Techmeme: Google Spends $125 Million On Channel Intelligence To Improve Google Shopping (Jay Yarow/Business Insider)

February 6, 2013, 2:50 PM

Top News

Anand Lal Shimpi / AnandTech:

Microsoft Surface Pro Review — There's clearly interest in a device that converges the tablet and notebook. ASUS saw some of the earliest success in this department with its Transformer line of Android tablets. Once the first Windows RT/8 designs started appearing …

More: Digits, Business Insider, LAPTOP Mag and New York Times

Tweets: @benioff, @gartenberg and @mertdumenci

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Microsoft Surface Pro review — It's a compelling proposition: all the power and application compatibility of a laptop running a proper desktop operating system, all the portability and convenience of a tablet, all mixed together in one package. That's the core idea behind Microsoft's Surface tablets but …

More: ReadWrite, TechCrunch, Computerworld, Business Insider, Reuters, PC Magazine, GigaOM, Forbes, ZDNet, Global Nerdy, TIME, ParisLemon, iDownloadBlog.com, everythingiCafe, Fortune, MacRumors and CNET

Walter S. Mossberg / AllThingsD:

Microsoft Surface Pro Is a Hefty Tablet and a Lightweight Laptop

More: Tech Trader Daily, PC Magazine, ABCNEWS, Business Insider, iPhone Hacks, Computerworld, ZDNet, Mashable! and Telegraph

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Microsoft Surface with Windows 8 Pro: Hotter, Thicker, Faster, Louder

More: The Verge, BGR, Business Insider and The Register

Twitter Blog:

Search and Discover improvements: Get more great content faster — Today we're updating the Android and iOS apps, as well as mobile.twitter.com. This release provides a single stream of content in each tab, so you can better find what's most important to you when you're on the go.

More: TechCrunch, CNET, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, WebProNews, AllThingsD, iDownloadBlog.com and Mashable!

Nilay Patel / The Verge:

Dell's downward spiral: 10 years of failed consumer devices — Things haven't gone so well since the Dell Dude split — It's no secret why Dell's struggling so badly it just took a $2b loan from Microsoft and bought itself back from shareholders to become a private company …

More: BGR

Om Malik / GigaOM:

Welcome back, Michael Dell: It's time to reclaim your name

More: ZDNet, Forbes, Daring Fireball, TechEye, Telegraph and Bloomberg

Juro Osawa / Deal Journal:

A Tale of Two Competitors' Responses to the Dell Buyout

More: Computerworld and Datamation.com

Rob Gillies / Associated Press:

U.S. release of new BlackBerry with keyboard may be delayed — TORONTO — A modern BlackBerry with a physical keyboard might not arrive in the U.S. until May or June, a month or two behind other parts of the world, the chief executive of the smartphone maker suggested in an interview.

Roger Cheng / CNET:

BlackBerry boasts record early sales for Z10 in UK, Canada

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider and ZDNet

Bloomberg:

Google Said in Talks to Invest $50 Million in Vevo Site — Google Inc.'s YouTube is negotiating a $50 million equity investment in music video service Vevo LLC, according to two people with knowledge of the situation. — Google would own less than 10 percent of the company …

More: VentureBeat, CNET, New Media Blog and Business Insider. See also Mediagazer

Jon Russell / The Next Web:

Vine gets 17+ age rating, option to report users; finally enables social sharing after videos are posted — Users of Vine finally have the option to share their videos after they are posted after the newly-released short video app from Twitter got an update that also adds an age rating, following issues with pornographic content.

AllThingsD:

Nudged by Apple, Twitter's Porn Saga Ends in a Raw Deal for Vine

More: BuzzFeed, Know Your Cell and Betabeat

Tweets: @pkafka and @panzer

Violet Blue / ZDNet:

Anger rises as Fed confirms Anonymous hack, downplays US bank emergency system breach — Summary: The Federal Reserve has confirmed Sunday's Anonymous hack; ZDNet has learned the exposed information is from thousands of Fed emergency system bank contacts. — Violet Blue

More: Computerworld, The Verge, Hillicon Valley, The Register and Naked Security

Alister Bull / Reuters:

Fed says internal site breached by hackers, no critical functions affected

More: Mashable!, PC Magazine, Inquirer, Help Net Security, VentureBeat and The H Security

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Google Spends $125 Million On Channel Intelligence To Improve Google Shopping — Google has acquired Channel Intelligence for $125 million in cash. — According to its blog, Channel Intelligence (CI) tracks online retail sales for a number of categories ranging from computing to consumer packaged goods.

More: Yahoo! Finance, CNET, TechCrunch, Channel Intelligence, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Electronista, Engadget, Forbes, The Next Web, ZDNet, Softpedia News, 9to5Google, Reuters and WebProNews

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple announces new iTunes Store record with 25 billion songs sold — Apple today issued a press released announcing the iTunes Store has a hit a new record with 25 billion songs sold. Apple's senior vice president of Internet Software and Services noted that Apple averages 15,000 songs downloaded per minute.

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Urban Airship Nabs $25 Million in Additional Funding — Urban Airship, the Portland-based startup that specializes in helping power mobile app notifications, has raised another $25 million, as the company seeks to further expand beyond its roots. — AllThingsD.com

More: Market Wire, VatorNews, GigaOM, GeekWire, VentureBeat and Under the Radar

Christina Farr / VentureBeat:

Salesforce.com has acquired French startup EntropySoft — Salesforce.com has acquired EntropySoft, a French startup that offers content integration solutions. — A spokesperson confirmed that the deal recently closed, but the company won't be making a formal announcement.

More: AllThingsD, Rude Baguette and ZDNet

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Brings 38 Additional Ski Resorts To Google Maps — A while ago, Google took its Street View cameras to the slopes and started documenting ski runs at a few select resorts. Today, Google is expanding its mapping options for skiers by adding 38 new run and lifts maps to Google Maps, including its apps for Android and iPhone.

More: Google LatLong, The Verge, The Next Web, Search Engine Land, Gizmodo, The Next Web, CNET, Android Community and WebProNews

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers, Allows Apps To Work With Cloud-Based Files As If They Were Local — Dropbox is unveiling a brand new API for developers today that should give mobile app makers an excellent new tool to work with. The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS …

More: The Next Web, The Verge, AllThingsD, Engadget and ZDNet

DannyD / SamMobile:

RUMOR: Samsung will unveil the GALAXY S IV on March 15th and on sale from early April — We have some hot news for all those happy Samsung Galaxy owners. Samsung is going to announce the Galaxy S IV on March 15th. The biggest Android smartphone unpacked event is still not confirmed by Samsung self …

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Digital Media Wire, CNET, BGR, AndroidGuys, Electronista, Gotta Be Mobile, Neowin, Business Insider, 9to5Google, Softpedia News, TechCrunch, Droid Life, Pocketnow, Phones Review, Sammy Hub, Gearburn, PhoneArena and WebProNews

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

More Change At AOL: Photosharing App Hipster.com Is Shutting Down February 16 — Another change afoot at AOL today: Hipster.com, a hyperlocal photosharing app AOL acquired in March 2012, is shutting down as of February 16. Registered users are being sent emails (a copy, sent to us by a reader …

Tweets: @hipster

James Grubel / Reuters:

Google wins landmark advertising case in Australia — (Reuters) - Global search engine Google Inc won a landmark court case in Australia on Wednesday when the country's High Court ruled the Internet giant was not responsible for messages conveyed by paid advertisers on its site.

More: Digital Media Wire, CNET, Bloomberg, BGR, Softpedia News, WebProNews, Marketing Pilgrim and Engadget

Russell Brandom / The Verge:

After Instagram controversy, a watchdog site tracks shifting Terms of Service — In January, it got a lot harder to sue Skype. If you had checked its Terms of Service last week, you would have found a new sweeping class action waiver, a huge headache for anyone thinking of taking the service to court.

More: Gizmodo. Tweets: @reckless

Cory Doctorow / Boing Boing:

FedEx's file-transfer capacity versus the Internet — Today on XKCD's “What If...?”, Randall Munroe runs the numbers of when and whether the Internet's throughput will ever exceed FedEx's sneakernet file-transfer capacity (one interesting note here: why not treat FedEx's trucks and planes full …

More: What If?

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More — Social commenting platform Livefyre has raised $15 million in funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital.

More: AllThingsD, VentureBeat and The Next Web

Sponsor Posts

Microsoft BizSpark:

Featured Startup - FormVerse — If there was one tool not made for effective work, it would have to be email. If you take silos of information, and a chronological effect, where old or new is piled on top of each other …

Cloud Foundry:

Static.com Adds Hadoop Support for Cloud Foundry — In this guest post, Jake Farrell, CTO for Static.com, explains how the major shift in the hosting industry towards platforms for high developer productivity …

Rackspace Blog:

An Army Is Forming To Battle Patent Trolls — For the past several months, we've exposed the flaws in the patent system and how they're being exploited by opportunistic patent trolls looking to extort a quick buck …

Hortonworks » Blog:

Hadoop, Hadoop, Hurrah! HDP for Windows is Now GA! — Today we are very excited to announce that Hortonworks Data Platform for Windows (HDP for Windows) is now generally available and ready to support the most demanding production workloads.

Unison's blog:

“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).

Sponsor Techmeme

Who's Hiring In Tech?

Google: Do cool things that matter.

Automattic: 17% down, 83% to go. WordPress.

CBSi: Have your people call our people.

@WalmartLabs: A thin line between work and play.

Disqus: Build something worth talking about.

FancyCorp: We are real fancy.

imo: Awesome People. Awesome Products.

Zoosk: Fall in love. With your job.

Facebook: Best place to build & make an impact.

Amazon: Work hard. Have fun. Make history.

Square: Come simplify the complex.

Twitter: Less characters; more fulfilling.

Add your company here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:50 PM ET, February 6, 2013.

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.