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Apple Hires Adobe Executive Todd Teresi As iAD Chief

Posted January 5, 2012 by Dennis Wagner

Cupertino based Apple has reportedly hired an Adobe Senior Executive to lead ts mobile advertising business reports claim. Bloomberg reported that Apple has Appointed Adobe Executive Todd Teresi as Head of iAd mobile advertising business, which places interactive adverts on iOS devices like the iPad and iPhone. Close sources told Bloomberg that Teresi has already joined Apple [...]

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Verizon Wireless Sold More Than 4.2 Million iPhones During Last Quarter

Posted January 5, 2012 by Jessica Austerlitz

In an meeting in San Francisco Verizon’s Chief Financial Executive Fran Shammo stated that the company had sold a whopping 4.2 million iPhones during the holiday quarter reports Bloomberg. The figured has doubled compared to 2 million iPhones the company sold in the previous quarter, when it was behind AT&T and also overtook  AT&T’s all-time record high of 4.1 [...]

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Yahoo Appoints Scott Thompson As CEO

Posted January 5, 2012 by Brunella Rousseau

Yahoo Inc has appointed its new Chief Executive Scott Thompson, who was Chief Executive of Paypal Since year 2008.  Yahoo Previos Chief Executive Carol Bartz was fired back in September 2011 due company’s poor performance financially . Yahoo’s revenue has fallen nearly 23% between Q2 of 2010 and 2011, due to the on going competition for ad dollars [...]

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Kodak May File Bankruptcy

Posted January 5, 2012 by Brunella Rousseau

U.S. based Eastman Kodak is preparing to file bankruptcy within weeks according to WSJ. The Company is terrible struggling to raise cash which it needs to stay afloat and to transition into the printing business this year. In recent weeks and months Kodak began shopping around 1,100 digital-imaging patents that financial analysts think might fetch $2 billion [...]

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Microsoft Says Goodbye To Internet Explorer 6

Posted January 5, 2012 by Cristiana Hernàndez

Microsoft has said goodbye to Internet Explorer 6, Microsoft celebrated the demise of its ten year old Internet Explorer 6 web browser. Internet Explorer 6 was launched 10 years ago, Internet Explorer 6 usage has dropped to below 1% in the U.S, Austria, Poland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Norway. Usage is also dropping near 1 [...]

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Flurry:1.2 billion apps downloaded over Christmas week

Posted January 5, 2012 by Victor Hernàndez

As we know over the Christmas Day there was massive amount of activations for latest Android and iOs deceive topping  658 million activated on Christmas day itself. An analytics firms named Flurry stated that the week of Christmas there was huge amount of Apps were downloaded as well. Flurry revealed that on Christmas day a record-breaking 242 million application downloads.Stepping back [...]

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Twitter Mistakenly Verifies Fake Wendi Murdoch account

Posted January 5, 2012 by Brunella Rousseau

Microblogging Twitter has apologised on Tuesday for mistakenly verifying fake account for Wendi Deng, Wife of Rupert Murdoch, Chairman of News Corp. The fake account named @Wendi_Deng emerged up on Sunday after News Corp Executive Rupert Murdoch real Twitter account was started on New Year’s eve.People believed it was the wife of the News Corporation chairman and chief executive [...]

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Wikipedia Raises $20 Million From Donors

Posted January 5, 2012 by Cristiana Hernàndez

The nonprofit organisation Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia and related websites relies on donations. Wikimedia has revealed its had raised a record breaking $20 million from more than a million donors during  during its just finished the 2011-12 fundraising campaign. Now you would have probably noticed that those annoying fundraising banners  with personal messages from volunteers are [...]

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