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Barnes & Noble's board of directors on Monday announced changes in the company's executive ranks that extend all the way to the top echelon First and foremost, William Lynch has resigned as CEO and director effective immediately....
Barnes & Noble's board of directors on Monday announced changes in the company's executive ranks that extend all the way to the top echelon First and foremost, William Lynch has resigned as CEO and director effective immediately....
The issue of mobile privacy has been simmering for years, and it's long been apparent that there will be some movement at the government level sooner or later This week, sooner would probably be the better guess -- especially if the European Commission is included....
Things are looking better and better for Michael Dell's proposed US$24.4 billion leveraged buyout offer for the company he founded. Following hard on the heels of repeated disapprovals of a competing offer from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, a special committee of Dell's board of directors announced on Monday that independent proxy advisory firm...
Google Glass has generated a more or less steady stream of privacy criticisms and concerns since it was first announced, but the company's latest effort to satisfy critics has apparently fallen short Specifically, Google's recent response to a letter sent in May by eight members of the Bipartisan Congressional Privacy Caucus drew further criticism ...
This story was originally published on March 5, 2013, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series There is a long-standing debate in the email marketing community about timing -- that is, whether time of day makes a difference in open and click-through rates. In other words, will an email marketing message sent early Monday m...
Remember Bebo? In its heyday, five or six years ago, the social networking site showed enough promise to be considered a possible rival to then-dominant MySpace -- and to pull in an US$850 million purchase price when it was acquired by AOL What a difference a few years make. Fast forward to 2013, and Bebo is back on the social media map -- this tim...
Microsoft on Tuesday morning unveiled the latest iteration of its Microsoft Dynamics CRM software complete with enhancements including Skype, Yammer and Lync integration as well as widepread availability of MarketingPilot Due for widespread release this fall, the software will also bring long-awaited functionality for iOS and Android phones....
It's no secret that online reviews play a key role in consumers' purchase decisions, but that's increasingly true for local brands as well, according to a report published Tuesday by BrightLocal. More and more, consumers are using the Internet to find local businesses, according to the company's Local Consumer Review Survey 2013. In fact, only 5 p...
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer," as the old saying goes, and this week Oracle took steps to do just that. Specifically, the database giant inked partnership deals with longtime competitors Microsoft and Salesforce.com in a bid to expand its reach in cloud computing Announced on Monday, the partnership with Microsoft will allow com...
This past May mobile app developers dodged a bullet when a California state court sided with Delta Airlines in a dispute over its mobile app California's attorney general had sued Delta, alleging that the company violated the state's mobile privacy law, which requires a company to clearly state that users' personal information is being collected....
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been nothing if not persistent in his efforts to keep Michael Dell from rebuilding his computer business as a private company, but on Monday Icahn's stock repurchase proposal got the thumbs-down again A special committee of Dell's board of directors, formed to weigh the company's various financial options, noted ...
It's no secret that Salesforce.com has already inspired virtually countless ancillary products and services, including Thunderhead.com's ONE Correspond for Salesforce 2.0. Another example launched even more recently, however, is HP Relate, a cloud-based document management product that provides tools for creating interactive documents within the Salesforce environment...
Oracle's stock slumped Friday in response to a disappointing fourth-quarter earnings report. Shares closed the day at US$30.14, down 9.26 percent Oracle reported its fiscal 2013 Q4 GAAP total revenue as unchanged at $10.9 billion; however, analysts had been expecting about $11.12 billion.
Microsoft and Nokia were recently in advanced negotiations about a possible purchase deal, but the negotiations ultimately broke down on the topic of price, according to a Wednesday report in The Wall Street Journal Little is known about the talks; anonymous sources say they happened as recently as this month and focused on Nokia's device business....
Google has settled the class-action shareholder lawsuit that had been blocking a stock split it originally announced last year, the company said Monday, paving the way for it to move forward with the split as planned The suit's settlement was an eleventh-hour development in this 14-month storyline, which included the imminent prospect of a trial in...
Another day, another mobile app release; except in this case, the app is aimed at the contact center supervisor -- not exactly a role that has been inundated with mobile functionality to this point The application in question is Five9's latest cloud contact software application, which includes mobile functionality. Released earlier this month, enha...
In the wake of recent revelations that the government has been tapping their networks tomonitor users,Facebook, Apple and Microsoft over the past few days have all published more information about those monitoring requests. Facebook, for example, on Friday reported that for the six months ending December 31, 2012, the total number of user-data req...
Almost a year after launching its ONE Correspond for Salesforce, Thunderhead.com rolled out version 2.0 of its social enterprise app A part of the company's flagship ONE Engagement Platform, ONE Correspond for Salesforce focuses on allowing users to create communications for customers. Via Salesforce's Chatter, it also has strong collaborative feat...
Time Warner Cable appears to have come up with a strategy to help stem the flow of cord-cutters -- that is, people abandoning pay-TV for the free or lower-price content available on the Internet. The company is offering incentives to content providers to withhold certain properties from online entertainment platforms, according to a Bloomberg report citing unnamed sources. ...
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