|
August 2, 2012, 1:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Brandon LeBlanc / The Windows Blog: |
Windows 8 has reached the RTM milestone — Today, I am excited to announce that Windows 8 has been released to manufacturing (RTM)! This means we've completed the product development and testing of the product and have started handing off the final code to our OEM partners.
More:
The Seattle Times, MSDN Blogs, Pulse2 Technology …, TechNet Blogs, gHacks Technology News, Examiner, DailyTech, TechSpot, BGR, Wired, iClarified, PC Magazine, GamesIndustry International, eWeek, Softpedia News, The Tech Report, VentureBeat, Electronista, Engadget, Techie Buzz, AllThingsD, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Pocketables and TonisTechBlogTonisTechBlog
| Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs: |
More:
MSDN Blogs, Forbes, TechNet Blogs, GeekWire, Neowin, AnandTech, I4U News, ReadWriteWeb, Computerworld, InfoWorld, ABCNEWS, Mashable!, The Register, Business Insider, Techie Buzz, PC World and WebProNews. Thanks:@keithdsouza
| John Callaham / Neowin: |
More:
The Next Web, Redmond Pie and MSDN Blogs
| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
The Future of Twitter's Platform Is All in the Cards — On June 29, Twitter VP of Product Michael Sippey posted a foreboding 439-word letter to the company blog, broadly sketching the direction Twitter's platform is headed. — Upon its reception, most of the public attention focused on a single passage … | MG Siegler: |
Twitter's Landscaping Problem — Twitter. On the surface, it's another year, another bitch session. Developers are up in arms! Everyone is threatening to leave! Or, at least, hundreds of people! There's talk of open source competitors! It's over! Maybe!
Tweets: @avibryant and @mathewi
| Owen Thomas / Business Insider: |
As Twitter Goes To War With Its Developers, Flipboard CEO Mike McCue Quits The Board — Flipboard CEO Mike McCue has left Twitter's board of directors. — He just tweeted his thanks to Twitter CEO Dick Costolo and cofounders Ev Williams and Jack Dorsey. — AllThingsD's Mike Isaac … | Dalton Caldwell: |
Dear Mark Zuckerberg … On June 13, 2012, at 4:30 p.m., I attended a meeting at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park, California. In addition to myself, the meeting was attended by executives at Facebook with the following titles: “VP, Engineering & Products”, “VP, Partnerships”,"VP …
More:
TechCrunch, 9.blog, VentureBeat, Forbes and AllThingsD
Tweets: @hunterwalk, @jason, @stephlauren, @tolles, @erickschonfeld, @mims, @bling0, @cdixon and @hunterwalk
Thanks:@andybritcliffe| Mike Isaac / AllThingsD: |
With Three Key Exits, Facebook's Top Talent Departures Continue — The question on everyone's minds after Facebook's May IPO — How long till the brain drain starts? — Apparently, not that long. Ethan Beard, director of platform partnerships at Facebook, announced on Wednesday via Facebook that he will soon leave the company.
More:
CNET, TechCrunch, Digits and Ethan Beard
| Liz Gannes / AllThingsD: |
A Further Blow to Online Lurking: Quora Will Now Publicly Show Who Has Read a Post — Quora today is introducing a feature that shows which of its users have read each Quora post, and how they found it. It's another move by a social Web service to share passive activities …
More:
Quora, The Verge, CNET, BostInno, broadstuff, VentureBeat, TechCrunch and GigaOM. Tweets: @semil
| Tom Warren / The Verge: |
Lenovo Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2 aimed at iPad business users, includes pen input and dock — Lenovo has previously shown off a prototype Windows 8 tablet back at Computex Taipei in June, which recently passed through the FCC. A leaked Lenovo document on the tablet, sent to us by a tipster …
More:
CNET, SlashGear, Techin5, Gotta Be Mobile, newlaunches.com, PadGadget, ZDNet, Neowin, Gizmodo, Engadget and Liliputing
| Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch: |
Yelp Q2 Beats The Street With Top-Line Growth, Narrowing Losses: $32.7M Revenue, $2M Net Loss — Yelp today reported its earnings for the second quarter of 2012, its second ever financial report as a publicly-traded company. Overall, the reviews site showed continued top-line revenue growth … | Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD: |
HP Wins Key Ruling in Itanium Lawsuit With Oracle — The judge hearing the lawsuit between Hewlett-Packard and Oracle has ruled that the software giant is bound by its commitment to continue making software that is compatible with Intel's Itanium server chip.
More:
eWeek, BetaNews, The Register, Mercury News, CNET, Reuters and Ars Technica
| Douglas MacMillan / Bloomberg: |
Zynga COO Said To Lose Product Oversight As Growth Slows — Zynga Inc. (ZNGA) Chief Operating Officer John Schappert, who was wooed from Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) last year, was stripped of his role overseeing game development in a reorganization aimed at reviving growth and making more money …
More:
Reuters, Business Insider, AllThingsD, WebProNews and VentureBeat
| Rip Empson / TechCrunch: |
Y Combinator-Backed Instacart Wants To Be Amazon With One-Hour Delivery — When it comes to being the Mall of the Internet, no one really does it better than Amazon. Yet, to truly best its offline competitors and put the icing on the cake in terms of user experience, Amazon has been pushing hard … | Josh Constine / TechCrunch: |
Google Acquires Wildfire, Will Now Sell Facebook And Twitter Marketing Services [Update: $350M Price] — Google has just bought social marketing software developer Wildfire, which lets brands serve marketing and ad campaigns on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, Pinterest, YouTube and LinkedIn.
More:
Small Business News …, Los Angeles Times and Inquirer
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Psst. Facebook Turned On Its App Center Worldwide Overnight [Updated] — Facebook took one more step further in its global ambitions today: the social network has now made its App Center, the storefront for Facebook desktop and mobile applications, available in every country where Facebook is.
More:
PC Magazine, CNET, Neowin, TonisTechBlogTonisTechBlog, Engadget, The Verge, SlashGear, VatorNews and The Next Web
| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
Apple Expands Build-to-Order Configuration Options on Retina MacBook Pro [Updated] — Apple today quietly expanded the available configuration options for the Retina MacBook Pro, now offering a full slate of individual upgrade options on the base model that starts at $2199.| Brad McCarty / The Next Web: |
Google Wallet goes cloud-based, adds remote disable, accepts Visa, American Express and Discover — Since the rollout of its Wallet product, Google has been partnered with MasterCard and the credit card company's PayPass product. But today, Google tells us that the platform is opening up …
More:
Google Mobile Blog, Official Android Blog, NYT Bits, Marketing Land, Ars Technica, LAPTOP Magazine, Mashable!, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, The Verge and Engadget. Tweets: @fwd. Thanks:@bradmccarty
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Silk lands $1.6 million from NEA and Atomico to improve its structured data service — Silk recently launched its nifty Web app, which lets users collect, sort, visualize and store rich information in a structured way, in public beta. — Today, the Dutch startup behind the service …
More:
GigaOM, TechCrunch and PandoDaily
| Brad Chacos / LAPTOP Magazine: |
Surging iPad Helps Apple Snag No. 1 PC Spot from HP — Apple's share of the smartphone market may have slipped last quarter, but where the iPhone slacked, the iPad picked up, propelling the company past HP an into the pole position as the number one PC manufacturer in the world.| Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: |
Salesforce updates Do.com with new tools & Android app, paid version on the way — Cloud powerhouse Salesforce has updated its Do.com social productivity application has been updated with new features, including comprehensive contacts form and tracker for ongoing deals, the company announced today.
More:
digitaltrends.com, GigaOM, ZDNet and TechCrunch
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Take That, Yahoo Fantasy Football: NFL Adds Google+ Hangouts To Its Fantasy Football Site — Google announced today a pretty major deal with the NFL which will help it to virally grow adoption of Google+ Hangouts - the live chat feature on its social networking efforts known as Google+.| Tarmo Virki / Reuters: |
Lenovo executive dismisses Nokia bid talk as “joke” — (Reuters) - Chinese personal computer maker Lenovo on Wednesday quashed market speculation it was interested in buying struggling Finnish cellphone maker Nokia. — “This must be a joke,” Gianfranco Lanci, who runs Lenovo's operations in Europe …
More:
Bloomberg, AllThingsD, Neowin, Technically Personal!, PhoneArena, CNET, WMPoweruser, ZDNet and The Register
Sponsor Posts
Google:
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Try Gemini 3 Pro — Google's newest and most intelligent AI model that helps you bring any idea to life
Shopify:
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Shopify's new AI commerce stack — Their VP of Product digs into just-launched products to help entrepreneurs and developers build with the latest AI and tech.
Zoho:
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
Zoho People in 2025: A year in review — As we wrap up 2025, we're taking a moment to look back on a year filled with progress and transformation at Zoho People. Our team has been constantly pushing boundaries …
IDrive:
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.Featured Podcasts
Lenny's Podcast:
The coming AI security crisis (and what to do about it) | Sander Schulhoff
Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.
Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.
Big Technology Podcast:
OpenAI's Potential, Google's Speedy Model, Copilot Hits Turbulence
The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.
Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.
Hard Fork:
Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin' Xmas Song
The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.
Subscribe to Hard Fork.
Access:
Betting on reality with Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour
A show about the tech industry's inside conversation, hosted by tech reporter Alex Heath and founder whisperer Ellis Hamburger.
Subscribe to Access.
Channels with Peter Kafka:
"Neither Side Is Used to Losing." Lucas Shaw on What's Next for Netflix and Paramount in the Battle for Warner Bros.
Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.
Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:
Ted Sarandos: Netflix and how tech changed storytelling
Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.
Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 1:05 AM ET, August 2, 2012.
The most current version of the site as always is available at our home page. To view an earlier snapshot click here and then modify the date indicated.
From Mediagazer
Daniel Thomas / Financial Times:Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Paul Glynn / BBC:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
More:
CNET, AppleInsider and Associated Press
| Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
More:
Engadget, Light Reading, AllThingsD, Nokia Conversations, Reuters, SlashGear, CNET, Ubergizmo and PhoneArena
| Harrison Weber / The Next Web: |
More:
PC Magazine, TechCrunch, Android and Me and Kotaku
| Chloe Albanesius / PC Magazine: |
More:
Wall Street Journal, CNET and TUAW
| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
More:
Reuters
Earlier Picks
| Louis Goddard / The Verge: |
More:
Engadget, BGR, The Next Web, 9to5Google, CNET, MobileSyrup.com, Technabob, IntoMobile, 9to5Google, Geek.com, Engadget and Softpedia News
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
More:
TechCrunch, Ars Technica and VentureBeat
Tweets: @mikeloukides, @josh_wills, @ingridlunden and @nytimesbits
| Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
New York Times and Federal Trade Commission
| Megan Garber / The Atlantic Online: |
| Aditya Agarwal / The Dropbox Blog: |
More:
BGR, Computerworld, Naked Security, SiliconANGLE, TechSpot, eWeek, Datamation.com, SC Magazine, ZDNet, VentureBeat, BBC, Mashable!, NYT Bits, msnbc.com, SecurityWeek, Boing Boing and The H Security
| Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac: |
More:
The Verge, TechCrunch, Mashable!, BGR, Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, BetaNews, Appolicious Advisor, Liliputing, CNET, Geeky-Gadgets, MobileBurn.com, GeekWire, Zatz Not Funny!, LAPTOP Magazine, MacRumors, Macgasm, Lifehacker, The Next Web, IntoMobile, USA Today, Softpedia News, App Advice and VentureBeat. Thanks:@llsethj