Techmeme: Chromebooks Go On Sale - Finally! (Nigel Mabandla/Chrome OS Site)

8:15 PM ET, June 9, 2011

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Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Google Acquires AdMeld For $400 Million — AdMeld, an advertising optimization platform for publishers, has been acquired by Google for around $400 million according to multiple sources. The company, which launched in 2007, has raised just $30 million in venture capital from Foundry Group …

Discussion: Bits, The Register, VentureBeat, VatorNews, AdExchanger.com, paidContent, SAI, The Official Google Blog, Betabeat, 9to5 Google and ExchangeWire.com

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Google Will Keep Washington Regulators Busy With $400 Million AdMeld Deal

Discussion: TechCrunch

Jordan Golson / MacRumors:

Apple Reverses Course On In-App Subscriptions — Apple has quietly changed its guidelines on the pricing of In-App Subscriptions on the App Store. There are no longer any requirements that a subscription be the “same price or less than it is offered outside the app”.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Steve Jobs Blinks! Apple Backs Down On App Subscription Rules

Discussion: Rex Hammock's RexBlog.com, Nieman Journalism Lab, TechCrunch and Kindle Review, more at Mediagazer »

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:
Apple Changes In-App Subscriptions Rule: Selling Outside App Store for Less is OK, Conditions Apply

Discussion: Engadget

Ingrid Lunden / mocoNews:

Stephen Elop: Android's Success Is Apple's Fault, And Beware The Boxes — Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be on the ropes, but CEO Stephen Elop is still slugging away in the handset maker's comeback strategy. Today, he laid out some of Nokia's biggest challenges and opportunities …

Matthew Saltmarsh / New York Times:
Nokia's Chief Technology Officer Departs

Discussion: IntoMobile, Bloomberg, Reuters, Reuters, mocoNews, GigaOM, The Next Web, Neowin.net, Geek.com, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, Reuters, Dow Jones Newswires, ITworld.com, TechEye and CNET News

YouTube Blog:

The next step in embedded videos: HD preview images and a logoless option — It may be hard to imagine, but YouTube's video preview images represent to many the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not to watch a video. If a preview image looks interesting, it can mean the difference between someone pressing the play button.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Next Web and WebProNews

Anton Troianovski / Wall Street Journal:

Carriers Sweat as Texting Cools Off — New Messaging Apps from Apple, Others May Hit Fees — Growth in the volume of text messaging is slowing sharply, just as new threats emerge to that lucrative source of wireless carrier profits. — While U.S. cellphone users sent and received …

Discussion: Betabeat

Nigel Mabandla / Chrome OS Site:

Chromebooks Go On Sale - Finally! — A tweet from Google a few minutes ago revealed everything! Yes, Chromebooks are now finally selling; on pre-order ofcourse. This is the moment most of us have been waiting for since November 2009! Here's what Google had to say: … Pre-order from Best Buy or Amazon

Discussion: VentureBeat, thechromesource, @googlechrome, ZDNet, Engadget, eWeek, TechSpot, Electronista and SlashGear

Matt McGee / Search Engine Land:

Coming Soon: Google Panda Update 2.2 — One of the bigger pieces of news — certainly for webmasters and SEOs — from our SMX Advanced conference this week is that Google will soon be releasing version 2.2 of the Panda algorithm update. — Google's Matt Cutts confirmed …

Discussion: ZDNet, Search Engine Journal and CNET News, more at Mediagazer »

Joanna Stern / This is my next:

Sprint Motorola Photon 4G hands-on: 4.3-inch qHD display, Gingerbread, WiMAX, and Tegra 2 — Don't you just love when things come together just as planned? That's right, just as we had heard, Motorola's Sanjay Jha and Sprint's Dan Hesse took the stage this morning in NYC to announce a brand …

Discussion: IntoMobile, eWeek, VentureBeat, BetaNews, mocoNews, PC World, MobileCrunch and GigaOM

Rachel King / Between the Lines Blog:
Sprint unveils Motorola Photon 4G global smartphone, Triumph for Virgin Mobile

Discussion: Featured News, NVIDIA, Digital Trends, eWeek, Engadget, AllThingsD, BGR, Mobilized, LAPTOP Magazine, 9to5 Google, IntoMobile, Electronista and Gizmodo

Emma Barnett / Telegraph:

Apple's iTunes in iCloud 'won't launch in the UK this year' — Apple's cloud music service will not launch in the UK until 2012, according to record label executives and music analysts. — Earlier this week Steve Jobs, Apple's chief executive, returned from sick leave to announce the company's new cloud storage service, iCloud.

Discussion: MacRumors, Gizmodo, MacStories and TUAW

Mujahid Hasan / Bing:

iPhone Mobile App Discovery with Bing — There are more than half a million apps on the market. If you know exactly which app you are looking for, finding it can be relatively easy; however, sifting through the volume of apps one by one to find the right one for the right task can be overwhelming.

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Search Engine Journal and The Next Web

Lance Whitney / CNET News:

Anonymous warns NATO not to challenge it — Responding to a recent report from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization condemning Anonymous, the online “hacktivist” group has issued a public response warning the global organization not to challenge it. — Claiming that the NATO report singled …

Discussion: Examiner and Gizmodo

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Myspace in Advanced Deal Talks With Investor Group, Possibly Including Activision's Kotick — And then there was one. — According to sources close to the situation, News Corp. is down to one possible investing group in its quest to make lemonade out of the lemon that its Myspace social entertainment hub has become.

Discussion: PC World, Reuters, paidContent and The eMarketer Blog

David Carnoy / Crave: The gadget blog:

New Nook Touch has hidden Web browser — When Barnes & Noble launched its new Nook e-reader a couple of weeks ago, we asked why it didn't include such features as a built-in Web browser or an e-mail app. After all, it is an Android-based device, so we assumed it could do a bit …

Discussion: PC World, Gizmodo, The eBook Reader Blog and Engadget

Ville Heiskanen / Bloomberg:

AT&T to Offer Free Wi-Fi Web Access in New York City Parks — AT&T Inc. (T), the second-largest U.S. mobile carrier, will offer free wireless-Internet access in New York parks in cooperation with the most populous U.S. city. — The Wi-Fi service will be available in 20 parks across …

Discussion: Gothamist, Gizmodo, Wi-Fi Networking News, DSLreports, NYConvergence.com, FierceBroadbandWireless and FierceWireless

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Cupertino To Jobs: There's No Chance We're Saying No To The Apple Spaceship Campus — While he's no Steve Jobs, Cupertino Mayor Gilbert Wong has his unique charm. In a press conference today responding to yesterday's amazing Steve Jobs pitch, Wong said emphatically, “Cupertino is ready for this” …

Discussion: MacNN, MacRumors, Guardian, PC World, VentureBeat, 9 to 5 Mac, iClarified, MacHackPC, SAI, Shiny Objects, TUAW and Cupertino

Zach Epstein / BGR:

HP TouchPad launches July 1st, starts at $499.99 — HP on Thursday announced that its HP TouchPad tablet will become available on July 1st. The TouchPad, which was first unveiled at a media event this past February, is the first webOS-powered tablet offering from HP.

Caleb DanielsX / CDFXapps::Figure It Out:

ICloud Allows For Apps That Apple Removed From The AppStore To Be Re-Downloaded — The purchased apps section of the iPad and iPhone appstore allows for apps to be downloaded that Apple has already removed from the Appstore. For example, if you downloaded iDos before Apple removed it from the store …

Discussion: AppleInsider, Gizmodo, TUAW, iPhone Download Blog, SlashGear, MacRumors, MobileCrunch and Engadget

Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:

Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket — Most of the commentary on Facebook's new face-recognition strategy has been negative, with many folks posting instructions on how to opt out. I, on the other hand, think that Facebook may have come up with a great strategy …

Discussion: @joshconstine

Andrew E. Kramer / New York Times:

A Russian A.T.M. With an Ear for the Truth — MOSCOW — Russia's biggest retail bank is testing a machine that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an A.T.M. with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. — Consumers with no previous relationship with the bank …

Discussion: Techland

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Postagram Captures Android And Facebook For More Mobile Photo Postcard Fun — When we first covered Postagram in April, there was a lot of excitement about it. They take your Instagram photos and turn them into postcards that you can send right from your iPhone — who wouldn't love that?

Discussion: GigaOM

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Fusion-io Opens At $25 Per Share With A $1.9 Billion Market Cap — As we heard yesterday, Fusion-io, the developer of flash- memory technology for companies, upped the opening price of its IPO to $19 per share, valuing the company at $1.5 billion. Earlier in the week …

Discussion: eWeek, Digits, VentureBeat, GigaOM, Venture Capital Dispatch, PE Hub Blog, The Tech Trade and Pulse2

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