VentureBeat Week in Review - Verizon iPhone breaks records - February 7, 2011

View this email as a webpage | Forward to a friend February 7, 2011 FORWARD THIS EMAIL JOIN US ON TWITTER / FACEBOOK Verizon iPhone breaks records Everyone knew the Verizon iPhone would be popular, but it may be an even hotter item than expected. Verizon halted preorders after only two hours, and later declared that the device had set a first-day sales record, as covered in our most popular story of the week. Other popular posts looked at the new map pack in the blockbuster Call of Duty video game franchise, and at News Corp.'s plan to sell Myspace. - Anthony Ha TOP STORIES Verizon halts iPhone pre-orders due to huge demand February 3, 2011 | Matthew Lynley Call of Duty Black Ops map pack keeps Activision’s hot franchise rolling February 1, 2011 | Dean Takahashi News Corp. exec: “The right time” to sell Myspace February 2, 2011 | Anthony Ha Rambus invents extremely fast memory system for the gadgets of the future January 31, 2011 | Dean Takahashi A billion-dollar mistake: Intel recalls a supporting chip for popular Sandy Bridge platform January 31, 2011 | Dean Takahashi UPCOMING EVENTS VentureBeat Mobile Summit - April 25-26, Sausalito, CA Cleantech VC Pitch - February 9, Palo Alto, CA Mobile World Congress - February 14-17, Barcelona DEMO Spring 2011 - February 27-March 1, Palm Desert, CA BeMyApp WeekEnd - March 4-6, San Francisco, CA Structure Big Data 2011 - March 23, New York City Socialize East - March 31-Aril 1, New York City VENTUREBEAT JOB BOARD Senior Operations Engineer New York, NY Simulmedia Director of Technical Operations Buffalo, NY Synacor Clean Energy Market Manager Trenton, NJ Chemical Company COMPANIES IN THE NEWS Activision Blizzard, Advanced Micro Devices, Apple, AT&T, Intel, Myspace, News Corp., Rambus , Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Treyarch, Verizon PEOPLE IN THE NEWS Chase Carney, Paul Otellini, Steve Woo Follow us on Twitter Friend us on Facebook Join us on LinkedIn Provided by , the leading news source on technology innovation. 50 California Street, Suite 3270, San Francisco, CA 94111 If you would like to no longer receive this newsletter, click here to change your subscription preferences, or click here to unsubscribe. © 2010 VentureBeat