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September 24, 2012, 6:10 PM

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Apple:

iPhone 5 First Weekend Sales Top Five Million — Apple® today announced it has sold over five million of its new iPhone® 5, just three days after its launch on September 21, and more than 100 million iOS devices have been updated with iOS 6, the world's most advanced mobile operating system. iPhone 5 …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple's 5 million iPhone 5 sales: What analysts are saying — First weekend sales set a record, but Wall Street found them disappointing — FORTUNE — Smartphone sales, like presidential debates, are a game of expectations — although in the case of Apple's (AAPL) iPhone 5, it's one the analysts played but the not the company.

More: The Next Web, ReadWriteWeb, Wired, Business Insider, MacRumors, Business Insider, iPhone in Canada Blog and Ubergizmo

Tweets: @anildash and @parislemon

Bloomberg:

Apple IPhone 5 Misses Estimates Even as 5 Million Units Are Sold

More: Daring Fireball and CNET

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Gave Few Phones to Other Retailers

More: CNET, Know Your Cell and MarketBeat

CNN:

Facebook raises fears with ad tracking — (Financial Times) — Facebook is working with a controversial data company called Datalogix that can track whether people who see ads on the social networking site end up buying those products in stores. Amid growing pressure for the social networking site …

More: Ars Technica, digitaltrends.com, The Verge, Mashable!, nbcnews.com, Inside Facebook, Gawker, City A.M., Pulse2 Technology …, Marketing Land, madisonian.net and WebProNews

Elinor Mills / CNET:

Privacy experts to ask FTC to probe Facebook-Datalogix deal

Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

Facebook Confirms No Private Messages Appearing On Timeline. They're Old Wall Posts. — Updated. Some Facebookusers are seeing private messages written in 2009 and earlier showing up on viewable Timelines as messages “Posted by friends.” — TechCrunch has investigated more …

More: VentureBeat, The Next Web, Computerworld, Gizmodo, The Verge, Forbes, AllFacebook, The Next Web, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, Washington Post, Betabeat, CNET, BBC, Mashable! and Gawker

Tweets: @kevinmarks and @jwherrman

New York Times:

Foxconn Plant Closed After Riot, Company Says — SHANGHAI — Foxconn Technology, a major supplier to some of the world's electronics giants, including Apple, said it closed one of its large Chinese plants early Monday after police were called in to break up a fight among factory employees.

More: ReadWriteWeb, Wall Street Journal, BBC, M.I.C. Gadget, Techland and GigaOM

Roger Cheng / CNET:

Apple supplier Foxconn: Production will resume tomorrow

More: TPM IdeaLab, iDownloadBlog.com, Fortune, The Next Web, MacRumors, iPhone in Canada Blog and PC Magazine

Peter Svensson / Associated Press:

Verizon says iPhone 5 won't be ‘relocked’ — NEW YORK (AP) — Verizon Wireless said Monday that it won't prevent its version of the iPhone 5 from being used on AT&T's network. The Verizon version of the iPhone 5, which went on sale Friday, came with an unexpected feature …

More: 9to5Mac, Duncan Davidson, MacRumors, Engadget, The Verge, Daring Fireball, TechCrunch, The Next Web, Macgasm, Pocketables, iPhone Hacks, iDownloadBlog.com, Gotta Be Mobile, Cydia Blog, App Advice and TUAW. Tweets: @dannysullivan

David Breger / LinkedIn Blog:

Introducing Endorsements: Give kudos with just one click — On LinkedIn, you have many smart, talented, and skilled professional connections. Starting today, we are introducing Endorsements, a new feature that makes it easier to recognize them for their skills and expertise.

More: SiliconANGLE, Marketing Land, CNET, SocialTimes, The Next Web, TechCrunch and MarketingVox News & Trends

Raymond M. Soneira / DisplayMate:

iPhone 5 Galaxy S III Display Technology Shoot-Out — The iPhone 5 has been the most anticipated mobile device of 2012 together with its cousin the iPad Mini, which we expect to be seeing shortly. Apple has made displays their most prominent marketing feature because it determines the quality …

More: CNET, SiliconBeat, PC Magazine, ExtremeTech, BGR, Android Authority, MacNN, PhoneArena and Gizmodo UK

Harrison Weber / The Next Web:

Myspace teases a completely rethought service, and believe it or not, it looks beautiful — Myspace has just revealed a video of what appears the be the future of the once wildly popular social network, now that Justin Timberlake and others have steered it in a new direction.

More: CNET, Gizmodo, The Verge, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Salon, Talking Points Memo, The Atlantic Wire, Mashable!, WebProNews and hypebot

Tweets: @tim and @jtimberlake

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Apple TV updated to iOS 5.1, bringing Shared Photo Streams, AirPlay broadcasting and more — Apple has updated the Apple TV software to version 5.1, bringing along with it support for the new Shared Photo Streams introduced in iOS 6, as well as iTunes Account Sharing and other goodies, reports MacRumors.

More: PC Magazine, TechCrunch, CNET, Apple, Apple, The Verge, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, Engadget, GigaOM, Gotta Be Mobile, iPhone in Canada Blog, MacRumors, iDownloadBlog.com, 9to5Mac, TUAW and App Advice

Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:

Flatlining user base spells end of RIM's growth story — A decade after Research In Motion Ltd. introduced its first smartphone, the tribe of BlackBerry users has stopped growing. — RIM is in the midst of a long-running slump in sales, but despite that, it has still managed to sell enough devices …

More: Pulse2 Technology …, MobileSyrup.com, Ars Technica, Betabeat and SlashGear

Matt Brian / The Next Web:

Apple warns ex-MobileMe users with 20GB free iCloud storage of ‘downgrade’ coming Sept. 30 — Apple has begun sending last-minute reminders to users currently enjoying 20GB of free iCloud storage, warning that from September 30, it will downgrade their accounts unless they take action.

More: Computerworld, TUAW, App Advice and CNET

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Beloved email client Sparrow will get yet another post-acquisition update to support iPhone 5 — The much-loved email client Sparrow will be getting another compatibility update, adding support for the iPhone 5′s larger screen. The news came from a tweet by Sparrow founder Dom Leca today.

More: MacRumors, 9to5Mac and iPhone in Canada Blog. Tweets: @domleca

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch:

Intel Confirms Medfield x86 Chips Don't Support LTE Yet — But Says It Won't Be Long Coming — Intel's second bite at the smartphone market has been more akin to a gentle nibbling around the edges. At the end of last year the chipmaker teased a smartphone reference design running its Medfield x86 Atom SoC.

More: Computerworld, Softpedia News, MobileSyrup.com, SeekingAlpha.com, Pocketnow, TechSpot, Android News, Rumours …, AndroidGuys, Engadget and GSMArena Blog

Wall Street Journal:

Revenge of the Nerds, the Sequel: Silicon Valley Wallflowers Now Hot — As Web Darlings See Stocks Fall, Spotlight Hits Business Tech; ‘Sexy Again’ — Phil Fernandez was used to being a Silicon Valley wallflower. — His start-up makes software for marketing departments, and for years …

More: TechCrunch

Josh Kopelman / Redeye VC:

The Dorm Room Fund — I was a dorm room entrepreneur. — I co-founded my first company, Infonautics, back in 1991 while I was a Junior at Penn. By the time I (barely) graduated, we had 20 employees. It was through this personal experience at Penn that I first learned that college campuses …

More: PandoDaily, Technically Philly and Fortune. Tweets: @arrington

James Glanz / New York Times:

Data Centers in Rural Washington State Gobble Power — QUINCY, Wash. — Set in the dry hills and irrigated farmland of Central Washington, Grant County is known for its robust harvest of apples, potatoes, cherries and beans. But for Microsoft, a prime lure was the region's other valuable resource: cheap electrical power.

More: GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, Data Center Knowledge, Forbes, DailyTech, LooseBolts, Engadget, SiliconANGLE and Computerworld

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

This hacker is porting the original Google Maps app to iOS 6, shows it can be done [Video] — At a time when the Apple Maps and Google Maps brouhaha is being discussed by everyone everywhere, one iOS hacker offers a glimpse at a temporary solution. While iOS 6 users wait for either Apple …

More: Examiner, CNET, Cult of Mac, BGR, WebProNews, Tech in Asia, iDownloadBlog.com, MobileSyrup.com, Cydia Blog and TechCrunch

AFP:

Microsoft faces fine over browser commitment: EU (Update) — US software giant Microsoft faces yet more heavy fines after it promised to offer clients a choice of web browser but then failed to do so, the EU's competition commissioner said Monday. — Microsoft apologised in July for a …

More: CNET, WebProNews and Softpedia News

Brad Dorfman / Reuters:

Toys R Us sued over kids tablet trade secrets — (Reuters) - The maker of the Nabi tablet computer for children sued Toys R Us Inc on Monday, saying the world's largest toy retailer stole trade secrets in preparing to introduce the rival Tabeo tablet this month.

More: 9to5Google

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google shares hit all-time high — (Reuters) - Google Inc shares set an all-time high on Monday, with the Web giant's reliable advertising business back in vogue among Wall Street investors disenchanted with younger social media companies. — The stock reached $747.84 around noon eastern time …

More: TechCrunch, 9to5Google, VentureBeat and The Tech Block

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Groupon Has Bought Restaurant Reservations And Discount Provider Savored — Groupon continues its acquisition march to beef up its service and take itself beyond daily deals. Today it announced that it has bought Savored, a restaurant reservations and discount meal provider.

More: Forbes, DailyFinance.com, VentureBeat, The Savored Blog, Groublogpon, The Next Web, AllThingsD and Business Wire

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