Robin Wauters / The Next Web: Millennial: tablets account for 20% of mobile ad impressions, Android has 49% share  —  Mobile advertising firm Millennial Media this morning released its ‘Mobile Mix’ report covering its findings for the first quarter of this year.  The report looks at trends in ad impressions across mobile devices and operating systems.
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Bloomberg: Morgan Stanley'S Gorman Said To Join Facebook Price Call  —  As Facebook Inc. (FB) and Morgan Stanley executives gathered on a call May 17 to arrange terms for the social-networking company's initial public offering, they faced a trade-off: set the IPO price low and give up enough money …
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Reuters: Facebook exec ducks questions about IPO debacle  —  (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg spoke to Harvard University students in her first public appearance since the company's disappointing initial public offering, but refrained from addressing the controversy around its messy, glitch-plagued debut.
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IDC: Android- and iOS-Powered Smartphones Expand Their Share of the Market in the First Quarter, According to IDC  —  Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 (1Q12).
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Sarah Mitroff / VentureBeat: Q1 saw the most tech IPOs in four years, but funding amounts are down (exclusive)  —  The first quarter of 2012 was the best quarter in more than four years for software and Internet company IPOs, according to a new report.  —  But in the aftermath of Facebook's much-hyped and problematic IPO, can the momentum continue?
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Foo Yun Chee / Reuters: EU court to rule on $1.1 billion Microsoft fine on June 27  —  (Reuters) - Europe's second-highest court will rule on June 27 whether EU regulators were justified in fining Microsoft 899 million euros ($1.1 billion) four years ago for failing to comply with an antitrust ruling intended to make business easier for its rivals.
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Drew Olanoff / The Next Web: Facebook now lets developers track unique shares, reads, and clicks of Open Graph stories  —  We know that Facebook is definitely on to something with its Open Graph initiative.  Apps like Socialcam have seen a huge increase in adoption thanks to the sharing of content on user's Timeline and News Feed.
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Hamish McKenzie / PandoDaily: How Facebook Can Solve Its Mobile Problem: Build a Browser  —  When it recovers from the cataclysmic clusterf**k that was its IPO, Facebook will gather its team, round up its new friends from Instagram and Glancee, and ask the $100 billion question: What the hell is it going to do about mobile?
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Adam Lashinsky / Fortune: How Tim Cook is changing Apple  —  Steve Jobs' successor is making his mark and trying to keep the Apple magic going.  —  FORTUNE — In February of this year, a group of investors visited Apple as part of a “bus tour” led by a research analyst for Citibank.
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John Paczkowski / AllThingsD: French Data Regulators to Google: How About Making Your Answers to Our Questions Universally Accessible and Useful?  —  The Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), the French data protection authority investigating Google's new privacy policy on behalf …
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Pedram Keyani / Facebook: Stay focused and keep hacking  —  Every couple of months, a few hundred of our engineers unleash their talents in epic, all-night coding sessions, and often end up with products that hit the internal and external versions of the site within weeks.  These are Facebook hackathons, and since the first …
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Stephen Shankland / CNET: Browser choice: A thing of the past?  —  Like to pick your browser?  Beware, because new mobile devices threaten to stifle the competitive vigor of the market for Web browsers on PCs.  —  On personal computers running Windows, Macs, and Linux, you can pick from a variety of browsers …
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Paul Carr / PandoDaily: Jason Calacanis Joins PandoDaily As a Regular Columnist  —  Well, here's a fun announcement.  PandoDaily is very pleased to welcome a new special contributor: Jason Calacanis.  Jason will be writing a regular (every couple of weeks) column, offering advice to a company that's at a crossroads.
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John Brownlee / Cult of Mac: You Won't Believe How Much Crazy Science & Microscopic Tech Is Crammed Into Your iPhone's Accelerometer [Video] … Have you ever wondered how your iPhone knows up from down, or when you're shaking it?  It's all because of the tiny accelerometer chip inside the device, but how does it work?
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Robin Wauters / The Next Web: Nokia World no longer a big annual event, now multiple ‘intimate’ events; first in Helsinki on 5-6 Sept  —  Nokia just announced on its Conversations blog that it is moving away from organizing one major annual event to organizing more than one “smaller, more intimate events” over the course of the year.
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Markcuban / blog maverick: Facebook IPO Post Mortem - Killer - but not for the reasons you think !  —  1. Say goodbye to the individual investor on Wall Street.  Whatever positive impression they had of the IPO market and the stock market in general was just torched to the ground.  When everyone you know associated …
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Mark Suster / Both Sides of the Table: It's Morning in Venture Capital  —  This article originally ran on PEHub.  If you prefer the super short version - I've summarized the post in the final section.  —  Many observers of the venture capital industry have questioned whether its best days are behind it.
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Sam Ro / Business Insider: WSJ Names Two Big Facebook Investors Who Benefitted From Extra Information  —  Business Insider's Henry Blodget first reported that large institutional investors may have had an information advantage over individual investors ahead of the Facebook IPO.  Specifically, a Facebook executive …
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Ian Sherr / Wall Street Journal: Zynga Defends Acquisition  —  Amid Criticism of Deal for OMGPOP, Game Maker Points to Revenue Streams Zynga Inc. has faced plenty of questions after buying the maker of “Draw Something,” a mobile game that was released only six weeks earlier and has since lost popularity.
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Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Autonomy, Not So Autonomous Anymore: HP CSO Bill Veghte Steps In, Founder Mike Lynch Steps Down  —  Within HP's quarterly results today, a bit of a development for Autonomy, the company's $10.2 billion enterprise software purchase from last year that was profitable when HP bought …
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Sean Ludwig / VentureBeat: U.S. tech team tries to attract developers to government, pledges to use open data  —  The CTO and CIO of the U.S. government have announced a new digital roadmap for the U.S. that encourages the further use of open data, and tries to inspire developers to work for the government.
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Nik Cubrilovic / New Web Order: Yahoo Axis Chrome Extension Leaks Private Certificate File  —  Yahoo! today announced their new Axis web browser.  It is implemented as an extension to Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer.  —  I installed the Chrome extension (direct link to original Chrome extension …
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Will Connors / Wall Street Journal: Fate of BlackBerry's Popular Messaging Tool in Doubt  —  As the Smartphone's Sales Shrink, So Too Do Users' Contact Lists; Research In Motion Curtails Effort to License Service  —  Research In Motion Ltd. may have lost its dominance in the global smartphone market, but its instant-messaging service …
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Joe Mullin / Ars Technica: Oracle v. Google jury foreman reveals: Oracle wasn't even close  —  Some jurors felt Oracle's IP claims might not be in the public's best interest.  —  A few minutes after the Oracle v. Google verdict, the ten jurors filed out to the elevator.  A group of several reporters, including me …
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Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Good Lord, I Might Now Want to Use Yahoo Search Again — Product Dudes Talk About New Axis Browser (Video)  —  Yahoo introduced its new Axis browser tonight, with versions for the Apple iPad and iPhone, as well as plug-ins for the top desktop browsers.  —  The company briefed a media army …
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