Techmeme: Yahoo! Unveils Brand New iOS App, Including Built-In Summly Summaries (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

April 22, 2013, 4:15 PM

Top News

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Windows 8.1 set to bring back the Start button — Microsoft is preparing to revive the traditional Start button it killed with Windows 8. Sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have revealed to The Verge that Windows 8.1 will include the return of the Start button.

More: ZDNet, CITEworld, Examiner, PC World, GeekWire, Forbes, InfoWorld, Insider Monkey, CNET, VentureBeat, Computerworld, Gizmodo, ExtremeTech, TechSpot, Macgasm, Geek.com, BestTechie, Windows Phone Central, WinBeta, TechCrunch, Softpedia News and Neowin

Tweets: @dannysullivan, @m4tt, @parislemon and @lessien

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo! Unveils Brand New iOS App, Including Built-In Summly Summaries — Yahoo! acquired startup Summly for somewhere around $30 million just one month ago, but it's already bearing fruit. First, there was the Summly summarized version of its Q1 2013 earnings last week …

Alex Chitu / Google Operating System:

Google Now for Google's Homepage in Testing — It looks like Google Now won't be limited to Android, iOS and Chrome, it will also be added to Google's homepage. Some code from a page that's tested by Google offers more information about this feature. … That's how Google introduces the new feature.

More: 9to5Google, Gizmodo, TechHive, TechSpot, VentureBeat, Search Engine Land, TechCrunch, Softpedia News, memeburn, The Next Web, Gotta Be Mobile and WebProNews

hueypriest / reddit:

Reflections on the Recent Boston Crisis — After some reflection we want to share our thoughts about the reddit activity during the recent crisis in Boston. We all need to look at what happened and make sure that in the future we do everything we can to help and not hinder crisis situations.

More: VentureBeat, CNET, BuzzFeed, SiliconBeat, Betabeat, The Verge, PC Magazine and WebProNews

Tweets: @jbrodkin and @adrianchen

See also Mediagazer

Adario Strange / DVICE:

Eric Schmidt: Google Glass not coming to you until 2014 — Every move that Google has made regarding its wearable Glass computer has been closely scrutinized, particularly the staggered, picky rollouts of the device, most recently with Glass Explorer applicants.

More: The Verge, SlashGear, Droid Life, AndroidHeadlines.com, WebProNews and Guardian

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google Glass code hints at spatial gestures, including two-finger browser zoom and winking to take a photo — Google appears to be planning an interesting set of gestures for its Glass project, letting you use your fingers, head, and eyes to perform certain functions.

More: VentureBeat, Google Glass APPs, Engadget, Forbes, Ars Technica, Gizmodo, CNET, SocialTimes, PetaPixel, Softpedia News and Electronista. Thanks:@epro

Karin Matussek / Bloomberg:

Google Fined 145,000 Euros Over Wi-Fi Data Collection in Germany — Google Inc. (GOOG), operator of the world's largest Internet search engine, was fined 145,000 euros ($189,230) by a German regulator for collecting wireless-network data by its cars taking photos for the Street View service.

More: The Verge, The Register, Motherboard, CNET, PC World, Hillicon Valley, VentureVillage, Macgasm, Telegraph, SlashGear, TechCrunch, 9to5Google, GigaOM, Electronista, PhoneArena and Yahoo! News

BBC:

Google boss defends UK tax record to BBC — Google's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt, has defended his company paying just £6m in UK corporation tax. — His comments came after a committee of MPs last year denounced multinationals - including Google - who pay little tax on their UK earnings, as “immoral”.

More: Search Engine Watch, Telegraph, BGR, Neowin, Reuters, Forbes, SlashGear, Tech Digest, Stop The Cyborgs and The Register

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Nokia teases QWERTY phone announcement on April 24th — Official teasers rarely provide much in the way of detail, but this one from Nokia at least comes with a pretty picture. It reveals the rounded design language we have come to associate with the company's latest feature phones …

Cotton Delo / AdAge:

Tumblr Launches Mobile Ads Today In Big Revenue Push — Users of iOS and Android Apps Will See Up to 4 Ads Per Day — Tumblr is launching its mobile ads today, marking the first time the 6-year-old startup is placing ads that look and feel like regular posts on the blog network.

More: Tumblr Staff, The Verge, Marketing Land, VentureBeat, paidContent, Betabeat, BetaNews, CNET, App Advice, SocialTimes, TUAW, Android Community, SlashGear, IntoMobile and WebProNews. See also Mediagazer

Sam Biddle / Valleywag:

Sorry to Disrupt: Valleywag Is Back — You're doing it again. It's only been a few years since we last met here, but you, Valley venture capitalist and Alley opportunist, are worse than ever. There will come a day when all the coddling and cheerleading you've become accustomed to curdles …

Tweets: @owenthomas, @jyarow, @samfbiddle and @davemcclure. See also Mediagazer

Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch:

Netflix Beats Analyst Estimates, With 29.2 Million US Subscribers And $1 Billion In Q1 Revenue — Netflix reported strong first quarter numbers, reporting strong earnings on revenues of $1.02 billion during the first three months of the year. The company also announced that it added 2 million domestic …

More: Engadget, paidContent, Tech Trader Daily and Business Insider

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Facebook tries Google's WebP image format; users squawk — It's a major endorsement for the file format, but not some social-network members are upset to have lost their flexible, sharable JPEGs. — This shows the same image in JPEG and WebP, with WebP on the right.

More: AllFacebook

Josh Ong / The Next Web:

Facebook Home passes 500,000 installations on Google Play one week after launch — Facebook's new Home Android launcher has passed the 500,000 download mark on the Google Play store after a little over a week in the wild, though it continues to accumulate mostly negative reviews and has sunk to an average rating of 2.2.

Robin Wauters / The Next Web:

Online ticketing company Eventbrite raises $60m, puts off its IPO until further notice — Online ticketing company Eventbrite has secured $60 million in growth funding from T. Rowe Price and Tiger Global Management, the Wall Street Journal reports, in a move that will surprise some as the firm …

More: Market Wire, VentureVillage, Wall Street Journal, PandoDaily, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Rude Baguette

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Despite App Store rules crackdown, comparison tool AppShopper returns with a social bent — Late last year, Arnold Kim got a surprise notice from Apple. His super-popular app comparison shopping tool AppShopper was to be removed from the App Store for violation of a 3-month-old rule.

More: AppShopper.com, GigaOM, MacRumors, TUAW, App Advice, MacStories and www.pocketgamer.biz. Thanks:@panzer

Jean-Louis Gassée / Monday Note:

The App Store: Good Deeds, Poor Communication

More: MacStories

Cyrus Farivar / Ars Technica:

The rise and fall of AMD: How an underdog stuck it to Intel — In part one of this two-part series, we look at the evolution of AMD from a second-source supplier for companies using Intel processors towards CEO Hector Ruiz's ideal of a “premium” chipmaker that could sell to the likes of Dell and Intel.

More: iDownloadBlog.com

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Twitter strikes ad deal with Starcom MediaVest Group, bringing in Coca-Cola, Walmart, P&G, more — Twitter has reportedly signed a deal with the Starcom MediaVest Group, a division of advertising giant Publicis. According to the Financial Times, the deal could potentially be worth hundreds …

More: Financial Times, GigaOM, AllThingsD, Marketing Land, CNET and Mobile Marketing Watch. See also Mediagazer

Sponsor Posts

Subquadratic:

SubQ Snap 1.1: the first long-context decision model for real enterprise work — Tied for #1 on the AA Decision Index, Snap is a multimodal model with a 384k-token context window for fast reasoning and agentic decisions.

Zoho:

The quiet power of email marketing to maximize impact for nonprofits — A life changed. A problem solved. A community strengthened. A future made a little better than it was yesterday.For nonprofits, that's the metric.

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.

WebBrain:

WebBrain: an open-source AI agent for your browser — Read pages, fill forms and automate tasks in Chrome or Firefox. Use local models or your preferred AI provider. Get started free.

Sponsor Techmeme

Featured Podcasts

Grit:

The Difference Between 1% Improvements and 10x Growth | Immad Akhund

Grit explores what it takes to create, build and scale world-class organizations.

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

How a 19-year-old intern built the growth engine behind this $2B AI company | Hector Serrano

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:

Big Tech's Ugly Week, Getting Rich At Anthropic, AI Costs Plunge

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.

Machine Gods:

OpenAI's Latest Discoveries Spark a Backlash + Help! My Kid Hates AI

The official podcast of the singularity, from Casey Newton and Kevin Roose. Twice-weekly news, analysis, and interviews with the people who are building the future.

Subscribe to Machine Gods.

The Upstarts Podcast:

The Accidental YC Founder Solving AI's GPU Crisis | SF Compute's Evan Conrad

Veteran tech reporter Alex Konrad sits down with breakout entrepreneurs taking on the status quo to shake up their fields in AI, design, nuclear energy, space, and more.

Subscribe to The Upstarts Podcast.

Cheeky Pint:

Why Sam Altman is against a single superintelligence

Stripe cofounder John Collison interviews founders, builders, and leaders over a pint.

Subscribe to Cheeky Pint.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 4:15 PM ET, April 22, 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.