Less than a year after announcing its Kindle Fire tablet, Amazon says the model is sold out in the United States, and has claimed 22% of all tablet sales. The news comes shortly before the expected announcement of the Kindle Fire 2 on Sept. 6. Amazon is also touting that all of the top-selling...
Daily Archives: August 30, 2012
Galactic Status: Virgin Airlines Offers One Frequent Flier A Trip To Space
Virgin is one of my favorite airlines to fly on — it’s kind of like the airline of the future, with interactive displays in every headrest, cool lighting, an animated safety video, and there’s almost always WiFi on board. But Virgin is looking to be even more futuristic, promising the customer with the most...
FIRST LOOK: Facebook’s Search Ads Vastly Outperform Display Ads (FB)
Facebook How the new search ads look. See Also If These Huge, Obnoxious Facebook Ads Are Real, Then We Know How Desperate The Company Has Become Here’s How Zappos’ Huge Bet On Pinterest Actually Works Check Out The Donut-Incentivized Treadmill Desk Used By BBDO CEO John Osborn Facebook’s new search ad product, “Sponsored Results,”...
Here’s What Amazon Really Means When It Says The Kindle Fire Is Sold Out (AMZN)
Steve Kovach, Business Insider See Also This Image Shows The Difference In Screen Size Between The iPhone 4 And The iPhone 5 It’s Very Frustrating That The iPhone 5 Won’t Fix This Problem With The iPhone Here Are Photos Of The World’s First Windows Phone 8 Device Amazon announced this morning that its Kindle...
ePrize’s Sales Contest Builder For Salesforce Is Now Gamifying Within Comcast, Others
Always Be Gaming. That’s the first rule of sales under ePrize’s Sales Contest Builder which can turn any Salesforce task into a game. Best yet, ePrize, a Detroit-based startup fresh off its acquisition by private equity firm Catterton Partners, this morning is announcing the app is gaining major traction, most notable deployed within the...
OpenStack grows up: Names SUSE and Cisco execs to leadership team
The OpenStack Foundation has elected its top executives and neither of them are from OpenStack founding company Rackspace. Alan Clark, director of industry initiatives, emerging standards and open source for SUSE is chairman. And Lew Tucker, Cisco’sVP and CTO of cloud is vice chairman, according to attendees of Tuesday afternoon’s meeting. The fact that the two...
Business Insider Is Hiring A Senior Editor
Daniel Goodman / Business Insider We’re on the hunt for an experienced editor to join the Business Insider team. This person is a talented writer but more important, a born editor. In the position, this editor would spend his/her days making Business Insider a better read: line-editing, re-writing, framing, packaging, and sending back for...
A best-seller sells out: Amazon pulls Kindle Fire sales ahead of September 6 tablet refresh
With its September 6 event circled on its calendar in big red ink, Amazon has announced today that its Kindle Fire tablet is “Sold Out,” pulling the tablet from sale as it looks to its “exciting roadmap ahead.” The announcement all but confirms that Amazon will debut new tablet devices next week, with its...
Sifteo launches second generation of its touch-screen cube games
Sifteo (see disclosure), the San Francisco-based company known for its popular touchscreen cube games, is launching a second generation of the product that will be available for pre-order on Thursday, expanding to a portable edition that won’t require users to play near a connected laptop. Currently, Sifteo’s gaming system is composed of Sifteo Cubes,...
Microsoft brings Pong, Asteroids and other classic Atari games to the HTML5 touchscreen generation
Microsoft’s once all-conquering, omnipresent Internet Explorer may have fallen from grace as the dominant browser globally, but the software (and hardware) giant is making big strides as it attempts to reposition IE as a browser to be reckoned with. How’s it doing that, you ask? With Atari, of course. Indeed, with IE6 slowly being...