Daily Archives: August 20, 2012

Best Buy’s Stock Price Tumbles After Naming Its New CEO

August 20, 2012
Best Buy’s Stock Price Tumbles After Naming Its New CEO

Best Buy has been navigating some rough seas lately, but it would seem the company has finally found the skipper it’s been looking for. The Wall Street Journal reported earlier today that Best Buy has hired former Carlson CEO Hubert Joly to take over the CEO position from placeholder Mike Mikan. Joly is slated...

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Facebook Has Been More Than Halved

August 20, 2012
Facebook Has Been More Than Halved

Email More Now Facebook is below $19, which means it’s lost more than 50% of its value since IPOing. Yahoo Finance Recommended For You Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook. Follow Joe Weisenthal on Twitter. Ask Joe A Question » Tags: Facebook | Get Alerts for these topics » Advertisement:

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How You Can Score A Free Xbox This Fall (MSFT)

August 20, 2012
How You Can Score A Free Xbox This Fall (MSFT)

By soundfromwayout on Flickr See Also Windows Phone Is On Track To Overtake BlackBerry In The U.S. By November Apple Finally Stopped Gaming App Store Search Results For Third-Party Podcast Apps This Restaurant Will Give You A 5% Discount To Leave Your Phone At The Door We found out about Microsoft’s new back to...

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Judge Rejects Facebook Settlement Of Suit Over Its ‘Sponsored Stories’ Feature

August 20, 2012
Judge Rejects Facebook Settlement Of Suit Over Its ‘Sponsored Stories’ Feature

JD Lasica Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg See Also Apple And Samsung Have Deadlocked In The Patent Fight Of The Century Here’s How Apple’s Epic Patent Case Against Samsung Will Finally End FTC: Facebook’s Privacy Policy Was A Complete Lie A federal judge wants to know why Facebook members won’t get any money from a...

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There’s a new browser in iPhone town: Meet Maxthon

August 20, 2012
There’s a new browser in iPhone town: Meet Maxthon

After releasing a Web browser for iPad and Mac earlier this year, Chinese software company Maxthon today launched a free browser app for the iPhone. Does it bring anything new to the table or is too little, way too late? Maxthon says its browser products have seen over 600 million downloads to say, and...

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Leaked Tutorial Videos Show Clearest Image Of Motorola Droid Razr HD To Date

August 20, 2012
Leaked Tutorial Videos Show Clearest Image Of Motorola Droid Razr HD To Date

The Droid Razr HD has been making its way around the rumor mill for quite some time. Back in April, we noticed that EXIF data from a Picasa picture indicating that the long-rumored handset was in pre-production, and leaked images in June confirmed it. But today a few tutorial videos were leaked onto the...

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MobileBits buys Swiss mobile marketing firm Aixum to boost European expansion

August 20, 2012

Los Angeles-based mobile and social software developer MobileBits this morning announced that it has acquired Zurich, Switzerland-based startup Aixum. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but the deal gives MobileBits a European office from which it aims to expand into other European countries. Aixum CEO Andrew Marshall will join MobileBits as its COO,...

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Why Venture Capital No Longer Defines Innovation

August 20, 2012
Why Venture Capital No Longer Defines Innovation

Today’s venture capital deal flow to innovative new companies looks a lot like a fat man trying to squeeze into a slim Italian suit. It just doesn’t fit. The new shape of innvovation is a lot more inclusive of new approaches and sources of startup funding. In 2000, venture capitalists poured a staggering $112.2...

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Military to Mission Intelligence: A taste of startup life in Tel Aviv with Raphael Ouzan of BillGuard

August 20, 2012
Military to Mission Intelligence: A taste of startup life in Tel Aviv with Raphael Ouzan of BillGuard

Bizcamp Tel Aviv is not far off now with a competition already running to bring a startup from the UK to the event and a schedule coming together that will encompass meetings and workshops with new companies, entrepreneurs and investors in Israel. The event is organised by the city of Tel Aviv, Israel’s Ministry...

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ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Motorola Mobility

August 20, 2012
ReadWriteWeb DeathWatch: Motorola Mobility

When Motorola Mobility was plummeting to its doom in 2011, Google rode to the rescue. Now, with massive layoffs and a proposed sale of critical assets, the knight in shining armor seems hellbent on tearing its acquisition to pieces as part of its restructuring process. Is Motorola nothing more a legal hedge for the...

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