Techmeme: Letter from Steve Jobs (finanznachrichten.de)

7:05 PM ET, August 24, 2011

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Steve Jobs Resigns as CEO of Apple — Tim Cook Named CEO and Jobs Elected Chairman of the Board — Companies: — Related Quotes — SymbolPriceChange — 376.18 — CUPERTINO, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Apple's Board of Directors today announced that Steve Jobs has resigned …

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Letter from Steve Jobs — To the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community: — I have always said if there ever came a day when I could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple"s CEO, I would be the first to let you know. Unfortunately, that day has come. — I hereby resign as CEO of Apple.

Discussion: MacRumors, Bits, New York Post, Associated Press, Macworld and @erikmal

Poornima Gupta / Reuters:

Steve Jobs resigns as CEO, named chairman — (Reuters) - Silicon Valley legend Steve Jobs on Wednesday resigned as chief executive of Apple Inc in a stunning move at the technology giant he co-founded in a garage. — The 55-year-old Apple co-founder and pancreatic cancer survivor …

Discussion: Deal Journal and Daring Fireball

Leena Rao / TechCrunch: Apple's COO Tim Cook Replaces Steve Jobs As CEO

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Dutch judge considers Apple's slide-to-unlock patent trivial and likely invalid — I previously reported on a preliminary injunction granted by a Dutch court today against the Samsung Galaxy S, Galaxy S II and Ace smartphones. In its official reaction, Samsung underscored …

Discussion: Network World, iDownloadBlog.com and The Orange View

Chris Foresman / Ars Technica:

Mixed decision for Apple: Dutch judge bans Samsung smartphones, not tablets — Apple has been awarded a preliminary injunction barring Samsung from importing, distributing, or selling its Galaxy S, Galaxy SII, and Ace smartphones in the European Union. Samsung must halt sales of the devices …

Andreas Udo de Haes / Computerworld:
Dutch court bans Samsung Galaxy S, SII and Ace in Europe starting Oct. 15

Discussion: FOSS Patents, Computerworld UK's News and WMPoweruser

The United States Department of Justice:

Google Forfeits $500 Million Generated by Online Ads & Prescription Drug Sales by Canadian Online Pharmacies … PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Online search engine Google Inc. has agreed to forfeit $500 million for allowing online Canadian pharmacies to place advertisements through its AdWords program targeting consumers …

Thomas Catan / Wall Street Journal:
Google Settles Pharmacy Ad Probe for $500 Million

Discussion: Reuters, @stevenjayl and Marketing Pilgrim

Nick Bilton / Bits:

Facebook Targets Instagram With Photo Filters — Get ready for the photo-filter wars to begin. — Facebook plans to add a series of photo filters to its mobile application in the coming months with the hopes of drawing off fans of Instagram, the popular photo-sharing application.

Discussion: Gizmodo and The Next Web

Brian Stelter / New York Times:

Time Warner to Subsidize Subscribers' TV Device — Time Warner Cable, one of the nation's top cable and Internet providers, said on Tuesday that it would subsidize some purchases of a set-top box called Slingbox that allows users to watch their home television programming from anywhere, like a vacation home or a mobile phone.

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Declan McCullagh / CNET News:

FCC commissioner: BART critics may be right — FCC Commissioners Robert McDowell (right) and Mignon Clyburn (left) say the agency is still investigating San Francisco's subway agency. — ASPEN, Colo.—Criticisms aimed the San Francisco Bay Area's subway system for temporarily pulling …

Discussion: PC Magazine, The Register and dailywireless.org

Harold Feld / Wetmachine: Forget The First Amendment, BART Messed With The Phone System. Violated CA and Federal Law.

Holman W. Jenkins Jr. / Wall Street Journal:

Obama and the Smartphone Wars — Unless the president intervenes, the International Trade Commission could send the wireless industry into a tailspin. — Patent litigation is a game created by government, and constructively so. But the game appears to be getting out of whack in the smartphone patent wars.

Discussion: MobileBurn.com, NBC Bay Area, IntoMobile and PhoneArena

Tomio Geron / Forbes:

Enterprise Social Networking Company Jive Software Files S-1 For IPO — Jive Software filed its S-1 for an expected IPO Wednesday. Jive reported revenue of $16.9 million, $46.3 million and $34.0 million for the calendar years of 2008, 2009 and 2010. For the six months ending June 30 …

Discussion: TechCrunch and MarketBrief, Thanks:adisn

Amit / Digital Inspiration Technology Blog:

A Trillion Pageviews for Facebook — Google today released an updated list of the most-visited sites on the web and it should not come as any surprise that Facebook takes the top spot with 870 million uniques. YouTube and Yahoo are next with 790 M and 590 M uniques respectively.

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Reuters:

China says Google has not sought approval on Motorola bid — (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry said it had not received an application for regulatory approval from Google Inc on its planned $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility Holdings. — Under Chinese laws …

Discussion: Search Engine Land, AllThingsD, PC Magazine and TechCrunch

Adrian Chen / Gawker:

Anonymous Leaks Nude Pics of BART Spokesman — Anonymous has declared war on San Francisco's commuter subway system, BART. They've staged protests and hacked website, but a leak of nude pics of a BART spokesman has taken things to another, more personal level.

Discussion: The Snitch and @revolutionchan

John Cook / GeekWire:

Zillow hits profitability, posts 116% revenue gain in first earnings report as a public company — Well, we had a pretty good feeling that Zillow might post its first quarterly profit (at least on a net income basis) today. And the Seattle online real estate company didn't disappoint …

Discussion: AllThingsD

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:

First Windows Phone 7.5 ‘Mango’ phone, Fujitsu IS12T, released on KDDI au in Japan — Microsoft has just dropped us a line to note that Fujitsu and KDDI au have released the IS12T in Japan, becoming the first Windows Phone 7.5 (codenamed “Mango") handset to hit retail anywhere in the world.

Discussion: Ars Technica, Fugitsu, Seattle Times, InfoWorld, Softpedia News, WMPoweruser, Neowin.net, WinRumors and The Next Web

Parmy Olson / Forbes:

Why Apple Went To Dusseldorf — Earlier this month lawyers for Apple celebrated a small, but important victory in court. On Aug. 4 they filed a 44-page complaint with the Civil Chamber of the lower court of Dusseldorf, a wealthy city in western Germany. The document claimed Samsung …

Zachary Lutz / Engadget:

Samsung debuts new Galaxy lineup, refines naming strategy along the way — Good news everyone, we've got a new batch of Sammy smartphones to feast your eyes upon. Now for the downside: today's announcement is meant only to whet your appetite for their official unveiling at IFA in Berlin.

Discussion: This is my next, 9to5Google, Sammy Hub, Sammy Hub, The Next Web, CNET News, The Cell Phone Junkie, SlashPhone, IntoMobile, PC Magazine, BGR, 9to5Google, MobileSyrup.com, Inquirer, Mashable! and Softpedia News

Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:

First Details About Lift, the Next Social Network From the Founders of Twitter — The recently-departed co-founders of Twitter now working together again under the old Obvious Corp. name (Ev Williams, Biz Stone and Jason Goldman) announced their first official partnership today, with a stealth alpha app called Lift.

Discussion: Between the Lines Blog, CNN and VatorNews

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:

Vizio 8 becomes first Android tablet with Hulu Plus — Like Netflix and Skype video chat, Hulu Plus is being certified on Android devices one-by-one — presumably out of an abundance of caution that the streaming video can't be easily recorded — and a total of ten phones are currently on the compatibility list.

Discussion: 9to5Google, PR Newswire, Electronista, BetaNews, mocoNews, TechCrunch, Engadget, PhoneArena, AndroidGuys and Tools

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Exclusive: HTC Puccini in the wild, AT&T LTE support confirmed! — Have a gander. Take as long as you need. That, friends, is the AT&T-bound HTC Puccini, and it'll be the first tablet to hit Ma Bell with inbuilt LTE support. According to our sources, the Android-based slate is currently in testing …

Discussion: Liliputing, Good E-Reader Blog, LAPTOP Magazine, TechnoBuffalo, PhoneDog.com, Inquirer and BGR

Derrick Harris / GigaOM:

VMware puts Cloud Foundry on laptops — VMware has released Micro Cloud Foundry, a fully functional version of its open-source, Platform-as-a-Service software condensed into a virtual image that runs on developers' personal computers or laptops. The aim is to make it easier to create …

Discussion: Cloud Foundry, eWeek, VMware Blogs, Between the Lines Blog, Computerworld, ReadWriteWeb and The Register

Frederic Lardinois / SiliconFilter:

The +1 Button Just Got Useful: Now Lets You Share Content on Google+ — When Google first began rolling out its +1 button, it wasn't very interesting. Even after Google+ launched, it still wasn't fully integrated with Google's new social network. Starting today, though, the +1 button will finally become useful.

Discussion: Computerworld, Search Engine Land, The Official Google Blog, PC Magazine, Google Webmaster Central Blog, ReadWriteWeb, Mashable! and scribbal.com

Will Liu / Facebook Developers:

Supporting Developers on Stack Overflow — Today we are excited to launch facebook.stackoverflow.com, a partnership with Stack Overflow to support Facebook Platform developers. Many Facebook engineers actively participate on Stack Overflow, along with some of the most knowledgeable Facebook developers …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Inside Facebook, Betabeat and Stack Exchange

Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft Blog:

Detangling the Windows Phone Tango talk — Summary: There is a new report about features and markets that will be the target of Microsoft's Windows Phone Tango, the successor to Mango. Here's my take. — Even though the Windows Phone Mango operating system is still not in consumers' hands or phones …

Discussion: eWeek, WPCentral.com, Seattle Times, Smartphones …, The Windows Blog, WMPoweruser, Softpedia News, Ars Technica, LiveSide.net, The Next Web, WMPoweruser and PhoneArena

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