|
December 28, 2012, 5:05 AM
|
Mediagazer
memeorandum
WeSmirchTop News
| Reuters: |
Analysis: For tech investors, it's hard to know when to bolt — (Reuters) - When Hewlett-Packard Co agreed to buy British software company Autonomy in August last year for $11.1 billion, two well-known investors made diametrically different bets on how the big deal would play out.
More:
parislemon
| Chris O'Brien / Los Angeles Times: |
Hewlett-Packard reports Justice Dept. fraud probe at Autonomy — According to an annual report filed Thursday by Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), the U.S. Department of Justice has officially opened an investigation into its allegations of accounting fraud at Autonomy, the British software maker it acquired for $11 billion last year.
More:
AllThingsD, Forbes, SlashGear, Business Insider, TechCrunch, Electronista, The Next Web and Tech Trader Daily
| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Mike Lynch Punches Back at Today's HP Filing: Whither $5B Writedown? — Autonomy founder Mike Lynch is still not backing down in his ongoing battle with Hewlett-Packard. — “Simply put, these allegations are false, and in the absence of further detail we cannot understand what HP believes … | Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web: |
Adding 415 apps daily, Windows 8 blows past the 35,000 app milestone — Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system now has a total of 35,0000 applications in its Store, according to tracking website MetroStore Scanner. — The total tally, 35,167, represents a growth of 14,557 in the last 35 days … | John Koetsier / VentureBeat: |
For every 100 web pageviews on an iPad, a Kindle gets 5, a Galaxy gets 3, and a Surface gets 0.22 — Non-iPad web traffic is growing, but it's still a tiny fraction of what Apple's iconic tablet pulls in. — Advertising and analytics company Chitika released its December 2012 tablet market update …
More:
Chitika Insights, LJ INFOdocket, PC Magazine, Neowin, PhoneArena, MacDailyNews and AllThingsD
| Katie Notopoulos / BuzzFeed: |
How Anybody Can Secretly Save Your Snapchat Videos Forever — The videos you send through Snapchat and Poke are supposed to disappear in 10 seconds or less. Except a security flaw makes it easy to save them forever — without the sender ever knowing. — Via: yourprops.com| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
Apple Falls to Four-Year Low in Online Customer Satisfaction Survey — The post-Ron Johnson era did not begin well for Apple. Earlier this year, the company ousted Johnson's successor, John Browett, as head of its retail operations following a series of rare and embarrassing cockups.| Emil Protalinski / The Next Web: |
Christmas Day 2012 saw a record 17.4m Android and iOS device activations, 2.5x more than in 2011 — It's no surprise that more Android and iOS devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. Yet on Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxies, Kindle Fires …
More:
Flurry, Distimo, VentureBeat, Guardian, Mashable!, CNET, TUAW, Business Insider, Pocketnow, ReadWrite, BGR, PhoneArena, Examiner, GigaOM, The Technology Chronicles, CNET, MobileSyrup.com and TechCrunch
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
Facebook files for ‘Poke’ trademark (after obtaining and abandoning it earlier) — Social networking giant Facebook has filed for 3 trademarks in the United States: for ‘Poke’, ‘Facebook Poke’ and the logo of its new Poke app for iPhone. The company filed for the trademarks on the 21st of December 2012 … | Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
BlueStacks' App Player For Mac Launches Beta: Now You Can Run Over 750,000 Android Apps On Mac — BlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android applications to desktop PCs, is today releasing its App Player for Mac into beta, following its previous Mac alpha release in June.
More:
BGR, iPhone Hacks, Softpedia News, VentureBeat, IntoMobile, CNET, Engadget, Mashable!, 9to5Mac, TUAW, MacRumors and iClarified
| Jon Russell / The Next Web: |
Twitter-owned Posterous finally lets users export their data - will it now close down in 2013? — When Posterous was bought by Twitter in March, the team behind the blogging platform said it would introduce a system to allow users to export their data from the service “in the coming weeks”.| Jamie Rigg / Engadget: |
‘Leaked’ BlackBerry 10 info shows video chat and screen sharing in BBM, new task manager — Top dog at RIM Thorsten Heins heavily implied that video chat would be added to BBM when BlackBerry 10 showed up, and now possible confirmation of the feature has come from what are thought to be leaked presentation slides.| Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: |
Despite Alibaba Lastest IPO Rumors, Yahoo Deal Creates Incentive to Offering by End of 2015 — It seems like a month does not pass without another rumor about when Chinese Internet powerhouse Alibaba Group will have its much-anticipated IPO. — Today, in the latest loosely-sourced report …
More:
Marbridge Consulting and Forbes
| Matt Tatham / Experian: |
Christmas Day 2012 retail visits increase 27% compared to 2011 — The home stretch for the holidays is nearing as second wind for retailers is just starting as Experian Marketing Services analyzes the post-Christmas retail trend. Christmas Day 2012 saw a 27% increase in online traffic to the top 500 retail sites compared to 2011.
More:
VentureBeat and AllThingsD
Sponsor Posts
Tribe AI:
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Build AI that works — Tribe builds tech for top AI companies. Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner — Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
Stay alert: Zoho Cliq keeps you in the Checkout loop — Payment pages are becoming increasingly significant for various organizations. For instance, consider an NGO committed to helping those in need.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Donate to Mastodon — Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you. Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.Who's Hiring In Tech?
The Kevin Rose Show:
How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Subscribe to the Kevin Rose Show!
Techmeme Ride Home:
Tue. 04/23 - Microsoft's Own LLMs and Perplexity's Big Raise
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via
Apple Podcasts,
Spotify, or
RSS.
About This Page
This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 5:05 AM ET, December 28, 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
Jennifer Schuessler / New York Times:Adam B. Vary / Variety:
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Upcoming Tech Events
More News
| Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM: |
| John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: |
More:
Thomson IR, TechCrunch and Forbes
| Carlos Tejada / Wall Street Journal: |
More:
Xinhua News Agency, CHINAdaily, The Mac Observer, Reuters, The Droid Guy, CNET, App Advice, ITworld.com and PhoneArena
| Bryan Bishop / The Verge: |
More:
OUYA, Engadget, SlashGear, PhoneArena, SlashGear, Geek.com, LAPTOP Magazine and TechSpot
| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Earlier Picks
| Mat Smith / Engadget: |
| Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch: |
| Surur / WMPoweruser: |
| Robb Mandelbaum / New York Times: |
More:
Business Insider and Betabeat
| Robin Wauters / The Next Web: |
More:
TechEye, Bloomberg, Guardian, Fortune, 9to5Mac, San Francisco Chronicle, MacRumors, TechCrunch, Mercury News, Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Wall Street Journal, VentureBeat, iDownloadBlog.com, NYT Bits, AppleInsider, Macgasm, Business Insider, BGR, The Next Web, Datamation.com, CNET, Mashable!, MacDailyNews, Reuters and PhoneArena