For all of the good things about e-readers — their portability, capacity and convenience — they seem a bit old-fashioned. That isn’t just because they are single-function devices (after all, books are, too) but because the grayish tinge on e-ink screens looks outdated. Today, though, with the announcements of the front-lit Kindle Paperwhite and...
President Barack Obama has joined Foursquare. Did you think he was already on there? He was, sorta. The account was created some time ago but until now has remained dormant. See, the President made his primary Foursquare home the White House’s profile, where you could receive “tips” from the White House featuring the places...
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In a Santa Monica Airport hangar on Thursday, Amazon announced its latest round of Kindles and related services. Overall, they look pretty impressive. After a big corporate self-hug as CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage, Amazon focused on three key items: new Kindle Readers, new Kindle Fires, and enhancements to the Amazon ecosystem tying...
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Flickr: Jonan Basterra Tumblr founder David Karp Tumblr appointed Lee Brown to head up its burgeoning ad sales department. He was previously at Groupon, where he was tasked with building the daily deal site’s national client base. Tumblr has been searching for an ad sales rainmaker since at least February. Rick Webb of The...
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Minecraft changed the video game industry by selling millions of downloads of an indie game. Now the free-form building game is inviting players to help redesign real-world locations around the world. Minecraft creator Mojang announced yesterday in a blog post that it is teaming up with United Nations Habitat to upgrade 300 public spaces by 2016....
We had a chance to check out all of the new Kindle models that Amazon introduced today at an event in Los Angeles. We’ve already given you our first impressions of the Kindle Fire HD and the Kindle paperwhite, but we thought that you’d like to actually see them in action as well. This...
On Thursday, Amazon announced another family of branded shopping carts in which consumers can pile a wealth of digital goods. Sure, they may look like a Kindle e-reader, or the new Kindle Fire tablets – but make no mistake about the goals Amazon has for the new devices. Company executives pitched the new Kindles...