Techmeme @ 4:00 PM ET, September 7, 2011

4:00 PM ET, September 7, 2011

Top Items:

iPhone 5: First Test Photo? — As anyone who follows our regular series of “Test Photo” features knows, we enjoy checking out pictures captured by unreleased phones. The holy grail of such a pursuit is, of course, tracking down an image from the next iPhone. And we think that we've found one.

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:

Exclusive: Carol Bartz Out at Yahoo; CFO Tim Morse Named Interim CEO — According to sources at the company, Yahoo's Carol Bartz is no longer CEO of Yahoo. CFO Tim Morse has been named interim CEO. The situation around the departure is unclear, but Bartz has had a rocky tenure in her 30 months at the company.

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:

Announcing Our Offer For Yahoo! — We are pleased to announce our offer for Yahoo! — We've wanted to make this offer for a while, but we are part-time employees of Yahoo!—as a host of the hit finance show Daily Ticker (see right)—and we were concerned CEO Carol Bartz might consider our offer impertinent.

Discussion: AllThingsD, more at Mediagazer »

MG Siegler / TechCrunch:

Carol Bartz Confirms Her Own Firing — From Her iPad — Title says it all. This is the note Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz just sent out to Yahoo employees: … Crazy day. Here's our favorite Bartz moment.

Discussion: L.A. Times Tech Blog, Business Insider, AllThingsD, AppleInsider, eWeek, PadGadget, Digits, Search Engine Roundtable, Techland and OzTechNews.com

Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:

Here's The Memo Yahoo's Board Sent Employees After Firing Bartz — Last night, Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone. — Then, a little later, Roy and Yahoo's cofounders Jerry Yang and David Filo sent out this email: — From: Jerry Yang [redacted]

Glassdoor.com Blog:
Yahoo CEO Bartz Leaves With 33% Approval Among Employees

Discussion: Business Insider, SiliconANGLE, internetnews.com, Allen Weiner, Guardian and Search Engine Land

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

Discussion: New York Magazine and Business Insider

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD:
Bring in the Suits: Yahoo Hiring Strategic Advisers to Plot Next Moves

Discussion: Business Insider, Digits, Mixed Media, Data Center Knowledge, Tech Trader Daily, GMSV, CNET News, GigaOM, @marshallk, @naval and AllThingsD

Om Malik / GigaOM:
After the CEO, Yahoo needs to fire its board

Discussion: Geek News Central and AllThingsD

Shira Ovide / Deal Journal:
With Carol Bartz Out, Is Yahoo a Takeover Target?

Discussion: Digits, SlashGear, TechFlash, Wall Street Journal, Startup Meme and IntoMobile

Phillip Dampier / Stop the Cap!:

Netflix Cracks Down on Sharing: One Stream Per Customer Unless You Pay More — Netflix streaming customers who happen to share their account with other family members are having a frustrated Labor Day weekend as Netflix completes implementation of strict new limits on the number of concurrent video streams available for viewing.

Discussion: Fortune, Ars Technica, Techland, Mashable!, VentureBeat, GamePolitics blogs, Business Insider, msnbc.com, Engadget, Cult of Mac, DSLreports, Electronista, Consumer Reports News, Gawker, DailyTech, ReelSEO Online Video …, TiPb and iLounge

Janko Roettgers / GigaOM:

Netflix: We're not cracking down on simultaneous streams — Netflix is denying charges that it has started to crack down on users streaming to more than one device at any given time. Rumors of such a crackdown appeared online earlier this week: The blog Stop the Cap! posted a report …

Discussion: Digital Trends, ReadWriteWeb, Stop the Cap!, Geek.com, Geekosystem, GottaBeMobile and Business Insider

Reuters:

Exclusive: Facebook first half revenue hits $1.6 billion: source — (Reuters) - Facebook's revenue rose to $1.6 billion in 2011's first half, a source with knowledge of its financials told Reuters. — Net income in the first half of 2011 came to almost $500 million, according to the source …

Discussion: Business Insider, Inside Facebook, VentureBeat, All Facebook, mocoNews, CNET News, L.A. Times Tech Blog, AllThingsD, Friending Facebook Blog, The Register, I4U News, MarketingVox News & Trends, GMSV, The Next Web and @felixsalmon

Joshua Topolsky / This is my next:

Droid Bionic review — The Droid Bionic has been something of a unicorn amongst fans of the Android platform. The device — announced at CES on January 5th of this year — has had an unnaturally long lead up to launch, punctuated by blips on the radar consisting mostly of rumors and leaked photos.

Discussion: USA Today

Zach Epstein / BGR:
Verizon Wireless' Motorola DROID BIONIC launches September 8th, $299.99

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8” … Whether you are a software developer, an IT administrator, or simply an enthusiast, many of you need to run multiple operating systems, usually on many different machines. Not all of us have access to a full suite of labs to house all these machines …

Discussion: All about Microsoft Blog, Neowin.net, WinBeta, The Next Web, WinRumors, virtualization.info and TechNet Blogs

Eric Rosenblum / Google Commerce:

Google Offers Beta in Five More Cities: Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle — This summer we've brought you some amazing deals from fantastic businesses in Portland, the Bay Area and New York City with Google Offers beta. Now, we're expanding to five more areas: Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver and Seattle.

Discussion: BetaNews, ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, AllThingsD, TechFlash, New York Post, SlashGear, Droid Life, Search Engine Journal, GeekWire, silicontap.com, WebProNews, Search Engine Land and PhoneArena

Florian Mueller / FOSS Patents:

Oracle President Safra Catz ready to talk settlement with Google in court — Google wants to send Andy Rubin — Shortly before the holiday weekened, Judge William Alsup, the federal judge presiding over Oracle's patent and copyright infringement lawsuit against Google, communicated his inclination to order …

Discussion: Electronista

Tim Carmody / Wired:

Amazon's Future Is So Much Bigger Than a Tablet — Amazon has swiftly become the most disruptive company in the media and technology industries. Its potential in this space is simply off the charts: bigger than Apple's, bigger than Google's or Microsoft's. — 09.06.11 From Epicenter

Steven Leckart / The Daily:

How a grad student perfected the art of the TOS — Gregg Bernstein's eureka moment came the way so many do: while poring over typeface licenses. — He was designing for a record label, which required buying fonts and then paging through interminable terms-of- service notices restricting how he could uses his purchases.

Discussion: iLounge, TUAW and Cult of Mac

Sara Yin / PC Magazine:

AT&T Unlikely to Avoid Multi-Billion Dollar T-Mobile ‘Break Up’ Fee — AT&T could still be forced to pay Deutsche Telekom a termination fee of at least $3 billion, even if U.S. regulators ultimately block AT&T's $39 billion takeover of Deutsche-owned T-Mobile.

Discussion: SlashGear

Serena Saitto / Bloomberg:
AT&T Said Able to Reduce T-Mobile Bid Price If Remedies Grow Too Costly

Discussion: TechFlash, PC Magazine, DSLreports, FierceWireless and Deal Journal

Ray Stern / Valley Fever:

Phoenix “iCloud” Company Dumps Trademark Lawsuit Against Apple, Changes Name — An Arizona company formerly known as iCloud Communications has dumped its trademark lawsuit against Apple and apparently changed its name. — The Phoenix-based iCloud caused a ruckus in the tech world earlier …

Discussion: CNET News, Ars Technica, Engadget, MacDailyNews, Inquirer and The Next Web

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:

Tapjoy snags former Playstation marketer as chief marketing officer — Tapjoy had a run-in with Apple this spring. But the mobile monetization firm has recovered and is back on the expansion path. The latest sign: It's just made a high-profile hire — Peter Dille, a former senior vice president …

Discussion: Inside Mobile Apps, ReadWriteWeb, paidContent, Gamasutra, www.pocketgamer.biz and GigaOM

Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:

Car Price Comparison Company TrueCar Raises $200M+, Gears Up For IPO — TrueCar, which publishes real-time vehicle transaction data in the US market for both new and used cars, has secured over $200 million in debt and equity financing to grow the business and explore acquisitions.

Discussion: Reuters, AllThingsD, VentureBeat, PR Newswire, VatorNews, Bloomberg and PE Hub Blog

Arnold Kim / MacRumors:

Apple 27" Thunderbolt Displays Shipping to Stores — MacRumors has learned that Apple is beginning to ship the new 27" Thunderbolt Display to stores and resellers this week. This means that customers should be able to see and buy the devices very soon. We haven't yet heard any news …

Discussion: 9to5Mac, AppleInsider, TUAW and O'Grady's PowerPage

The Independent:

.xxx rated: internet's red-light district has arrived — The scramble for the adult industry's new dedicated domain name has begun, its American founder tells Nick Clark — Stuart Lawley is expecting a gold rush - and xxx marks the spot. Following a decade-long battle …

Discussion: VentureBeat, CNET News, BBC, Daily Dot, Guardian, Business Insider, Betabeat and BGR

Larry Dignan / Between the Lines Blog:

HP launches cloud services private beta — Summary: HP launches private beta for its first two cloud services. Will enterprise customers bite? — HP on Wednesday launched a private beta for its HP Cloud Services effort, which includes both compute and storage.

Discussion: HP Scaling the Cloud Blog, InfoWorld, ReadWriteWeb, The Register and GigaOM

Ben Popper / Betabeat:

General Assembly Gets Funding From Yuri Milner and Jeff Bezos — Ready for some e-book learnin'? — When Betabeat first visited General Assembly a few weeks before it opened, co-founder Adam Pritzker told us that the vision was to create an educational space free from the pressures …

Discussion: GeekWire, General Assembly, Fortune and Business Insider

Darren Murph / Engadget:

Seagate plays the 4TB card with its GoFlex Desk external HDD, shipping now for $250 — That tangled mess of a backup solution feeling a little cramped? Yeah, join the crowd. Seagate's looking to give you a dash of capaciousness — a dash that you could desperately used — with its newest desktop HDD.

Discussion: Hard Drives, Digital Trends, The Register, 9to5Mac, SlashGear and The Next Web

Nilay Patel / This is my next:

TiVo Premiere Elite announced: four tuners, 2TB of storage, $499 — After months of rumors, TiVo's officially announced the new Premiere Elite DVR, a quad-tuner beast that can store up to 300 hours of HD recordings on 2TB of internal storage. The unit is based on the same TiVo Series4 internals …

Discussion: Technologizer, TechCrunch, PC World and Zatz Not Funny!

Mark Lee / Bloomberg:

Google's Internet License for China Renewed Amid Battle for Market Share — Google Inc. (GOOG), which moved its Chinese search-engine service offshore last year to avoid the country's online censorship rules, said China's government renewed the company's Internet license.

Discussion: The Next Web

Dana Wollman / Engadget:

HP announces an avalanche of all-in-ones, slims down its TouchSmarts (video) — At some point earlier this year, all-in-one desktops became a thing. Companies like Toshiba and Lenovo that had never before taken an interest in the space suddenly started selling 'em, beefing up a market that HP, Dell and Apple had owned for years.

Discussion: Electronista, VentureBeat, This is my next, blog.chron.com, Laptops and Desktops Blog, The Register and Gizmodo

Chris Ziegler / This is my next:

AT&T Impulse 4G available September 18th for $29.99 — The smartphone landscape might be dominated by the $100 to $300 price range, but one way that carriers have managed to shave retail prices is by offering handsets from the likes of Pantech, ZTE, and Huawei — companies that don't yet have much brand recognition here.

Discussion: AllThingsD, Softpedia News, AT&T, GottaBeMobile, Android Phone Fans and IntoMobile

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