Kara Swisher in News on May 8 at 8:50 am PT
CSLie has claimed its first victim, although the mystery is
still unsolved.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 8 at 8:23 am PT
Speaking at CTIA in New Orleans, Julius Genachowski also indicated that the agency isn’t closed to other big deals, saying that AT&T-T-Mobile was just one “over-the-line” transaction.
John Paczkowski in News on May 8 at 8:20 am PT
Research In Motion fills two vacant slots on its executive team.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 8 at 8:02 am PT
Facebook users spent an average of nearly 7.5 hours accessing the site from mobile phones in March, according to a
recent comScore report, surpassing the average time spent accessing the site via desktop by nearly an hour. The trend is consistent with the shift of users relying more heavily on mobile devices to access the site, as the company itself
has noted; more than half-a-billion people accessed Facebook via mobile device in March.
Arik Hesseldahl in News on May 8 at 6:40 am PT
Oracle won part of its argument, but failed to make it stick.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on May 8 at 4:30 am PT
Andreessen Horowitz has invested $10 million in Belly, a Chicago-based company that is building a loyalty network for retailers that will replace punch cards with mobile rewards.
Kara Swisher in Media on May 8 at 12:58 am PT
We all need a non-Yahoo laugh today! (Trust me on this.)
Readers may click through your slideshow, but they’ll hate you a liiitttle bit more than they did when they got to the site. And I bet they’ll feel the same way about whatever advertiser was unlucky enough to get stuck on the page with some stupid thing that a reporter did with a little bit of hate in his heart and fingertips.
– The Atlantic magazine reporter Alexis Madrigal, in a story called “The Pernicious Myth That Slideshows Drive ‘Traffic’”
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 10:00 pm PT
The Wi-Fi provider is expanding its software to connect automatically to more than 70,000 free hotspots, in addition to Boingo’s own network of paid locations.
News Byte
Peter Kafka in Media on May 7 at 8:16 pm PT
Elemental Technologies, a six-year-old start-up that helps companies process and manage Web video, has raised a $13 million C round led by Norwest Venture Partners. Earlier investors General Catalyst, Voyager Capital and Steamboat Ventures, who had put $14.5 million into the company, re-upped. Elemental’s clients include Disney, Comcast and Time Warner’s HBO.
Ina Fried in Mobile on May 7 at 7:29 pm PT
While T-Mobile USA doesn’t expect to offer LTE service until next year, another part of its network modernization efforts should allow iPhones to run at full speed on its networks later this year.
News Byte
Mike Isaac in Social on May 7 at 6:46 pm PT
Despite having been founded four years ago, Twitpic only launched its first
free iPhone application on Monday, complete with basic photo editing tools and comments section. The app debuts as competition increasingly heats up in the mobile photo-sharing space, intensified by Facebook’s recent $1 billion acquisition of similar photo-sharing service Instagram.
