Techmeme: Codecademy Lands $2.5 Million From Investors (Jenna Wortham/Bits)

4:25 AM ET, October 28, 2011

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HP:

HP to Keep PC Division — Continued combination of HP and its Personal Systems Group expected to deliver greater customer and shareholder value — HP today announced that it has completed its evaluation of strategic alternatives for its Personal Systems Group (PSG) and has decided the unit will remain part of the company.

Joanna Stern / This is my next:

Whitman: HP will be in the tablet business with Windows 8, long term decision about webOS coming — Brand new HP CEO Meg Whitman announced a final decision to keep the company's Personal Systems (PSG) Group today, however, she also shared a bit about HP's tablet and webOS plans.

Discussion: Bloomberg, Gizmodo, Between the Lines Blog, mocoNews, L.A. Times Tech Blog, GeekWire, Mashable!, LAPTOP Magazine, GottaBeMobile, Liliputing and Seattle Times

Arik Hesseldahl / AllThingsD:
Interview: HP CEO Meg Whitman on Keeping the PC Business

Discussion: Deal Journal, Wall Street Journal and Mashable!

Nick Bilton / Bits:

What's Really Next for Apple in Television — “I've finally cracked it!” Steven P. Jobs, co-founder of Apple, told his biographer, Walter Isaacson. — Although Mr. Jobs was referring to Apple's plans to build a full-fledged television, he was not actually referring to the TV set …

Discussion: TUAW, CNET News, AppleInsider, Redmond Pie, Computerworld, Tech Broiler Blog, Mashable!, VentureBeat, Pocket-lint, I4U News, T3 News, iDownloadBlog.com, GigaOM, BGR, Electronista, MacStories, App Advice, Gizmodo, 9to5Mac, Forbes, TiPb, iClarified, Daring Fireball and OS X Daily, more at Mediagazer »

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM: A voice-controlled future is finally upon us

Dan Frommer / SplatF:
Here's why Apple's TV needs to be an actual television, and not just a cheap add-on box

Discussion: Daring Fireball

Ronald Ho / Google Enterprise Blog:

Google+ is now available with Google Apps — Google Apps fans, today we're ready to add you to our circles. Google+ makes sharing on the web more like sharing in the real world, and now Google+ is available to people who use Google Apps at college, at work or at home.

Matthew Panzarino / The Next Web:

Using Google+ for Google Apps? Your admin has access to all of your data — Now that Google+ has finally gone live for Google Apps customers, it's important to note what may be a dealbreaker for some on the privacy front. — If you're a user of Google+ with a corporate or education Google Apps account …

Discussion: The Next Web

Vic Gundotra / The Official Google Blog:

Google+: Popular posts, eye-catching analytics, photo fun and... We think Google+ should get better every time you use it. It's not enough to obsess over community feedback (which we do); we also need to surprise and delight you with constant improvements (which we also try and do).

Discussion: ReadWriteWeb, VentureBeat, FlowingData, Googling Google Blog, SlashGear, PetaPixel, Computerworld, iClarified, Mashable!, Business Insider, Guardian, The Next Web, Pocket-lint, Electronista, SiliconFilter, 9to5Google, Fernando Fonseca and GeekWire

Rip Empson / TechCrunch:
Google+ Resurrects Playback Feature From Wave, Renames It “Ripples”

Discussion: Marketing Pilgrim and Mashable!

Sharif Sakr / Engadget:

Windows Phone Apollo coming ‘middle of next year,’ says Nokia VP — A top Nokia exec just confirmed the much-rumored schedule for the next Windows Phone update, codenamed Apollo. Michael Halbherr, Executive VP for Location and Commerce, told us that it'll launch in mid-2012 and be a …

Discussion: BGR, WinRumors, eWeek, Redmond Pie, PhoneDog.com, DailyTech, Neowin.net, WinBeta, The Next Web and mocoNews

Roger Cheng / CNET News:
Microsoft holding Windows Phone ‘backstage’ event Nov. 7

Discussion: WinRumors and Neowin.net

Tom Warren / WinRumors:
Windows Phone Mango now available to 100% of all eligible devices

Discussion: Engadget, Windows Phone Blog, Gizmodo, Gizmodo Australia and Pocket-lint

Todd Bishop / GeekWire:

Gates to students: Don't try to be a billionaire, it's overrated — Bill Gates made a rare appearance at the University of Washington this afternoon, talking about how qualitative and measurable advances in technology are coming together for major advances in some of the area he cares …

Discussion: The Seattle Times and TechCrunch

Devin Coldewey / TechCrunch:
Bill Gates On “The Miracle Of Availability” And Applying Computer Science To The World

Discussion: The Seattle Times, TechFlash and Epicenter

Michael Arrington / Uncrunched:

“Batch” May Be The Perfect Mobile Photo Sharing App (No, Seriously) — A few months ago Daily Booth CEO Brian Pokorny told me that most of his team was working on a second product. “What is it?” I asked, “A mobile photo sharing app?” — I was joking, because everyone and their mother seemed …

Discussion: ConversionRater

Wall Street Journal:

Yahoo: Center of a Global Chess Game — Internet Company Explores a Tax-Free Way to Shed Foreign Investments — As Yahoo Inc. maps out its future, a new plan has emerged for the fate of its overseas investments, which are the critical part of any deal to sell the company.

Discussion: CNET News and Electronista

Reuters: Yahoo, bidders at impasse over nondisclosure

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Looks like Congress has declared war on the internet — Many internet users in the United States have watched with horror as countries like France and Britain have proposed or instituted so-called “three strikes” laws, which cut off internet access to those accused of repeated acts of copyright infringement.

Discussion: CNET News, Boing Boing and WebProNews, Thanks:mathewi

Felix Salmon:

How to justify Groupon's valuation — Henry Blodget has a smart post on how to value Groupon today. Is he right that it's vastly overpriced at a $10 billion valuation? — Blodget's main thesis is that revenue growth at Groupon is slowing — and that transitioning from a high-growth company …

Discussion: O'Reilly Radar

Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
I Wouldn't Touch Groupon's Stock At The IPO Price With A 50-Foot Pole

Discussion: Bloomberg and ITworld.com

Tim Stevens / Engadget:

Logitech Revue on sale promising ‘new & improved’ Google TV with Android 3.1, Market (Update: Logitech responds) — Well, well, what do we have here? These Logitech Revue boxes just hit the sales floor of a major electronics retailer, prominently sporting “New & Improved: Google TV with Android 3.1 and Android Market” stickers.

Discussion: SlashGear, AndroidGuys, 9to5Google, Business Insider, Android Community, IntoMobile, Droid Life, Electronista and Android Phone Fans

Steve Kovach / Business Insider:

Yikes! Motorola Shipped Just 100,000 Xoom Tablets Last Quarter — Motorola Mobility just announced its Q3 earnings, where it gave shipment numbers for its mobile devices. — Most notably, it only shipped 100,000 Xoom tablets during the quarter. (That's shipped not sold.)

Discussion: PR Newswire, ZD Net, Examiner, AllThingsD, SlashGear, @asymco, Engadget, Gizmodo and Gizmodo Australia

Jenna Wortham / Bits:

Codecademy Lands $2.5 Million From Investors — Codecademy, a Web site that teaches people how to program for free, just got a boost to its lesson plan: $2.5 million in venture financing. — On Thursday, the start-up announced that it raised a Series A round of cash from a bevy …

Discussion: TechCrunch, Uncrunched, VentureBeat, Union Square Ventures and Betabeat

Steven Sinofsky / MSDN Blogs:

Using Task Manager with 64+ logical processors … We talked about the new Task Manager in a previous post, and many of you have installed the Developer Preview and seen it for yourself. There was some interest on this topic so we thought we would take a moment to quickly share with you a feature …

Discussion: The Next Web, AnandTech, WinBeta, Neowin.net, WinRumors and Techie Buzz

Ryan Lawler / GigaOM:

What Netflix effect? Redbox will raise rates instead — Redbox was expected to be one of the big beneficiaries of Netflix's most recent price change. But the effect of that change wasn't entirely apparent in Redbox's numbers, as parent Coinstar reported revenues Thursday just slightly above Wall Street consensus.

Discussion: IBD Click, The Tech Trade, Engadget, Examiner, Mashable!, PR Newswire and Tech Trader Daily

Michael Degusta / the understatement:

Android Orphans: Visualizing a Sad History of Support — The announcement that Nexus One users won't be getting upgraded to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich led some to justifiably question Google's support of their devices. I look at it a little differently: Nexus One owners are lucky.

Todd Haselton / BGR:
Android fragmentation gets visualized [infographic]

Discussion: BetaNews and CNET News

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