All Things Digital Headlines for 11/28/2012

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Advertisement Articles for 11/28/2012 News App Spun Tries to Digg Up Some Local Flavor Another Enterprise Company Gets Social as Workshare Acquires IdeaPlane Sumo Logic, Generating Big Data From Log Files, Lands $30 Million From Accel Telefonica, Mozilla and VCs Still Betting Big on HTML as They Pour $25 Million Into Everything.Me iPad Still Leads Tablet Market, but for How Much Longer? Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo. Latest Lumia Smartphone: High Quality, but It's Heavy Why Mike Lynch Is Playing PR Hardball With HP Microsoft Says It Has Identified Windows Phone Rebooting Issue, Plans Fix for December Using a Self-Made App for Family Ping-Pong Ericsson Slaps Samsung With Patent Suit Selling 40 Million Windows 8 Copies Good for Microsoft, but It's Not the Only Metric That Matters Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon? Microsoft's Xbox Blows Wii U's First-Week Sales Out of the Water Tapjoy Names Former Disney Exec as New CEO Apple to Maps Manager: You're Fired. Oh, Good Luck Finding Your Way Out of the Building. On Cyber Monday, Mobile -- Not Social -- Takes All the Glory Motivational App Lift Closes $2.5 Million Round YouTube Brings Its "Channels" -- And Vice Media -- To Japan Google Settles Its Touchy Legal Issues With Immersion iPhone Overtakes Android in the U.S.; Android Extends Lead Abroad Autonomy Founder Lynch Asks Board to Explain HP Allegations Nintendo Gifts Canada With Wii Mini for Holiday Season Read Kara Follow Kara Subscribe to Kara Read Walt Follow Walt Subscribe to Walt Read Katie Follow Katie Subscribe to Katie Read John Follow John Subscribe to John Read Peter Follow Peter Subscribe to Peter Read Liz Follow Liz Subscribe to Liz Read Ina Follow Ina Subscribe to Ina Read Tricia Follow Tricia Subscribe to Tricia Read Arik Follow Arik Subscribe to Arik Read Lauren Follow Lauren Subscribe to Lauren Read Bonnie Follow Bonnie Subscribe to Bonnie Read Mike Follow Mike Subscribe to Mike Follow us on: iPhone app E-Readers Facebook Twitter RSS News App Spun Tries to Digg Up Some Local Flavor Eric Johnson Nov 28, 2012 06:00 am A new Apple iPhone news app aims to be a one-stop shop for local news about food, the arts and the overall flavor of a city. "We love cities," said Spun CEO Andy Hunter. The app, launching today, is powered by human editors in each city, who curate stories from local Web sites based on their own judgment and social media buzz. Work on Spun began before Betaworks relaunched Digg, but Hunter acknowledged their similar approaches. He emphasized that the mobile app will notify users when they pass by something they've read about -- for example, a local historical landmark or well-liked restaurant. read more » Another Enterprise Company Gets Social as Workshare Acquires IdeaPlane Mike Isaac Nov 28, 2012 05:00 am Cloud-based work collaboration company Workshare announced Wednesday that it had acquired IdeaPlane, an enterprise social networking company. The plan is to integrate IdeaPlane's social products into the Workshare platform. It's in line with a string of recent enterprise-level social acquisitions over the past year, including Salesforce's purchase of Buddy Media and Microsoft's acquisition of Yammer. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. read more » Sumo Logic, Generating Big Data From Log Files, Lands $30 Million From Accel Arik Hesseldahl Nov 28, 2012 04:06 am You'll never look at systems logs in quite the same way again. read more » Telefonica, Mozilla and VCs Still Betting Big on HTML as They Pour $25 Million Into Everything.Me Ina Fried Nov 28, 2012 04:00 am The company, once known as Do@, has raised another big investment round, though its business model is as yet unclear. read more » iPad Still Leads Tablet Market, but for How Much Longer? John Paczkowski Nov 28, 2012 03:00 am In the third quarter of this year, Apple's iPad lineup accounted for 55 percent of tablet shipments -- a 14 percent decline from the second quarter. read more » Marissa Mayer's First Live Interview (Which ATD Had to Virtually Sneak Into): God. Family. Yahoo. Kara Swisher Nov 27, 2012 08:06 pm Going down those Internet pipes is really tight. read more » Latest Lumia Smartphone: High Quality, but It's Heavy Walter S. Mossberg Nov 27, 2012 06:03 pm Nokia's new Lumia 920 smartphone is a quality phone with attractive features and twice the typical memory, but it is thick and heavy. read more » Why Mike Lynch Is Playing PR Hardball With HP Arik Hesseldahl Nov 27, 2012 04:12 pm You'd think Mike Lynch would have gone silent and hidden behind a team of lawyers by now. Why hasn't he? read more » Microsoft Says It Has Identified Windows Phone Rebooting Issue, Plans Fix for December Ina Fried Nov 27, 2012 03:17 pm Microsoft said it has discovered the cause, but declines to say what it is. It does say it should have a fix soon. read more » Using a Self-Made App for Family Ping-Pong Katherine Boehret Nov 27, 2012 03:03 pm Yapp helps people make apps for events such as PTA meetings or weddings. It requires next to no technical knowledge and it's free. read more » Ericsson Slaps Samsung With Patent Suit John Paczkowski Nov 27, 2012 02:36 pm "We have turned to litigation as a last resort." read more » Selling 40 Million Windows 8 Copies Good for Microsoft, but It's Not the Only Metric That Matters Ina Fried Nov 27, 2012 02:22 pm Windows 8 sales are outpacing Windows 7 -- but the key question is how long it will take before big-name developers become interested. read more » Exclusive: Is Andrew Mason on the Bubble as CEO of Groupon? Kara Swisher Nov 27, 2012 01:04 pm Is a boardroom showdown looming for the troubled daily deals company and its affable co-founder? read more » Microsoft's Xbox Blows Wii U's First-Week Sales Out of the Water Tricia Duryee Nov 27, 2012 12:27 pm The Xbox 360 sold more than 750,000 consoles in the U.S. last week, easily beating Wii U sales of 400,000. read more » Tapjoy Names Former Disney Exec as New CEO Mike Isaac Nov 27, 2012 11:48 am Mobile ad platform Tapjoy announced the appointment of Steve Wadsworth as the company's new president and CEO on Tuesday, replacing Mihir Shah as the head of the company. Wadsworth joins Tapjoy after spending nearly two decades at the Walt Disney Company, at which he most recently held the position of president of Disney's Interactive Media Group. read more » Apple to Maps Manager: You're Fired. Oh, Good Luck Finding Your Way Out of the Building. John Paczkowski Nov 27, 2012 10:29 am Get lost! read more » On Cyber Monday, Mobile -- Not Social -- Takes All the Glory Tricia Duryee Nov 27, 2012 10:11 am There's no contest: So far this season, mobile has generated 13 percent of online holiday sales, whereas, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have contributed virtually zero. read more » Motivational App Lift Closes $2.5 Million Round Mike Isaac Nov 27, 2012 10:06 am Lift, the personal motivational mobile app that helps users set and achieve goals for themselves, closed a $2.5 million Series A investment round, the company announced Tuesday. The round was led by Bijan Sabet of Spark Capital, who will join the board of the six-person start-up, reuniting with former Twitter board member and co-founder Evan Williams, whose Obvious Corp. has also invested in the company. Also involved in the round are SV Angel, Adam Ludwin from New York VC firm RRE and, appropriately enough, motivational speakers Tony Robbins, Tim Ferriss and David Allen. read more » YouTube Brings Its "Channels" -- And Vice Media -- To Japan Peter Kafka Nov 27, 2012 09:30 am YouTube brings its new model -- paying for exclusive content -- to a new territory, with a familiar partner. read more » Google Settles Its Touchy Legal Issues With Immersion Ina Fried Nov 27, 2012 09:11 am Google agrees to license Immersion's haptic feedback technology for use in its smartphones. read more » iPhone Overtakes Android in the U.S.; Android Extends Lead Abroad John Paczkowski Nov 27, 2012 09:10 am The new iPhone 5 pushes Apple back into the lead in the race for U.S. smartphone sales. read more » Autonomy Founder Lynch Asks Board to Explain HP Allegations Arik Hesseldahl Nov 27, 2012 08:51 am In an open letter, the Autonomy founder want's "immediate and specific explanations" about accusations of accounting improprieties. read more » Nintendo Gifts Canada With Wii Mini for Holiday Season Bonnie Cha Nov 27, 2012 07:26 am A smaller, cheaper Nintendo Wii is on its way ... to Canada. read more » Get the latest news & reviews on AllThingsD.com: News | Reviews | Mobile | Media | Social | Enterprise | Commerce | Conferences | Voices | Video | Jobs About Us | Contact Us | FAQ | Privacy Policy | Advertise | Send a Tip You are receiving this email because you are an All Things Digital Newsletter subscriber. 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