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The rise of social shopping in 2011: 7 examples of where it is going

Trends in the Living Networks

Here is a nice comparison of these two leaders in the shopping recommendation space: - ShopTogether. Watch for it in 2011. Social networks to help product discovery, based on recommendations by members. Allows customers to do real-time synchronized online shopping with their friends, emulating a physical group shopping expedition.

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Microsoft adds 23k employees in one year, growing 14% despite pandemic and tight labor market

GeekWire

Microsoft has more than doubled in size over the past decade, from about 90,000 employees in 2011 to 189,984 as of Sept. By comparison, a decade ago , the mix was 21,000 or 23% in operations; 35,000 or 39% in product R&D; 25,000 or 27% in sales and marketing, and 9,000 or 10% in general and administrative roles. 30 of this year.

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Sony data breach 2023: Investigation starts

Dataconomy

This, however, pales in comparison to the sweeping assertion that they had compromised “all Sony systems” including your beloved PlayStation. In a high-profile incident on April 20, 2011, the company was forced to deactivate its servers for the PlayStation Network due to an “external intrusion.”

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Tencent-owned studio behind Call of Duty: Mobile reportedly earned $10 billion in 2020

The Verge

For comparison, Activision Blizzard (which publishes the Call of Duty franchise) posted 2020 revenues of $8.09 It bought a majority stake of League of Legends developer Riot Games in 2011 and then full ownership in 2015. Reuters ’ article says those earnings make TiMi the “world’s largest developer,” according to its sources.

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Netflix is justing giving DVDs away now

Vox

By 2011, it was clear that streaming was the future not only for Netflix but for movies and TV shows in general. In 2011, when the split happened, that number was about 16 million, and now it’s between 1.1 Netflix’s streaming service, by comparison, added 5.9 That kind of thing never happened with a DVD.

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From vacant storefronts to vibrant hubs: Revisiting ‘third places’ for urban resilience

GeekWire

Long before the impacts of pandemic and protest on downtown Seattle, I wrote about the closing of Borders Books adjacent to Seattle’s Westlake Mall, in 2011. In 2011, when Borders closed, the City Council was simultaneously focused on legislation to enable food trucks. This brings us full circle to the ongoing reinvention of downtown.

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Impressions of the 2011 SharePoint Conference, Part 2 (Monday Keynotes)

Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge

Another impression that occurred to me throughout the week at the SharePoint Conference , in stark comparison to the Oracle/Salesforce kerfuffle up the coast at OpenWorld, was that I rarely, if ever, heard about competitive technologies to SharePoint in keynotes or sessions. at least in the sessions I was in.