Techmeme
April 11, 2013, 7:13 PM

Top News

DealBook:
As Big Investors Emerge, Bitcoin Gets Ready for Its Close-Up  —  Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss have been many things in a short time: Olympic rowers.  Nemeses of Mark Zuckerberg.  Characters on “The Simpsons.”  Now they can add a new label: bitcoin moguls.
Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat:
Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox halts trading following massive price decline  —  Top Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, which facilitates more than 70 percent of trades of the currency, has halted trading for 12 hours following a gigantic decline in Bitcoin prices.  —  The price of a Bitcoin on Mt. Gox …
Max Raskin / Businessweek:
Meet the Bitcoin Millionaires  —  Many people have lost some data while reformatting a computer hard drive.  Jered Kenna lost more than that.  In 2010 he erased from his computer 800 Bitcoins that have been worth more than $200,000.  Kenna isn't upset: He has plenty more.
Sarah Frier / Businessweek:
Foursquare Gets $41 Million Investment, Time to Grow  —  When Dennis Crowley debuted Foursquare, his location-based social media app, at South by Southwest in 2009, he got rave reviews.  The tech blog Mashable called Foursquare the “breakout mobile app” of the event.  VentureBeat called it “the next Twitter.”
Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:
Yep, LinkedIn Acquires Newsreader Startup Pulse for $90 Million  —  LinkedIn announced on Thursday it has acquired mobile news aggregation startup Pulse, as Kara Swisher reported last month that it would, signaling another step by the massive professional network toward becoming an online content powerhouse.
Mark Zuckerberg / Washington Post:
Mark Zuckerberg: Immigrants are the key to a knowledge economy  —  Mark Zuckerberg is founder and chief executive of Facebook and co-founder of Fwd.us.  (Washington Post Co. Chairman Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors.)  —  Earlier this year I started teaching …
Susan Decker / Bloomberg:
Apple, Google Not Interested in Settlement, Judge Says  —  Apple Inc. and Google Inc. (GOOG)'s Motorola Mobility unit are more interested in using litigation as a business strategy than in resolving disputes over the use of patented technology, a federal judge in Florida said.
Eric Slivka / MacRumors:
Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini?  —  Back in January, reliable KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo laid out a thorough roadmap of his expectations for Apple's product launches in 2013, pointing to a very busy third quarter for the company …
Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:
Google's New Inactive Account Manager Gives You Control Over Your Digital Afterlife  —  What will happen to your Gmail, YouTube, Google Drive and Google+ accounts after you die?  That's probably not something you really want to think about, but as more and more of our data now lives online …
Hubert Nguyen / Ubergizmo:
Samsung Galaxy Mega Hands-On Review  —  Samsung has just announced the Samsung Galaxy Mega, a device that has been talked about as a rumor until now.  As its name indicates, and featuring a 6.3″ display (there is also a 5.8″ version), the Galaxy Mega is even bigger …
Russell Brandom / The Verge:
Google sued for burying ‘Streetmap’ search results  —  A British mapping company named Streetmap is suing Google in U.K. court for what it called “cynical manipulation of search results,” that made its site harder to find in Google searches.  A Google spokesman told Bloomberg he hadn't seen …
More: Bloomberg and BGR
Zac Hall / 9to5Mac:
BlackBerry 10 launch by the numbers: Over 50% returns, 71% of people don't want under any circumstances, 83% of Americans unaware it even launched (Updated)  —  Six years after Apple took the smartphone industry by surprise with its release of the iPhone, former market leader BlackBerry Limited …
Royce Cheng-Yue / Twitter Blog:
Trends in 160+ locations  —  Today, we're introducing Trends in more than 160 new locations.  Included in that list are a number of countries that will be getting Trends for the first time: Belgium, Greece, Kenya, Norway, Poland, Portugal, and Ukraine, plus more than 130 new cities in countries that already have Trends.
Wall Street Journal:
Microsoft Plans 7-inch Tablet  —  The personal-computer business is at a crossroads, and Microsoft Corp. isn't sitting still.  —  The software giant is developing a new lineup of its Surface tablets, including a 7-inch version expected to go into mass production later this year, said people familiar with the company's plans.
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
eBay-Backed Ecommerce Software Company ChannelAdvisor Files For $86M IPO  —  The latest technology company to join the IPO bandwagon is e-commerce optimization company ChannelAdvisor.  The S-1, filed with the SEC today, indicates that ChannelAdvisor could raises as much as $86.25 million in an offering …
Help Net Security:
Hijacking airplanes with an Android phone  —  An extremely well attended talk by Hugo Teso, a security consultant at n.runs AG in Germany, about the completely realistic scenario of plane hijacking via a simple Android app has galvanized the crowd attending the Hack In The Box Conference in Amsterdam today.

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Is AI just hype?  —  Find out how top enterprises use Tribe to get real business results.
Techmeme Leaderboards:
Discover the top reporters on AI, VR, policy, and much more  —  We've analyzed Techmeme's news crawl to identify the most influential and prolific writers on 48 news topics.  Download reports immediately for just $100.
Zoho:
All new Zoho Workerly 2024  —  Staffing businesses around the world face a unique set of challenges when it comes to managing their temporary workforce.  With a constantly shifting job market and changing staffing needs …
Comprehensive.io:
Browse salary data from 3,000 startups for free  —  Click for FREE, immediate access to real-time compensation benchmarking data.  Paid version helps HR automate comp reviews and communicate total compensation to employees.
The Kevin Rose Show:
Henry Shukman, Lessons from an Authentic Zen Master
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Techmeme Ride Home:
Thu. 03/28 - Claude 3 Opus Surpasses GPT-4 For The First Time
The day's tech news, every day at 5pm ET. Fifteen minutes and you're up to date.
Subscribe via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or RSS.
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 7:13 PM ET, April 11, 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.

More News

Earlier Picks