Techmeme: Mayer Brings in First Googler — in PR — to Yahoo (Kara Swisher/AllThingsD)

August 2, 2012, 6:35 PM

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Tim Kelly / Reuters:

Sharp to start shipping iPhone screens to Apple this month — (Reuters) - Japan's Sharp Corp. said it will start shipping screens destined for a new Apple iPhone that is widely expected to be released in October ahead of the pre-Christmas shopping season. — “Shipments will start in August …

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Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Facebook Drops Below $20: Worth Less Than What MSFT Offered For Yahoo In 2008? — Today, Facebook hit a new milestone, perhaps one that it won't be celebrating much: the stock went down past $20 a share. In fact, as this post is being written it's trading at $19.99.

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Yoni Heisler / Network World:

Apple initially wanted an iPhone with shaped glass, deposition reveals — The Apple-Samsung trial has provided us with an absolute treasure trove of information regarding Apple's iPhone prototypes. Below is why Apple initially shied away from shaped glass and why an iPhone prototype resembling …

More: MacRumors, App Advice, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, PhoneArena, Business Insider, SlashGear and everythingiCafe. Thanks:@ionapple1

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer Brings in First Googler — in PR — to Yahoo — New CEO Marissa Mayer has brought in her first Googler over to Yahoo — one of her longtime PR staffers, Anne Espiritu. Espiritu has worked closely with Mayer at the search giant, especially on various media appearances and on consumer products.

More: VentureBeat, 9to5Google, The Next Web and Business Insider. Tweets: @demandrichard

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Q2 Earnings Beat The Street: $228.2M In Sales; EPS of $0.03 — LinkedIn has just released Q2 earnings, and the enterprise-focused social network continues to rise. It's posted revenues of $228.2 million and earnings per share of $0.03 (non-GAAP EPS: $0.16).

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Matt Warman / Telegraph:

BlackBerry: other manufacturers could license our new BB10 platform — Thorsten Heins, chief executive of Research in Motion, has told the Telegraph that manufacturers such as Sony or Samsung could licence the new BlackBerry operating system. — New RIM CEO Thorsten Heins introduced BlackBerry 10 in Florida

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Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft advises developers to stop using ‘Metro’ name in apps following possible trademark dispute — Microsoft has started to notify its Windows developers that they should refrain from using the word “Metro” throughout their applications if they refer to the Windows Phone or Windows 8 interface.

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Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Marc Andreessen Steps Down From Dalton Caldwell's Mixed Media Labs Board — Wednesday was an ugly day for infighting in the Valley, after Dalton Caldwell, a Silicon Valley veteran and serial entrepreneur, posted a withering missive to his personal blog on Wednesday, in which he accused Facebook …

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Tweets: @rmoney, @mattlynley and @joshuamcclure

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Joanna Stern / ABCNEWS:

Facebook Stories: A Facebook Site With Collected Stories and Infographics — A lot of people — close to 950 million, in fact — are sharing their lives on Facebook. As it turns out, Facebook thinks many of them have some interesting stories. Some of them are so interesting that they could be part …

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Timothy B. Lee / Ars Technica:

Bill would force patent trolls to pay defendants' legal bills — A new bill introduced in the House of Representatives attempts to deter frivolous patent litigation by forcing unsuccessful patent plaintiffs to cover defendants' legal costs. Introduced by Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR) …

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Emil Protalinski / CNET:

Facebook: 8.7 percent are fake users — Facebook estimates that 4.8 percent are duplicate accounts, 2.4 percent are user-misclassified accounts, and 1.5 percent are undesirable accounts. — Follow @emilprotalinski — Does she have a Facebook account? — Last week, during …

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Enigmax / TorrentFreak:

Demonoid Starts Redirecting to Ads and Malware — Demonoid is one of the world's largest and longest standing sites that not only indexes torrents, but also operates its own tracker. — Although the site has a reasonable uptime record, there have been a few occasions where it has not only gone down, but has disappeared completely.

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Jon Russell / The Next Web:

3-week old Jelly Bean hits 0.8% Android device adoption, as Ice Cream Sandwich reaches 15.9% — It's been just over a month since Google officially announced Jelly Bean (Android 4.1) and barely three weeks since the first rollout, but already the latest flavor of Android is installed …

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Kyle Wagner / Gizmodo:

BREAKING: David Pogue Has Lost His iPhone (UPDATE #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 #7 #8 #9 #10 #11 #12 #13 #14 #15 #16—THEY GOT IT—Still Updating #17 #18) — New York Times technology writer David Pogue has lost his iPhone. He has posted a screenshot of where it might be on Lockerz.com, though.

More: Pogue's Posts and 9to5Mac. Tweets: @pgpdjulie, @stevekovach, @pogue, @popsci, @mattbuchanan, @joemfbrown, @adrianchen, @stevekovach and @pogue

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

IDC: Apple's iPad Grew Q2 Tablet Share To 68% As It Braces For Windows 8, Amazon And Nexus Competition — After Amazon launched its $199 Kindle Fire tablet last autumn, a lot of observers thought it could prove to be the competition to Apple's iPad that other Android tablets had so far failed to deliver.

More: VatorNews, GeekWire, The Verge, IDC, Computerworld, BetaNews and MacRumors

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Final copy of Windows 8 leaks online — The final build of Windows 8 has leaked to the internet, just a day after Microsoft confirmed it had finished the development cycle for the new operating system. Although MSDN and TechNet customers won't officially receive access …

More: The Next Web and Gizmodo

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Dead Trigger goes free on iOS, where piracy is apparently also a problem — Madfinger Games, the studio behind mobile first-person shooter Dead Trigger, earned a fair bit of notoriety recently by making its game free on Android in response to what it called an “unbelievably high” piracy rate.

More: BetaNews, Gamezebo, PhoneArena and Pocketables

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Schadenfreude, Anyone? In Wake of Facebook Bullying Claims, Google+ Chief Vic Gundotra Woos Developers — When our enemies stumble publicly, some take the high road and steer clear of mentioning our adversary's folly. But for others, some things are just too good to pass up.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Aereo Celebrates a Court Victory with Clever Marketing: Free Web TV for an Hour, or a Dollar for a Day — Fresh off the heels of a court victory, Barry Diller's Aereo is ramping up its marketing push with a clever new pricing scheme: The TV-on-the-Web service is rolling out new plans …

More: gdgt, Mashable, PC Magazine, The Verge, PadGadget, TechSpot, Deadline.com, Variety, Engadget, TechCrunch, Betabeat, VentureBeat and CNET. See also Mediagazer

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Getaround, Flush With $13.9M, Will Now Pay You $1,000 Per Month to Rent Your Car Full-time — Getaround, a peer-to-peer car-sharing service, has raised $13.9 million in Series A funding led by Menlo Ventures and including Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, Ashton Kutcher's A-Grade Investments and Eric Schmidt's Innovation Endeavors.

More: TechCrunch, Mashable, PandoDaily, Business Insider, TechCrunch and VentureBeat

Ryan Mac / Forbes:

Professor Billionaire: The Stanford Academic Who Wrote Google Its First Check — David Cheriton wrote a $100,000 check to Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1998. Today that check is now worth more than $1 billion in Google shares. (Martin Klimek / Getty Images)

Thanks:@gerryshih

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Parking Payment Startup QuickPay Raises $3.5M, Powerset Founder Barney Pell Becomes CEO — QuickPay, a startup that helps drivers find and pay for parking, has brought on a new CEO — Barney Pell, the founder of semantic search company Powerset (which was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 for a reported $100 million).

More: VentureBeat, AllThingsD, The Technology Chronicles, Fortune, VatorNews, Internet2Go and BetaKit

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

AT&T acquires NextWave Wireless for $25m up front, to boost mobile Internet capacity — US telecommunications powerhouse AT&T has announced that it has agreed to acquire NextWave Wireless, which holds key licenses in the Wireless Communication Services (WCS) and Advanced Wireless Service (AWS) bands.

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Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

Deutsche Telekom Invests $9 Million in Mobile Payments Player LevelUp — It's takes money to make money: Boston-based LevelUp, a mobile payments service, has raised $9 million from T-Venture, Deutsche Telekom's investment arm and other investors. This cash injection will be added …

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