Worldwide tablet shipments continue to surge, growing 142.4% year over year in the first quarter of 2013 (1Q13), according to preliminary data from IDC Worldwide Quarterly Tablet Tracker. Tablet shipments totaled 49.2 million units in 1Q13, surpassing that of the…
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Online crowds can be an important tool for teaching the ins and outs of innovation, educators at Carnegie Mellon University and Northwestern University say, even when the quality of the feedback provided by online sources doesn’t always match the quantity.…
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Amazon released financial results for its first quarter ended March 31, 2013. Amazon’s operating income decreased 6% to $181 million in the first quarter, compared with $192 million in first quarter 2012. Net income decreased 37% to $82 million in the first quarter, or 18 cents per diluted share,…
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Database vendor Actian has acquired ParAccel, an analytics company that has Amazon as both investor, and customer. The size of the transaction was not shared. Apart from Amazon, ParAccel is used by The Royal Bank of Scotland, OfficeMax and MicroStrategy, says its CEO, Chuck…
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Developers can now submit their apps for distribution in nearly 200 countries in the Amazon Appstore, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, India, South Africa, South Korea, Papua New Guinea and Vatican City. The apps will be made available in the coming…
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The Xen Project is becoming a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project, says the Linux Foundation. The Xen Project is an open source virtualization platform licensed under the GPLv2 with a similar governance structure to the Linux kernel. Designed for cloud computing,…
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Amazon has reached an agreement to acquire book recommendations site Goodreads. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Amazon is expected to keep the site as an independent entity, under the Goodreads brand. Following the acquisition, Goodreads’s headquarters will remain in San Francisco, CA. …
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Amazon Studios, the original movie and series production arm of Amazon, will add Zombieland to the line-up of pilots in production for Amazon Prime instant video. Not all the pilots will make it to production, says Amazon. Zombieland, the seventh movie…
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Glassdoor has released its latest report highlighting this year’s 50 Highest Rated CEOs according to employees. The five highest rated CEOs for 2013 are: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (99 percent approval) SAP co-CEOs Bill McDermott and Jim Hagemann Snabe (99 percent…
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[Techtaffy Newsdesk] CBS and Amazon have signed an expanded content licensing agreement, to bring classic series and hit TV shows from CBS Television Distribution and Showtime Networks to Amazon’s Prime Instant Video service, extending the catalog of CBS content already…
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