Techmeme: Former Kleiner Perkins Partner, Erly Founder And Hulu CTO Eric Feng Joins Flipboard As CTO (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

February 8, 2013, 11:15 PM

Top News

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 …

Omar Shahine / The Windows Blog:

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 …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

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

More: Computerworld

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Google's Schmidt to sell roughly 42 percent of stake — (Reuters) - Google Inc Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt is selling roughly 42 percent of his stake in the Internet search company over the coming year, Google announced on Friday. — Schmidt will sell 3.2 million shares of Class …

More: TechCrunch, Guardian, CNET, ZDNet, The Verge, Wall Street Journal, 9to5Google, AllThingsD, Business Insider, SocialTimes and Mashable!

Tweets: @mathewi and @semil

Daniel Trotta / Reuters:

U.S. Secret Service investigates Bush email hacking — (Reuters) - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating whether former President George H.W. Bush's email was hacked along with other family members and friends, the agency said on Friday. — That probe comes in response to reports …

More: The Smoking Gun, BBC, Network World, Los Angeles Times, Guardian, Ars Technica, Mashable!, TMZ.com, BuzzFeed, Business Insider, The Verge, Gawker, Softpedia News and Computerworld

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Some iPhone users are seeing battery drain and overheating issues after upgrading to iOS 6.1 (Updated) — We have started seeing an increase in iPhone issues related to battery life and overheating. All of them seem to be related to users upgrading their devices to iOS 6.1.

More: Examiner, The Verge, MacRumors, CNET, AllThingsD, Guardian, WindowsITPro, Forbes, 9to5Mac, Wired, ZDNet, Pocket-lint, PhoneArena, iDownloadBlog.com and MacNN. Thanks:@alex

CBS San Francisco:

San Jose Official Backs Plan For New $82M Google Airport — Mineta San Jose International Airport (City of San Jose) — SAN JOSE (CBS SF) - San Jose should accept an offer by a major airport operator to build an $82 million private airport for executives of Google Inc. at Mineta San Jose International Airport, a city official said.

More: Gizmodo, Mercury News, Engadget, SlashGear, Business Insider and bizjournals. Tweets: @qhardy

Ellis Hamburger / The Verge:

4chan creator Chris Poole draws a future where anyone can make art — 4chan creator Chris “moot” Poole spent two years building and refining Canvas, a family-friendly version of the massively successful 4chan, when he realized something was off. “90 percent of our users didn't feel …

More: The Next Web, TechCrunch, Mashable!, Ars Technica, Wired, 9to5Mac and MacRumors

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:

After 8 Years On The Web, Project Management Platform Basecamp Finally Launches An “Official” iOS App — Basecamp, the project management platform developed by 37 Signals that launched in 2004, is still alive and kicking, which is something of a feat considering how many companies have come and gone in this space over the years.

More: App Advice and BetaKit

Nick Taborek / Bloomberg:

Apple IPads Neutered for U.S. Government as CACI Targets Mobile — CACI International Inc. has altered “thousands” of Apple Inc. iPads so they can be used securely by the U.S. government, according to Dan Allen, CACI's chief executive officer. — “It's a neutered iPad,” …

More: 9to5Mac and Electronista

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, SplatF, InfoWorld, TechSpot, paidContent and Forbes. See also Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

AOL Q4 2012 Beats The Street On Revenues Of $600M, Showing Its First Revenue Growth In 8 Years

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

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Apple hires AMOLED TV Application Expert James (Jueng-Gil) Lee from LG — According to reports originating from OLED-A.org (via OLED-Info), Apple has hired OLED expert Dr. James (Jueng-Gil) Lee. He was previously a senior researcher on LG Display's R&D team and worked on printed AMOLED TVs.

More: OLED Info, Mobile Marketing Watch, AppleInsider, MacRumors, GigaOM, Macgasm, Communications …, CNET, iDownloadBlog.com, iClarified, SlashGear, BGR, TUAW and Electronista

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: googledevelopers.blogspot.ca, TechCrunch Japan, TechCrunch, Google Operating System, Engadget, The Verge and 9to5Google

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, PC Magazine, DailyTech, WebProNews, Neowin and SlashGear. Tweets: @tomwarren

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Former Kleiner Perkins Partner, Erly Founder And Hulu CTO Eric Feng Joins Flipboard As CTO — Eric Feng, former Kleiner Perkins partner and Hulu CTO, is joining social magazine app Flipboard's executive team as CTO, running engineering and strategy. — Most recently, Feng was at Airtime …

More: Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, paidContent and AllThingsD

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Google Now Uses Its Own WebP Format Instead Of PNGs In The Chrome Web Store — Google loves everything that makes the web faster. Given that images typically account for more than half of a web page's size, it has now been working on its own WebP image format for a few years.

More: CNET, Google Operating System and Softpedia News

Don Clark / Digits:

Intel Bets on New-wave Networking with Big Switch — For people who equip and run computer rooms, a trend called software-defined networking has been widely identified as a very big deal. Intel is helping to fund the movement. — The chip giant's venture capital arm on Friday is announcing …

More: Big Switch Networks, Inc., AllThingsD, VatorNews, TechCrunch, ZDNet, ITworld.com and GigaOM

Ernesto / TorrentFreak:

TPB AFK: Watch and Download The Pirate Bay Documentary NOW — The Pirate Bay is one of the best known file-sharing brands and the site has a well-earned place in Internet history. — The BitTorrent site and its founders have been targeted by several court cases over the years …

More: Engadget, Gizmodo, Ars Technica, CNET, The Verge, Daily Dot, Wired, TechCrunch, SiliconANGLE, WebProNews and Mashable!

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: Communications … and GigaOM

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Bing teams with Fox News to build ‘largest live online poll’ ever for the State of the Union address — Today Bing announced that it would be rolling out several new products and features for the coming State of the Union address by President Obama next week.

More: Bing, The Verge, LiveSide.net and WebProNews

Sponsor Posts

Microsoft BizSpark:

Featured Startup on Windows 8 - Ademptio — Face it. You love coding. Or, you hate coding. — For those who really do love it, and for those who find that some of their best ideas happen when they are doing other things …

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:

99.999 Is Not Enough: An OpenCloud Approach to Delivering Application Uptime and Performance — Executive Summary — The pressure to keep vital applications online and performing well is extreme.

Hortonworks » Blog:

University makes major investment in big data development — As news of the benefits provided by big data platforms such as Apache Hadoop spreads, more organizations are investing in the burgeoning technology.

Sponsor Techmeme

Who's Hiring In Tech?

Google: Do cool things that matter.

Automattic: 18% down, 82% 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.

Techmeme: You might have heard of us...

Add your company here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:15 PM ET, February 8, 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.