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July 19, 2012, 11:20 PM

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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer to Get Close to $60 Million (And Maybe More) in Overall Compensation for Yahoo's Top Job — Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it could be paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of close to $60 million to turn the company around. — The mega-sum includes salary, equity grants …

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More: GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Marketing Land, CNBC, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Reuters, SlashGear, Deal Journal and bizjournals

Paul Sloan / CNET:

Yahoo's Marissa Mayer to earn $1M salary, plus giant bonus potential

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, TechCrunch, Computerworld, parislemon, The Verge, Guardian, Mashable!, Business Insider, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, WMPoweruser, BGR, Marketing Land, AllThingsD and The Next Web

Tweets: @parislemon and @theromit

Brian Proffitt / ReadWriteWeb:

Don't Believe the Doomsayers: Microsoft's Q4 Results Are Good News — Despite notching its first-ever quarterly loss, Microsoft's fourth-quarter results beat analyst expectations, giving the software giant some breathing room as it heads into a year of major change.

More: parislemon and MarketBeat. Tweets: @cdixon

Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Microsoft Just Lost Money For the First Time Ever

More: AppleInsider, GeekWire, GigaOM and Business Insider. Tweets: @davidgoldmancnn

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.

Drew Olanoff / The Next Web:

Google's Nikesh Arora: Larry Page lost his voice, but continues to run the company — During today's quarterly earnings call, Google was asked about CEO Larry Page's health. This has been a topic of conversation for analysts and investors over the past few weeks, as Page skipped …

More: Bits, GigaOM, TechCrunch and AllThingsD

Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Here are the latest whisper dates for Microsoft's Windows Phone 8, Office 2013 — Summary: What's the latest scuttlebutt on Microsoft's fall slate of product and services due out this fall? — Follow @maryjofoley — As we've known, or at least suspected, for a while now …

More: Engadget, The Verge, The Next Web, WinBeta, PhoneArena, Gotta Be Mobile, TechnoBuffalo, Ubergizmo, Windows Phone Daily, WMPoweruser, Neowin, Gizmodo and Datamation.com

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: PandoDaily, CNET, Mashable!, VentureBeat and Techie Buzz

Sharon McBrayer / Hickory Daily Record:

Apple building new, smaller data center in Maiden — Site plans gives details of construction, more potential growth — MAIDEN, NC — In addition to the world's largest private fuel cell installation and solar farm, Apple Inc. is building a new, smaller data center on its Maiden campus.

More: 9to5Mac, CNET, Data Center Knowledge, Engadget, AllThingsD, The Register, GigaOM, MacRumors, MacNN, Macgasm, iClarified and TUAW

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, Marketing Land, Pulse2 Technology …, The Verge, VentureBeat, PC Magazine, The Next Web, Mashable!, LaptopMemo, Fast Company and WebProNews. 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 Verge, iDownloadBlog.com, The Next Web, TUAW, iLounge, MacNN and 9to5Mac

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 …

More: Engadget

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: Canonical Blog, ITworld.com and Softpedia News

Killian Bell / Cult of Mac:

19% Of iOS Apps Access Your Address Book Without Your Permission... Until iOS 6 [Report] — Antivirus software specialist Bitdefender has found that nearly 19% of iOS apps access your address book without your knowledge — or your consent — when you're using them, and 41% track your location.

More: Mobile Entertainment, 9to5Mac and iClarified

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

Amazon launches high-performance SSD instances — A new type of compute instance just added to Amazon's EC2 menu targets high I/O jobs, including NoSQL database applications. The new “High I/O Quadruple Extra Large” instances store and retrieve lots of data very fast …

More: CNET, The Register, Amazon Web Services Blog, The Netflix Tech Blog, Computerworld, All Things Distributed and ZDNet

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

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: The Verge, FCC.gov, Ars Technica, digitaltrends.com, PC World, DSLreports, Cable Tech Talk, USA Today, PC Magazine and fiercecable.com

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: Shiny Objects, App Advice, Macgasm, PadGadget, TUAW and MacNN. Tweets: @ldignan

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: PetaPixel, The Next Web, GadgeTell, Thomas Hawk Digital Connection and Mashable!

Tweets: @sampullara, @davewiner and @waxpancake

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Facebook Begins Testing Sponsored Results, Its First Search Typeahead Ads — Heads up, Google. Facebook is testing a new format of search ads called Sponsored Results that lets advertisers show ads in the Facebook search typeahead to users looking for a particular Page, app, or Place.

More: Inside Facebook. Thanks:@elinblesener

Joel Falconer / The Next Web:

World's first Android Jelly Bean carrier rollout halted due to emergency call problem — The expected rollout of Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to handsets on the Vodafone Australia network has been delayed as the update is not up to Australian regulatory requirements related to emergency calls.

More: Vodafone Australia blog, ITworld.com, Gotta Be Mobile and TechnoBuffalo. Thanks:@aaron_osteraas

Ari Levy / Bloomberg:

Kayak Software Raises $91 Million, Prices IPO Above Range — Kayak Software Corp. (KYAK), the online travel company, raised $91 million in its initial public offering, pricing the shares above its proposed range. — The company sold 3.5 million shares at $26 each, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

More: Wall Street Journal, Reuters, MarketWatch and AllThingsD

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:

Buyers of Latest iPad More Likely to Use It for Business — Whether it's due to increasing adoption of Bring Your Own Device policies or the rising adoption by business of the device itself, Apple's iPad continues to make inroads into enterprise. — New research from Consumer Intelligence …

More: GigaOM, Macgasm, PhoneArena, bizjournals and Datamation.com

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: Computerworld, BGR, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, Bits, Pulse2 Technology … and Betabeat

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.

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