Techmeme: AOL Reorgs Again, Sales Boss Jeff Levick Out (Peter Kafka/AllThingsD)

1:20 PM ET, July 25, 2011

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MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Facebook's iPad App Is Hidden Inside Of Their iPhone App — There are things out there all around us that we often miss because we're just not looking. This is perhaps most true in the tech world, where thousands of secrets are out there in the wild, hidden in code.

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Facebook's Secret iPad App Exposed [Pictures] — So, we just exposed the awesome secret that Facebook's iPad app is actually already out there, hidden inside of the iPhone app. Now it's time to show it to you. — I've been playing with the app for much of the night, and it seems solid.

Discussion: VatorNews, The Register, PC World, The Business Insider, SplatF, MacRumors, iPhone Alley, ITProPortal, IntoMobile and App Advice, Thanks:srikardhanakoti

Tiernan Ray / Tech Trader Daily:

RIM Slips: Lays Off 2,000, Splits COO Role; Is It Enough? — Shares of Research in Motion (RIMM) are down 58 cents, or 2%, at $27.33 after the company this morning announced the details of layoffs as part of a broad restructuring discussed in June. — The company plans to cut staff by roughly 10% …

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
RIM Makes Management Changes, Just Not The Ones Many Have Been Calling For

Discussion: StreetInsider.com, SiliconANGLE, InfoWorld and Between the Lines Blog

Robert Scoble / Google+:

I talked with Google VP Vic Gundotra tonight (disclaimer, he used to be my boss at Microsoft). He is reading everything we have written about names, and such. Both pro and con. — He says he is making some tough choices and that he will be judged over time how those choices turn out.

Discussion: VentureBeat, SlashGear, BetaNews, The Business Insider, Computerworld, CNET News, Inquirer, Techland, Pulp Tech Blog, The Next Web and InfotropismInfotropism

Jay Freeman / Google+:
In the last couple days, Google has taken to quite actively enforcing its “real name” rule

Discussion: Google Watch, DailyTech, ZDNet, Redmond Pie, Robert Scoble, TechCrunch, iDownloadBlog, @notmattbellamy and @dannysullivan

Reuters:

Chinese city orders closures of two fake Apple shops — (Reuters) - Chinese officials in Kunming ordered two fake Apple shops to close, a local newspaper reported on Monday, an apparent reaction to a storm of media attention about an unauthorized and elaborate hoax store in the southwestern city.

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:

AOL Reorgs Again, Sales Boss Jeff Levick Out — Yet another management shuffle at AOL, which has been doing this consistently since CEO Tim Armstrong arrived from Google two years ago. The newest headline: Sales chief Jeff Levick, one of Armstrong's key initial hires, is out, replaced by his former deputy Ned Brody.

Discussion: The Business Insider, TechCrunch, paidContent and The Business Insider, more at Mediagazer »

Alistair Barr / Reuters:

Amazon's next billion-dollar business eyed — (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's cloud computing unit may be its next billion-dollar business and analysts will be watching for clues on how fast this secretive unit is growing when the Internet retailer reports results next week.

Discussion: dailywireless.org, The Business Insider and FierceVoIP

Alexia Tsotsis / TechCrunch:

Airbnb Bags $112 Million In Series B From Andreessen, DST And General Catalyst — The scrappy apartment sharing startup has just raised $112 million at a one billion plus valuation led by Andreessen Horowitz. We're hearing that the split is around 60 million from Andreessen …

Discussion: CNET News, alarm:clock, Market Wire, AllThingsD, New York Times, Fast Company, VentureBeat, Venture Capital Dispatch, GigaOM and Techie Buzz

Ben Horowitz / ben's blog:
Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Discussion: Financial Times, VatorNews and Social Markets

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Google engineer Steve Lacey victim of Kirkland car wreck — Google engineer Steve Lacey, 43, a veteran of the Seattle region's tech community who worked for more than a decade at Microsoft, died Sunday in a car crash in Kirkland. — KING 5 News reports that that Lacey was the victim …

Discussion: KING-TV, The Loop, Robert Scoble and WebProNews

Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

Street View cars grabbed locations of phones, PCs — Some locations that Google associated with Wi-Fi devices spotted in a San Francisco coffee shop. — scoop Google's Street View cars collected the locations of millions of laptops, cell phones, and other Wi-Fi devices around the world …

Discussion: Gizmodo, Inquirer, Electronista and Pocket-lint

Sarah Perez / ReadWriteWeb:

Adobe Shuts Down Its App Stores — Adobe is shutting down two of its app stores dedicated to mobile and desktop application distribution, Adobe InMarket and the Adobe AIR Marketplace. The decision, the company says, was based on developer feedback. Adobe says it will now focus its efforts …

David Kaplan / paidContent:

Flipboard Kicks Off Its First Advertising Program With Condé Nast — Users who follow The New Yorker magazine's Twitter and Facebook stream through iPad social reader Flipboard will start noticing advertising as part of the mix. The ads, beginning with a campaign by American Express …

Discussion: Digits, AllThingsD, PR Newswire, Electronista, TeleRead, AllTwitter, mediabistro.com, The inneractive Blog, AdAge, parislemon and Poynter, more at Mediagazer »

Alyson Shontell / The Business Insider:

Restaurant Discount Site Savored Snags A Partnership With OpenTable — Savored, the restaurant discount and discovery site formerly known as Village Vines, tells us it is partnering with dinner reservation company OpenTable. — Starting today, OpenTable will have Savored 30% Off Deals on its San Francisco Bay Area homepage.

Discussion: AllThingsD and Bits

John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog:

Looky Here, It's Me, In an Ad, On Facebook! Is This Legal? Allowed? Who Knows?! — In the past 12 hours, about ten friends (and counting) have sent me a copy of this ad on Facebook for a company called “AppSumo.” I have nearly 5000 “friends” on Facebook, a problem I've written about in the past, but seeing this ad threw me.

Discussion: Security Watch

Timothy Williams / New York Times:

Town Turns to iPads in Cost-Cutting Move — While Apple started selling iPads to the public only 15 months ago, the 1.5-pound tablet computers seem well on their way toward ubiquity. This year, Alaska Airlines began issuing them to pilots to replace the 25 pounds of paper flight manuals they were required to carry on flights.

Discussion: PadGadget

Steve Gillmor / TechCrunch:

The revolution will not be televised — Seems like the Good Old Days are here again as Google+ invites continue to pile up in email. Email is that Y2K technology that jumped the shark in the middle of the decade, back when Twitter introduced realtime direct messages.

Hollywood Reporter:

DreamWorks Animation, Netflix Finalizing Streaming Deal … DreamWorks Animation and Netflix have been putting the finishing touches on a streaming rights deal for DWA films that could be announced in the coming days. — According to a source familiar with the situation, the animation studio …

Discussion: Tech Trader Daily, Deadline.com, Zatz Not Funny!, AllThingsD, Company Town, CNET News, Bloomberg and Hacking NetFlix

Dan Rowinski / ReadWriteWeb:

Comcast Teams With Elemental Technologies to Stay Ahead of Netflix and Hulu — Comcast is making its push against over-the-top content distributors like Netflix and Hulu. Today, it took another step towards evening the playing field by enlisting Elemental Technologies …

Discussion: GeekWire

Seth Weintraub / 9to5Mac:

WSJ, Kobo falling in line in Apple's App Store, Google Books is out — Update: Amazon's Kindle and Barnes and Noble's Nook both killed their store links as well. — The WSJ is reporting that Apple is laying down the law on apps that try to link externally to other payment systems in the App Store.

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Xbox launches Avatar Kinect: A review by my avatar — After a long wait, Microsoft today is releasing Avatar Kinect, the online video chat application that uses the Kinect sensor to track facial expressions and mouth movements and translate them into a user's avatar on screen.

Discussion: Gizmodo, CNET News, Ars Technica and WinRumors

Felix Salmon:

The cost of patent trolls — I love This American Life's investigation into patent troll Nathan Myhrvold and his company Intellectual Ventures. You should go read — or listen to — the whole thing, but in a nutshell, they explored what happened if they took Intellectual Ventures at its word.

Discussion: Techdirt and TechFlash

Matt Rosoff / The Business Insider:
Who Does Patent-Trading Firm Intellectual Ventures Work For, Anyway?

Discussion: GeekWire

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