The iPhone Finds Its Voice

The iPhone 4S is one of Apple’s less dramatic updates, but, when combined with the Siri, iOS 5 and iCloud features, it presents an attractive new offering to smartphone users, writes Walt.

The Money Shot: Kara Swisher on Instagram’s Billion-Dollar Ride in Vanity Fair

There’s no picture of the moment when everything changed for Kevin Systrom.
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Yahoo Ups Its Apple Apps, Including New Standalone Weather Offering

According to 9to5Mac, as well as sources I checked with, Yahoo is set to introduce a new weather app for the Apple iPhone and iPod, as well as an iPad version of its Yahoo Mail service. While the tablet version of its email app is a long time in coming, the weather app is an interesting wrinkle, given that the Silicon Valley Internet giant is the source — actually using data from the Weather Channel — for Apple’s default weather app on the iPhone and iPod. In Yahoo’s Q1 earnings call earlier this week, CEO Marissa Mayer pointed out that although Yahoo does not directly monetize its Apple weather app relationship, it benefits from links taking users back to its website. Yahoo also provides data for Apple’s preinstalled stock app, and offers a standalone weather app for Google’s Android.

Circa’s Matt Galligan on Building a Different Kind of News Reader (Video)

Mobile news apps are hot. Summly just sold for a ridonkulous amount of money, for example. So what’s up with the “atomic bits” list-makers of the San Francisco?
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Everybody’s a Curator: Flipboard’s Mike McCue Talks About New Version of Social Magazine (Video)

I made a magazine about Pop-Tarts. Anyone have a problem with that?
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With Pulse Following Zite’s Lead, Mark Johnson Talks About News Reading App Landscape

As these popular apps get snapped up, here’s what’s ahead.
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When Mayer Called Yahoo’s Mobile Revenue “Nascent,” She Wasn’t Kidding (And Here’s the Actual Number She Left Out)

The Silicon Valley Internet giant makes a paltry $125 million in annual mobile revenue. Can the new CEO turn that around?
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HBO’s Berkes Restructures Digital Team (Memo)

Game of Thrones!
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Facebook Confirms Snapchat Competitor — Launching Poke iPhone App

Poking a popular rival, that is.
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Yahoo Updates Mail, Adding Native iPhone and Windows 8 Apps (Like We Said)

We’re Holiday Shopping Online With iPads for iPads

The Debut of Yahoo CEO Mayer: “Tailor-Made” for Marissa

Post-AppSung Stock Watch: What Will Happen to Apple and Google Shares Today?

This Week in MarissYa: iPhones for All, Flickr Love and Management Musical Chairs

Facebook Anti-Hype Aside, Most Consumer Tech Stocks Up Smartly for the Year