Techmeme: Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011 (Michael Arrington/TechCrunch)

8:40 PM ET, December 17, 2010

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What's Next for Delicious — Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We're genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can't answer each of your questions individually …

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Has Hit Rock Bottom And Is In “Absolute Disarray” — Yahoo has hit rock bottom. They've now, finally, had their layoffs. Those that are left are keeping their resumes fresh and don't expect to stay there over the long term. Everything we hear from employees boils down to this - the company is in “absolute disarray.”

Discussion: Computerworld, GigaOM, CNNMoney.com, SmoothSpan Blog and virtualeconomics

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Yahoo Trying To Unload Del.icio.us, Not Shut It Down — Yesterday, a leaked internal Yahoo slide brought us the news that Yahoo will soon be shuttering Del.icio.us, the bookmarking service it bought a few years back. Today, Yahoo has released a statement on the group's blog.

Discussion: This is going to be BIG!, MediaPost, Lifehacker, Regular Geek, ProgrammableWeb, digiphile and TUAW

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Yahoo, You Flubbed News About The Future Of Delicious, Not The Press

Discussion: msnbc.com, Bruce Clay Blog, Tea & Tech and paidContent

Sarah Lacy / TechCrunch:

Google Takes Another Big Step to Retain Employees: Autonomous Business Units — There's a lie that companies and entrepreneurs tell themselves in order to commit to an acquisition. … It usually works for a little while, but big company bureaucracy- whether it's HR, politics or just endless meetings- almost always creeps in.

Discussion: SAI, Pulse2, Electronista and Gizmodo

Gideon Wald / Google Webmaster Central Blog:

New hacked site notifications in search results — Today we've added a new notification to our search results that helps people know when a site may have been hacked. We've provided notices for malware for years, which also involve a separate warning page.

Discussion: The Register, MediaMemo, eWeek, Search Engine Land, Krebs on Security, ZDNet, Pulse2, Erictric and The Official Google Blog

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Confirmed: Tumblr Raises $25 Million [Update: It's Actually $30 Million] — For the past several weeks there's been reports of blogging platform Tumblr raising a boatload of money. That was confirmed today in a SEC filing with numbers on the round. $25 million to be exact.

Discussion: paidContent, VentureBeat and SAI

Tumblr Staff: Getting ready for 2011 — This has been an incredible year for Tumblr.

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google To Expand And Market Movie Streaming Service In 2011 — Google is expanding its feature film streaming service, says a source who's been briefed on the product. The service will likely be an expansion of the current movie rental/streaming test launched by Google earlier this year.

Discussion: GigaOM, SAI and Electronista, more at Mediagazer »

Om Malik / GigaOM:

RIM In Talks To Buy Gist — RIM, the company behind the iconic mobile-messaging platform BlackBerry, is said to be in talks to acquire Seattle-based startup Gist, according to industry sources. While the deal is said to be nearly done, there is always a fair chance that the two parties might not come to an agreement.

Discussion: IntoMobile, VentureBeat, FierceMobileContent, mocoNews, SocialTimes.com, Pulse2, Know Your Cell, Electronista, TechFlash and Xconomy

Andrew Miller / Google Mobile Blog:

Under the hood of Google Maps 5.0 for Android — Yesterday we introduced Google Maps 5.0 for Android with two significant new features: 3D interaction and offline reliability. In order to create these features, we rebuilt Maps using vector graphics to dynamically draw the map as you use it.

Discussion: Droid Life, Pocket-lint, SiliconANGLE, GT Mobiles, Android Phone Fans, Softpedia News, Inquirer and Search Engine Roundtable

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo:

Rupert Murdoch's “Daily” iPad Newspaper Set for January Launch — Want to get a gander at “the Daily,” Rupert Murdoch's much-discussed but still sorta-secret iPad newspaper? Wait a month. — News Corp. plans to launch the publication the week of January 17, multiple sources tell me.

Discussion: Fortune, MediaPost, App Advice, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web, MacStories, Digital Trends, SlashGear, Macgasm, Electronista, everythingiCafe, Poynter, BGR, Know Your Mobile, MacRumors, Pulse2, iGadgetsReport, Erictric, TUAW and SAI, more at Mediagazer »

Alastair Goldfisher / PE Hub Blog:

Facebook To Make About 15 Talent Acquisitions in 2011 — Next year, look for Facebook to make plenty of small acquisitions to beef up its engineering expertise, like it did with Hot Potato and Drop.io this fall. — That was the message from Michael Brown, corporate development manager at Facebook …

Discussion: Social Business Blog, All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb and The Atlantic Online

John Hilvert / iTnews:

UN mulls internet regulation options — WikiLeaks sparks push for tighter controls. — The United Nations is considering whether to set up an inter-governmental working group to harmonise global efforts by policy makers to regulate the internet. — Establishment of such a group …

Discussion: CNET News, Cisco Blog, As Seen Through PeriVisioN, The Huffington Post and p2pnet

Vint Cerf / The Official Google Blog:
Governments shouldn't have a monopoly on Internet governance

Discussion: WebProNews and 901am, Thanks:hornokplease

Neil Hughes / AppleInsider:

Apple bulking up iOS development team with navigation software experts — Apple this week put out a call for a number of new software engineers for its iOS development team, indicating it wants candidates that have experience developing navigation software.

Discussion: SAI, MacRumors, pocketnow.com, RCR Wireless News, Gizmodo and TUAW

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Facebook Stock Sold At $56 Billion Valuation In “Significantly Oversubscribed” Auction — Private shares market Sharespost just sold 165,000 Facebook shares for $25 each. That price implies a $56 billion valuation of Facebook. — In an email to members, Sharespost said that because the auction was …

Discussion: VatorNews, Pulse2, All Facebook and Shades of Green

Wall Street Journal:

Amazon Can't Dent iTunes — On the day Apple Inc. rolled out the Beatles' catalog on its iTunes Store, Amazon.com Inc. fired back with a digital exclusive of its own: The latest album from rap-rocker Kid Rock—whose music still isn't available on iTunes—for just $3.99.

Discussion: Examiner, MediaPost, TechEye, TUAW, The Tech Report, blogs.chron.com, SlashGear, Beyond Search, MacRumors, Music Ally, 9 to 5 Mac, The Next Web and Digital Trends, more at Mediagazer »

Jacqui Cheng / Ars Technica:
Apple owns 66% of online music market, Amazon second at 13%

Discussion: Pulse2, Techland and Gearlog

Amir Efrati / Wall Street Journal:

Google Rejects Connecticut Request for Wi-Fi Data — Connecticut's attorney general said Friday his office may take legal action against Google Inc. after the Internet company rejected his request to turn over personal data it collected inadvertently from unsecured wireless networks.

Discussion: paidContent, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, Between the Lines Blog, Mercury News, Electronista, Reuters, SAI and TechEye

Nilay Patel / Engadget:

Palm's tablet is codenamed ‘Topaz,’ keyboard accessory leaks out — Okay, it's not exactly the new webOS hardware we've been waiting for, but we just got this shot of a Palm Bluetooth keyboard from a trusted source — we're told it's an accessory for Palm's upcoming tablet, which is codenamed “Topaz.”

Discussion: CNET News, Erictric, PhoneDog.com, SlashGear, PreCentral.net, Everything webOS and Electronista

Emil Protalinski / Ars Technica:

MSE 2.0 arrives with heuristic scanning, network traffic inspection — Following a four-month beta program, Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) 2.0 has been released. The new version adds a heuristic scanning engine, improved Windows Firewall integration, and network traffic inspection.

Discussion: LiveSide.net and TechSpot

Sean Hollister / Engadget:

Word Lens augmented reality app instantly translates whatever you point it at — Augmented reality and optical character recognition have just come into their own, beautifully intertwined into an instant translation app for the iPhone. Download Word Lens, pay $4.99 for a language pack …

Discussion: MobileWhack.com, Gizmodo and 9 to 5 Mac

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:
Word Lens Translates Words Inside of Images. Yes Really.

Horace Dediu / asymco:

92 percent of RIM's sales growth came from outside the US — First, a round-up of the quarter's numbers: — 14.2 million devices shipped, sell-through: 12.3 million — expect to ship 14.5 to 15 million units in the next quarter — ASP of approximately $315 — US, UK and Canada are 56% of sales

Discussion: GigaOM, PhoneDog.com, IntoMobile, MediaPost and PC World

Chris Ziegler / Engadget:

Android 2.3 Gingerbread's source code now available — Want to dig through 2.3 and see what all the fuss is about for yourself? Well, you're in luck, because Gingerbread has just hit the Android Open Source Project's repository, which means you can set up your machine to download the code.

Discussion: Droid Life, BGR, Inquirer, MobileWhack.com and Android Phone Fans

Christopher Finke / Less Talk, More Do:

Tapsure: Better password input on mobile devices — Typing passwords on mobile devices sucks. If you have even a reasonably strong password (one that includes letters, numbers, and special characters), it can take more than a few seconds to type it out on a phone's keypad or on-screen keyboard.

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