Open Links In New Tab Archives
Mobile Mini
Techmeme
March 1, 2013, 2:00 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboard About Site News Sponsor

Top News

Gregory Ferenstein / TechCrunch:
FCC To Investigate Cell Phone Unlocking Ban  —  Following an online uproar over a law banning the unlocking of cell phones, the Federal Communications Commission will investigate whether the ban is harmful to economic competitiveness and if the executive branch has any authority to change the law.
John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Einhorn's Greenlight Drops “Silly” Apple Suit  —  Hedge fund magnate and famous Apple bull David Einhorn has dropped his lawsuit against the company in which he holds some 1.3 million shares.  Einhorn's Greenlight Capital on Friday withdrew the suit it brought against Apple over a proxy proposal …
David Hsieh / DisplaySearch Blog:
Smaller Tablet PCs to Take Over in 2013?  —  The launch of the iPad mini in late 2012 has been seen as an acknowledgement by Apple that smaller size (7-9") tablet PCs would become a larger part of the market than larger sizes (9.7" or 10.1").  Key aspects are more attractive prices and the ability …
Chris Welch / The Verge:
Google's CFO says Motorola's upcoming products aren't ‘wow’ by Google standards (update)  —  If you were hoping to see a revelatory smartphone from Motorola in the near future, you might want to tone down those expectations.  Google's Chief Financial Officer and Senior Vice President Patrick Pichette today …
Bloomberg:
Google Defeats Publishers Over Copyright in German Parliament  —  Google Inc. (GOOG) and other news aggregators may continue to show short news items on their Internet sites without being required to pay, German lawmakers decided in a parliamentary vote today in a blow to publishers including Axel Springer AG (SPR) and Bertelsmann SE.
Groupon, Inc.:
Groupon Announces Leadership Change  —  Board Appoints Eric Lefkofsky and Ted Leonsis to the Office of the Chief Executive-Board Initiates Search for New CEO—Groupon, the global leader in local commerce, today announced a leadership change in which Executive Chairman Eric Lefkofsky …
Zack Whittaker / ZDNet:
Oracle investigating after two more Java 7 zero-day flaws found  —  Summary: Polish security researchers have discovered yet more zero-day vulnerabilities in Java, the beleaguered Web plug-in, that led to the successful intrusion of Facebook, Apple and Microsoft in recent weeks.  —  Zack Whittaker
Jon Russell / The Next Web:
US Web payment enabler Stripe finally comes to Europe, launches beta service in the UK  —  Stripe, the fast-growing Web payment enabler from the US, has finally launched its service in Europe, starting with the UK today.  —  Founder Patrick Collison announced the launch of a beta service …
Jamie Rigg / Engadget:
First BB10 update addresses battery life, low-light photography, third-party app performance and more  —  BlackBerry 10 has been out in the wild for almost a month, and today early adopters will begin receiving the first update to the new platform: version 10.0.10.85.
David Meyer / GigaOM:
BSkyB buys Telefónica UK's fixed-line business for $300M  —  British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSkyB) will buy Telefónica's UK fixed-line broadband and telephony business for up to £200 million ($303 million), the companies announced early on Friday.
Gary Sims / Android Authority:
Ex-Apple marketing guru Guy Kawasaki now advising Motorola  —  Apple's former chief technology evangelist Guy Kawasaki has taken a job as an advisor to Motorola.  His remit at Motorola includes product design, user interface, marketing, and social media.  One of his first social media tasks …
Jesse Hicks / The Verge:
Over 1,000 days without a trial: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the culture of secrecy  —  His requests for a dismissal denied, the accused WikiLeaks source heads toward trial — and possibly life imprisonment  —  You could be forgiven if you've forgotten Bradley Manning.

Sponsor Posts

Channel 9:
This Week on Channel 9  —  Mark DeFalco and Dan Fernandez discuss the week's top developer news.
Cloud Foundry:
Want to Contribute to Cloud Foundry?  Come on in!  —  Cloud Foundry is an Open Platform-as-a-Service, and an Open Source project.  It has attracted phenomenal interest from the community - including partners …
Rackspace Blog:
Love, Magic, & APIs  —  I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page.  Don't hate.  It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
Hortonworks » Blog:
Week in Review: SQL IN Hadoop and Hive, Beyond Batch with YARN, NFS access to HDFS and HBase MTTR  —  Or as it's more commonly being called: Week-ish in Review.  Let's recap on the latest - there's some juicy technology goodness here.
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
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 2:00 PM ET, March 1, 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.

From Mediagazer

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
It's Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B, Promises To Keep It Independent

Noah Rothman / Mediaite:
Justice Dept. Tracked Fox News Reporter James Rosen's Movements, Obtained His Personal Emails

Elizabeth Jensen / New York Times:
Charlie Rose to Host a Show in Prime Time on PBS

More News

Earlier Picks

Brian Boland / Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook to Acquire Atlas from Microsoft
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboard About Site News Sponsor