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Amazon has hired Charlie Kindel, the former general manager for Microsoft’s Windows Phone to work on “something secret.”
Kindel, whose name prompted suspicions that he may have been trying to pull off an April Fool’s hoax, wrote on his LinkedIn profile that he’s working on “something wonderful” at Amazon. Under his title, Kindel wrote “Director, Something Secret.”
Prior to joining Amazon, Kindel was the general manager of Windows Phone Developer Experience from January 2009 to August 2011…
Apple’s updated plans for its cutting-edge Apple Campus 2 design show four levels of offices, sprawling landscape, a cafeteria, corporate auditorium and a fitness center. The design shape is still the same as it was initially proposed back in June, with a sleek, circular main building and glass surrounding the exterior.
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According to an updated proposal that Apple submitted to the city of Cupertino on Nov. 14, the…
Today’s massive lockup expiration has hung like a black cloud over Facebook. But there’s no more specific moments investors can point to and say “I’m not buying until after that”, and finally Facebook may start trading on its merit. The 773 million shares unchained today may continue filtering into the market, but its 8.62% boost shows this may have been the day Facebook bulls were waiting for.
Since before the IPO, there’s been a non-stop barrage of good reasons for investors to be hesitant…
The U.S. State Department has announced sanctions against five Iranian government and private organizations and against four individuals for their treatment of bloggers and journalists.
Different types of sanctions have been instituted against Iran since the overthrow of the Shah and the beginning of the Islamic Republic in 1979, but this is the first time the U.S. has directly targeted Iran’s anti-free speech activities with sanctions.
According to a statement Thursday by State…
President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are no strangers to your inbox.
This year’s presidential candidates have been reaching out nonstop to their constituents through email, hoping the online messages help increase fundraising efforts, turnout at conventions, and the number of voters at the polls next week.
Digital marketing technology provider Silverpop analyzed 400 messages between the two candidates, their vice presidential partners and even their wives since August 2012 to see what…
We’re closer to seeing a widespread updated version of Facebook Messages.
In August Facebook announced that it would be giving Facebook Messages a whole new look, but didn’t announce when it would be bringing that look to users. Two months later, most Facebook users appear to have still not received the update.
The announcement in August teased a new side-by-side layout to messages, allowing you to see your most recent conversations on the left side of the screen and see a whole…
Genealogy company Ancestry.com has been acquired by an investor group led by European private equity firm Permira for about $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reports citing sources familiar with the matter.
Ancestry.com is a profitable company which operates a network of genealogical and historical record websites in the U.S. and abroad, including Genealogy.com, MyFamily.com, ProGenealogists, and Rootsweb.com.
The company has had over 2,000,000 paying subscribers as of June 2012; it
The Sony Vaio Duo 11 has a folding design that puts the screen at a fixed angle in laptop mode. It’s a strangely limiting choice, which also leaves no room for a touchpad.
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Sony is joining the Windows 8 world, upgrading its Vaio PCs to run Microsoft’s new OS while throwing in a couple of surprises. Besides the unusual Tap 20 “portable” all-in-one, the new Vaio line includes a notebook/tablet hybrid and…
Facebook just made what appears to be another “acqui-hire,” with the purchase of Threadsy, a TechCrunch Disrupt startup that went on to make a marketing tool called Swaylo. The terms were undisclosed.
What’s interesting about the deal is that the startup’s paid product SwayloPro will continue to run as a separate company for its current investors. Threadsy was backed by August Capital and Maveron Capital. There have been a few other cases in the past where Facebook has approached a team for…
Are you hip to the current state of search engine optimization, internet marketing, and the marketing profession? In partnership with HubSpot, SEOmoz will soon release the results of its 2012 SEO & Internet Marketing Survey, in which more than 6,400 online marketers answered 54 questions about the state of the industry, their companies, and their work.
But even as the broader economy seems to falter, many companies leveraging internet marketing are growing and thriving, and the survey gives…
