Techmeme: Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China (New York Times)

February 8, 2013, 2:20 PM

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A billion Office documents on SkyDrive, now with easier collaboration … For those of you who have tried the new Office, you'll know we made it easy to quickly save your documents to SkyDrive and get a link to share with others—earlier today we made it even easier for people to share …

More: TechCrunch, CNET, PC World, PC Magazine, Forbes, LAPTOP Magazine, BetaNews, LiveSide.net, GigaOM, Engadget, The Microsoft Office Blog, The Verge, VentureBeat, Neowin and Mashable!. Thanks:@chrisjoneshome

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

As SkyDrive hits 1bn documents, Microsoft now lets you share and edit files in Office Web Apps sans account

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years — AOL (owner of TechCrunch) has just reported earnings for Q4 2012 of $600 million on earnings of 41 cents per share. That matches analysts expectaions on EPS but beats on revenues of $573.1 million.

More: AllThingsD, Guardian, Reuters, Marketing Land, CNET, Bloomberg, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, Business Insider and Mashable!. Tweets: @emilysteel. See also Mediagazer

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

AOL's Dial-Up Subscription Business Produces More Than All Of The Company's Profit — AOL just released quasi-profit numbers for each of its divisions for the first time. — As expected, AOL's dial-up subscription business—the business that powered AOL to astounding global success in the 1990s …

More: Gizmodo, paidContent and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Andy Greenberg / Forbes:

Evasi0n Is The Most Popular Jailbreak Ever: Nearly Seven Million iOS Devices Hacked In Four Days — Over the last half a week, Apple has been hit with the largest mass-hacking incident in its history. And the perpetrators were the company's own users. — Nearly seven million iPhone …

More: Ars Technica, Gizmodo, BGR, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, everythingiCafe, iPhone Hacks, Pocketnow, iDownloadBlog.com, TUAW, PhoneArena and iClarified

Jennifer Van Grove / CNET:

LinkedIn eyes future as professional publishing hub — The company seems set on making business content, not social networking, the focus of the site. — LinkedIn spent much of 2012 transforming itself into a place where workers could stay and play awhile — a strategy that paid off handsomely.

More: Adweek, SocialTimes and Beyond Search. Thanks:@mariosundar. See also Mediagazer

Romain Dillet / TechCrunch:

LinkedIn Shares Soar 19.2% In The Wake Of Impressive Earnings

New York Times:

Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China — HONG KONG — Hewlett-Packard, one of the world's largest makers of computers and other electronics, is imposing new limits on the employment of students and temporary agency workers at factories across China.

More: ReadWrite, PC Magazine, Inquirer, LAPTOP Magazine, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, TechSpot, Engadget, CNET, Tech in Asia, The Next Web, memeburn, Silicon Valley Watcher, Datamation.com and The Verge

Daniel P / PhoneArena:

5.5" LG Optimus G Pro picture and specs sheet are in: Full HD screen, 3140 mAh battery and microSD — While LG's current flagship, the Optimus G, has been selling in the US for a while, and hitting Europe and China, we've been hearing about an upcoming upgrade, the Optimus G Pro, for a while now …

More: Ars Technica, Engadget, digitaltrends.com, LAPTOP Magazine, Tech Shout!, Mobile Magazine, 9to5Google, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, AndroidGuys, IntoMobile, GSMArena.com, MobileSyrup.com, TechRadar.com, Ubergizmo, Ubergizmo, BGR and TechnoBuffalo

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:

Macmillan settles with DOJ, leaving Apple last defendant standing in ebook pricing case — Macmillan, the last remaining publisher holdout in the Department of Justice's ebook pricing antitrust lawsuit against five publishers and Apple, has decided to settle about ten months after the lawsuit was originally filed.

More: The United States Department …, AllThingsD, Reuters, CNET, The Verge, Good E-Reader and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Why did Dell force employees to sell shares? — Dell made employees dump shares during buyout discussions. — FORTUNE — Three months ago, Dell employees were forced to sell some of their company stock at just $9.55 per share. Now the company is being sold to founder Michael Dell for $13.65 per share.

Tweets: @treasuryandrisk and @fortunemagazine

Eric Savitz / Forbes:

Dell: Report 7.5% Holder Southeastern Finds Bid Too Low

More: Reuters, 24/7 Wall St., The Register, Tech Trader Daily and Electronista

Wall Street Journal:

Apple Cash Pile Sets Off a Battle — Apple Inc. Chief Executive Tim Cook is facing a new reality: delivering steady results from one of the world's most valuable companies is no longer good enough. — For nearly 18 months, Mr. Cook has kept a stream of new products rolling …

More: The Big Picture, Inquirer, SiliconANGLE, MarketBeat and Reuters

Reuters:

How Einhorn turned from Apple advocate to agitator

More: Examiner and Fortune

Filipe Alves / Reuters:

Google must extend payments across Europe for use of content — (Reuters) - Google Inc must extend its offer made last week to pay French publishers for use of their content to all media companies across Europe, the head of the European Publishers Council said on Thursday.

More: TechCrunch, Forbes, Plagiarism Today, bizjournals and Engadget. See also Mediagazer

Dan Goodin / Ars Technica:

Adobe issues emergency Flash update for attacks on Windows, Mac users — Adobe Systems has released a patch for two Flash player vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited online to surreptitiously install malware, one in attacks that target users of Apple's Macintosh platform.

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Drive's Create menu now lets you add and access third-party, Drive-enabled apps — Google on Friday announced a new feature for its Drive service: a significantly revamped Create menu featuring third-party apps. For consumers, the change means Drive-connected apps are easier to access …

More: Google Developers Blog, TechCrunch, Engadget, The Verge and 9to5Google

Liam Boogar / Rude Baguette:

Orange & Alcatel Lucent lay down the fastest internet connection (400G/sec) from Paris to Lyon — This past week, a joint effort between French telecom company Orange and Alcatel Lucent has led to the fastest internet connection in the world, a 400 gigabyte/second connection, being set up between Paris and Lyon (450km or 275 miles).

More: GigaOM

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

In One Fell Swoop, Facebook Glitch Deep-Sixes the Web — Now we may know how powerful Facebook really is. — On Thursday, many major websites were taken down by an error that stemmed from Facebook, as Internet mainstays like MSNBC.com, CNN, Yelp and New York Magazine all sent users to redirect pages almost immediately upon loading.

More: PC Magazine, CNN, SiliconANGLE, The Atlantic Wire, Business Insider, Quartz, WebProNews, nbcnews.com, CloudFlare blog, CNET, Wired, The Register and Mashable!

Tweets: @strngwys, @rembert, @atrios, @parislemon, @7im, @lock and @stevekovach

Michael Bonfils / Search Engine Watch:

Yandex Just Passed Bing to Become 4th Largest Global Search Engine — Yandex surpassed Microsoft on the number of monthly search queries worldwide in November and December 2012, according to a recently released comScore qSearch report. Microsoft sites processed 4.477 billion queries and Yandex did 4.844 billion.

More: CNET, DailyTech, Guardian, Neowin and SlashGear. Tweets: @tomwarren

Sony Smartphones:

Kicking off Sony software upgrade, including uplift to Jelly Bean Android 4.1 for 2012 Xperia™ smartphones — As planned, this week we're starting the software rollout for our first batch of Xperia smartphones Xperia T and Xperia V*, with Xperia TX following next month.

More: O2, BetaNews, CNET, Eurodroid, The Next Web, IntoMobile, Softpedia News, BGR, FierceMobileContent News, PhoneArena and BGR India

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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 …

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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 …

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