Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 4:00 pm PT
Twitter’s cautious entry into advertising is picking up velocity.
Ronald Barusch, Columnist, The Wall Street Journal in News on February 16 at 3:41 pm PT
The Yahoo board seems to be officially in full retreat (if not virtual surrender) in response to the assaults from Dan Loeb’s Third Point which began last year.
News Byte
Lauren Goode in News on February 16 at 3:06 pm PT
A few months ago,
AllThingsD’s Liz Gannes
questioned why it seemed as though all of her friends on Facebook were reading articles from the Washington Post online; turns out she, like many users, was seeing an aggregated list of activity from news apps through Facebook’s “open graph.” Today, Facebook
announced that even more media apps were coming to Timeline through the social network’s open graph, including “The Daily Show,” MSNBC.com, Huffington Post, Mashable, MTV News and BuzzFeed.
Ina Fried in Mobile on February 16 at 2:37 pm PT
The prepaid carrier saw its monthly average service per customer rise 10 percent from a year ago as three in five new customers opted for a smartphone or Muve Music-capable device.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16 at 2:00 pm PT
You’ve seen the Chinese court decision siding with Apple in its dispute with Proview Technology over rights to the iPad trademark in China. Here’s some of the supporting documentation.
Kara Swisher in News on February 16 at 1:32 pm PT
Demand makes its numbers, as Wall Street scrutinizes the online content company’s traffic and costs.
Lauren Goode in News on February 16 at 1:14 pm PT
PayPal responds to the fightin’ words that Visa leveled at the online payments company on Wednesday.
News Byte
John Murrell in News on February 16 at 12:45 pm PT
Coca-Cola announced today it had
appointed Bobby Kotick, CEO of videogame publisher Activision Blizzard, to its board. Kotick, 48, has previous boardroom experience, having served as a Yahoo director from 2003 to 2008. “Bobby brings an entrepreneurial mindset and a high level of financial literacy and digital knowledge to our company,” said Coke Chairman and CEO Muhtar Kent.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16 at 12:25 pm PT
“The conduct of all the defendants demonstrate that they have combined together with the common intention of injuring Apple.”
Amy Schatz, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Mobile on February 16 at 11:56 am PT
Wireless carriers could be among the biggest beneficiaries of Congress’s plan to extend the payroll-tax cut because the legislation currently includes a provision to raise billions of dollars by auctioning off television airwaves.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 11:20 am PT
Narrative Science, the start-up that turns baseball box scores into automated stories, tries the same trick, using Twitter. Very interesting.
Liz Gannes in Social on February 16 at 10:51 am PT
Social media is all about real-time conversation in the present, but people seem to have finally started remembering that there’s a value to the past.
Peter Kafka in Media on February 16 at 10:11 am PT
Last year you could even watch the games on an iPad app without paying a penny. That’s all over now.
John Paczkowski in News on February 16 at 10:07 am PT
Amazon shipped 3.9 million Fire tablets in the fourth quarter — a nice start.
