All Things Digital Headlines for 01/10/2013

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Advertisement Articles for 01/10/2013 Out and About Town With Two Travel Discovery Apps Amazon's New Deal: Buy a CD and Get the Digital Album for Free Big Blue Is Still the Big Dog of Patents At CES, Chipmakers Go All In on Mobile Apple's Next Battleground Isn't TV; It's Web Services Phablets the New Hotness in Mobile Devices? Not So Fast. Ringya Makes Organizing Mobile Contact Lists Easier Cyberwar in Iran Comes Home to U.S. Banks. Is Anyone Surprised? ShoeDazzle Taps Rachel Zoe as New Celebrity Spokesperson RIM to Take Shotgun Approach With a Half-Dozen BB10 Handsets Microsoft Millionaire Matchups in the Offing for NBA? Mayer's 10X Challenge: Yahoo's Homepage, Mail and Search Traffic Show Significant Year-Over-Year Declines The HP Breakup Idea Gets Another Look Reddit's Funding Round Is for Real, and It's Only for Angels President Clinton at CES: The World Needs More Smartphones (And Fewer Guns) Insight Ventures Invests $53 Million in SR Labs, Electronic Trading Player Facebook Back Above $30 LinkedIn Touts 200M Registered Users, but That's a BS Metric iPhone Sales Spiking at Verizon Pebble Watch Will Finally Ship on January 23 Sites Built With Ruby on Rails Suffer New Vulnerability Talking TVs With an Imaginary Consumer at CES Valve Pledges to Enter Videogame Console Wars With "Steam Box" 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 Out and About Town With Two Travel Discovery Apps Bonnie Cha Jan 10, 2013 06:00 am If you're looking to explore a new city or rediscover your current one, Field Trip and Tagwhat can give you the inside scoop. read more » Amazon's New Deal: Buy a CD and Get the Digital Album for Free Tricia Duryee Jan 10, 2013 06:00 am Amazon is announcing "AutoRip," a new service that will give anyone who has purchased a CD on Amazon over the past 15 years a free digital copy of that album. read more » Big Blue Is Still the Big Dog of Patents Arik Hesseldahl Jan 10, 2013 05:15 am IBM dominates the patent race for the 20th consecutive year. read more » At CES, Chipmakers Go All In on Mobile Mike Isaac Jan 10, 2013 05:00 am The biggest names in the processor industry all want to power your smartphones. read more » Apple's Next Battleground Isn't TV; It's Web Services John Paczkowski Jan 10, 2013 04:06 am Great Web services are as critical to Apple's success as great hardware. read more » Phablets the New Hotness in Mobile Devices? Not So Fast. Bonnie Cha Jan 09, 2013 07:36 pm Yes, phablets are hot at CES, but that doesn't mean consumers are going to buy them. read more » Ringya Makes Organizing Mobile Contact Lists Easier Eric Johnson Jan 09, 2013 03:25 pm Ringya wants to build a better mousetrap for one of your phone's most commonly overlooked features. read more » Cyberwar in Iran Comes Home to U.S. Banks. Is Anyone Surprised? Arik Hesseldahl Jan 09, 2013 02:47 pm At long last, Iran retaliates for the cyber campaign carried out against it. read more » ShoeDazzle Taps Rachel Zoe as New Celebrity Spokesperson Tricia Duryee Jan 09, 2013 02:08 pm Now that ShoeDazzle's co-founder Brian Lee is back as CEO, he has a new celebrity lined up to help turn things around. read more » RIM to Take Shotgun Approach With a Half-Dozen BB10 Handsets John Paczkowski Jan 09, 2013 01:53 pm Family planning. read more » Microsoft Millionaire Matchups in the Offing for NBA? John Murrell Jan 09, 2013 01:35 pm Multiple sources are reporting that an investor group led by hedge fund manager Chris Hansen and including Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is close to buying the NBA's Sacramento Kings and moving the team to Seattle, which has been bereft of pro hoops since the Sonics left in 2008. If the deal goes through, it should add extra spice to a rivalry with the Portland Trail Blazers, owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. read more » Mayer's 10X Challenge: Yahoo's Homepage, Mail and Search Traffic Show Significant Year-Over-Year Declines Kara Swisher Jan 09, 2013 12:45 pm The reality of traffic falloffs on key properties is a vexing issue. read more » The HP Breakup Idea Gets Another Look Arik Hesseldahl Jan 09, 2013 12:43 pm A case that HP is worth more in pieces than as a whole. read more » Reddit's Funding Round Is for Real, and It's Only for Angels Peter Kafka Jan 09, 2013 12:09 pm Yes, Reddit is raising money at a $400 million valuation. But it's Reddit, so of course there's a twist. read more » President Clinton at CES: The World Needs More Smartphones (And Fewer Guns) Mike Isaac Jan 09, 2013 11:46 am The former president takes the stage in Vegas to talk about some things tech, and some things not so tech. read more » Insight Ventures Invests $53 Million in SR Labs, Electronic Trading Player Arik Hesseldahl Jan 09, 2013 11:26 am Insight Venture Partners announced today that it had made a $53 million investment in SR Labs, a company that builds high-performance electronic trading platforms. Founded in 2007, SR Labs serves clients that include hedge funds and investment banks, including Credit Suisse and J.P. Morgan. Its specialty is data gathering and trade execution. Deven Parekh, managing director at Insight, and Martin Angert, a principal at the firm, will join SR Labs' board of directors as part of the deal. read more » Facebook Back Above $30 John Paczkowski Jan 09, 2013 10:53 am After a precipitous decline, Facebook's battered stock is scrambling back to IPO levels. Shares in the social networking phenom spiked more than 4 percent Wednesday, exceeding $30 for the first time since July of 2012. Driving the uptick: The scheduling of a Jan. 15 event at the company's headquarters that may involve a major product announcement. read more » LinkedIn Touts 200M Registered Users, but That's a BS Metric Liz Gannes Jan 09, 2013 10:00 am Hold on a second, people. That is the number of users LinkedIn has ever registered. read more » iPhone Sales Spiking at Verizon John Paczkowski Jan 09, 2013 09:30 am The Android-iPhone mix at Verizon appears to be moving closer to 50-50 equilibrium. read more » Pebble Watch Will Finally Ship on January 23 Lauren Goode Jan 09, 2013 09:15 am Pebble, the E-Ink "smart" watch that generated more than $10 million in preorders on Kickstarter last year, finally has a ship date: The company says it will go out Jan. 23, and that all 85,000 backers should receive their watches within six to eight weeks. The $150 Pebble is compatible with iPhone and Android, using Bluetooth to send alerts from smartphone to watch, and includes magnetic compass-like technology as well as light sensors. read more » Sites Built With Ruby on Rails Suffer New Vulnerability Arik Hesseldahl Jan 09, 2013 08:31 am If you build your sites in Ruby on Rails, you may want to read this. read more » Talking TVs With an Imaginary Consumer at CES Lauren Goode Jan 09, 2013 08:25 am Time to run out and buy a new 4K TV? Read this, and count to 10 first. read more » Valve Pledges to Enter Videogame Console Wars With "Steam Box" Tricia Duryee Jan 09, 2013 07:00 am Valve's co-founder Gabe Newell tells The Verge in an interview that the box will run Linux and be able to connect to eight TVs and eight controllers. 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. Unsubscribe sojo.blo@gmail.com from this list. Our mailing address is: 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York, 10036 © 2013 Dow Jones & Company Inc. All Rights Reserved. Forward this email to a friend Update your profile