Techmeme: Instagram Now Lets Anyone Tag You [Or Brands] In Photos, Adds Them To “Photos Of You” Profile Section (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Open Links In New Tab

Mobile Archives Advertise Site News Contact Editors

May 2, 2013, 3:15 PM

Top News

Stephen Shankland / CNET:

Adobe to bring Lightroom-style photo editing to tablets — Bringing its technology for processing raw photos to mobile devices, then linking them with cloud services could be a step toward Lightroom on mobile. — Adobe Systems plans to release high-end photo-editing software for tablets …

Dick Craddock / The Microsoft Office Blog:

Outlook.com: 400 million active accounts, Hotmail upgrade complete and more features on the way — When we launched the preview of Outlook.com, our goal was to build the best email service in the world, capable of scaling to over a billion active customers.

More: The Verge, CNET, ZDNet, LiveSide.net, BetaNews, Engadget, VentureBeat, GigaOM, The Next Web, Neowin, SuperSite for Windows, SlashGear and TechNet Blogs

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

Instagram Now Lets Anyone Tag You [Or Brands] In Photos, Adds Them To “Photos Of You” Profile Section — Today Instagram launches photo tagging, the feature that fueled Facebook's early growth. New Instagram iOS and Android updates rolling out now let you tag any person or brand in your own photos …

More: Instagram Blog, GigaOM, Inside Facebook, PC Magazine, Digital Trends, Gizmodo, CNET, The Next Web, MacRumors, AllThingsD, The Verge, Redmond Pie, PetaPixel, iPhone Hacks, App Advice, IntoMobile, MobileSyrup.com, GadgeTell and MacStories

Tweets: @stevekovach and @stevestreza

Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Apple Adds New 256 GB and 512 GB Flash Storage Options to iMac — Apple has added new storage options to its iMac lineup, allowing users to choose either a 256 GB or 512 GB flash storage drive as part of the order customization process. The new options are available as $300 …

More: iMore, Engadget, CNET, Ars Technica, AppleInsider, TUAW and Apple Bitch

New York Times:

Cellphone Thefts Grow, but the Industry Looks the Other Way — When a teenage boy snatched the iPhone out of Rose Cha's hand at a bus stop in the Bronx in March, she reported the theft to her carrier and to the police — just as she had done two other times when she was the victim of cellphone theft.

More: Fortune, AppleInsider, MacRumors, Digital Trends, dailywireless.org, PhoneArena, MacStories, InvestorPlace and App Advice. Tweets: @hermanywong

Tom Warren / The Verge:

Microsoft said to be planning next-gen Surface announcement for June — Microsoft has long been rumored to be working on a 7-inch version of its Surface tablet, but a new report suggests the company may be preparing to unveil it in June. DigiTimes claims that second-generation Surface devices …

More: DigiTimes, CNET, Digital Trends, IntoMobile, VR-Zone, Geek.com, Unwired View and SlashGear. Tweets: @tracour

Aaron Souppouris / The Verge:

Google Glass app lets you sneak photos with a wink — A Google Glass developer has created an app that allows you to take a photo using just your eye. The Winky app, currently available through GitHub, lets you power up Glass from standby mode and snap a quick photo.

Matt Brian / The Verge:

Intel names Brian Krzanich as CEO to succeed Paul Otellini — Less than six months after Paul Otellini announced he would step down from the position after 40 years at the company, Intel has named Brian Krzanich as its sixth CEO. Krzanich, who previously served as Intel's chief operating officer …

More: Business Wire, CNET, ZDNet, VentureBeat, Mercury News, New York Times, Reuters, Guardian, Computerworld, TechEye, InfoWorld, SiliconANGLE, The Next Web, Inquirer, ReadWrite, GeekWire, VentureBeat, Business Insider, ZDNet, Softpedia News, Engadget, SlashGear, AllThingsD, Cult of Mac, SecurityWeek and Datamation.com. Tweets: @ahess247

Ken Yeung / The Next Web:

Facebook rolls out Trusted Contacts, a password recovery feature to protect accounts against hackers — On Thursday, Facebook announced the global launch of its Trusted Contacts password recovery feature. With this service, users can designate between three to five friends who can be contacted …

More: Facebook, AllThingsD, TechHive, AllFacebook, Gizmodo, Engadget, GigaOM, VentureBeat, Inside Facebook, ZDNet, CNET, The Verge, WebProNews and Electronista. Tweets: @qthrul

AllThingsD:

Facebook's Declining User Growth Rate, Pictured — Congrats, Facebook! — According to the stats you released during Wednesday's earnings call, your monthly and daily active user numbers are up higher than ever, topping 1.11 billion and 665 million, respectively. That's great, really.

Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:

Big Brands Want Ads On Instagram, But Facebook Is Focused On Growth For Now

More: WebProNews

Facebook:

Facebook Reports First Quarter 2013 Results

More: PC World, VatorNews, Search Engine Watch, New York Times, Guardian, TechSpot, memeburn, BGR India, Bloomberg, MediaNama and Reuters. Tweets: @reuterstech

Josh Constine / TechCrunch:

App Install Ads Earned Facebook “Real Revenue” And Helped 3800 Developers Drive 25M Downloads

More: Wired, BGR, SiliconANGLE and TechEye

Bloomberg:

China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Military Secrets — Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America (QQ/) is known for spy-world connections and an eye- popping product line. Its contributions to national security include secret satellites, drones, and software used by U.S. special forces in Afghanistan and the Middle East.

More: Ars Technica, VentureBeat, The Register, Wired.co.uk, The H Security and Softpedia News. Tweets: @gadyepstein

Dan Primack / Fortune:

Exclusive: New York City's newest VC firm — Most of AOL Ventures team spins out. — FORTUNE — At just 29 years old, Mike Brown Jr. is already a venture capital veteran. He began by investing Richard Branson's money at Virgin Group, before leaving in early 2010 to co-found AOL Ventures.

More: AllThingsD

Steven Kurutz / New York Times:

The Rise of the Hacker Space — Under different circumstances, or in some earlier America, Yair Silbermintz might have spent his weekday evenings tinkering with a soldering iron alone in the basement of a suburban ranch house. — But Mr. Silbermintz, 27, lives with his wife …

Emil Protalinski / The Next Web:

Google launches Chrome app for its Keep service: Manage your notes, to-do lists, and photos even when offline — Google on Thursday announced the launch of a new offline Chrome app version of its Keep note-taking service. If you have Google Chrome installed, you can download the new app now directly from the Chrome Web Store.

More: Google Chrome Blog, CNET, Engadget, Google Operating System, 9to5Mac, 9to5Google, The Verge, Ubergizmo, SlashGear and Softpedia News

Jon Fingas / Engadget:

Android metrics show Jelly Bean adoption overtaking Ice Cream Sandwich — Google's big shake-up of Android version metrics has already given us a better understanding of where the platform's active users truly stand. Now that we're a month into the new methodology, we have a good sense …

More: AllThingsD, Inquirer, TechSpot, Droid Life, CNET, PC Magazine, PhoneArena, 9to5Google, Android Beat, The Droid Guy, MobileSyrup.com and Electronista

Robert McMillan / Wired:

Rogue Employee Turns Gaming Network Into Private Bitcoin Mine — If you've been playing Counter-Strike on the ESEA gaming network, you've been doing a lot more than tossing virtual hand grenades and firing virtual machine guns. You've been mining Bitcoins for an unnamed staffer inside the company that runs the network.

More: BTCPedia, Gizmodo, Counter-Strike, The Verge, The Droid Guy and CoinDesk

Roger Yu / USA Today:

Sprint bids: Dish's Ergen swings back at Softbank's Son — The high-stakes bidding war for control of the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier is turning into a heated verbal joust. — In an interview with USA TODAY on Wednesday, Dish Network Chairman Charlie Ergen swung back at Japan's SoftBank …

More: Reuters, Business Wire, The Register, Electronista, SiliconANGLE, SeekingAlpha.com, IntoMobile, FierceWireless, Computerworld, Phone Scoop, The Verge and CNET

Jordan Kahn / 9to5Mac:

Blockbuster On Demand app finally launches on iPhone & iPad — Earlier this year Blockbuster relaunched its digital video rental service dubbed “Blockbuster on Demand” by releasing apps for Android, Roku, Samsung Smart TVs, PC & Mac and introducing new features such as 1080p HD streaming and 5.1-channel surround sound.

More: Engadget, MacRumors, The Next Web and IntoMobile

Kevin Poulsen / Wired:

Use a Software Bug to Win Video Poker? That's a Federal Hacking Case — two engineers from Nevada's Gaming Control Board showed up at the Silverton Casino Lodge. The off-the-strip South Las Vegas casino is best known for its mermaid aquarium, but the GCB geek squad wasn't there to see swimmers in bikini tops and zip-on fish tails.

More: The Verge and Gizmodo

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Onavo launches Protect, a more secure way to browse the Web on your iOS device — Onavo, the startup that first made its name with the data-shrinking app that it launched at The Next Web Conference two years ago, has today revealed a new iOS app called Protect, which is designed offer protection …

More: 9to5Mac

Kim-Mai Cutler / TechCrunch:

Angel Investor, Spotify Fixer Shakil Khan Launches Coindesk, A Bitcoin Resource — Shakil Khan, an angel investor and advisor to Spotify, just launched Coindesk, a Bitcoin resource and news site, amid a boatload of hype and VC interest in the crypto-currency.

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Readying For An IPO, Peer-To-Peer Lending Marketplace Lending Club Raises $125M From Google And Others — Peer-to-peer lending platform Lending Club is announcing a huge new investor today: Google. Google and existing investor Foundation Capital have put $125 million in Lending Club, which was valued at $1.55 billion in the round.

More: DealBook, CNET, PE Hub Blog, VentureBeat and vator.tv

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.

Cape:

Most carriers track everything. Cape doesn't. — Unlimited talk, text & data, 24-hr metadata deletion, network ID rotation, SIM-attack defense, and more. Switch today and get 29% off for life.

Zoho:

Zoho Mail Admin Console: A complete overview — You just got added as an admin for your company's Zoho Mail account. Someone from IT sends you a link, you log in, and there it is, a full console with everything …

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

Grit:

Ex-Twitter CEO on Why AI Needs a New Internet | Parag Agrawal

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

Subscribe to Grit.

Lenny's Podcast:

Anthropic's first technical PM on token maxing, the jagged edge, and living in the future | Dianne Penn

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:

What Happens If AI Fails?, Subprime Data Center Crisis, How Bad Can SpaceX Get?

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.

Hard Fork:

OpenAI Models Go Rogue + Kimi K3 Freakout + A.I. Superforecasting

The future is already here. Each week, journalists Kevin Roose and Casey Newton explore and make sense of the latest in the rapidly changing world of tech.

Subscribe to Hard Fork.

Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith:

Connecting the Unconnected: Doreen Bogdan-Martin

Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith speaks with leaders in government, business, and culture to explore the most critical challenges at the intersection of technology and society.

Subscribe to Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith.

Add your podcast here

About This Page

This is a Techmeme archive page. It shows how the site appeared at 3:15 PM ET, May 2, 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.