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Why Microsoft Needed Perceptive Pixel & Vice Versa

Tech Zulu Event

Microsoft is set to buy multi-user large display touch screens this summer the firms announced Monday. Microsoft is probably making the costly screens available for the public and embedded with their Windows 8 operating software and some hardware additions. Windows 8 also works well with the PPI screens.

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Productivity in Your Pocket

Xconomy

Today, larger mobile screens and touch interfaces are allowing people to do real work—not just e-mail—with the computer they have, wherever they are. Fast-forward to the iPhone and the smartphone explosion in 2008 with the launch of the App Store. inch screen. The app that you use is the one in your pocket.

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How Frequency Wants To Bring You Internet Video, with Blair Harrison

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Blair Harrison: I sold iFilm to Viacom at the end of 2005, and got out of there at the beginning of 2008. We got the core iFilm engineering team in late 2010, and spent about a year and a half building out our platform, and released our first consumer product at the beginning of 2012. You helped define video on the web with iFilm.

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How Pinterest, Tumblr, HootSuite, Klout, Posterous, Bitly and Mashable Rapidly And Repeatedly Hire Great People

InfoChachkie

The company launched its social media management system in 2008, growing to over 4 million users by the start of 2012. Online recruiting tools, such as ZipRecruiter and The Resumator allow employers to screen applicants via qualification surveys and competency quizzes.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

socalTECH

I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Before that, I was running product at Spotrunner. I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. When did the split with AT&T happen?

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Interview with Kian Saneii, Independa

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Kian Saneii: We formally launched in 2009, but I started looking at the market in 2008, to see what applications were out there. It's been fascinating to figure out how this third screen, which we call the smartphone, is going to fit into our society and world. Kian Saneii: 2012 is a big year for us.