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July 19, 2012, 5:30 PM

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Frederic Lardinois / TechCrunch:

Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue — Microsoft just released its Q4 2012 earnings report, posting just $192M in operating income before taxes and its first ever loss ($492M) due to the writedown the company took because of its failed aQuantive acquisition.

More: Microsoft Investor Relations, The Verge, VentureBeat, VentureBeat, BGR, Marketing Land, Business Insider, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Mashable! and WMPoweruser

Tweets: @parislemon and @theromit

Mario Aguilar / Gizmodo:

Microsoft Just Lost Money For the First Time Ever

More: GigaOM and GeekWire. Tweets: @davidgoldmancnn

Wall Street Journal:

Nokia's Bad Call on Smartphones — Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations more than a decade ago to wireless carriers and investors that divined the future of the mobile Internet. — More than seven years before Apple Inc. rolled out the iPhone …

More: TechSpot, IntoMobile, Mobile, Digits, Gizmodo UK, 9to5Mac, Washington Post, digitaltrends.com, FierceWireless, Apps blog, ZDNet, Los Angeles Times and PhoneArena

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.

More: The Next Web and ZDNet

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Nokia's Q2 2012: $1 billion operating loss, $9.21 billion in net sales, 4 million Lumia phones sold

More: ZDNet, eWeek, Computerworld, Bloomberg, The Verge, The Verge, TechCrunch, Windows Phone Daily, Nokia, New York Times, PhoneArena, Softpedia News, ZDNet, Gizmodo, MediaNama, GeekWire, ZDNet, Reuters, VentureBeat, The Register, The Tech Trade, Business Insider, Tech Trader Daily, Mashable!, TechCrunch, Inquirer, GigaOM and Engadget

Tweets: @benedictevans and @asymco

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

CEO Elop Hints Nokia Will Be 1st To Windows Phone 8, Weighs In On China And Android

More: LAPTOP Magazine, Techie Buzz and The Verge

Jolie O'Dell / VentureBeat:

Google nabs $12B for Q2, including a tidy billion from new subsidiary Motorola — Google has just released the details of its second-quarter earnings: $12.21 billion in total consolidated revenue, around $1.25 billion of which came from Motorola Mobility, now officially owned by Google.

More: New York Times, CNET, Google Investor Relations, GeekWire, Marketing Land, ReadWriteWeb, CNNMoney.com, Mercury News, 9to5Google, TechCrunch, Business Insider, bizjournals, Engadget, MobileSyrup.com and Android Phone Fans

Tweets: @dannysullivan and @ampressman

Robert Hof / The New Persuaders:

LIVE (Updated): No Larry Page, But Google Q2 Profits Beat Forecast, Sales Light — Providing a sign that online advertising continues to shine in a tough economy, Google reported a second-quarter net profit of $2.79 billion, or $8.42 a share, up 11%, on a 35% jump in sales to $12.21 billion.

More: CNET, Search Engine Watch, BGR, GigaOM, Engadget, Forbes, AllThingsD, The Next Web, Tech Trader Daily, WebProNews and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Mayer to Get $40 Million in Overall Compensation for Yahoo's Top Job — As I reported earlier today it would, Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it was paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of $40 million to turn the company around. — Here's the breakdown:

More: ReadWriteWeb and BetaNews

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BREAKING: Yahoo's Mayer to get base salary of $1M; will receive $15M if she stays for 5 years - Filing

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.

More: PC Magazine, VentureBeat, The Next Web, Marketing Land, The Verge, Pulse2 Technology …, WebProNews, Mashable! and LaptopMemo. Thanks:@hornokplease

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Expands iTunes Movies in the Cloud to Over 35 New Countries [Updated] — In addition to today's iTunes Match expansion to Hungary and Poland, Apple has also undertaken a significant expansion of its iTunes in the Cloud feature, adding movies to the list of eligible items in the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

More: The Next Web, TUAW, iDownloadBlog.com, iLounge and MacNN

Rebecca Greenfield / The Atlantic Wire:

Rich Kids of Instagram Epitomize Everything Wrong with Instagram — While the Internet has had a good time making fun of these rich kid Instagram photos, haters should be careful. These postings are emblematic of the entire medium we all use. To be certain, these wealthy kid pix are particularly funny …

More: Celebrity Rehab …. Tweets: @cjoh, @fmanjoo and @sarahintampa

Reuters:

Facebook, Wal-Mart chiefs meet to “deepen” relationship — (Reuters) - Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is about to add the biggest retail players to his list of friends. — Zuckerberg and his senior management team will spend two days at Wal-Mart Stores Inc's Bentonville …

Brittany Darwell / Inside Facebook:

Facebook testing new Pinterest-inspired design for app stories in News Feed — Facebook appears to be testing a layout for Open Graph app stories that is similar in design to Pinterest, with boxes for individual items that allow Likes, comments and other app-specific actions.

More: Mashable!

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.

More: Los Angeles Times, Forbes, Mobile Magazine, PadGadget, TUAW, DVICE, The Tech Report, PhoneArena, Edible Apple, Neowin, I4U News and Network World

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 …

More: eWeek, VentureBeat, digitaltrends.com, Tech Daily Dose, PC Magazine, Computerworld, NewAmerica.net, Washington Post, Ars Technica, Softpedia News, CNET, Mashable!, Wired, InformationWeek, Examiner, UK News and Opinion, Hillicon Valley, WebProNews and The Register

Greg Finn / Search Engine Land:

Official: Google “Share” Experiment Sends Pages From Search To Google+ — A Tweet this morning from @BerianReed, head of search marketing of AutoTrader UK, uncovered some potentially deeper integration between Google Search and Google+. Reed spotted a new option in the results that showed up next to the URL, a “Share” link.

More: PC Magazine, Pulse2 Technology …, Google Operating System, BetaNews, the Econsultancy blog, State of Search and Search Engine Roundtable

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

Say Media Raises $27 Million and Gets Ready to Start Shopping — Got a Web site to sell? You may want to talk to Matt Sanchez: The CEO of SayMedia just raised $27 million, and he wants to spend a bunch of it building out his media company. — This is technically SayMedia's first round …

More: BetaKit, Say Media, SAY Daily, Pulse2 Technology …, VentureBeat, paidContent, TechCrunch and Venture Capital Dispatch

Mike Isaac / AllThingsD:

Twitter Continues Legal Fight in Occupy Wall Street Protester Trial — Twitter announced on Thursday that it will appeal a recent ruling in an ongoing legal battle between the state of New York and a Twitter user, in which a judge ordered Twitter to hand over information on one of its users.

More: The Verge, VentureBeat, Bits, Pulse2 Technology …, Betabeat and GigaOM

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.

More: The Verge, DSLreports, Computerworld, Tech Daily Dose, FCC.gov, PC Magazine and Cable Tech Talk

Mat Honan / Wired:

Flickr Posts Ingenious Single-Serving Site in Response to Internet Outcry — Not long after Marissa Mayer was named the new CEO of Flickr, Sean Bonner launched a single-serving site, Dear Marissa Mayer, that blew up all over Twitter and the Web. Bonner's site is a simple open letter to Mayer …

More: blogs.ft.com, The Next Web and Mashable!

Tweets: @waxpancake, @sampullara and @davewiner

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

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 …

More: Softpedia News

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.

More: Digits, Daring Fireball, GigaOM, The Next Web and GeekWire

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.

More: VentureBeat, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, Reuters and Computerworld

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.

More: PC World, ZDNet, GeekWire, Engadget and The Next Web

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.

More: Social Markets, Pulse2 Technology …, PE Hub Blog and The Next Web

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