Daily Archives: November 11, 2011

SAI Cast: Does Zynga Need To Treat It’s Employees Better, What’s Going on With Apple’s Share Price, and Was Steve Jobs Simply Not A Nice Person?

November 11, 2011
SAI Cast: Does Zynga Need To Treat It’s Employees Better, What’s Going on With Apple’s Share Price, and Was Steve Jobs Simply Not A Nice Person?

Image: Pressnewsonline See Also: THE APPLE INVESTOR: Will iPad Weakness Kill The Holiday Quarter? SEAMLESS: How Every Lazy, Hungry Person’s Favorite Site Came To Be And Where It’s Headed Apple Confirms: Yesterday’s iOS Update Didn’t Totally Fix The iPhone 4S Battery Life Problem Zynga recently took equity away from some of it’s employees, effectively...

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Microsoft’s Search Efforts Look Increasingly Futile As Google Gains Share For Second Month In A Row (MSFT, GOOG, YHOO)

November 11, 2011
Microsoft’s Search Efforts Look Increasingly Futile As Google Gains Share For Second Month In A Row (MSFT, GOOG, YHOO)

The latest ComScore search numbers just came out, and Google continues to claw back market share. Here’s where the big search engines stood at the end of October, compared with September:   In other words, Google gained about 0.3% from Yahoo (which is powered by Bing). Microsoft itself grabbed 0.1% from Ask. But let’s...

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Why Mobile Flash Died: An Adobe Employee Speaks Out

November 11, 2011
Why Mobile Flash Died: An Adobe Employee Speaks Out

Adobe’s mobile Flash efforts have recently gone the way of the western black rhino, and Principal Product Manager Mike Chambers isn’t too pleased with how the Adobe chose to break the news. In fact, he feels so strongly about it that he’s offered up his own clarifications on the matter. “Our goal was to...

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Peter Thiel Says He Looks For Platforms Big Amongst Small Businesses, Not Consumers

November 11, 2011
Peter Thiel Says He Looks For Platforms Big Amongst Small Businesses, Not Consumers

While plenty of platforms can go viral with consumers, VC idol Peter Thiel said today that he’s impressed by platforms adding legions of small businesses. Speaking at the healthtech conference hosted by electronic medical record platform Practice Fusion, Thiel explained “High paid sales people can get big companies, mass marketing can get consumers, but it’s difficult...

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Weekly Wrap-up: Cartel Kills Another Journalist in Mexico and More

November 11, 2011
Weekly Wrap-up: Cartel Kills Another Journalist in Mexico and More

Top Stories of the Week Drug Cartel Murders Another Blogger Journalism in Mexico is dangerous. More than a dozen men and women who report on the drug cartel, Las Zetas, have been savagely murdered. The most recent casualty of this war is Rascatripas. His body, hung from the same overpass as last month’s...

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Facebook wants you to add overly-creepy ‘Life Events’ to your upcoming Timeline

November 11, 2011
Facebook wants you to add overly-creepy ‘Life Events’ to your upcoming Timeline

With Facebook’s Timeline coming “Soon”, according to project managers at Facebook, there will be many new things for you to take notice of once it becomes live. We know that there are all new things to “worry” about when it comes to who sees what on your Facebook profile, but the company will be...

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Robin Sloan leaves Twitter’s Media Partnerships team

November 11, 2011
Robin Sloan leaves Twitter’s Media Partnerships team

This morning, we circled back on our previous story about Pam Kramer, Twitter’s VP of Consumer Marketing, leaving after only three months on the job. Today, Robin Sloan, who has worked at Twitter for two years on the Media Partnerships team, has announced his own departure. Sloan’s work consisted of working with high-profile TV...

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Pandora: Spotify is our friend, not a competitor

November 11, 2011
Pandora: Spotify is our friend, not a competitor

Pandora Media was a pioneer in the business of streaming music over the Internet, so it’s understandable for people to think that Spotify, the popular new kid on the online music industry block, is a Pandora competitor. But according to Pandora’s CTO and executive vice president of product Tom Conrad, the companies are actually...

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Is Jack Dorsey the heir apparent to Steve Jobs?

November 11, 2011
Is Jack Dorsey the heir apparent to Steve Jobs?

Before Steve Jobs had even passed away, people had already started playing the “who is the next Steve Jobs” game — trying to come up with names of technology and design visionaries who might be able to don the mantle of the Apple co-founder and CEO. Jeff Bezos of Amazon? Napster co-founder and Spotify...

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PLAYDOM IN PERIL: One Employer Says ‘I Get Resumes From People At Playdom Multiple Times A Week’ (DIS)

November 11, 2011
PLAYDOM IN PERIL: One Employer Says ‘I Get Resumes From People At Playdom Multiple Times A Week’ (DIS)

Image: Business Insider See Also: YouTube And Disney Just Hooked up THE GOOGLE INVESTOR: Google Is Worried About Competing With Siri PLAYDOM IN PERIL: Is Disney’s $400 Million Gaming Acquisition The Next MySpace? More Playdom drama unfolding: a Valley source at a rival gaming company says he receives multiple resumes from Playdom employees each week....

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