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Sina's 2013 Strategy Is "Mobile First," CEO Charles Chao Says In Company-Wide Email Top
Sina WeiboChina-based tech blog 36kr has published a company-wide email (link via Google Translate) from Sina CEO Charles Chao that previews the China-based Internet giant's 2013 strategy. Chao wrote that Sina will reboot its strategy next year by splitting its business structure into two parts, with one focusing on its Web portal and the other on Sina Weibo, its massively popular microblogging service which boasts more than 400 million members. Sina's COO Hong Du will focus on running the Web portal and report directly to Chao, who will take responsibility for its microblogging and mobile operations. Each side will take responsibility for their own products, technology and operations.
 
HP Confirms Federal Investigation Of Autonomy's Alleged Fraud In Its Annual Report Top
autonomyHP has confirmed that the U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation stemming from the Palo Alto company's allegations that it uncovered widespread accounting fraud at Autonomy, the British software maker it acquired for $11 billion last year. HP confirmed the investigation in its annual report filed Thursday with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, though it offered no further details about the alleged fraud:
 
Silvercar Launches Its Simplified Vehicle Rental Service At Dallas/Fort Worth Top
silvercar_logo_stackedSilvercar has announced that its airport-based car rental service will debut on January 14, 2013 for travelers visiting Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport, with advance reservations now available. Some of the Austin-based company's signature silver 2013 Audis A4s will be available in soft-launch mode over the next two weeks.
 
Wikimedia Foundation Raises $25M In Donations Over 9 Days Top
Image (1) wikimedia_logo.png for post 10602Wikimedia Foundation announced today that it raised $25 million from more than 1.2 million donors during its 2012 fundraiser, which ran on English-language Wikipedia in five countries (the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand) for nine full days, a decrease in time from Wikipedia's 2011 fundraiser, which was 46 days and raised $20 million. Another donation drive will be launched in April.
 
One Year After Buying NewBay, RIM Sells The Mobile Cloud Software Developer To Synchronoss Technologies For $55.5M In Cash Top
newbayRIM could have a little more cash on hand next quarter. The flailing BlackBerry developer has sold its cloud services unit NewBay to Synchronoss Technologies, the provider of automation software, mobility management, and cloud technology solutions. The acquisition price was $55.5 million in cash, and the transaction closed in the fourth quarter of 2012.
 
The iMac In A World Of MacBooks On The Brink Of iPads Top
aModern Apple owes pretty much everything to the iMac. Yes, it was the iPod and later the iPhone and iPad that took the company to new, almost unimaginable heights. But as everyone knows, the company was at death's door when Steve Jobs unveiled the "Bondi Blue" iMac in 1998. The iMac saved Apple, giving the company the time to do everything else that followed. But as we enter 2013, the world is a much different place than 1998. Beyond the aforementioned iPods, iPhones, and iPads, in the "traditional" computing space, everyone seems to be using a laptop nowadays. In fact, something like three quarters of Apple's Mac sales are now made up of their MacBook lines. And yet, the iMac still exists.
 
No Women In CS? Well, Not For Long Top
558472_336193506472545_2073907048_nAt Stanford, just under 21 percent of undergraduate CS majors, the school's most popular major, are women. Surrounding the school, Silicon Valley is starved for talented engineers, with companies aggressively recruiting Stanford undergrads with coding skills for high paying internships and full time jobs. "Getting more girls involved in CS is probably the most impactful thing we can do to address the talent shortage," Sequoia Capital's Jim Goetz tells me.
 
"In The Studio," How Patrick Collison Guides Stripe In The Competitive Payments World Top
StripeEditor's Note: Semil Shah is an EIR with Javelin Venture Partners and is a contributor to TechCrunch. You can follow him on Twitter at @semil. "In the Studio" closes out its inaugural year by welcoming the young CEO of one of the web's hottest startups who, before his current breakthrough, immigrated from Ireland, dropped out of MIT, founded and sold his first company, and is now taking on an industry with formidable land mines, competitors, and incumbents.
 
Inky Plans To Reinvent Email (For Real This Time) Top
InkyInky, a new email software company, has accidentally found itself in the spotlight this week after hiding in plain sight for over half a year. The company is aiming to offer a better email experience on the desktop, and later on mobile and web, by providing an alternative email client that works with webmail providers like Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail/Outlook.com, Apple iCloud email, or any POP or IMAP account, while also providing a feature set that targets today's email pain points.
 
Looks Like PBS Made A 'Silicon Valley' TV Show That Could Really Be Worth Watching Top
The 'traitorous eight' who founded Fairchild Semiconductor. From left: Gordon Moore, Sheldon Roberts, Eugene Kleiner, Robert Noyce, Victor Grinich, Julius Blank, Jean Hoerni and Jay Last.Those who dreaded the 'Silicon Valley' reality TV series that aired this past year on Bravo did not have much to worry about after all. The show received mostly negative reviews and had a lackluster performance in the ratings department, and it doesn't seem likely to return -- at least not to chronicle the tech scene here in California. But today we got word of a new TV show also dubbed 'Silicon Valley'
 
Samsung Reportedly Targeting 510M Phone Sales In 2013, Including 390M Smartphones Top
samsung galaxy note 2Samsung is looking to move around 20 percent more mobile phones in 2013 than it did in 2012, according to a new report from The Korea Times. The Korean electronics firm wants to ship 510 million phones in the New Year, which exceeds the 420 million it projected for 2012. The 2013 increase adds anticipated holiday sales to its existing 288 million total devices sold through September. Around 76 percent, or 390 million, of that 510 million will be smartphones, according to a key Samsung supplier speaking to the Korea Times.
 
Microsoft: Over 75,000 Windows Phone Apps Were Published In 2012, Average User Downloaded 54 Top
windows-phone-8-logoThere can be no doubt that 2012 was a very important year for Microsoft, though it probably wasn't the successful year the company had envisioned during the planning stages. With the launch of Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8, Microsoft's biggest challenge beyond just getting people to buy them, was getting developers to write apps for them. According to Todd Brix, Microsoft's Senior Director for Windows Marketplace, there are now more apps available for Windows Phone users "than at any time since we first launched Windows Phone 7 two years ago" (it would, of course, be pretty embarrassing if that wasn't the case). Overall, Microsoft certified and published over 75,000 new apps and games in 2012, roughly doubling the number of available apps over the year. Developers also published over 300,000 updates.
 
Apple Exploring Alternative Wind Power Technology And Motion-Control Mac Mice Top
Image (1) wind_turbine.jpg for post 111007Apple's patent filings today reveal one concept outside their usual product-focused applications, detailing a method for harnessing wind power in a manner different from that employed in traditional turbines. Electricity gathered from a wind turbine would be converted to heat energy and stored in a "low-heat capacity fluid" in Apple's patent, allowing it to be tapped on an as-needed basis whenever the wind dies down.
 
Flurry: Christmas Day 2012 Smartphone And Tablet Activations Top 17.4M, 2.5X The Record Set In 2011 Top
NewDevices_XmasDay_2012-resized-600Christmas Day is increasingly the day that a flood of new phones and tablets come online; it regularly sets and breaks records for new device activations. This year was no exception, according to mobile analytics firm Flurry's annual study, which found that 17.4 million devices were activated on December 25 this year, a 332 percent increase over activations covering December 1 - 20, and a 156 percent increase on the numbers from a year ago.
 
In Praise Of Dangerous Toys Top
7230350916When I was growing up, my dad taught me that potassium nitrate, sulphur, and charcoal made gunpowder. He told me that you could add iron to the mix to get a red flame and that acids wouldn't eat through your test tube. Then he sent me into the basement to make whatever I wanted while he read the paper.
 
BlueStacks' App Player For Mac Launches Beta: Now You Can Run Over 750,000 Android Apps On Mac Top
new-bluestacks-logoBlueStacks, the startup known for bringing Android applications to desktop PCs, is today releasing its App Player for Mac into beta, following its previous Mac alpha release in June. At the time of the original Mac launch, the selection of apps was limited - there were only a handful of apps available like Fruit Ninja and Pulse, for example. But with today's beta release, the company is now offering access to 750,000+ Android apps on the Mac.
 
The Woz Uses Cycloramic And An iPhone 5 To Street View His Kitchen Top
Screen Shot 2012-12-27 at 10.44.22 AMThere are only two excuses for using the term "amazeballs!": you're Zooey Deschanel and you star in the hit TV sitcom New Girl, or you've just witnessed the Cycloramic app in action. Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is even fascinated with the app, which takes a 360-degree video on its own, without the help or support of a tripod, special case or accessory of any kind.
 
Amazon Sees Its Biggest Holiday Season Ever, Tops Online Shopping Survey While Apple, Dell & JCP Decline Top
amazon logoCustomer experience analytics company ForeSee released its eighth annual holiday online satisfaction report this morning, which rates the top e-retailer websites in 2012. This year's newly expanded list puts Amazon.com again at the top, while Apple, Dell, and JCPenney.com all slid down in customer rankings.
 
Stealthy Collaboration Platform For Developers, VictorOps Raises $1.6M From Foundry Group Top
Lijit_s Todd Vernon gets $1.58M seed funding for his new venture... - leenakrao@gmail.com - GmailVictorOps, a stealthy enterprise startup based in Boulder, Colo., has raised $1.58 million in seed funding led by the Foundry Group with participation from Chris Marks at Tango Investments and the startup's three co-founders, Todd Vernon, Bryce Ambraziunas and Dan Jones.
 
One In Four Americans Owns A Tablet, Overtaking E-Readers, As Printed Book Consumption Continues To Decline: Pew Top
ibookstoreWe're still waiting to hear from specific companies like Amazon with their latest (non-)numbers on how well their Kindle line of devices has sold over this holiday period, and from the various analysts that track overall device sales and shipments. In the meantime, some research out today from the Pew on e-reading sheds some light on how the U.S. market is moving: specifically, ownership of tablets like the iPad has overtaken ownership of e-reading devices like the Kindle, with the number of people using both continuing to rise.
 

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