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Start Spreading the News: Yahoo Gets New Times Square Office, Offers Free...
At a media event in New York today, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer announced a new office in Times Square for the Silicon Valley Internet giant. “From one Mayor to another,” said Mayor Michael Bloomberg to...
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Jawbone Hires Microsoft's Mindy Mount as President to Turbocharge Ops
In a key hire, Jawbone said today that it had hired Mindy Mount, a top corporate VP at Microsoft, as its president. The move by the San Francisco-based maker of wireless, music and wearable devices is...
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Draw Something From This: Yahoo's Design Chief Tim Parsey to Depart
Yahoo’s design chief, the effervescent Tim Parsey, will be leaving his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, sources said. As SVP of User Experience Design at Yahoo, which centralized the task...
View ArticleYahoo Search Gets a Facelift
Yahoo has rolled out a new design for its search pages in the U.S. that moves results higher on the page, adds improved navigation and loads faster.
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Apple's Declaration of Values: Simplify, Perfect, Delight
“People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on. But that’s not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are. You have to pick...
View ArticleTwitter Principal Designer Josh Brewer to Depart
Josh Brewer, principle designer at Twitter for nearly three years, announced Wednesday he will soon leave the company to “pursue his own thing.” Brewer worked on a number of key initiatives during his...
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Motorola's First Moto X Ad Pitches Patriotism and "Personalized" Smartphones
What’s more American: Making your own hot dog or making your own smartphone? This Fourth of July, Motorola is emphasizing the latter. According to a report in Ad Age, the Google-owned handset maker is...
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company
According to sources, Yahoo’s media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the...
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eBay CEO John Donahoe on the Importance of Design
EBay is a monster of e-commerce. With a $67 billion market cap, upward of 130 million monthly active users and tens of billions in volume moving through the service regularly, it’s hard to argue...
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The Limits of Crowdfunding: Big Ambitions Can't Overcome a Lack of Big Names,...
As noted many times before in this space, Kickstarter has proven over the past year and a half to be a potent fundraising source for games — some games, that is. The huge successes of projects like...
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ATD Week in Review: Facebook Gets More Twittery and Kara's Open Letter to...
Asa Mathat / AllThingsD.comIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos bought the Washington Post for $250 million,...
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Your iTunes Collection, Displayed as a Solar System
Most museum artifacts require careful transportation, temperature-controlled storage or secure glass cases. Not this one. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City has...
View ArticleDesign Matters
I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, “Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive.” – Robert Brunner, the founder of Apple’s industrial design group
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Hey Yahoo! Take a Gander at These (Much Better) Crowdsourced Logos.
Yahoo debuted this new logo yesterday — the first redesign since 2009 (and not in 18 years, as the Silicon Valley Internet giant claimed) — and it was greeted with less-than-enthusiastic reviews. While...
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ATD Week in Review: The Inside Story of Microkia, Apple in China and Yahoo's...
SARI GUSTAFSSON/AFP/Getty ImagesIn case you missed anything, here’s a quick roundup of some of the news that powered AllThingsD this week: Late on Monday, Microsoft announced that it would spend $7.17...
View ArticleFacebook for iOS 7 -- Now With More Tabs
Facebook updated its mobile app for Apple’s iOS 7 release on Wednesday, adding a row of tabs to the bottom of the screen, among other iOS 7-centric design flourishes. (Which in itself is somewhat...
View ArticleApple's Mission
One of the ironies is that, from a design point of view, we feel that we’ve done our job when you finally get to that point and you think, “Well, there couldn’t be a rational alternative.” It appears...
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Sex Toy Story: Jimmyjane’s Ethan Imboden Wants to Make Vibrators as Common as...
Jimmyjane founder Ethan Imboden and the Hello Touch Before he designed vibrators, Jimmyjane founder and chairman Ethan Imboden spent more than a decade designing cellphones, footwear and furniture for...
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Twitter Tweaks Its Welcome Screen to Better Explain Itself
Twitter’s IPO is just around the corner — and it’s already showing signs of change. The company quietly updated the Twitter.com homepage over the weekend, changing the visual design and welcome text...
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AOL Turns Moviefone Over to BermanBraun for Reboot
After buying it in 1999 — at the height of the Web 1.0 bubble — for upwards of $500 million in stock, AOL has pretty much let Moviefone languish ever since. As others — from a myriad of entertainment...
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Amazon Builds the Spheres, While Google Opts for the Hulk
As with Apple, Facebook, Samsung and many other tech companies, Amazon and Google are in the analog building business of late. According to the Seattle Times, the e-commerce giant had its plan for a...
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Facebook Wants to Be a Newspaper. Facebook Users Have Their Own Ideas.
Most people think of Facebook in a similar way: It’s a place to share photos of your kids. It’s a way to keep up with friends and family members. It’s a place to share a funny, viral story or LOLcat...
View ArticleKleiner Perkins Emphasizes Design With New Product Mentorship Program
Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers announced on Wednesday the formation of ProductWorks, an initiative that will involve Kleiner partners lending design and product expertise to...
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Yahoo Says Mail Functionality Is Returning, but Some Users Might Be Missing...
Yahoo, which had been glacial in giving users information about problems with its high-profile Yahoo Mail product over the last several days, said last night that it had restored access to the...
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Noogler Poach -- Google Nabs Top Maps and AR Engineer From Microsoft (Video)
TED/www.leslieimage.com Microsoft has lost one of its most well-regarded and creative engineers to Google. According to the software giant and the search leader, Blaise Agüera y Arcas will now be a...
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