All Things Digital Headlines for 01/09/2013

Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. Advertisement Articles for 01/09/2013 Steve Jobs Was Right. Tablets Are Cars. PCs Are Trucks. Viral Video: Will Ferrell Is Worth Five Million Twits Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft T-Mobile Adds Unlimited 4G Data to Prepaid Plans Windows 8 Tallies 60M Licenses, on Par With Windows 7 Rollout Yahoo Brings On Sandy Gould to Lead Recruiting Dish Network Makes $5.15 Billion Offer for Clearwire Facebook Invites Press to "See What We're Building" Next Week Kickstarter Channeled $274M Worth of Funding to Indie Projects in 2012 Can a Touchscreen Replace a Mouse? What You Don't Know About Sharing Photos Enterprise Software and Cloud Fared Better Than Hardware in Q4 Survey Windows 8: Not for Old-at-Heart PCs Independent ISP Tries to Raise $325M on Indiegogo to Launch a Satellite (Kinda) InComm Buys Giftango, With Eye on Digital Gift Cards AT&T: Hey, Check Out All the Smartphones We Sold Former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Joins LivingSocial to Head Marketing Ballmer's CES Keynote, Courtesy of Qualcomm (Video) Aereo Raises $38 Million to Take Its Cord-Cutting Service to 22 More Cities EA Battles Doubters, Citing Strong Digital Revenue Google Brings Free Wi-Fi to Its Section of Manhattan Why Is Tim Cook in China Again? 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John Paczkowski Jan 09, 2013 04:30 am Here's a prediction worth noting: Tablets will outship laptops for the first time this year. read more » Viral Video: Will Ferrell Is Worth Five Million Twits Kara Swisher Jan 09, 2013 12:07 am Comedy site Funny or Die hits five million Twitter followers, and co-founder Ferrell marks the occasion appropriately. He also fires an intern. read more » Google Withdraws Patent Claims Against Microsoft Liz Gannes Jan 08, 2013 06:14 pm Google today filed with the ITC to terminate its attempt to stop Microsoft from using video-compression technology on the Xbox. read more » T-Mobile Adds Unlimited 4G Data to Prepaid Plans Bonnie Cha Jan 08, 2013 05:30 pm No more throttling. No overage fees. read more » Windows 8 Tallies 60M Licenses, on Par With Windows 7 Rollout John Paczkowski Jan 08, 2013 04:15 pm Note: 60 million Windows 8 licenses does not mean there are 60 million Windows 8 machines in use today. read more » Yahoo Brings On Sandy Gould to Lead Recruiting John Murrell Jan 08, 2013 03:49 pm Yahoo announced today it had hired recruitment veteran Sandy Gould, most recently of the Disney/ABC Television Group, as senior vice president of global talent acquisition and development. read more » Dish Network Makes $5.15 Billion Offer for Clearwire Arik Hesseldahl Jan 08, 2013 03:27 pm Sprint, which owns most of Clearwire, calls the offer "illusory." read more » Facebook Invites Press to "See What We're Building" Next Week Tricia Duryee Jan 08, 2013 02:55 pm Facebook couldn't help but insert itself into the CES conversation today, announcing an event at its Menlo Park headquarters next week. The invitation, which asks reporters to "come and see what we're building," is noteworthy because it has been a while since the company opened its own doors for something official. The proceedings kick off at 10 am PT Tuesday, Jan. 15. read more » Kickstarter Channeled $274M Worth of Funding to Indie Projects in 2012 Liz Gannes Jan 08, 2013 02:07 pm We've written before about unreliable estimates for the size of the total crowdfunding market, but here's one that's a bit more concrete. Kickstarter, which is thought to be the largest player (some others, like Indiegogo, don't release stats) said today that 2.24 million users provided $274 million in funding for 18,100 successful projects in 2012, with total funding up 238 percent from the year before. There were also a bunch of great Kickstarter parodies last year. read more » Can a Touchscreen Replace a Mouse? Walter S. Mossberg Jan 08, 2013 01:42 pm Walt answers a reader's question on whether certain programs running on Windows 8 machines will require using only the touchscreen. read more » What You Don't Know About Sharing Photos Katherine Boehret Jan 08, 2013 12:39 pm Tips on photo sharing through Facebook, Apple's Photo Streams and Google+. read more » Enterprise Software and Cloud Fared Better Than Hardware in Q4 Survey Arik Hesseldahl Jan 08, 2013 12:30 pm Resellers and CIOs tell a mixed story about Q4, according to surveys by Pacific Crest Securities. read more » Windows 8: Not for Old-at-Heart PCs Walter S. Mossberg Jan 08, 2013 12:01 pm If you're thinking of upgrading your PC to the new Windows 8, be prepared for hassles and disappointment, especially if the computer is more than a year or two old, says Walt. read more » Independent ISP Tries to Raise $325M on Indiegogo to Launch a Satellite (Kinda) Liz Gannes Jan 08, 2013 12:01 pm It's certainly the largest online crowdfunding campaign I've ever seen. read more » InComm Buys Giftango, With Eye on Digital Gift Cards Tricia Duryee Jan 08, 2013 11:44 am InComm, an Atlanta-based company specializing in the distribution of prepaid cards, has acquired Portland, Ore.-based Giftango for an undisclosed sum. The seven-year-old company will help InComm expand into the sale of digital gift cards, including distribution through email, text messaging and mobile wallets. The company will remain in Portland, and will become a wholly owned subsidiary of InComm. read more » AT&T: Hey, Check Out All the Smartphones We Sold John Paczkowski Jan 08, 2013 11:33 am Good news for AT&T and a hint of what to expect when it next reports earnings after market close on January 24. read more » Former Best Buy CMO Barry Judge Joins LivingSocial to Head Marketing Tricia Duryee Jan 08, 2013 11:09 am Judge will be responsible for overseeing online and offline advertising, brand management, social media and communications at the daily deals provider. read more » Ballmer's CES Keynote, Courtesy of Qualcomm (Video) Mike Isaac Jan 08, 2013 10:43 am No crazy sweating this time, though. read more » Aereo Raises $38 Million to Take Its Cord-Cutting Service to 22 More Cities Peter Kafka Jan 08, 2013 10:05 am The TV guys are suing to shut the TV-over-the-Web startup down. Full steam ahead, says Barry Diller. read more » EA Battles Doubters, Citing Strong Digital Revenue Tricia Duryee Jan 08, 2013 09:30 am Electronic Arts is trading lower for the second day in a row, after an analyst questioned whether it was going to meet expectations for its full year based on poor-performing console titles. read more » Google Brings Free Wi-Fi to Its Section of Manhattan Arik Hesseldahl Jan 08, 2013 08:26 am Southwest Chelsea is now Googleville. read more » Why Is Tim Cook in China Again? John Paczkowski Jan 08, 2013 08:19 am Second visit in less than a year. read more » Making It to CES on a Kickstarter and a Dream Mike Isaac Jan 08, 2013 07:00 am The crowdfunding platform is bringing many new entrepreneurs to the world-famous electronics trade show. 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