| Ebooks Now 23% of U.S. Publisher Sales | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:51 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Big, bigger, but not yet biggest: According to the Association of American Publishers's StatShot study released Thursday, ebooks made up nearly a quarter (22.55%, to be precise) of U.S. trade publishers' book sales last year. That's up from 17% in 2011 and just 3% in 2009. The financial outlook for books is good. Total industry revenues increased 6.2% to $7.1 billion, of which $1.54 billion came from ebooks.
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| Twitter Music App is Launching Friday | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 11:15 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Get ready to rock. Twitter is about to launch its long-rumored standalone music app Friday, according to a report. The app's existence was rapidly becoming one of the worst-kept secrets in social media, especially after American Idol host Ryan Seacrest randomly tweeted about its existence earlier Thursday.
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| Stolen Laptop Sends Mystery Pictures from Iran | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 8:42 PM | Chris Taylor |
| Laptops, sadly, get stolen every day (at a rate of one every 53 seconds, according to an oft-quoted Gartner study). But not all of those bereft owners get to see the thieves using their machine from 3,000 miles away. Fewer still make a Tumblr out of the situation. That's apparently what happened to Dom Deltorto, a London-based animator who had his Macbook Pro taken from his flat on February 4.
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| To Fund Longform Journalism, 'Toronto Star' Tests Ebook Subscriptions | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 7:33 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Seeking new ways to fund longform journalism, newspaper and magazine publishers have lately released a range of short, inexpensive ebooks, featuring repackaged feature articles (see The Atlantic's The Obama Presidency, Explained) and archival material (Vanity Fair's The Best of Vanity Fair: Elizabeth Taylor), through Amazon, Barnes & Noble and other ebook sellers.
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| 'American Idol' Chooses Top 5 Themes From Twitter Submissions | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 6:30 PM | Brian Anthony Hernandez |
| American Idol producers last week asked viewers to use Twitter to submit suggestions for a musical theme for the April 24 episode, marking the first time the show is letting the public influence contestants' song choices. Mashable exclusively has its hands on the results.
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| Can a Hacker Hijack a Plane With an Android App? | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:48 PM | Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai |
| Imagine the kind of havoc a malicious hacker could cause if he or she were able to take over an airplane simply using his Android phone. With a tap of his or her fingers, the hacker could arbitrarily control the plane remotely and redirect its path.
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| Google: Tell Us What to Do With Your Account After You Die | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 5:40 PM | Chris Taylor |
| You've written your will. You've talked to your family about end-of-life care. But have you told Google what you want to happen to your Gmail or YouTube accounts? That's the stated purpose behind a tool the search giant announced Thursday: Inactive Account Manager. (In a blog post, the company admitted it was "not a great name.") It covers all Google accounts, including Blogger, Drive, Google+ and Picasa.
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| LinkedIn Acquires Pulse Newsreader for $90 Million | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:48 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| LinkedIn on Thursday confirmed a previous report, that it acquired 3-year-old newsreading app Pulse. The news was announced jointly on the companies' respective websites Thursday afternoon. AllThingsD reports that the acquisition cost LinkedIn $90 million. Reps from LinkedIn could not be reached for comment. Update: LinkedIn confirmed the deal is valued at approximately $90 million, 90% in the form of company stock and 10% in cash.
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| Texting While Driving Kills: Here's One Grim Example | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 1:19 PM | Charlie White |
| The photo above serves as a harsh reminder of the consequences of texting while driving. The unfinished text, never sent, was typed by 22-year-old Alexander Heit as he was driving through a small town in Colorado earlier this month. Before Heit had a chance to finish typing the text, his car drifted onto the wrong side of the road. Before Heit had a chance to finish typing the text, his car drifted onto the wrong side of the road.
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| Samsung Unveils Enormous 6.3-Inch Galaxy Mega Smartphone | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 12:14 PM | Pete Pachal |
| If you liked the big screen of Samsung's Galaxy Note smartphones, the company has something even more massive coming. The Samsung Galaxy Mega line, which will hit Europe in May, is led by a monstrous 6.3-inch phone — the biggest smartphone yet. Earlier this year, China's Huawei unveiled a 6.1-inch phone, but the Galaxy Mega beats it by a fraction of an inch.
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| Foursquare Raises $41 Million to Prove Business Model Can Work | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 10:01 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Foursquare hasn't checked out just yet. The social check-in service has raised another round of financing totaling $41 million, led by Silver Lake Partners with contributions from Andreessen Horowitz, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures, the company announced on Thursday. The latest financing is a mix of loans and convertible debt.
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| Zuckerberg Announces Immigration Reform Group in Op-Ed | | Thursday, April 11, 2013 9:12 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg waded further into the world of politics on Thursday with a Washington Post op-ed announcing FWD.us, a group of tech luminaries arguing for immigration reform. In the opinion piece, Zuckerberg describes how, while teaching middle school, he met a student who showed promise but had no hopes of going to college because the student was an undocumented immigrant who was born in Mexico.
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