Techmeme: AOL's Patch Takes on Groupon with Patch Deals, Powered by AmEx's Serve Platform (Sarah Perez/ReadWriteWeb)

1:55 PM ET, June 13, 2011

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BBC:

Spanish police website hit by Anonymous hackers — A member of Spain's Technological Investigation Board displays an Anonymous mask — The website of Spain's national police force has been briefly knocked offline by hacker collective Anonymous. — The attack on the site was carried …

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, The Register, GMSV, Softpedia News and Eurogamer

Mike Lennon / SecurityWeek:

Turkish Police Detain 32 Suspects Allegedly Linked to Anonymous — Following the arrest of three alleged “Anonymous” members by Spanish authorities on Friday, Turkey's state-run news agency has reported that police have detained 32 individuals allegedly linked to the hacktivist group.

Discussion: BGR, Reuters, datasecurityblog.wordpress.com, SlashGear, Techland, Softpedia News, Security Watch, Neowin.net and AnonOps Communications

Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:

Next iPhone reaches final testing stage, Verizon likely won't support 3G FaceTime this year — A previously accurate Apple source has told 9to5Mac some interesting information regarding what 2011 holds for the iPhone and Apple's popular FaceTime video chat service.

Discussion: MacRumors, SlashGear, SAI, Crave, TiPb, iLounge, PhoneDog.com, iPhone Download Blog, AppleInsider, Edible Apple, iGadgetsReport, Apple Bitch, Online Social Media, App Advice, MacStories, Electronista, Network World, Softpedia News, IntoMobile, The Register, TUAW, eWeek, everythingiCafe and iClarified, Thanks:drbuk

Peter Bright / Ars Technica:

Feature: Why Microsoft has made developers horrified about coding for Windows 8 — When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful …

Discussion: CNET News and @carnage4life, Thanks:newsio

Erica Naone / Technology Review:

Welcome to a Faster Web — The first commercial deployment of SPDY, a protocol designed by Google to make websites faster, launches today. … SPDY, a protocol Google revealed in late 2009, dramatically speeds up Web page loading by changing the way that browsers communicate with servers.

Discussion: 9to5 Google, The Register and ReadWriteWeb

Tarmo Virki / Reuters:

Samsung to end 14-year Nokia smartphone reign: Nomura — (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter, overtaking struggling Nokia Oyj which has lead the market since 1996, Nomura said on Monday. — In the next quarter Nomura also sees …

Discussion: mocoNews, AppleInsider, Eurodroid, 9 to 5 Mac, BGR, The Next Web, eWeek, Inquirer, SlashGear, IntoMobile, Disruptors, Dazeinfo, Online Social Media, Mobile Entertainment, MobileBurn.com, FierceWireless and The Register

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:

Union Square Ventures Leads $3M Round In 4chan Founder Moot's New Startup Canvas — Exclusive: 4chan founder Christopher Poole (a.k.a. Moot) is announcing a round of funding today for his new startup, Canvas. Union Square Ventures led a $3 million series A round of funding …

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

If Something On Twitter Seems Too Bad To Be True, It Probably Is — Anyone else seeing an influx of blog headlines that go “Updated: [Thing That We Just Wrote About] Is A Hoax”? — While Internet hoaxes have been around since the Soviet Union wanted to join Usenet in 1984 (remember LonelyGirl15? …

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Eric Slivka / MacRumors:

Steve Jobs Confirms Discontinuation of iWeb in iCloud Transition — Since last week's unveiling of Apple's new iCloud service and the transitioning of the company's existing MobileMe service into iCloud, many users have been wondering about the fate of some of the MobileMe services that were not mentioned in the transition discussion.

Discussion: Neowin.net, iGadgetsReport, TUAW, Electricpig.co.uk, MacStories, Electronista, InfiniteApple, iClarified and StartupLocker

Google Watch:

Ex-Googler Calls Out Google Infrastructure as Obsolete — In the latest of several thoughtful blog posts from ex-Googlers about why they left, Dhanji R. Prasanna called out Google's infrastructure as, well, dated. — Prasanna may understandably hold a grudge as one of the many Australian-based team members …

Nicholas Carlson / SAI:

Facebook Expected To File For $100 Billion IPO This Year — The long-awaited Facebook IPO looks like it will come as early as the first quarter of 2012, CNBC's Kate Kelley reports citing sources. — Facebook could file its S-1 to the SEC in October. — Goldman is in the “pole position” to underwrite the IPO, says Kelly.

Discussion: CNBC, Tech Trader Daily, All Facebook, Reuters and The Business Insider

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Verizon Wireless Partners with Payfone, Makes Carrier Billing an Option for Online Purchases — Verizon Wireless and mobile payments company Payfone have teamed up today to announce a new partnership which will enable Verizon customers to pay for online purchases using their mobile devices.

Discussion: CNET News, Internet2Go and Engadget

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

AOL's Patch Takes on Groupon with Patch Deals, Powered by AmEx's Serve Platform — The recently launched digital payment and commerce platform from American Express known as Serve has just announced a new partnership with Patch, AOL's big bet on hyperlocal news and content.

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim, Screenwerk and BNET

Joe Wilcox / BetaNews:

Why did Apple choose Twitter over Facebook? — Apple will deeply integrate Twitter into iOS 5 when it releases this Fall, but not Facebook. Now why is that? Facebook is the largest social networking platform on the planet, with more than 500 million users, according to the company (Hell …

Discussion: CNET News, TechSpot, TiPb, SlashGear, Softpedia News, Electricpig.co.uk, Engadget and @howardlindzon

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:
Game, Set, iMatch

Discussion: CNET News

Neal Mohan / The Official Google Blog:

Helping publishers get the most from display advertising with Admeld — (Cross-posted on the DoubleClick Publisher Blog) — It's now clear that investments in new technologies, new ad formats and improved buying and selling processes are helping to grow the display advertising pie.

Discussion: AdExchanger.com, TechCrunch, WebProNews, Search Engine Roundtable and ClickZ

Eric Eldon / Inside Facebook:

Facebook Sees Big Traffic Drops in US and Canada as It Nears 700 Million Users Worldwide — Facebook is still growing towards 700 million users, having reached 687 million monthly actives by the start of June, according to our Inside Facebook Gold data service.

Lauren Fisher / The Next Web:

Only 30% of YouTube Users Skip Pre-Roll Ads — Youtube introduced a new form of advertising in December 2010, called TrueView, where they gave people the option to skip past pre-roll ads on videos. The news didn't seem too great for advertisers. Although it meant you only payed …

Discussion: Technologizer, Softpedia News and Pocket-lint

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