Techmeme: YouTube Makes Your Phone A Remote Control By Pairing Its Mobile Apps With TVs From LG, Panasonic, Sony, And Others (Ryan Lawler/TechCrunch)

January 3, 2013, 1:30 PM

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Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Pinterest Acquires And Will Shut Down Recipe Discovery Site Punchfork — Pinterest has just made its first acquisition - the two-and-a-half-year-old recipe discovery and sharing site Punchfork. Rather than operate it independently, Punchfork will continue to run shortly but then its site …

More: The Next Web, GigaOM, Marketing Land, Business Insider, VentureBeat, Mashable!, WebProNews and silicontap.com

Tweets: @jeffmiller and @5by5

Miguel Helft / Fortune:

The future according to Google's Larry Page — Google CEO Larry Page envisions a future in which computers plan your vacations, drive your cars, and anticipate your whims. Audacious? Maybe. But Page's dreams have a way of coming true. — FORTUNE — When Sir Martin Sorrell …

More: 9to5Google and The Verge. Thanks:@jpmanga

Rene Ritchie / iMore.com:

Apple, Waze, and the expectation of rumors — There are some rumors going around that Apple is considering the purchase of crowd-sourced mapping app Waze. Apple has a ton of cash, and can certainly buy Waze if that's what both parties want, the way Apple bought Chomp, Color, Polar Rose, Siri, and other companies over the years.

More: App Advice. Tweets: @robinwauters

Mike Butcher / TechCrunch:

Is Apple Plotting A Route To A Waze Acquisition? Rumours On The Road Point To Yes

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

YouTube Makes Your Phone A Remote Control By Pairing Its Mobile Apps With TVs From LG, Panasonic, Sony, And Others — So YouTube wants to have an app on every device, especially TVs. That way users can watch all of its content from their living room, just like regular TV.

More: The Verge, YouTube Blog, The Next Web, Mobile Marketing Watch, 9to5Google, GigaOM, Gizmodo and Softpedia News. Thanks:@chrisvelazco

Jeremiah Rice / Android Police:

Sprint Will Begin Pay As You Go Service On January 25th, But Standard Sprint Phones Aren't Invited To The Party — If you want to use Sprint's network without signing a contract, there are a lot of options out there, including its subsidiary Boost Mobile, the American MVNO Virgin, and hybrid provider Republic Wireless, among others.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, PC World, CNET, AndroidGuys, TechSpot, Gotta Be Mobile, FierceWireless, DSLreports, PhoneArena, Mobile Magazine, IntoMobile, Electronista and PhoneNews.com

Jungah Lee / Bloomberg:

Samsung to Sell Tizen-Based Handsets After Google-Motorola Deal — Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world's largest seller of mobile phones, said it will start selling smartphones this year featuring the Tizen operating system backed by Intel Corp. — “We plan to release new …

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Requires People to Use the Google+ Social Network, Gains Ground Against Facebook — Google Inc. is gaining ground against Facebook Inc. thanks to a controversial tactic: requiring people to use the Google+ social network. — Google over the past year has boosted the Google+ operation …

More: Digits, Business Insider, Softpedia News and Marco.org

Tweets: @benedictevans, @fxshaw, @gsterling and @brian_frank

Connie Guglielmo / Forbes:

Life After The iPhone: How AT&T's Bet On Apple Mobilized The Company — AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson, who took over just as the iPhone was launched, talks about the fame, pain and change that's taken place under his leadership. (Photo credit: Matthew Hawthorne) — Steve Jobs needed some advice.

More: The Verge, BuzzFeed, Redmond Pie, iPhone in Canada Blog and 9to5Mac

David Beren / TmoNews:

All T-Mobile Stores To Carry The Nexus 4 Beginning This Month — If you're still on the hunt for a Nexus 4 and we imagine you are since they are next to impossible to find then we've got some good news. T-Mobile stores are hoping to resolve the Nexus 4 inventory black hole …

More: Examiner, CNET, TechCrunch, AndroidOS.in, AndroidGuys, Engadget, PhoneArena and Gotta Be Mobile

Devindra Hardawar / VentureBeat:

Qualcomm CEO: Apple rejected our radio for the Newton, so we struck a deal with Palm — Here's a bit of pre-smartphone era history for you: Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs told Charlie Rose tonight that he tried to convince Apple to put a Qualcomm radio in the Newton PDA during the 90s but was shot down.

More: TUAW, iPhone in Canada Blog, Mobile Magazine, BetaNews, The Verge, Gizmodo, App Advice and CNET

Vlad Savov / The Verge:

The Ubuntu phone has a speed problem, and I'm not talking about lag — If your hardware roadmap is measured in years rather than months, you may have a problem — As software launches go, yesterday's announcement of Ubuntu for phones was quite the success for parent company Canonical.

More: The Tech Report, TechCrunch, gHacks Technology News and Web 2.0 Asia Blog

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

eBay Tries Two New Ways to Sell: Drop-Off Points and Home Pick-Up — Gail Weber had never sold anything on eBay, but she was interested in the concept after inheriting a number of antique vases, platters and plates. — “I'm not intimidated by going on eBay, but I don't know how to sell, and PayPal is another deterrent,” she said.

More: VentureBeat, Gizmodo, WebProNews and The Verge

Peter Kaplan / Federal Trade Commission:

Google Agrees to Change Its Business Practices to Resolve FTC Competition Concerns In the Markets for Devices Like Smart Phones, Games and Tablets, and in Online Search — Landmark Agreements Will Give Competitors Access to Standard-Essential Patents; Advertisers Will Get More Flexibility to Use Rival Search Engines

More: The Official Google Blog, Gizmodo, AllThingsD, The Next Web, TechCrunch and The Verge

Tweets: @wsj, @edbott, @jonfortt, @ap and @charlesarthur

Farhad Manjoo / Slate:

Apple Killed the Netbook — And we're all better off for the demise of the $400 future of computing. — Netbooks are dead. Good riddance! Just a few years ago, these small, underpowered, ultracheap laptops were considered the future of the computer industry.

More: Computerworld, Forbes and parislemon

Abram Brown / Forbes:

Reading Twitter's Tea Leaves: At $11 Billion Valuation, IPO Prep May Start In Late 2013 — The dismal performance by newly public tech companies—looking at you, Zynga and Groupon and Facebook—may not clip Twitter's wings after all. — A report by Greencrest Capital …

More: VentureBeat, Guardian, CNET, Business Insider, AllTwitter, WebProNews and Mashable!

Anthony Ha / TechCrunch:

Andrew Sullivan's Ad-Free Publishing Experiment Sees Six-Figure Revenue In First Six Hours — When political blogger Andrew Sullivan announced this morning that he's leaving The Daily Beast and launching an independent company called Dish Publishing, the most provocative bit of news was his intended business model.

More: The Daily Dish, Felix Salmon, Guardian, PSFK, GigaOM, Media Decoder, Poynter, memeburn, The Verge, parislemon and Digits. See also Mediagazer

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

A Little Sleuthing Leads Nexus 4 Enthusiasts To Estimate About 400K In Sales Of The Device — Google and LG's Nexus 4 has been such a coveted item this past holiday season, that it's been in and out of stock since its release in mid-November. Because Google doesn't publicly comment on device sales …

More: Examiner, The Verge, Business Insider, Gotta Be Mobile, PhoneArena and Electronista

Jason Del Rey / AdAge:

Buzzfeed Raises $19.3 Million to Make LOL Content for the Social Web — Building a Giant War Chest That Signals Greater Ambitions — Buzzfeed set out to re-invent the notion of content for the social web by allowing pictures of cute animals to co-exist with serious political coverage.

More: BuzzFeed, Media Decoder, Business Insider, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Business Insider, Betabeat, Reuters, TechCrunch, SocialTimes, Bloomberg and AllThingsD. Tweets: @rafat. Thanks:@delrey. See also Mediagazer

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Barnes & Noble's bad holiday: Nook, store and BN.com sales down — As it had warned investors last week, Barnes & Noble announced disappointing holiday sales Thursday. For the nine-week period ending December 29, 2012, Nook device sales, in-store sales and BN.com sales were all down from the same period last year.

More: Business Wire, BGR, Engadget, TechCrunch, The Next Web, The Verge, CNET, GeekWire, WebProNews, Reuters and Mashable!. See also Mediagazer

Terrence O'Brien / Engadget:

WiFi and WiGig Alliances become one, work to promote 60GHz wireless — The WiFi Alliance and Wireless Gigabit Alliance have a pretty long history of working together. The two are ringing in the new year by removing the last barrier to their cooperation and officially becoming one organization.

More: GigaOM

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Chitika says Kindle Fire web share jumped to 7.5% and iPad fell 7.1% over holidays in North America — The Apple iPad may be doing too well for its own good, at least when it comes to measuring percentage changes in Web traffic. This holiday season, the tablet's Web usage share in the US …

More: Chitika Insights, Mobile Marketing Watch, PC Magazine, LAPTOP Magazine, Geek News Central, ZDNet, Electronista, CNET, PhoneArena and TUAW

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