Techmeme: Pandora collapses 20% following lower than expected Q3 revenue of $120 million (Alex Wilhelm/The Next Web)

December 4, 2012, 5:05 PM

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Matthew Izatt / Gmail Blog:

The Gmail app for iPhone and iPad: version 2.0 — Six months ago, our team set out to completely rebuild the Gmail app for iPhone and iPad to give you you a faster, sleeker, and easier experience on iOS. The result? Version 2.0. With version 2.0 of the app, you'll get a totally new look and feel …

Dieter Bohn / The Verge:

Facebook Messenger for Android drops account requirement, taking on SMS and WhatsApp — The race to replace SMS is on — Facebook has entered the race to replace SMS in earnest today, announcing that its messenger app for Android will no longer require a Facebook account to sign up.

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Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

If Facebook's Not Buying WhatsApp, It Sure Seems Like It's Building It

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Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Netflix scores US subscription service exclusive to Disney's first-run films in multi-year deal — Today, Walt Disney studios and Netflix entered into a multi-year agreement that makes the online video distributor the only US subscription service with licensing to show first-run live-action and animated films from the studio.

Edgar Alvarez / Engadget:

Toshiba intros Excite 10 SE tablet with Android 4.1, available December 6th for $350 — Toshiba's been relatively quiet on the tablet front since announcing its Excite lineup back in April, but today the company's making a mild comeback with a hot-off-the-press, Jelly Bean-loaded slate.

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Lance Whitney / CNET:

Android 4.1 reaches Samsung Galaxy S3 on AT&T

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Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Pandora collapses 20% following lower than expected Q3 revenue of $120 million — Today Pandora reported third quarter revenue of $120 million, which fell short of analyst and investor expectations. The revenue figure is a 60% rise of the same quarter last year. — The company reported GAAP earnings per share of $0.01.

More: Pandora, Forbes, CNET, TechCrunch, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Bloomberg, Reuters and MarketBeat. Thanks:@bradmccarty

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Mary Meeker's Latest Must-Read Presentation On The State Of The Web — Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker is doing a year-end presentation on the state of the web at Stanford tonight. — We have the slides of her presentation here. — As usual, it's a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with interest in technology.

More: VentureBeat, Daring Fireball, The Next Web, AllThingsD and CNET

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Mary Jo Foley / ZDNet:

Microsoft opens its Socl social-search site to any and all testers — Summary: Microsoft is opening up its Socl social-networking research project. There are still no public plans as to when, how and if Microsoft will take Socl commercial. — On December 4, Microsoft's FuSE team took …

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Jack Purcher / Patently Apple:

US Patent & Trademark Office Grants Apple Registered Trademarks for “Retina” & “Game Center” Icon — On December 4, 2012, the US Patent & Trademark Office granted Apple two Registered Trademarks. The first trademark covers the word “Retina” representing Apple's brilliant Retina display …

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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Evernote Expands Its Premium Offerings: Evernote Business Now Live In 7 Countries With Sharing, More Data And A New Searching Algorithm — Evernote, the popular personal information and productivity app that last week announced another $85 million in financing and more than 45 million users …

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Douglas Macmillan / Bloomberg:

No VC: Why Techmeme's Gabe Rivera Resists Investors — This is the fifth in a five-part series called “No VC,” which highlights startups that have succeeded without venture capital, the lifeblood of Silicon Valley. — Gabe Rivera often hears from Silicon Valley's elite …

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Bloomberg:

Microsoft-Intel Push to Rival Apple in Tablets Sputtering — A push by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and Intel Corp. (INTC) to combat Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPad in the $63.2 billion tablet market is getting off to a slow start. — Of more than a dozen tablets Microsoft and Intel touted for the new version …

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Bloomberg:

Nokia Is Said to Reach Deal With China Mobile on Lumia 920 — Nokia Oyj (NOK), the Finnish mobile-phone maker trying to win back customers of Apple Inc. (AAPL)'s iPhone and devices using Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Android, is set to unveil a version of its flagship smartphone for China's largest wireless carrier …

More: Seattle Times, AllThingsD, Tech Trader Daily and Windows Phone Daily

Jeff John Roberts / GigaOM:

Google Ventures leads $10M investment in firm that measures mobile ads — As more consumers use smartphones to help them shop, advertisers are growing worried about how they will reach those customers. Unlike web sites, which allow brands to target specific users, mobile phones …

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Reuters:

U.S. fails to win early limit on Net controls at global gathering — (Reuters) - A U.S. and Canadian proposal to protect the Internet from new international regulation has failed to win prompt backing from other countries, setting up potentially tough negotiations to rewrite a telecom treaty.

Paul Sawers / The Next Web:

John McAfee confirms he is in Guatemala after all, and is planning a press conference tomorrow — It was only yesterday that we reported that man-on-the-run fugitive John McAfee was claiming to have falsified the metadata of a photo that placed him in Guatemala.

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Jemima Kiss / Guardian:

Soundcloud revamps site as users hit 180 million — The ‘YouTube of audio’ claims to now reach 8% of the world's internet population as mobile audio takes off — If the future of the internet is mobile, things are looking very good for Soundcloud, the Berlin-based sound-sharing site.

More: SoundCloud, The Next Web, ReadWrite, CNET, The Verge, GigaOM, BetaNews, The Next Web, Softpedia News, VentureBeat and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Google I/O 2013 dates announced: starts May 15th, registration to open early next year — Hope your calendar's clear for next May. Google has just announced the dates for I/O 2013, with the event kicking off on May 15th and concluding on May 17th. After setting up shop in San Francisco this June …

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Humayun Khan / BetaKit:

Clarity Adds $1.6M from 500 Startups, Mark Cuban to Be ‘Lifeline for Entrepreneurs’ — BetaKit covered San Francisco and Moncton, NB-based Clarity, which lets anyone get access to entrepreneurial advice over the phone, when it hit 10,000 calls after launching in May 2012.

More: TechCrunch, Mark Evans Tech, GigaOM and The Next Web

Jonathan Rudenberg:

SMS Vulnerability in Twitter, Facebook and Venmo — Update: Twitter has fixed the issue for users of short codes. Users that use a “long code” should enable the PIN code in their account. — Twitter users with SMS enabled are vulnerable to an attack that allows anyone to post to their account.

More: Computerworld, CNET and Dennis Fisher

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Urban Airship Acquires Tello, Maker Of PassTools For Apple's Passbook, Because Not All Brands Need Fully Featured Apps — A little over a year after Urban Airship's acquisition of location startup SimpleGeo, the company has moved to once again expand its feature set by acquiring venture-backed Tello in an all-stock deal.

More: GigaOM, The Next Web, Urban Airship, GeekWire, VentureBeat, TUAW, dailywireless.org, AllThingsD, blog.tello.com and Marketing Land

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Yahoo Acquires Startup OnTheAir — Yahoo has acquired a startup called OnTheAir. — OnTheAir launched in March of this year. — It's been described in the past as a “Skype Meets Google+ Hangouts.” — A Mashable review of the product says this is how it works:

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Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Play comes to Google Apps, letting enterprise customers distribute apps internally — Google on Tuesday announced it is extending the Google Play Store to its Google Apps customers. The goal is simple: the company wants to allow its enterprise customers to internally distribute apps to their employees.

More: Engadget, CITEworld, googleenterprise.blogspot.ca, WebProNews and AndroidGuys

Barb Darrow / GigaOM:

And whomp, here it is: The Pivotal Initiative brought to you by VMware and EMC — At long last here it is: The long-simmering VMware-EMC spin-off that is. The Pivotal Initiative will focus on bringing resources from the two parent companies to bear on big data and cloud application platforms …

More: VMware Blogs, Inquirer, Business Insider, The Register, VentureBeat, InfoQ and Channelnomics

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google's Knowledge Graph Expands To More Languages, Including Italian, French, Japanese And Russian — Google Fellow Ben Gomes just took the stage at LeWeb Paris and announced that Google's Knowledge Graph project is now available in a number of new languages, including Italian, French …

More: Search Engine Watch

Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:

Okta gets $25M more to take on cloud identity management — Okta, an almost-four-year-old startup pushing a new type of identity management aimed at cloud-based enterprise applications, has raised $25 million in third-round funding. This round brings the San Francisco-based company to $52 million in total funding.

More: ZDNet, Business Insider, TechCrunch, MarketWatch and Forbes

Alyson Raletz / Kansas City Business Journal:

Google considers but drops plans to include phone service, too … Google Inc. considered offering phone services with its ultra-fast Internet and TV packages in Kansas City, Mo., and Kansas City, Kan., but the company took a pass once it started doing some digging into federal and state regulations, a Google executive said Monday.

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Vlad Savov / The Verge:

Nokia selling Espoo headquarters to raise cash, but won't be moving out — Nokia is about to add roughly $220 million to its balance sheet through the sale of its central HQ building in Espoo, Finland. The company will continue to operate within the premises as previously …

More: Nokia, Engadget, CNET, PhoneArena, TechEye, ZDNet, IntoMobile, Forbes, SiliconANGLE, Mashable! and MobileBurn.com

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Last.fm Founders' Next Track: Lumi, A Site That Uses Your Browsing History To Help You Discover Things On The Web — Felix Miller and Martin Stiksel, two of the co-founders of the music discovery and streaming site Last.fm, went into a kind of startup hibernation two years after selling their early-moving …

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