Andrew Schulte is now Chief of Staff at Yahoo Marissa Mayer has grabbed another Googler. Andrew Schulte, a former product marketing manager at Google, is joining Yahoo as Chief of Staff. Schulte joined Google in 2007 in its ad sales department from Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia. In his latest role, he managed integrated Google+...
With Thursday’s Twitter API changes, App.net could not have gotten better news. Suddenly, Dalton Caldwell’s vision of a subscription-based Twitter clone seems quite clever. Yet, when it comes to creating a competitor to such an ubiquitous service, App.net now has to face many challenges. Most of them will be very hard to overcome —...
Welcome to the latest instalment of Last Week in Asia, our roundup of the key stories and developments from across Asia’s growing technology and Internet spaces. China Top story: Xiaomi, China’s Apple challenger, unveils hotly anticipated Mi2 quad-core-powered smartphone Xiaomi is a smartphone-maker that’s often likened to Apple and last week the company unveiled its much anticipated...
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has vowed to fight Rupert Murdoch-backed Sky (BSkyB) to wrestle premium movie rights from the media giant, with Hastings prepared to be “aggressive” when bidding for films from Hollywood’s six biggest studios. The Telegraph reports that Netflix, which launched in the UK at the beginning of the year, has already...
The quantified self movement is seemingly out of its infancy, but an embracement of personal data tracking by a broader population still seems far off. The most committed loggers are willing to invest in multiple devices and apps, tracking everything from their sleep cycles and running paths to their changing temperament and every bite...
The developer of MplayerX is quitting the Mac App Store over Apple’s sandboxing rules (hat tip to Slashdot), which are supposed to provide additional security by limiting what kind of system resources apps have access to. Zongyao QU, whose application is based on the Linux video player MPlayer, announced on his site that the...
Here’s one more thing I won’t be needing to stuff in my bag on a night out — a mirror. Thanks to my brand new Galaxy S III with a front-facing camera I’m good to go when I need to apply new lipstick–or more commonly, check to see if I’m sporting a bit of...
Facebook’s Carolyn Everson See Also The 20 Most Popular Celebrities On Facebook Here’s What A Facebook ‘Want’ Button Would Really Be Worth To Brands Here’s A Look At The Secret New Project From YouTube’s Cofounders Everyone knows that Carolyn Everson, Facebook’s global marketing chief, is the top dog at the social network when it...
Email More Juliette Brindak founded her company, MissOAndFriends, when she was 11. A lot of young people are starting companies. But when you’re young and inexperienced, you’re more error prone. Nick Tart spoke to many young founders while co-authoring a book, 50 Interviews: Young Entrepreneurs, What It Takes To Make More Than Your Parents....
Email More Asa Mathat | All Things Digital Apple CEO TIm Cook gets punchy. Apple and Samsung are currently duking it out in what might be one of the most publicized tech patent cases of all time. While Apple waged that court battle against Samsung, Steve Jobs’ brainchild has actually been slapped with quite...