Techmeme: Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook (Jean-Louis Gassée/Monday Note)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

May 27, 2012, 11:05 PM

Top News

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Facebook Tries, Tries Again on a Smartphone — Can a software company build its own smartphone? We may find out soon. — This past week, Google completed its acquisition of the hardware maker Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, which could lead to the search giant's making its own smartphone.

Jay Yarow / Business Insider:

Facebook Is Building The Facebook Phone Right In Front Of Our Eyes — One of the many points of intrigue around Facebook's future centers on the mobile phone market. — It has been reportedly working on a mobile operating system for its own phone since 2010.

Tweets: @stevecheney, @andrewchen and @andrewchen

Randall Stross / New York Times:

Goodbye to Windows Live (and Whatever It Meant) — IF you own a Windows-based PC, you may like the operating system well enough. Or you may merely tolerate it, if you give it much thought at all. But whatever your feeling, “love” probably isn't the word that immediately comes to mind to describe it.

Tweets: @simx and @bill_fischer

Wall Street Journal:

Facebook Flop Puts Investment Banker on the Spot — Morgan Stanley's Michael Grimes Draws Some Flak for Facebook's IPO Flop — Facebook Inc.'s botched initial public offering left Morgan Stanley investment banker Michael Grimes in an unusual spot: on the defensive.

More: Pulse2 Technology …

Erin Geiger Smith / Reuters:

Facebook IPO is flashback to dot-com class action

More: PandoDaily, WFTS, PR Newswire, Business Wire and Business Wire

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

Decoding Share Prices: Amazon, Apple and Facebook — There are many religions when it comes to calculating the “right” price for the shares of a publicly traded company. At a basic level, buying a share is an act of faith in the company's future earnings.

Tweets: @carnage4life

Nicholas Holmes / The Next Web:

An inside look at Switzerland's seriously ambitious startup scene — Ah, Switzerland. The land of chocolate, cow-bells, skiing and prices that make you want to cry. A place that has built a global brand on providing a safe, risk-free haven for other people's money and not being disruptive or belligerent.

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

EXCLUSIVE: Ross Levinsohn's Plan To Turn Around Yahoo — It's been a week or so since Yahoo booted its CEO Scott Thompson for lying on his resume, and replaced him with Ross Levinsohn. — Levinsohn's title is “interim” CEO, but the impression we get is that it is his job to lose. — So, what's his plan?

Tweets: @jonathanglick

Gregg Keizer / Computerworld:

Aged Windows XP costs 5x more to manage than Windows 7 — As XP's life wanes, Microsoft talks dollars to get businesses to ditch 11-year-old OS — Microsoft yesterday added ammunition to its increasingly aggressive battle to get users off the nearly-11-year-old Windows XP by citing …

More: Computerworld, PC World, PC Magazine, VentureBeat, Pulse2 Technology …, Redmond Pie and The Verge. Tweets: @cmross

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Digital Chocolate Downsizing? Founder Trip Hawkins Out As CEO; Reports Of Layoffs, Marc Metis As Interim CEO — Some significant changes afoot at social and mobile games company Digital Chocolate: founder Trip Hawkins has stepped down as the CEO of the company.

More: Digital Chocolate, Inside Social Games and Pulse2 Technology …

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Watch this rare video from inside the Foxconn facility where 70% of iPhones are made — You don't get a look inside Apple's factories in China all that often. Apple is notoriously secretive about their processes and products. That's why the video below is so fascinating …

More: PC Magazine, M.I.C. Gadget, iPhone in Canada Blog, WebProNews, Examiner, Pulse2 Technology …, TUAW, iMore, I4U News, TechnoBuffalo, AppleInsider, App Advice, The Verge, VR-Zone, iClarified and IntoMobile. Tweets: @asymco

Kellex / Droid Life:

Motorola Demos Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR in Official Video Series, Watch Them All Here — We know that Ice Cream Sandwich for the DROID RAZR will be here some time before the end of June (Q2) thanks to an updated timeline released by Motorola within the last week.

More: Pulse2 Technology …, Engadget, Phones Review, PC World, The Verge and TechnoBuffalo

Iain Marlow / Globe and Mail:

RIM prepares for radical measures with global restructuring — Patrick Spence, who quit this week as Research In Motion Ltd.'s global sales chief, was not the first senior executive to leave the struggling BlackBerry maker this spring and he will not be the last, as the company prepares for thousands of additional layoffs.

More: AllThingsD, Engadget, Reuters, TechnoBuffalo, CNET, DailyTech, Pulse2 Technology …, MobileSyrup.com, The Verge and Business Insider

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens.

Cloudflare:

Cloudflare Connect 2026: The Agentic Conference — Stop preparing for agents. Start running them. 100+ sessions, workshops, and speakers from OpenAI, Arm, and Cloudflare across AI, security, and performance.

Zoho:

Beyond productivity: Why live captions belong in every meeting — You join a meeting, someone starts talking, and within a minute, there are names, numbers, ideas, and unfamiliar terms flying around. You could ask them to repeat it.

IDrive:

Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Sources:

Factory CEO on why AGI is already here

Candid conversations with the leaders shaping what's next in AI and the broader tech industry. Hosted by Alex Heath, who has covered Silicon Valley for more than a decade.

Subscribe to Sources.

Invest Like the Best:

Noah Shinn - Building Instinct: The Personal Agent

The leading destination to learn about business and investing. We do this by showcasing exceptional talent and ideas.

Subscribe to Invest Like the Best.

Lenny's Podcast:

The grief, loneliness, and burnout sweeping through the tech industry right now | Molly Graham

Interviews with world-class product leaders and growth experts to uncover actionable advice to help you build, launch, and grow your own product.

Subscribe to Lenny's Podcast.

Big Technology Podcast:

Meta's Muse Revival, Frontier AI Under Threat, The Rise Of Dopamine Sites

The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators.

Subscribe to Big Technology Podcast.

Channels with Peter Kafka:

Meta's New $1300 Glasses and the Fight to Control AI

Media and tech aren't just intersecting - they're fully intertwined. To understand how those worlds work, Peter Kafka talks to industry leaders, upstarts and observers.

Subscribe to Channels with Peter Kafka.

Great Chat:

Doomers at Dreamforce

A podcast mostly about tech. Brought to you weekly by Angela Du, Sally Shin, Mac Bohannon, Helen Min, and Ashley Mayer.

Subscribe to Great Chat.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 11:05 PM ET, May 27, 2012.

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.