Just last Friday, I wrote about how Amazon has essentially become a book industry “in a box,” having completed the vertical integration of the book industry by launching their own imprints. Now that box has just gotten a whole lot bigger. On Sunday, news broke that Amazon has hired former Time Warner Book Group CEO...
Just last Friday, I wrote about how Amazon has essentially become a book industry “in a box”, having completed the vertical integration of the book industry by launching their own imprints. And now that box has just gotten a whole lot bigger: on Sunday, the news broke that Amazon has hired former Time Warner...
Image: kafkan See Also: Social Security and Medicare: It’s Worse Than You Think 5 Ugly Truths About The Debt-Ceiling Battle The GOP Makes Medicare “Overhaul” A Litmus Test How do blue-staters eat differently from red-staters? It’s a mystery only computers could solve! Fortunately, the MIT-educated engineers over at Hunch.com built algorithms to analyze 80...
When you first walk into the Orbotix office in downtown Boulder, it’s abundantly clear that these guys like robots. A lot. Probably almost as much as TNW’s Courtney Boyd Myers. What isn’t so evident, though, is the grand scale of what the company is doing with its first consumer product, the Sphero. Oh sure,...
Come January, all eyes will be on Iowa and New Hampshire as voters seek to find out who will emerge as the Republican front-runner to compete with President Barack Obama. But this time around, people from all over the world will have a chance to sway the outcome, if only through challenging questions, as...
Apple Monday sent a letter to Lodsys and to developers, saying it has the licensing rights to in-app purchases and that developers are fully able to use them, according to Macworld. Devs on Twitter had begun discussing the letter received by Apple just a few hours ago. The full text of the letter, which...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. Today Software AG announced its acquisition of Terracotta, the sponsor...
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. A lot of electrons have been consumed already about the...
Location-based coupons are hot. There were rumors today of daily deals provider Groupon partnering with Foursquare to target deals at check-in users and now a bit of an unlikely player is striking at the location deals iron as device manufacturer HTC is looking into location-based coupons. In a podcast interview with GPS Business News,...
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