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Former Zynga Executive Joins Video Chat Company
Wilson Kriegel, formerly the top business executive at social-games maker OMGPOP, is taking a president and chief operating officer role at video-chat company Paltalk.Zynga bought OMGPOP for $180...
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The iPhone 5 Was This Year's Number One Obsession, According To Yahoo (AAPL)
Yahooreleased its search trends for 2012 this week.The iPhone 5 was the second most popular search term this year, and it was only beaten by the presidential election. But the iPhone 5 still beat out...
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AOL CMO Out After Only 5 Months
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Here's The Book That Could Cost Yahoo $2.7 Billion (YHOO)
Why did a Mexican court find Yahoo liable for $2.7 billion in a lawsuit filed by a former business partner?It's still far from clear what's going on, which is ticking Wall Street off. Yahoo's only...
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News360 Wants To Fix The Biggest Problem With The Way We Read News On Phones
News360 just updated its app, and if you use your smartphone to keep up on the news, you'll want to give it a try.It's a news reading app that learns from you and tries—with good results, we think—to...
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CHART OF THE DAY: More Than 70 Percent Of App Sessions Are Outside Of The U.S.
This chart comes from Business Insider Intelligence, a new research and and analysis service focused on the mobile and Internet industries. Sign up for a free trial here.Mobile apps are no longer just...
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Eric Schmidt's Book On The New Digital Age Will Be Out In April
Google chairman Eric Schmidt and coauthor Jared Cohen, an "ideas director" at the Web-search giant, have a new book coming out on April 23 that attempts to map out our future. "The New Digital Age:...
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Here's How Big Facebook Thinks Its Billion-Plus User Base Can Get (FB)
Facebook vp/global marketing solutions Carolyn Everson led a lively panel on social media advertising at Business Insider's Ignition 2012 conference last week. So we used the opportunity to ask her...
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How A Startup Scored A Happy Meal Deal With McDonald's 14,000 US Stores
Mind Candy, a UK-based social network for kids and the brand owner of Moshi Monster toys, just landed a Happy Meal partnership with McDonald's.The startup's licensed products will be placed in more...
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BII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Where In The World Are The Mobile Growth Opportunities?
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Where The...
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This Former Yahoo Executive Is At The Center Of Its Mysterious $2.7 Billion...
Business Insider has traded emails with Carlos Bazan-Canabal, the former Yahoo executive who put together the failed Yellow Pages deal that landed the company with a $2.7 billion judgment against it in...
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Autonomy's Mike Lynch Has Launched A New Blog To Declare His Innocence (HPQ)
As the furor over accusations that Autonomy defrauded HP dies down, there's one guy who doesn't want the attention to stop: Autonomy's former CEO, Mike Lynch.Today he launched a blog defending his...
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The Fiscal Cliff Makes Oracle Rush Out Its Dividends (ORCL)
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Oracle Corp said it would accelerate payment of three quarters of dividends, joining a number of companies doing the same because of uncertainty about the U.S. government's...
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And Now Nick Denton Will Rule The World
Gawker Media, the online-publishing network behind Deadspin and Gizmodo, is making aggressive moves to grow its international business, according to its CEO and founder, Nick Denton.It recently...
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HSN CEO: Here's Why We Got Into The Video Game Business
HSN isn't just a shopping channel on TV anymore.It's getting into all sorts of new things, like mobile, tablets and online.But it has also gotten into gaming with HSN Arcade.Why?HSN CEO Mindy Grossman...
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Tech Visionary Ray Ozzie Is Working On A New Mobile Startup, Talko
Another bit of news has dribbled out about legendary programmer Ray Ozzie's new gig.He's now raised $4 million for it, according to a SEC filing spotted by TechCrunch.And the company appears to have a...
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Source: Yahoo Has 'Numerous' Ways To Appeal $2.7 Billion Judgment In Mexico...
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc believes it has "numerous" grounds to appeal a Mexico City civil court's $2.7 billion preliminary judgment against the company, including both errors in procedure...
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Travel Channel Host Andrew Zimmern Destroys Yelp In An Epic Rant
Andrew Zimmern, the popular host of Travel's Channel show "Bizarre Foods," isn't a fan of Yelp, and he let everyone know about it on his podcast Go Fork Yourself.He annihilated the review site in an...
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Here's Mary Meeker's Big Year-End Presentation On The State Of The Internet
Kleiner Perkins partner Mary Meeker is out with a year-end presentation on the state of the Internet.As usual, it's a must read for anyone in the industry, or anyone with interest in the state of...
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The Strange Tale Of John McAfee Gets Even Weirder
When someone repeatedly tells you something and then says, "Hey, I lied about that," it gets pretty hard to believe anything the person says.So it goes with the John McAfee saga, the...
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