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Amazon hires Windows Phone Boss Charle Kindel, buys Goodreads

Manzar Chaudhury — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 16:40:20 +0000

For an unrevealed project Amazon has hired Charlie Kindel, the former Windows Phone personnel. He has been hired so that Amazon can expand into the smartphone market this year, think tech analytics. Even Kindel himself maintained secrecy on his LinkdIn account about the call saying he was in secret mission ‘in a totally new area.’ [...]

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Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen opens investment office in Silicon Valley

Manzar Chaudhury — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 02:33:13 +0000

To make new investments in rising technology and internet companies, Paul Allen, the co-founder, with Bill Gates, of Microsoft is going to open an office in Silicon Valley. The journey of the Palo Alto office of the American inventor, investor and philanthropist will officially be started under the name of Vulcan Capital, according to Reuters. [...]

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Tablets Overtake PC Sales for First Time

Manzar Chaudhury — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 08:32:50 +0000

The tablet market has continued to rise as a huge landmark is about to be reached with sales figures indicating that tablets are due to outsell PCs for the first time this year. With the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy being the flagship tablets of an ever expanding market, consumers are already used to browsing [...]

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Apple Buys Wifislam for Indoor Mapping Update

Manzar Chaudhury — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 10:46:39 +0000

Apple has added to its portfolio with the acquisition of Wifislam, an indoor mapping specialist, for around $20 million (£13 million) according to the Wall Street Journal. The move is in anticipation of a push to rival Google Maps with the new capability to offer maps within building spaces with an accuracy of 8ft. The [...]

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Amazon Controversy with Another Lewd Ad on UK Site

Manzar Chaudhury — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:47:29 +0000

Just a few short weeks after the Amazon US store was hounded by critics for having a ‘Keep Calm and Rape A lot’ t-shirt within its marketplace, another controversy has hit the world’s biggest online retailer in the form of a range of Christmas cards which feature the word ‘c**t’ on the cover. The Advertising [...]

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Yahoo! and McAfee to Provide 260 New Irish Jobs

Manzar Chaudhury — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:39:03 +0000

Two American companies are to create 260 new jobs in the Irish capital city of Dublin and Cork within the next year, as they both look to expand their operations in Europe. Yahoo! Has announced that it has plans to add 200 jobs at its Dublin Operations Centre. They are looking to recruit people to [...]

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Panasonic to sell Healthcare business for 100 bn yen

Manzar Chaudhury — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:06:23 +0000

To raise cash Japanese multinational corporation Panasonic will sell its healthcare business, according a Kyodo report. Quoting industry sources Kyodo said that Panasonic was planning to sell its entire healthcare business including electronic medical chart systems and blood-sugar monitoring tools to customers both in home and aboard. The move of more than 100 billion yen [...]

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40% Rise in UK Music Streaming in 2012

Manzar Chaudhury — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:54:15 +0000

We all understand how the music industry has changed dramatically over the last decade. Illegal downloading was followed by iTunes stores and more recently legal streaming websites that allow you to listen to music on the move. Last year, according to the Official Charts Company, there were at least 3.7 billion songs streamed in the [...]

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India the next app superpower!

Manzar Chaudhury — Wed, 13 Mar 2013 16:43:15 +0000

Highly trained Indian people are potential enough to make their country the coming app superpower, said experts on Wednesday at a discussion organized by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry commonly known as FICCI. “The market is immense. An average user spends around 200 minutes a month on all kinds of apps,” [...]

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Adobe Creative Cloud in India

Manzar Chaudhury — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:01:08 +0000

Adobe has introduced the ‘Creative Cloud’ in India today. The move that will allow users to download and install popular and lucrative applications like Adobe muse, Adobe edge and services, Photoshop lightroom, game developer tools and so on will help the American multinational computer software company expand revenues, think people close to the launch. “Creative [...]

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