Sunday, November 4, 2012

Weekly Wrap Up: October 28 - November 3

Here's what you missed this last week while you were in a Halloween candy induced coma or were without power thanks to Sandy:
  • Hurricane Sandy Blows Up Weather.com - Forty-one million visitors. Nine hundred sixty million page views. Three days.
  • Apple Will Sell App-Enabled, Color-Changing Light Bulbs - Philips calls Hue the world’s smartest light bulb. It’s actually a web-enabled LED home lighting system that, when used with the free mobile app, lets consumers control and play with the lights in their home.
  • iPad Mini is Sold Out - When the Apple iPad mini officially goes on sale those who have not pre-ordered will need to wait at least two weeks to pick up the new tablet. Apple’s online store marked those iPad Minis as “sold out” over the weekend.
  • Sandy Takes Out BuzzFeed, Gawker and the Huffington Post - Tons of great Sandy coverage on the Web last night and this morning. Largely absent from the conversation, though, are three New York-based news/aggregation sites: BuzzFeed, Gawker and the Huffington Post.
  • Laptop With First Presidential Email Up For Sale - Bill Clinton was the first president to send an email while in office (he sent a grand total of two during his eight-year term). Although one would think his Toshiba Satellite Pro computer would belong in a museum, a private collector is selling the laptop on eBay. It's totally authentic (no sarcasm)!
  • Twitter Is Working On A Windows 8 App - Finally
  • Apple Drops Below $600 After Executive Shakeup - Apple’s stock fell back below $600 in pre-market trading Wednesday and opened at $594.49 a share, down more than 1.5% from its previous close, following several big changes to the company’s executive leadership.
  • Facebook Shares Drop 5 Percent As Employee Lockup Expires - At market opening Wednesday, Facebook took another hit, with shares trading at 20.94, 5.02 percent below Friday’s level, the last day trades were made since Hurricane Sandy hit. 234 million Facebook shares held by employees are now eligible to be sold on the market thanks to a stock-lockup expiration.
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