Techmeme: Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It (Jessica E. Lessin/Wall Street Journal)

November 29, 2012, 9:50 AM

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Leo Kelion / BBC:

Tony Fadell: From iPod father to thermostat start-up — Father of the iPod — Tony Fadell on changes at Apple, Nest and doubts about Kickstarter

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Juli Clover / MacRumors:

Scott Forstall Deserved to be Ousted from Apple Says Former Apple Exec — In an interview with BBC, Tony Fadell claims that former Apple senior vice president of iOS Scott Forstall “got what he deserved,” when he was forced to leave Apple. — Fadell is widely known as the godfather of the iPod …

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Wall Street Journal:

Dell, Intel in Talks for Stake in Sharp — TOKYO—Sharp Corp. is in discussions with U.S. technology companies to bolster its battered balance sheet and has offered a stake to Dell Inc., among others, in return for a stable supply of breakthrough display technology, according to people familiar with the discussions.

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Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Eddy Cue: Apple's Rising Mr. Fix-It — As Chief Executive Tim Cook shifts executive responsibilities around at Apple Inc., Eddy Cue is emerging as one of the biggest beneficiaries. — A member of Apple's old guard, the 23-year company veteran rose through the ranks as co-founder Steve Jobs's right-hand man …

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Declan McCullagh / CNET:

Obama opposes Silicon Valley firms on immigration reform — White House announcement before congressional vote on STEM Jobs Act puts president in opposition to many of the Silicon Valley firms and executives who bankrolled his re-election campaign. — President Obama opposes …

Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:

In Silicon Valley, Technology Talent Gap Threatens G.O.P. Campaigns

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George Avalos / Mercury News:

Apple expands into Santa Clara — SANTA CLARA — Apple (AAPL) is planting its flag in Santa Clara in a big way for the first time during the technology giant's current shopping spree for new offices, agreeing to occupy a site where Apple could locate 1,200 or more workers.

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Paul Mozur / Digits:

iPhone 5 Gets China Network Access License — Looks like Apple Inc.'s iPhone 5 may be coming to China soon. — According to a regulatory website, an Apple device resembling the iPhone 5 has received approval for a “network access” license in China. — The phone is compatible …

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Ryan Tate / Wired:

How Facebook's Top Engineer Is Trying to Read Your Mind — It's been a great year for the Facebook platform, but Mike Vernal wants more. Facebook's director of engineering tells us the social network is trying to pump up user posts, favoring longer stories and content and adding data …

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Rick Falkvinge / Falkvinge on Infopolicy:

Free Market Failure: Telcos Charge More For Sending A Text Next Door Than Cost Of Sending Data From Mars — Infrastructure: The telco industry charges more, kilobyte by kilobyte, for sending a text message from your phone to next door than what it costs to send the same message from Mars to Earth.

Paul Mozur / China Real Time Report:

No VPN? No Problem. A New Way Around China's Great Firewall … A key method for circumventing China's Internet filters, virtual private networks have come into the crosshairs of the government lately. During the 18th Party Congress earlier this month many faced blockages …

More: Tech in Asia, China Digital Times and The Register

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Groupon CEO Andrew Mason Was Just Put In A Bizarre Situation — And There's Really Only One Way It Can End — Yesterday, three news stories appeared that reported essentially the same thing: — Board members at Groupon were discussing firing the company's CEO, Andrew Mason.

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Colleen Taylor / TechCrunch:

The Story Of Adku, And Why Andrew Mason Isn't The Problem At Groupon

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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Microsoft promises Windows Phone 7.8 update in Q1 2013, new models running the software coming shortly — Today Microsoft promised to bring the Windows Phone 7.8 update to market early next year for current Windows Phone 7.5 devices, and that new handsets running the software would be sold running …

Dina Bass / Bloomberg:

Microsoft Sees Surge in Windows Phones on Faster Software

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Bill Flook / Washington Business Journal:

LivingSocial expected to lay off 400 in U.S. … LivingSocial Inc. is slated to launch a major round of layoffs Thursday, with as many as 400 job cuts expected across its U.S. workforce, according to sources with knowledge of the daily deal giant's plans. — Those cuts are expected to span …

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C. Custer / Tech in Asia:

In Retribution for Huawei Investigation, Chinese State Media is Going After Cisco — Earlier today I wrote about an interesting if misleading report in the state-owned and state-run magazine China Economy and Informatization. Though light on facts, the article takes US tech companies …

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Kevin C. Tofel / GigaOM:

Palm's webOS lives on.... as an Android app — Palm webOS fans left in the cold from HP's debacle with the mobile operating system can rejoice a little. HP open-sourced the webOS platform, making for some interesting third-party webOS efforts and giving the platform a new lease on life.

More: Engadget, webOS Nation, IntoMobile, Android Authority, Android Community, TG Daily, Know Your Mobile, BGR, Ubergizmo, Phones Review and TechRadar.com

Eric Johnson / AllThingsD:

Google, Government Reps Warn Against Internet Regulation Summit — If you've ever found yourself at a panel of academics, you know the drill: Really smart people, differing viewpoints, respectful bickering, free sandwiches, aaaand scene. — That said, at a panel yesterday on the campus …

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

Syria Has Disappeared From The Internet — A few hours ago, Syria, the middle eastern country in the middle of an especially bloody civil war, disappeared from the Internet. — The research firm Renesys, which keeps track of the status and health of the technical underpinnings …

More: Renesys Blog and The Seattle Times

Jordan Crook / TechCrunch:

Millennial: Apple Still Leads Samsung In Overall Impressions, But Android Dominates iOS With 52% Share — Leading mobile ad network Millennial Media today released ist Q3 Mobile Mix report, and it would appear that Apple has kept its lead as top manufacturer on the platform, with the top device being the iPhone.

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Shara Tibken / CNET:

Google's Horowitz: Facebook is social network of the past — Google+ chief Bradley Horowitz says ads in the Facebook social feed are like sandwich boards — there's no context. But when you're searching on Google and a friend recommends something, that matters more.

More: Business Insider, The Verge, Wired, SocialTimes, ITProPortal, Ubergizmo, Google+, NextBigWhat, PandoDaily and AllFacebook

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Sarah Lacy / PandoDaily:

The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed? — I've been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I've spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it.

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Tom Giles / Bloomberg:

Hewlett-Packard Credit Rating Cut by Moody's on Competition — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) had its credit ratings cut by Moody's Investors Service, which cited concern about the computer maker's ability to contend with competition and “execution challenges.” — Moody's cut the company's …

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Dena Aubin / Reuters:

Audit firms sued in HP's Autonomy acquisition

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