LinkedIn Is Buying SlideShareBY
LinkedIn has just announced it plans to acquire San Francisco-based startup SlideShare for about $119 million. Founded in 2006, SlideShare is a web-based hub for people to store and share presentations. LinkedIn's announcement frames it as a way for "professionals to discover people through content, and content through people." "Presentations are one of the main ways in which professionals capture and share their experiences and knowledge, which in turn helps shape their professional identity," LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner said in the announcement, adding that they help people "discover new connections and gain the insights they need to become more productive and successful in their careers."
EBay Wants To Build NYC's Second-Largest Developer SpaceBY.
eBay just snapped up a massive 35,000 square foot NYC space that will house more than 200 developers when it opens this fall. Hunch founder Chris Dixon, who sold the company to eBay in November, will lead the team of developers and data scientists to further build out eBay's recommendation system. The space will also offer free working space for "friends of eBay" startups. Dixon told GigaOM he hopes eBay will become the second-largest developer space in New York after Google's, which currently employs more than 1,000 workers. EBay joins the roster of big-company developer niches in New York, which also includes Facebook, Twitter, and now Microsoft.
Walmart's "American Idol" Contest Has A Winner
Walmart's "American Idol" Contest Has A Winner
WalmartLabs, Walmart's online R&D arm, launched an American Idol style popularity contest online in March this year. Anyone could suggest products they wanted to see on Walmart's shelves, and customers could vote for their favorites. The Get On The Shelf contest gathered over a million votes for 4000 entries, including choice suggestions like a baby-proof toilet cover (to prevent kids from falling in), an in-nappy garbage bag (for less of a mess), a hot dog slicer, and a tuna squisher. Practical as these entries may be, Walmart's grand prize winner, announced today, has a socially conscious agenda: HumanKind Water gives away its net profits on sale of bottled water to countries which lack clean drinking water.
Pinterest Is Signing Up Translators to reach global audience.
Pinterest is looking for help taking its Midwest-led, hyper-addictive virtual pinboarding frenzy global. The company posted an ad late yesterday calling for translators to help translate Pinterest into other languages, and could speakers of one or more foreign tongues sign up with a dab of information? The company explained that they're starting in earnest with French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish, but welcome help with Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Urdu.
Microsoft Research Opens a research lab in NYC.
Microsoft is opening a research lab in NYC, and looking to partner with universities like Columbia U, NYU and others in the area. Their first crop of hires are 15 ex-Yahoo researchers and data fiends of various flavors, including network theorist and social media researcher Duncan Watts. In early April, Yahoo announced it would be laying off 2000 employees. The NYC office will be led by Microsoft Research HQ based in Cambridge, MA, which hosts Web and internet culture research celebs like Gen-Fluxer danah boyd (her annnouncement here).
Pinterest Is Signing Up Translators to reach global audience.
Pinterest is looking for help taking its Midwest-led, hyper-addictive virtual pinboarding frenzy global. The company posted an ad late yesterday calling for translators to help translate Pinterest into other languages, and could speakers of one or more foreign tongues sign up with a dab of information? The company explained that they're starting in earnest with French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish, but welcome help with Arabic, Danish, Dutch, Farsi, Filipino, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, and Urdu.
Microsoft Research Opens a research lab in NYC.
Microsoft is opening a research lab in NYC, and looking to partner with universities like Columbia U, NYU and others in the area. Their first crop of hires are 15 ex-Yahoo researchers and data fiends of various flavors, including network theorist and social media researcher Duncan Watts. In early April, Yahoo announced it would be laying off 2000 employees. The NYC office will be led by Microsoft Research HQ based in Cambridge, MA, which hosts Web and internet culture research celebs like Gen-Fluxer danah boyd (her annnouncement here).
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