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Nokia sold 5.6 million Lumia phones in the March quarter, a 27% increase from the previous quarter and a new record high, the company revealed in its earnings report Thursday.
Lumia sales were slow to start in 2011, but have accelerated in recent quarters. Nokia sold two million Lumia phones in the same quarter a year ago and 4.4 million Lumias in the December quarter. The company has sold just under 20 million Lumias in total as of the end of March.
“People are responding positively to the…
I used to work at an agency in a client-facing role. In my opinion, the most important key to a successful agency-client relationship was trust.
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Gaming is meant to be a form of stress relief — an escape from the troubles of work and home.
But sometimes, games do just the opposite: Your palms sweat, your eyes are glued to the screen and you’re holding your breath just to get through that one moment
Many levels of nail-biting stress can be endured by seasoned gamers, but sometimes there are times when even the most experienced player will start praying to deities for success, and maybe even tearing up a bit.
Gamification startup Badgeville just announced that it has appointed Ken Comée as its new CEO. Co-founder and outgoing CEO Kris Duggan will become the company’s chief strategy officer, and he will also remain on the Badgeville board.
Comée was formerly the CEO of Cast Iron Systems, a cloud company that was acquired by IBM, and of PowerReviews, which was acquired by Bazaarvoice. He might not seem like the obvious choice to run a gamification company, but Badgeville says it’s actually…
Last year, author Tim Ferriss turned to BitTorrent to market his newest book, the Four-Hour Chef, when the biggest bookseller in the U.S., Barnes & Noble, refused to stock the Amazon-published title. Ferriss’ campaign proved a success, with the book selling 250,000 copies on the back of some 2 million promotional content bundles — chapters of the book and supplementary materials — downloaded on BitTorrent. Now BitTorrent is banking on that success to try to get more authors on to its…
Amazon announced Wednesday that it is bringing its AutoRip program to vinyl records
Amazon launched AutoRip for CDs in January as a way to give customers free MP3 versions of CDs they’ve purchased since 1998. Starting today, customers who buy an AutoRip vinyl record will get a digital copy of that album added to their Amazon Cloud Player library.
As with CDs, the program is retroactive and will apply to AutoRip records purchased as far back as 1998.
Although the AutoRip program has found…
It looks like some changes are afoot at Booyah, the location-based gaming company best known as the maker of the MyTown franchise. MyTown and MyTown 2 attempted to evolve the location-based check-in model in gaming, allowing users not only check into locations within a city-building sim, but also scan and check into products in the real world.
With the early success of MyTown and, to a lesser degree, its location-based riff on Second Life, InCrowd, Booyah has been able to raise nearly $30…
We are releasing a public beta of the HubSpot Culture Code. This culture piece started out as an internal document years ago, and as a company who values ultimate transparency, we decided it was time to share it with the community. Like HubSpot, the Culture Code is a perpetual “work in progress,” so we’ll update it periodically.
Microsoft has announced that Windows president Steven Sinofsky is leaving the company, effective immediately.
No reason was given for the sudden resignation, which the company was presenting as a mutual decision. Coming a couple of weeks after the official launch of Windows 8, however, it clearly wasn’t the best timing.
“I am grateful for the many years of work that Steven has contributed to the company,” CEO Steve Ballmer said in a statement. “To continue this success it is imperative…
Convinced that you walk on streets of gold? Manufacturer Hammacher Schlemmer was all about it, too. Its metal-detecting sandals scanned the earth under your feet as you walked. The battery circled around your calf. But alas, they’re no longer available.
Price: $59.95
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Not every invention can rival the iPod. For every tech success story, we encounter thousands of tech busts.
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