Techmeme: Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple (Ian King/Bloomberg)

March 11, 2013, 11:35 PM

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Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

LinkedIn to Buy Pulse Newsreader for More than $50M — LinkedIn will buy San Francisco-based newsreader appmaker Pulse, according to sources familiar with the negotiations. — The price of the acquisition is in the tens of millions, they said — between $50 million to $100 million.

More: AllThingsD, VatorNews, Business Insider, CNET, The Verge, VentureBeat, GeekWire, Inside Mobile Apps, AllThingsD, GigaOM, ZDNet, BestTechie, Mobile Marketing Watch, Mashable!, Neowin and Electronista. See also Mediagazer

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:

Exclusive: super-early iPhone prototype had 5″x7″ screen, serial port — What did the iPhone look like before it looked like an iPhone? — That's one big iPhone — This iPhone prototype was a lot closer to the size of an iPad than an iPhone at 5"×7" and nearly 2" thick.

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Ina Fried / AllThingsD:

Sprint Will Have an All-Touch BlackBerry This Year, but It's Not the Z10 — Sprint may have chosen to take a pass on the first all-touch BlackBerry 10 device, but it isn't planning to sit out that part of the market. — The No. 3 U.S. carrier plans to launch an all-touch BlackBerry-10-powered device …

More: The Verge, n4bb.com, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, BGR, CNET, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint and Gizmodo

Brad Molen / Engadget:

BlackBerry Z10 coming to AT&T March 22nd for $199.99, pre-orders open tomorrow (update: Best Buy)

David Barboza / New York Times:

In Wake of Cyberattacks, China Seeks New Rules — SHANGHAI — China has issued a new call for international “rules and cooperation” on Internet espionage issues, while insisting that accusations of Chinese government involvement in recent hacking attacks were part of an international smear campaign.

More: VentureBeat, Xinhua News Agency and PC World

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

White House demands China stop hacking into US companies

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The Security Ledger:

Many Watering Holes, Targets In Hacks That Netted Facebook, Twitter and Apple — The attacks that compromised computer systems at Facebook, Twitter, Apple Corp. and Microsoft were part of a wide-ranging operation that relied on many “watering hole” web sites that attracted employees …

More: Ars Technica, CNET, Macworld, The Verge, Securosis Highlights, The Mac Security Blog and VentureBeat

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google updates design of Gmail's web and offline apps for Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users — Google on Monday announced an update to its Gmail mobile Web app and Gmail Offline. The company says the new release is available to Android, BlackBerry, iOS, and Kindle Fire users …

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Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:

U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office Is Investigating HP's Autonomy Allegations — Hewlett-Packard just filed its regular form 10Q or quarterly report with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and it contains some news. — In the filing HP discloses that it has been told by the Serious Fraud Office …

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Hugo Miller / Bloomberg:

BlackBerry Shares Jump as Lenovo CEO Mentions Possible Deal — BlackBerry shares jumped the most in more than a month after Lenovo Group Ltd. (992)'s chief executive officer was quoted in a French financial newspaper as saying his company may eventually consider buying the smartphone maker.

More: Tech Trader Daily, BGR, CNET, VentureBeat, LAPTOP Magazine, ValueWalk, Pocket-lint and PhoneArena. Tweets: @inafried

Tim Carmody / The Verge:

Can anyone turn streaming music into a real business? — After ten years of struggle, nobody has figured out how to make music pay — “The subscription model has failed so far,” Steve Jobs said in April 2007. “People want to own their music.” At that time, Apple had solved the problem …

David Pierce / The Verge:

HTC One review — I'm fairly confident there's a kitchen sink inside the HTC One. This phone has everything else, certainly, with nothing but high-end specs across the board. It starts with Qualcomm's new quad-core Snapdragon 600 processor, a remarkably powerful chip clocked here at 1.7GHz.

More: 9to5Google and ZDNet. Tweets: @dsilverman

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Omniture Co-Founder's Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Raises $60M From GGV Capital, Jeff Bezos, Greylock And Others — Domo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $60 million in new funding, we've learned exclusively.

More: AllThingsD, MarketWatch and Salt Lake Tribune

Ian King / Bloomberg:

Fujifilm Touch Screen Poised to Aid Microsoft Vs. Apple — Fujifilm Holdings Corp. (4901), a company better known for cameras and film, could help Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) and the personal-computer industry fight back against Apple Inc. (AAPL) — Fujifilm is using its experience with silver …

More: The Verge, PetaPixel, Softpedia News and Digital Photography Review

Martha Mendoza / Associated Press:

As Tech Wealth Explodes, Silicon Valley Poverty Spikes — SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — On a morning the stock market was sailing to a record high and a chilly storm was blowing into Silicon Valley, Wendy Carle stuck her head out of the tent she calls home to find city workers duct taping …

More: Business Insider and VentureBeat

Chris Welch / The Verge:

Microsoft enabling Flash by default in Internet Explorer 10 starting March 12th — Microsoft has just announced that it will permit Flash content to run by default in both Windows RT and Windows 8 beginning tomorrow, March 12th. Until now, compatibility in Internet Explorer 10 has been limited …

More: MSDN Blogs, TechCrunch, Engadget, BetaNews, The Next Web, Neowin, ZDNet and ParisLemon

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

“Zero TV” Households Now At 5 Million, Says Nielsen, Up From 3 Million In 2007, But Still Just 5% Of Market — Nielsen today released new data that examines trends in the “Zero TV household” - a definition which refers to those who no longer watch traditional television offered by cable …

More: Nielsen, CNET, Mashable!, CBS News, BestTechie and The Verge. See also Mediagazer

Sarah Perez / TechCrunch:

Unicorn Apocalypse Is Real And It Sucks — Unicorn Apocalypse, the mobile game Samsung promoted in its TV ads that began airing at the beginning of the year, isn't fictional after all - it's a real, playable game live now in the Google Play app store. Generally speaking, the Samsung ads …

More: Droid Life, The Verge, MobileBurn.com and SlashGear

Nick Wingfield / New York Times:

Creative Learning Pays Off for Web Start-Ups — SEATTLE — Anyone who wants to learn calculus, statistics or ancient Greek history can take free online courses in those subjects at a variety of sites from instructors with distinguished academic pedigrees. For more mundane pursuits …

More: GigaOM, TechCrunch and Ubergizmo

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Salesforce to raise $1 billion in convertible debt offering to help fuel acquisitions — Today CRM giant Salesforce announced that it intends to raise $1 billion, with the potential for $150 million more, in long-term convertible debt. — The sum is large compared to the company's current cash position.

More: PR Newswire, ZDNet, VentureBeat, AllThingsD and Tech Trader Daily

Drew Olanoff / TechCrunch:

Bit.ly CEO Peter Stern Steps Down From The URL Shortening And Analytics Company — Today, Bit.ly has announced that its CEO, Peter Stern, has stepped down as CEO in a statement on their blog. The reason is that Stern is pursuing other interests, although other details aren't known at this time.

More: bitly blog, The Next Web, VentureBeat, Betabeat and GigaOM

Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Netflix Launches Speed Index To Highlight The Best ISPs For Streaming — For the last few months now, Netflix regularly published a list of the fastest ISPs for streaming video. Today, the company launched a dedicated site for this data, the Netflix ISP Speed Index.

More: GigaOM, PR Newswire, Overheard, Light Reading, WebProNews and Deadline.com

Kevin Fitchard / GigaOM:

Report: AT&T bests Verizon in raw 4G speed but still lags in LTE coverage — If unadulterated bandwidth is what you're looking for in 4G phone, then AT&T is your best bet for a mobile provider, according to a network tests conducted by RootMetrics. AT&T continued to put distance between itself …

More: AllThingsD, Business Insider and GeekWire

Lee Hutchinson / Ars Technica:

Philips delivers promised dev docs for colorful Hue LED lights — We reviewed the Hue LED-powered lightbulbs late last year, and the programmable lights have since become a major part of my life. I wake up with their help in the morning and go to bed with their help in the evening …

More: 9to5Mac, TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, TUAW, GigaOM, Technabob, Electronista, TechSpot, AppleInsider, VentureBeat, MacStories, Inquirer and iDownloadBlog.com

Sean Hollister / The Verge:

Google reveals Glass apps: New York Times, Evernote, Gmail, and Path — Developer advocate Timothy Jordan highlights the ways your favorite services might integrate with Google Glass — We're watching Google's Project Glass developer panel live at SXSW Interactive, and the company's showing off …

More: CNET, Engadget, ABCNEWS, NYT Bits, ReadWrite, Gizmodo, IntoMobile, PhoneArena, Good Morning Silicon Valley and Pocket-lint

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