times, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, ZDNet, MediaNama, GeekWire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, CNET, Tech Trader Daily, Reuters, Gizmodo, Business Insider, The Register, The Tech Trade, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Inquirer and GigaOM

Tweets: @asymco and @benedictevans

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

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

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Techie Buzz 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: CNET, Fast Company, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Marketing Land, The Verge, The Next Web, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Mashable! and LaptopMemo. Thanks:@hornokplease

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Google nabs $12B for Q2, including a tidy billion from new subsidiary Motorola — Google has just released the details of its second-quarter earnings: $12.21 billion in total consolidated revenue, around $1.25 billion of which came from Motorola Mobility, now officially owned by Google.

More: The New Persuaders, New York Times, CNET, Google Investor Relations, Search Engine Watch, GeekWire, Marketing Land, ReadWriteWeb, CNNMoney.com, Mercury News, GigaOM, Forbes, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Business Insider, bizjournals and internetretailer.com

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @ampressman

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed — Facebook appears to be testing a layout for Open Graph app stories that is similar in design to Pinterest, with boxes for individual items that allow Likes, comments and other app-specific actions.

More: VentureBeat, Mashable! and Techie Buzz

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 and iLounge

Reuters:

Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to “deepen” relationship — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is about to add the biggest retail players to his list of friends. — Zuckerberg and his senior management team will spend two days at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Bentonville …

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 …. Tweets: @cjoh, @fmanjoo and @sarahintampa

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

AMD reports weak second quarter earnings on PC market softness — Advanced Micro Devices reported relatively weak second-quarter earnings as it suffered more than its share of headaches from a softening personal computer market. — The chip maker, which is a perennial No. 2 to Intel …

More: ZDNet, Tech Trader Daily and Shiny Objects

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones

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.

More: Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Mobile Magazine, PadGadget, DVICE, The Tech Report, TUAW, Edible Apple, PhoneArena and Neowin

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: eWeek, VentureBeat, Fast Company, digitaltrends.com, Tech Daily Dose, PC Magazine, NewAmerica.net, Computerworld, Ars Technica, CNET, Softpedia News, Wired, Mashable!, InformationWeek, Examiner, UK News and Opinion, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews and The Register

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, Mashable!, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection, The Next Web and Business Insider

Tweets: @waxpancake, @sampullara and @davewiner

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 and Pulse2 Technology …

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: DSLreports, The Verge, Computerworld, Tech Daily Dose, FCC.gov, PC Magazine and Cable Tech Talk

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: PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology …, Google Operating System, BetaNews, the Econsultancy blog, State of Search and Search Engine Roundtable

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: BetaKit, Say Media, SAY Daily, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, paidContent, TechCrunch and Venture Capital Dispatch

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 and TUAW. Tweets: @ldignan

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 …

More: Softpedia News and Canonical Blog

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, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Reuters and Computerworld

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, GigaOM and The Next Web

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

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