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July 19, 2012, 12:35 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: digitaltrends.com, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Apps blog, Computerworld, 9to5Mac, Mobile, ZDNet, Digits, Gizmodo UK 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 — Beleaguered phone maker Nokia this morning published its financial results for the second quarter of 2012, reporting a $1 billion (826 million euros) operating loss on $9.21 billion in net sales (7.5 billion euros).

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

Tweets: @asymco and @benedictevans

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

CEO Elop Hints Nokia Will Be 1st To Windows Phone 8, Weighs In On China And Android — Nokia's Q2 earnings out today reflect the big challenges for the handset maker amid what CEO Stephen Elop calls the “ferocity” of competition from Android and Apple, but here's a clue to one interesting development …

More: LAPTOP Magazine and The Verge

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, State of Search, Search Engine Roundtable and ITworld.com

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, VentureBeat, paidContent, Venture Capital Dispatch, SAY Daily and Say Media

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: GigaOM and The Next Web

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: Business Insider, Mobile Magazine, CNET, DVICE, TUAW, PhoneArena, MacRumors, I4U News, Neowin, The Tech Report, 9to5Mac, TechnoBuffalo, TechSpot, Gizmodo UK, Engadget and iDownloadBlog.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: Betabeat

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: BetaKit, paidContent, SiliconANGLE and TechCrunch

Cecilia Kang / Washington Post:

As Apple and Samsung vie over tablet patents, judge at center of a tech storm — As Apple and Samsung escalated a multibillion-dollar war over one of the hottest consumer gadgets of our time, the tablet computer, a little-known judge did for Apple what the company couldn't do on its own: She shut down the competition.

More: Electronista and The Droid Guy. Tweets: @dangillmor

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 and Betabeat

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

Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:

Can Apple Launch in China Without Incident? … The big question for the China launch of the new iPad on Friday isn't whether it will sell well, but if the retailer can keep the police out of it. — When the iPhone 4S launched in January, hundreds of customers waited overnight outside …

More: GigaOM, AllThingsD, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, Computerworld, iDownloadBlog.com and The Next Web

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:

Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones — Verizon just announced its financial results for Q2 2012 and the wireless business had yet another strong quarter. The nation's biggest wireless carrier added 888,000 new postpaid subscribers …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Pocket gets $5m from Google Ventures and others to expand its read-it-later service to new platforms — The incredibly popular ‘save for later’ service Pocket is now clocking some 1M items saved per day and has announced a new $5M round of funding. Participating in this round is Foundation Capital …

More: BuzzFeed, The Verge, paidContent, Media Decoder, TechCrunch, Pocket Blog, fiercemobilecontent.com and AllThingsD. See also Mediagazer

Emil Protalinski / CNET:

Facebook ad rates surge 58 percent, leaves Twitter in the dust — Study results represent great news for Facebook ahead of its second-quarter earnings call on July 26. — Facebook's average cost per thousand impressions has increased by 58 percent in the second quarter of 2012 compared …

More: AllTwitter, Inside Facebook and The New Persuaders

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Allegations multiply in EU browser probe of Microsoft — Antitrust officials investigating four sets of charges against Windows 8 and Windows RT — European antitrust officials have widened their investigation into Microsoft's browser practices to include four different allegations …

More: The Verge, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and Reuters

Avram Piltch / LAPTOP Magazine:

McDonald's Denies Employees Assaulted Human Cyborg Steve Mann — In response to a storm of controversy surrounding its treatment of Human Cyborg Steve Mann, McDonald's has issued a statement, claiming that it has investigated the incident and determined that it “did not involve a physical altercation …

More: Examiner, msnbc.com, The Firewall, Gizmodo UK, SlashGear, TechEye and TechnoBuffalo

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: TUAW and MacNN

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 …

Tweets: @fmanjoo

Jaikumar Vijayan / Computerworld:

Hacker claims breach of 50,000 accounts from Wall Street IT recruiting firm — A hacker claimed to have broken into ITWallStreet.com, a website for IT professionals seeking jobs or working with Wall Street firms, and exposed highly detailed data belonging to tens of thousands of job applicants.

More: NovaInfosec.com and WebProNews

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IOC Gets Social With New Olympics Hub Integrating Instagram, Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare — With the Olympics due to start in just over a week, the International Olympic Committee has finally taken the wraps off a new social media hub, apart from its main website, for athletes and fans to cosy up to one another.

More: Mashable!, paidContent and BBC

Brad Calder / MSDN Blogs:

Windows Azure Storage - 4 Trillion Objects and Counting — Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. — About a year ago we hit the 1 trillion object mark.

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch, Data Center Knowledge and TechNet Blogs

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Microsoft-owned GroupMe sues fellow NY startup Groupie over trademark dispute — GroupMe, the mobile messaging service provider that was bought by Skype and thus became part of Microsoft, has filed a complaint against fellow New York City-based tech startup Groupie in an effort to increase …

More: Betabeat

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

33Across Picks Up $13.1M To Grow Its Big Data Social Graph, No Facebook Strings Attached — Social ad targeting company 33Across, which claims to operate the world's biggest social graph covering over 1.25 billion users globally, has raised another $13.1 million in a Series C round of financing …

More: Business Insider, VatorNews and GigaOM

Joel Rosenblatt / Bloomberg:

Samsung Asks To Limit Apple References To Jobs At Trial — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930) asked a federal judge to restrict references by Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s lawyers to the company's late founder Steve Jobs at a jury trial scheduled for July 30 over mobile-device patents.

More: GigaOM, VentureBeat, memeburn, Reuters and MacDailyNews

Charles E. Schumer / Wall Street Journal:

Memo to DOJ: Drop the Apple E-Books Suit — Restoring Amazon's monopoly in digital publishing is not in the public interest. — Recently the Department of Justice filed suit against Apple and major publishers, alleging that they colluded to raise prices in the digital books market.

More: Mobile Marketing Watch, paidContent, CNET, Washington Post, Computerworld, AppleInsider, Softpedia News, Fortune, TeleRead, Engadget, Ars Technica, Pulse2 Technology …, paidContent, App Advice, Hillicon Valley, Media Decoder and 9to5Mac. See also Mediagazer

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