Techmeme: Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google (Liz Gannes/AllThingsD)

7:40 PM ET, July 11, 2011

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Bill Gross / Google+:

I predict that Google+ will go from 0 to 100,000,000 users faster than any other service in history. — Okay, that's a bold proclamation - here's why I think it will achieve that. The service is great. It is timely. People are engaging with it like crazy. There are rumors that there are already 4.5m people.

Discussion: eWeek, WebProNews, VentureBeat, The Business Insider and ReadWriteWeb

Sharon Gaudin / Computerworld:

Google: Changes coming to Google+ this week — Top Google exec acknowledges hearing “lots of criticisms” about Google +, and that the firm plans to respond quickly — Computerworld - It looks like Google will be making some changes to Google+ this week. — In a post on Google+ …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, Geek.com, Techland and InfoWorld

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Gmail+: Google Already At Work On “Several” Gmail/Google+ Integrations — One of the factors that led me to conclude that I could walk away from email for the month was the emergence of Google+. It's yet another network where people can now message me if they need to get ahold of me.

Discussion: Jon Burg's Future Visions, Mark Striebeck, GigaOM, WebProNews and Pocket-lint, Thanks:srikardhanakoti

Paul Boutin / Technology Review:
How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life

Discussion: ZDNet, Between the Lines Blog and Stay N Alive

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

New Mac Pros and MacBook Airs to launch this week with OS X Lion — We have been expecting new MacBook Airs this week and now it appears that the ultra-thin notebooks won't be the only new Macs this week. According to our source Mr. X, part numbers for an upgraded Mac Pro line have appeared …

Discussion: CNET News, AppleInsider, MacRumors, MacStories, Gizmodo, TodaysiPhone.com, iSource, I4U News, Electronista and PC World

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:
ROAR! Apple Puts Out The Call For Devs To Submit OS X Lion Apps

Discussion: 9to5Mac, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, MacStories and I4U News

Pratip Banerji / The Official Google Blog:

The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD — Starting this coming Sunday, July 17, the iriver Story HD e-reader will be available for sale in Target stores nationwide and on Target.com. The iriver Story HD is the first e-reader integrated with the open Google eBooks platform …

Philip Elmer-DeWitt / Fortune:

Apple users buying 61% more apps, paying 14% more per app — Apple's (AAPL) business model is increasingly dependent on the health of its App Store, the rich breeding ground of the company's software ecosystem, and a report to clients issued Monday by Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster suggests that the ecosystem's vital signs are good.

Brenna Ehrlich / Mashable!:

Spotify Plans To Launch as Invite-Only in the U.S. [REPORT] — Word on the digital street is that much-lauded European music subscription service Spotify will land on U.S. shores this week. — Our sources in the music industry told us Spotify won't open the floodgates all at once …

Discussion: GeekWire, VentureBeat, SlashGear, The Business Insider and Digital Trends

Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Spotify Won't Have An Exclusive On Facebook's Music Service

Discussion: SlashGear

Tom Hals / Reuters:

Courts approve Nortel patent sale to Apple/RIM group — Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp, Research in Motion Ltd and three other leading tech companies received court approval on Monday to buy wireless patents from the bankrupt Nortel Networks Corp for $4.5 billion.

Discussion: PC Magazine, Wall Street Journal, eWeek, L.A. Times Tech Blog, SiliconANGLE, AllThingsD, InfoWorld, CNET News, mocoNews, TUAW, MacRumors, Associated Press and The Next Web

Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:

Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil Resigns — Color Labs Chief Product Officer DJ Patil will soon be leaving the company as a full time employee, we've confirmed. Patil, who was LinkedIn's chief scientist until March, was only with Color for about 5 months. He'll transition to become an advisor to the company.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, The Business Insider and Pulse2

Twitter Blog:

One Million Registered Twitter Apps — Application developers play a fundamental role in helping people get the best out of Twitter. As an ecosystem, we've just crossed one million registered applications, built by more than 750,000 developers around the world. This is up from 150,000 apps just a year ago.

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, Twitter Developer Blog, CNET News, SFGate, BetaNews, Digits, PC Magazine, PC World, FT Tech Hub, Between the Lines Blog, TechCrunch and Frederic Lardinois

Alex Wilhelm / The Next Web:

Ballmer mocks Mac sales while touting Microsoft's products — Today at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Microsoft took the verbal gloves off: During his keynote, CEO Steve Ballmer mocked Apple's Mac sales numbers. He compared the number of PCs sold in the last twelve months …

Discussion: Network World, The Business Insider and WinRumors

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:
Microsoft: Windows 7 hits 400 million licenses sold

Discussion: The Register, CNET News, InfoWorld, PC Magazine, BetaNews, TechFlash, The Windows Blog, WinRumors, Engadget, MSDN Blogs, WinRumors, Electronista and Neowin.net

Lucia Moses / Adweek:

Philly Papers to Sell Android Tablets — Publishers, desperate to prop up their legacy print business, have been scrambling to put their content on tablet devices. Now the Philadelphia Inquirer and its sibling Philadelphia Daily News are making what may be the boldest tablet push yet.

Discussion: This is my next, PC World, Liliputing, SplatF, Neowin.net, The Digital Reader, Mashable!, GottaBeMobile, CrunchGear, BetaNews, AndroidGuys, ZDNet and Screenwerk

Liz Gannes / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Facebook Hires New Director of Product, Tom Stocky, From Google — Longtime Googler Tom Stocky is Facebook's newest director of product, AllThingsD has learned. — Stocky posted about the move on his online profiles and Facebook confirmed he'd been hired.

Nilay Patel / This is my next:

HP shakeup: webOS now led by Stephen DeWitt, Jon Rubinstein in charge of ‘product innovation’ — It looks like HP's decided to shake things up in its webOS division, almost exactly a year after it completed its purchase of Palm. Stephen DeWitt is now the senior vice president of webOS …

Discussion: HP, Computerworld, BetaNews, CNET News, SplatF, BGR, AllThingsD, Digits, mocoNews, Tech Trader Daily, Engadget, Between the Lines Blog, Electronista and IntoMobile

Mark Gurman / 9to5Mac:

Apple seeds iOS 5 beta 3, iTunes 10.5 beta 3, Xcode 4.3 Preview 3, Xcode 4.1 GM to developers — Apple has just seeded the third beta of iOS 5 to registered to developers. Beta 3 of iTunes 10.5 is also available and will be required to sync with iOS 5 beta 3 devices.

Discussion: MacRumors, App Advice, AppleInsider, TechCrunch, It's All Tech, MacRumors, Cult of Mac, BGR, FierceDeveloper, Redmond Pie, Gizmodo, Electronista, GigaOM, MacRumors, Engadget, Tools, Mac Post and SlashGear, Thanks:ybrammer

Lizette Chapman / Venture Capital Dispatch:

Google Ventures Scaling Up With More Cash, ‘Googlers In Residence’ — Google Ventures is scaling. … The two-year-old venture arm of Google Inc. is doubling its investment in start-ups to as much as $200 million a year, doubling its office space at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. …

Discussion: Googling Google Blog, The Business Insider and Pulse2

Sam Biddle / Gizmodo:

Anonymous Leaks 90,000 Military Email Accounts in Latest #AntiSec Attack — Booz Allen Hamilton is a massive American consulting firm that does a substantial amount of work for the Pentagon. This means they've got a lot of military business on their servers—which Anonymous hacked.

Discussion: CNET News, eWeek, The Firewall, Aljazeera, @boozallen, ReadWriteWeb, CNET News, Washington Post, techPresident and @anonymousirc

Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table:

Why I'm Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem — Today I'm announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift, a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations.

Discussion: Betabeat, SiliconFilter, Business Wire, The Next Web, TechCrunch, GigaOM, paidContent, The Next Web, VatorNews, Tech Europe, GigaOM, SiliconANGLE, AllTwitter and TechCrunch Europe

Reuters:

Analysis: Apple-Samsung battle may spur supplier shakeup — An intensifying quarrel between Samsung and Apple is triggering expectations that some of the pairs' $5 billion-plus relationship may be up for grabs. With the electronics titans squaring off in an acrimonious battle over smartphones …

Discussion: 9to5Mac and Techie Buzz

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:

Android 3.2 getting new ‘zoom’ mode for small apps on big screens — Platforms live and die by the quality and quantity of apps written for them. With somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 to 350 Honeycomb-optimized apps available right now, developer buy-in continues to be a challenge …

Discussion: Android Developers Blog, InfoWorld, PC World, FierceDeveloper, Android and Me, PhoneArena, Android Phones … and GottaBeMobile

Jason Kincaid / TechCrunch:

Google Confirms That It Has Acquired Digital Loyalty Startup Punchd — Last Friday our own Alexia Tsotsis broke the news that digital loyalty card startup Punchd was being acquired by Google. The company is still very young but it's a move that makes sense — Punchd's service …

Discussion: Punchd, Googling Google Blog, GigaOM, Internet Evolution, @parislemon, Marissa Mayer, Search Engine Land and Pulse2

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Apple files second ITC complaint against HTC: better luck next time? — The ITC website reveals that Apple filed another patent infringement complaint against Android device maker HTC on Friday, July 8, 2011. By my count, that's Android-related lawsuit no. 48 (some disputes consist of multiple lawsuits).

Discussion: PC Magazine, Bloomberg, CNET News, Electronista, The Next Web, AllThingsD, @fosspatents, Engadget, PhoneArena, HTC Source, MacStories, SlashGear, TUAW, GigaOM, The Loop, 9to5Mac and BGR

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:

AT&T Subsidiary Creates AdMob Competitor That Is Local — A subsidiary of AT&T, which is known best for its yellow-pages products, is launching a mobile ad network that will target consumers based on their location. — The network will compete with Apple's iAd and Google's AdMob networks …

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