Steve Guggenheimer, who had been in application platform marketing, becomes a corporate VP, heading Microsoft’s relationships with computer makers.
Microsoft promoted several executives to fill the departures. Bill Veghte moves from VP to senior vice president and adds responsibility for the business strategy for Windows, Windows Live, MSN, and search. Satya Nadella gets a similar title [...]
Neal asked me if I would comment on the markets for sustainable energy stocks in the last week. It’s an area I follow closely so he hopes I will occasionally stumble across some nuggets.
What did I learn this week? Apparently growth constraints are still a factor in the high growth solar sector. I also relearned [...]
It must be an odd thing to run a company in the midst of a debate around the idea of nationalizing your core technology. In a Venezuelan moment, the Gillmor Gang considers the idea that Twitter has become so important that our national security requires nationalizing its technical infrastructure. In a two-part discussion about an [...]
Earlier this week, Apple bought a Silicon Valley chip-design firm named PA Semi for a reported price of $278 million.
Apple will get four things for sure:
People– PA Semi has a medium-size team that knows how to work together and produce chips.
Processes– PA Semi has design tools and procedures that can be used to design [...]
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Jonah Staw, co-founder and CEO of LittleMissMatched, heads-up a lifestyle brand that is based on “innovative and creative mixing and mismatching.” LittleMissMatched launched in 2004 with a collection of mismatched socks sold in odd numbers to encourage girls of all ages to express themselves. The “nothing matches but anything goes” philosophy knocked people’s [...]
Microsoft and the Attorney General’s office in Washington state said on Monday they have filed a handful of lawsuits over pop-up ads that scare consumers into paying for software that supposedly fixes critical errors on a PC.
The lawsuit filed by the Attorney General’s office alleges a Texas firm sent incessant pop-up ads that [...]
Verizon Wireless introduces RemoSync, a corporate e-mail solution for everyday phones.
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Previously, if you wanted access to your corporate e-mail, you needed to have a smartphone like a Palm, Windows Mobile, or BlackBerry device. Now Verizon Wireless is offering a direct push e-mail solution called RemoSync, which can be used on ordinary phones like the [...]
• Make inter-network sharing more functional. I just found a video of someone who seems like a good match for my friend. Let me recommend it to him or her with a customized message.
Social dating site WooMe has launched a new video service that is so amazingly hard to watch it’s bound to be a [...]
Despite having a working relationship integrating Adobe’s media editing technologies on videos, photo hosting giant Photobucket isn’t waiting around for Adobe to release Photoshop Express, and instead has partnered with FotoFlexer to serves as its de facto editor. Starting tomorrow, users will be able to edit any photo right inside Photobucket using FotoFlexer’s editing tools. [...]
The blogs in Jossip’s network include the eponymous Jossip, a New York-focused media and entertainment gossip blog; the Los Angeles-centric celebrity rag Mollygood; gay lifestyle title Queerty; and African-American culture blog Stereohyped.
The New York Post’s Keith Kelly reported on Thursday that Jossip, a small New York-based blog network that operates a number of media- and [...]
