Open Links In New Tab
Mobile Archives Site News
Techmeme
July 19, 2012, 4:00 PM
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Sponsor Events Newsletter

Top News

John Paczkowski / AllThingsD:
Nokia's Bad News Not Completely Horrible — Shares Soar  —  Posting second-quarter earnings this morning, Nokia reported a loss of $1.74 billion and smartphone sales that fell 39 percent to 10.2 million.  Gruesome financials, to be sure.  But, remarkably, Nokia's stock has rallied on them.
Robin Wauters / The Next Web:
Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold
Kevin Weil / Twitter Advertising:
New targeting adds greater relevance to your Promoted Tweets  —  It's a fact — brands have been on Twitter since our earliest days.  They use the platform to connect with consumers in meaningful ways, offering everything from special discounts and exclusive content to new product information.
BuzzFeed:
The Original iPad Was Gigantic  —  Revealed in court filings (which were first noticed by NetworkWorld) is a prototype/mock up ("035") for an Apple tablet created between 2002 and 2004 — years before the iPad came out.  It still looks like an iPad, but crossed with an old iBook.  And man oh man it is FAT.
Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:
Made in America: Apple's supply chain increasing US production  —  Over the last year, some of Apple's key component suppliers have begun increasing their U.S.-based production, which could be a sign that more of the iPhone is already made in America than one might think.
More: PadGadget, Macgasm, TUAW and MacNN.  Tweets: @ldignan
Lisa Rapaport / Bloomberg:
Microsoft Hires Pollster Penn To Lead Consumer Initiatives  —  Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has hired Mark Penn as corporate vice president for strategic and special projects, reporting to Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer as the company readies new offerings for the tablet-computer market.
Ben Jones / TorrentFreak:
Bat-Signal Heralds Launch of Internet Defense League  —  The Internet Defense League (IDL) launches today, looking to formalise the action that made such a statement 6 months ago.  Until recently, protests tended to be single-site activities, but opposition to SOPA and PIPA was so widespread …
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
K9 Ventures raises $40M micro-VC fund  —  K9 Ventures has raised $40 million for its second fund, a tech-focused micro-VC fund.  The K9 Ventures II fund will be run by Manu Kumar, who headed the earlier fund.  —  K9 Ventures started invested its first fund of $6.25 million in 2009.
Brad Sams / Neowin:
Firefox mobile OS breaks cover, coming in 2013  —  Mozilla, the creators of Firefox, are about to enter a crowded marketplace with a new mobile OS.  The OS is based on Linux and Gecko and contains everything you would expect from a modern day platform.  —  Mozilla claims that the OS …
Georg Szalai / Hollywood Reporter:
Dish Network Lost 10,000 Subs in Second Quarter  —  Analysts had expected the satellite TV firm to lose more customers.  —  Satellite TV giant Dish Network on Thursday said it lost approximately 10,000 net subscribers in the second quarter, well below the 135,000 it had lost in the year-ago period.
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Microsoft completes $1.2B acquisition of Yammer  —  YammerSoft is a go, folks.  —  Less than one month after officially confirming numerous reports that it was going to buy enterprise social network Yammer, Microsoft today announced that the $1.2 billion deal is in the bag.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols / ZDNet:
Ubuntu adds WebApps to its Linux desktop  —  Summary: After adding its own cloud service to its Linux desktop, Ubuntu is now integrating Web applications into its currently shipping desktop Linux.  —  Follow @sjvn  —  Portland, OR: At OSCon, Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical …
Stacey Higginbotham / GigaOM:
How fast is your ISP?  A new report tells all.  —  Cablevision and Verizon FiOS are the mostly likely to deliver better than advertised download speeds, while any provider offering DSL — AT&T, Frontier, Windstream and CenturyLink- struggle to deliver on their promises.
Jennifer Van Grove / VentureBeat:
Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence  —  Browsing is flawed — on the Web, but even more so on mobile.  That's the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence …
Spencer Ackerman / Wired:
Newest U.S. Counterterrorism Strategy: Trolling  —  In the decade since 9/11, the U.S. government has used a wide variety of tactics against terrorists.  It's invaded countries where they operated (and ones where they didn't).  It's tried to win the backing of foreign populations in which the terrorists hide.
Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Oracle's Fifth Deal of 2012 Is for Skire  —  Enterprise software giant Oracle made its fifth acquisition of the year.  It announced that it will acquire the assets of Skire, a maker of cloud-based software used to manage capital projects, facilities and real estate.
Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:
Move over, golden record: YouTube launches partner rewards  —  YouTube took a page out of the music industry's playbook with the introduction of its new partner rewards program Thursday morning: The video site honored 80 of its partner publishers for surpassing a million subscribers with their channels.
Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:
Pocket gets $5m from Google Ventures and others to expand its read-it-later service to new platforms  —  The incredibly popular ‘save for later’ service Pocket is now clocking some 1M items saved per day and has announced a new $5M round of funding.  Participating in this round is Foundation Capital …

Sponsor Posts

Tribe AI:
Build AI that works  —  Tribe builds tech for top AI companies.  Get in touch to learn how our bench of 500+ engineers and researchers can accelerate your roadmap.
Kulkan Security:
Hire Kulkan as your penetration testing partner  —  Kulkan prioritizes deep-dive manual security reviews, dissecting your software and infrastructure to find issues that once remediated can truly reduce security risk.
Zoho:
App spotlight: Devart ODBC for Zoho CRM  —  An efficient CRM tool helps sales teams maintain strong customer relationships.  However, for a business to leverage a CRM fully, it needs to be connected with other databases to ensure a smooth two-way data flow.
Mastodon:
Donate to Mastodon  —  Mastodon gGmbH, the non-profit behind the open-source software powering the social web, relies entirely on support from users like you.  Donate directly with a credit card or through Patreon.
Sponsor Techmeme
The Kevin Rose Show:
 How to Cultivate Everyday Dharma, Suneel Gupta (#54)
Gain unconventional wisdom and insights through conversations with top expert in AI, investing, wellness, technology, and culture.
Techmeme Ride Home:
 Fri. 04/26 - Net Neutrality Is Back
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.
Sponsor this podcast
 

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:00 PM ET, July 19, 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.

From Mediagazer

Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Paramount Global's board is considering replacing CEO Bob Bakish with an “Office of the CEO” made up of division heads on an interim basis

Jeff Jarvis / BuzzMachine:
The New York Times is broken, shown by its entitled, petulant reaction to Politico's report on its tense relationship with Biden

Andrew Marchand / The Athletic:
Sources: Amazon Prime Video has a framework deal for NBA broadcast rights for at least a decade, starting in 2025-26; ESPN/ABC is expected to keep the finals

More News

Earlier Picks

Nathan Ingraham / The Verge:
Verizon Q2 2012 financial results: 888K new wireless subscribers, half of customers using smartphones
Mediagazer memeorandum WeSmirch
Home River Leaderboards About Sponsor Events Newsletter