Techmeme: Time for Google to Cut Up Its Credit Card? (Mike Elgan/Datamation)

9:10 PM ET, April 20, 2011

Top Items:

Alasdair Allan / O'Reilly Radar:

Got an iPhone or 3G iPad? Apple is recording your moves — Today at Where 2.0 Pete Warden and I will announce the discovery that your iPhone, and your 3G iPad, is regularly recording the position of your device into a hidden file. Ever since iOS 4 arrived, your device has been storing a long list of locations and time stamps.

Charles Arthur / Guardian:

iPhone keeps record of everywhere you go — Privacy fears raised as researchers reveal file on iPhone that stores location coordinates and timestamps of owner's movements — Security researchers have discovered that Apple's iPhone keeps track of where you go - and saves every detail …

Andy / Andy Ihnatko's Celestial Waste of Bandwidth:
Hey, wonderful: there's a location-tracking file on my iPhone.

Discussion: Freedom to Tinker, Mobilized, blogs.chron.com, Tech Cores and @chmullig

Apple:

Apple Reports Second Quarter Results — Record March Quarter Drives 83 Percent Revenue Growth, 95 Percent Profit Growth — Record iPhone Sales Grow 113 Percent — Apple® today announced financial results for its fiscal 2011 second quarter ended March 26, 2011.

Dan Frommer / SAI: Silicon Alley Insider:

Apple Shares Up, Huge iPhone And Mac Sales Overshadow Weak iPad — Apple posted better than expected March quarter sales and profits, with especially huge iPhone and Mac shipments. — iPad sales were much lower than expected — just 4.69 million shipped, versus expectations around 7 million.

Discussion: mocoNews, AppleInsider, Ars Technica, Digits, SAI, TheStreet.com, MediaFile, Electronista and TUAW

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Apple Earnings Q2 '11: $24.67B Revenue; 3.76M Macs, 18.65M iPhones, 4.69M iPads Sold — It's that special time of the season, when Apple fans and investors alike get to gloat over just how much money the tech giant in Cupertino is raking in: Quarterly Earnings.

Discussion: Bloomberg, GeekWire, Hardware 2.0 Blog, MarketBeat, Gizmodo and Mashable!

Peter Kafka / MediaMemo: The Most Successful Store No One Cares About: Apple's iTunes Posts A Record $1.4 Billion Quarter

Amazon.com:

Amazon to Launch Library Lending for Kindle Books — Customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 local libraries to read on Kindle and free Kindle reading apps — Whispersyncing of notes, highlights and last page read to work for Kindle library books

Discussion: BetaNews, PC World, USA Today, Brave New World, Technologizer, Gadget Lab, BaltTech, GigaOM, ReadWriteWeb, mocoNews, Reuters, VentureBeat, Geek.com, VatorNews, Electronista, Mashable!, Geekosystem, dailywireless.org, Pulse2 and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Christian Zibreg / 9 to 5 Mac:

You'll be able to borrow Kindle books from 11,000 libraries, says Amazon — Amazon just announced a new library lending feature for digital Kindle books. The official press release says customers will be able to borrow Kindle books from over 11,000 local libraries in the United States …

Discussion: CrunchGear, Engadget and USA Today

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Obama: I Want People To Feel The Same About The Next Internet Breakthrough As They Did About The Moonwalk — Obama spent a considerable amount of time preaching to the choir at today's Facebook Town Hall event, first bringing up Intel founder and Hungarian immigrant Andy Grove as an example …

Discussion: SAI, All Facebook, ReadWriteWeb, @facebook, Mashable!, SAI, NetworkEffect, PC Magazine, Friending Facebook Blog, @dangillmor, TechCrunch, TechFlash, CNET News, ABCNEWS, Los Angeles Times, @timoreilly, @scottbudman, @benparr, @larrymagid, @maggieshiels, @vitanga, Pulse2, @mkapor, @mhelft and @scottmcgrew

Tomio Geron / Social Markets:
Obama And The Facebook Crowd Connect In California

Discussion: The Atlantic Wire and Wall Street Journal, more at Mediagazer »

Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:

The Yahoo Search Revenue Disaster — Yesterday, Yahoo reported a second quarter of massive declines in its search revenue. Yahoo blamed the “headwind” of paying its partner Microsoft 12% of Yahoo's net search revenues. Yahoo also said Microsoft's ads are underperforming.

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:
Microsoft-Yahoo collaboration hits a snag; Microsoft adCenter shortcomings cited

Discussion: MediaPost, TechFlash and LiveSide.net

Nicholas Jackson / The Atlantic Online:

Gawker's Traffic Numbers Are Worse Than Anyone Anticipated — When Gawker launched an aggressive redesign back in early February, the tech blogs were waiting to see what would happen. How would readers respond? (The assumption was that the reaction would be negative …

Discussion: @apatrizio and Terry Heaton's PoMo Blog, more at Mediagazer »

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

eBay Acquires Location-Based Media And Advertising Company WHERE — eBay has acquired location-based media company Where.com, the ecommerce giant tells us. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed and the acquisition is expected to close during the second quarter of 2011.

Discussion: PE Hub Blog, The PayPal Blog, @where, Internet2Go, CNET News, GigaOM, a-g.com, Bloomberg and WHERE, more at Mediagazer »

Gregory Gomer / BostonInnovation:
Retail Giant Ebay Acquires Where for $135 Million

Discussion: VentureBeat, TechCrunch, Screenwerk, Techland, MediaPost and paidContent

Tarun Bhatnagar / Google Enterprise Blog:

Bringing 100% web to the world of Google Earth and Google Maps — At Google we're committed to opening up our cloud infrastructure so that others can benefit from our enormous computational power. Today I'm going to share some exciting details on our plans to make our cloud technology available …

Discussion: Google LatLong, ProgrammableWeb, TechCrunch, Search Engine Land, ReadWriteWeb and CloudAve

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
Google launches Earth Builder, aims at geospatial software market

Discussion: SAI, eWeek, Pulse2, The Register and GigaOM

Ryan Tate / Gawker:

Why Are Tech Founders Such A**holes? — In the past couple of weeks, the co-founders of Microsoft and Twitter have been attached to the same kinds of unsavory stories that have long dogged the people behind Facebook, Apple, Zynga and other top tech firms. What is it about computers and money that instills villainy?

Mike Elgan / Datamation:

Time for Google to Cut Up Its Credit Card? — Google missed its numbers in the most recent earnings report. The company is still making truckloads of cash. But it's also spending money faster than ever. — The earnings report itself is no big deal. The company is still growing …

Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

iMac supplies tighten ahead of forthcoming refresh — A good indication that an Apple product refresh is coming soon is when the respective product's supplies begin tightening up. Most recently, this process happened with the iPad prior to the iPad 2 launch and with the MacBook Pro prior …

Discussion: CrunchGear, Pulse2, SlashGear, Geek.com and I4U News, Thanks:aaron_nussbaum

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn, AmEx And Others Offer Over $400M In Value To Startup America — Unveiled at the end of January, the Startup America Partnership has just announced a slew of new company commitments, in conjunction with President Obama's Town Hall meeting at Facebook today.

Discussion: The Microsoft Blog, Startup America, The Official Google Blog, Betabeat, NBC Bay Area, Microsoft and Black Web 2.0

Martin Bryant / The Next Web:

Twitter deals with noisy users by hiding tweets — Ever been annoyed by someone tweeting far too much and spamming up your timeline? If the screenshot below is anything to go by, users of Twitter's website may not have to worry too much about that any more.

Luis Merlos / BerryReview.com:

Hulu Wasted Little Time to Block the PlayBook — The PlayBook released just yesterday and it looks like Hulu did not like the idea of allowing PlayBook users to stream media from it. Today Nikolaus excited to get his PlayBook checked to see if Hulu worked and to his surprise Hulu has already blocked the PalyBook.

Discussion: BlackBerryandBeyond.com

Neowin.net:

Exclusive: Chrome notebooks confirmed to be released June/July — To be sold as a subscription. — You may or may not have seen the news about the Google Chrome production notebooks floating around the web today. Ariotech reports that “Google product manager Sundar Pichai said …

Discussion: thechromesource, TechSpot, Ubergizmo and Geek.com, Thanks:neowinsteve

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

News.Me, Social News Service, Debuts for iPad — News.me, the long-awaited social news service developed in collaboration with Betaworks, a technology incubator, and The New York Times Company, is ready for its debut. — News.me is a newsfeed that uses artificial intelligence to monitor …

Discussion: GigaOM, The Cody Word, PC Magazine and Tools, more at Mediagazer »

Jonathan S. Geller / BGR:

BlackBerry Curve Touch to be revealed at BlackBerry World; June-July launch — Here's some interesting information for you BlackBerry lovers out there. We finally have some firm details surrounding the GSM counterpart to the Malibu, which will be a CDMA Curve Touch launching late fall.

Discussion: TmoNews, LAPTOP Magazine and Electronista

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:

Qwiki's Mapolicious iPad App Hits iTunes — A couple weeks ago, Qwiki CEO Doug Imbruce came by my office to talk about his new iPad app (watch video below), but he wasn't quite ready to show it. This morning it finally hit iTunes, where you can download it for free.

Discussion: NewsGrange, PhoneArena, App Advice, Bits, Tools and Xconomy

Sam Oliver / AppleInsider:

AT&T iPhone activations up 33%, unaffected by Verizon, but 3G tablets prove weak — AT&T reported its quarterly earnings on Wednesday, revealing that it activated 3.6 million iPhones in the first quarter of 2011, a 33 percent increase from a year prior. Tablet activations, however, were much lower, at just 322,000.

Discussion: Guardian, eWeek, New York Times, AT&T and Computerworld

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:
AT&T takes Verizon's best punch well; adds postpaid subs, activates 3.6 million iPhones

Discussion: DailyFinance.com, AppleInsider, MobileCrunch, Bloomberg, GigaOM, MediaPost, PC World, eWeek, Electronista, MobileBurn.com, Technabob, blogs.chron.com, DSLreports, Screenwerk and DisplayBlog

Archived Page Info:

This is a snapshot of Techmeme at 9:10 PM ET, April 20, 2011.

View the current page or another snapshot:

Techmeme Sponsor Posts:

Meta:

Open Source AI: Available to all, not just the few — Meta's open source AI enables small businesses, start-ups, students, researchers and more to download and build with our models at no cost.

Zoho:

The crossroads of AI and SaaS — Enabling businesses of all sizes to build products in-house and disqualifying SaaS tools that are not AI-powered. In a span of just two years, AI has made a name for itself as the key driver for innovation.

Genesys:

Executive Insights: The Era of Contact Center AI Copilots — How AI copilots are transforming customer experience and agent performance.

Tribe AI:

Build AI products that matter — Tribe AI helps organizations rapidly deploy AI solutions that have real business impact. We bring together world class AI talent and tooling to drive differentiated results.

Sponsor Techmeme

Who's Hiring in Tech?