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A New Video Channel for Developers: Facebook Developers Live (Giselle Schmitz/Facebook Developer Blog)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 21:35:00 -0600

Giselle Schmitz / Facebook Developer Blog:
A New Video Channel for Developers: Facebook Developers Live — Today we're announcing a new way for developers to stay up to date on the latest news, tutorials, speaking sessions and more via Facebook Developers Live. Developers Live is a curated video channel that features live …

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Alcatel Chief Is Out as Turnaround Stalls (Wall Street Journal)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 20:10:03 -0600

Wall Street Journal:
Alcatel Chief Is Out as Turnaround Stalls — PARIS—Telecom giant Alcatel-Lucent SA, which has been burning cash and reeling from cutthroat competition, is expected to announce Thursday that its chief executive officer will step down after a transition period, people close to the board said Wednesday.

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The Inside Story Of Ubuntu's Gesture-Centric Smartphone (John Pavlus/co.DESIGN)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 19:10:03 -0600

John Pavlus / co.DESIGN:
The Inside Story Of Ubuntu's Gesture-Centric Smartphone — NO HOME BUTTON. NO LOCK SCREEN. THE OPEN-SOURCE SMARTPHONE IS ALL ABOUT GESTURAL INTERFACES—BUT DOES IT GO TOO FAR? UBUNTU'S DESIGNERS DON'T THINK SO. Earlier this month, Canonical, the co-creators of Ubuntu …

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Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October (Michael Hickins/The CIO Report)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:35:00 -0600

Michael Hickins / The CIO Report:
Ubuntu Smartphone Shipping in October — Smartphones running the open source Ubuntu operating system will be available to customers beginning in October 2013, according to Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of Canonical Ltd. Canonical provides services for corporate customers using Ubuntu open source software.

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Katzenberg Says Mobile Viewers Will Pay by ‘Inch’ (Andy Fixmer/Bloomberg)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 18:00:30 -0600

Andy Fixmer / Bloomberg:
Katzenberg Says Mobile Viewers Will Pay by ‘Inch’ — Hollywood studios will eventually charge less for entertainment streamed to small devices, basing prices on screen size, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. (DWA) Chief Executive Officer Jeffrey Katzenberg predicted.

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Zynga Bringing Real-Money Gaming to Facebook in the U.K. (Tricia Duryee/AllThingsD)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 17:05:00 -0600

Tricia Duryee / AllThingsD:
Zynga Bringing Real-Money Gaming to Facebook in the U.K. — Zynga is close to launching its real-money gaming efforts in the U.K., which it is betting will generate all kinds of new revenue for the company. — As evidence of the impending launch, two websites have already gone live in the U.K. to start spreading the word.

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Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers, Allows Apps To Work With Cloud-Based Files As If They Were Local (Darrell Etherington/TechCrunch)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 13:25:01 -0600

Darrell Etherington / TechCrunch:
Dropbox Unveils Sync API For Mobile Developers, Allows Apps To Work With Cloud-Based Files As If They Were Local — Dropbox is unveiling a brand new API for developers today that should give mobile app makers an excellent new tool to work with. The Dropbox Sync API allows apps for iOS …

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Urban Airship Nabs $25 Million in Additional Funding (Ina Fried/AllThingsD)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 11:10:03 -0600

Ina Fried / AllThingsD:
Urban Airship Nabs $25 Million in Additional Funding — Urban Airship, the Portland-based startup that specializes in helping power mobile app notifications, has raised another $25 million, as the company seeks to further expand beyond its roots. — AllThingsD.com

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Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More (Leena Rao/TechCrunch)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 10:25:01 -0600

Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Social Commenting Platform Livefyre Raises $15M To Scale Mobile Experiences, Moderating Features And More — Social commenting platform Livefyre has raised $15 million in funding led by U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) and included existing investors Greycroft Partners, Cue Ball, HillsVen Group, and ff Venture Capital.

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Enterprises websites are targets. WhiteHat raises $31M to extend website security lead (Michael Carney/PandoDaily)

Wed, 6 Feb 2013 07:00:11 -0600

Michael Carney / PandoDaily:
Enterprises websites are targets. WhiteHat raises $31M to extend website security lead — “Every company has a founding story,” WhiteHat Founder and CTO Jeremiah Grossman says. “WhiteHat's takes place a bit over 10 years ago, when I was asked to hack every website that Yahoo had before the bad guys could.”

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Internet ‘Under Assault’ by Censoring UN, Regulator Says (Eric Engleman/Bloomberg)

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 23:40:18 -0600

Eric Engleman / Bloomberg:
Internet ‘Under Assault’ by Censoring UN, Regulator Says — International proposals to control the Internet will continue after a United Nations conference in Dubai and the U.S. should be ready to fight such efforts, lawmakers and a regulator said. — “The Internet is quite simply under assault …

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Apple app advantage eroded as Google narrows iPhone lead (Bloomberg)

Tue, 5 Feb 2013 23:15:01 -0600

Bloomberg:
Apple app advantage eroded as Google narrows iPhone lead — SAN FRANCISCO - Five years after popularizing the term “app” and sparking a mobile-software boom, Apple is losing its advantage in smartphone applications to Google, diminishing one of the iPhone's selling points.

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