Techmeme: Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working (J.J. Colao/Forbes)

March 12, 2013, 4:45 AM

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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.

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Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Here's What LinkedIn Can Do With Pulse — So what's LinkedIn going to do with Pulse now that it has bought the newsreader? — Maybe Jeff Weiner will keep heading down the path Pulse was headed: Trying to figure out how to create mobile magazines filled with other peoples' content …

More: CNN

J.J. Colao / Forbes:

Silicon Valley Is The New Hollywood: Ignore The Hype And Keep Working — To begin his talk at the Startup Village at South By Southwest, Steve Blank played a clip from Bravo's reality show “Start-Ups: Silicon Valley.” Ben and Hermione Way, two aspiring entrepreneurs who haven't built …

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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, Engadget, SlashGear, PR Newswire, VentureBeat, Overheard, Light Reading, WebProNews and Deadline.com

Alexei Oreskovic / Reuters:

Pinterest offers new tool, lays base for money-making features — (Reuters) - Online scrapbook Pinterest is rolling out new tools that will show businesses the number of visitors it delivers to their websites, part of the fast-growing start-up's efforts to build a base for the introduction of money-making features.

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

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: Xinhua News Agency, VentureBeat, PC World, Datamation.com and PC Magazine

Brendan Sasso / Hillicon Valley:

White House demands China stop hacking into US companies

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

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, Securosis Highlights, The Verge, VentureBeat, The Mac Security Blog and Macworld

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 …

Jessica E. Lessin / Wall Street Journal:

Data Mining for Investors: DJ Patil — Data mining can help venture capitalists find the next big thing. But it can't be the whole story— at least not yet. — From his perch as data scientist in residence at the Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Greylock Partners …

Tim Peterson / Adweek:

Facebook Challenges Google's Tech Dominance by Partnering With AOL, Adobe — Facebook and Google aren't exactly besties, and the social giant's latest move won't help matters. In recent weeks Facebook has made two friends through moves that will simultaneously help its own advertising business and hurt Google's.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

iPhone Video Usage Doubles Android, Says Ooyala — From the “Android is from Mars, Apple is from Venus” files, another reminder that the kind of phone you have influences what you do with that phone. — Or maybe it's a reminder that people buy different kinds of phones because they want to do different things with them.

More: AppleInsider, TodaysiPhone.com and Electronista. Tweets: @pkafka

Rene Ritchie / iMore.com:

The “iPhone 5S” problem — Apple may or may not release a product called the “iPhone 5S” this year. The presumption, however, fueled by Apple having previously released the 2009 iPhone 3GS-as-in-speed, and the 2011 iPhone 4S-as-in-Siri, is that 2013 will see another S-style update.

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: AdExchanger, AllThingsD, MarketWatch and Salt Lake Tribune. See also Mediagazer

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, TechCrunch, IntoMobile, CNET, BGR, Pocketnow, Pocket-lint, Gizmodo and Engadget

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: ZDNet and 9to5Google. Tweets: @dsilverman

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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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, Ars Technica, Engadget, TechCrunch, SlashGear, WinBeta, Pocket-lint, GeekWire, Computerworld, The Register, BetaNews, ParisLemon, Neowin, gHacks Technology News, Geek.com, ZDNet and The Next Web

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 …

More: CNET, ZDNet, Bloomberg, Electronista, Associated Press and SiliconBeat

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, Digital Photography Review, Softpedia News and 1001 Noisy Cameras

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: VentureBeat and Business Insider

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google Shopping Express Test Partners Include Target And Other Local SF Stores — We've been getting all sorts of new info since we first ran our story about Google dogfooding “Google Shopping Express,” its same-day Amazon Prime and Postmates competitor. While we originally reported …

More: Search Engine Watch and 9to5Google

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook ‘focused on basics’ for News Feed and mobile ads — There's a vision many people have when they think about mobile advertising. Hyperlocal, real-time, something that incorporates features like text, push notifications, QR codes and GPS. — Facebook News Feed product manager Jeff Kanter …

Adam Popescu / ReadWrite:

CISPA: Who's For It And Who's Against It — What if all of your online communication could be monitored and shared without a warrant? That's what's at stake if the latest version of CISPA, the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, is approved by Congress.

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