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| Lenovo Emerges as World's Biggest PC Maker | | According to the latest numbers by IDC and Gartner, Lenovo is currently the biggest PC supplier in the world. This is not the first time Lenovo has surpassed Hewlett-Packard. According to Gartner's report from October 2012, Lenovo has been the no. 1 PC maker in the third quarter of 2012. Back then, IDC's numbers weren't backing up that claim, but now both analyst firms have Lenovo at the top.
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| What Samsung's New American HQ Says About the Korean Giant | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 8:39 PM | The Atlantic |
| Samsung breaks ground on a new $300 million North American headquarters building in San Jose today. The building will house more than 2,000 employees in R&D and sales. As you'd expect, it's a green (LEED Gold) building that's designed to foster fickle innovation by making it easy for people to bump into each other in courtyards and facilities.
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| Bill Hader Has Awful Luck With His Phone in New T-Mobile Ads | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:23 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Bill Hader has a new role: T-Mobile pitchman. The Saturday Night Live alum appears in a series of 30-second spots for T-Mobile promoting Jump, a new program that gives customers the option to upgrade their phones twice a year by paying a monthly fee of $10. SEE ALSO: 15 Bill Hader GIFS to Drown Your "SNL" Sorrows In one video, Hader drops his phone in a urinal; in another, a heavyset man sits on it, crushing the screen.
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| Announcing the First Round of Mashies Judges | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 3:03 PM | Casey Brown |
| From real-time marketing to social advertising, digital is making a lasting impact on the marketing industry, and we want to highlight the best in digital marketing with the Mashies. The Mashies is Mashable's new awards program that recognizes outstanding work using different forms of new media. Award categories include Best Viral Video, Best Branded Content Series, Best Use of Twitter and many more.
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| Amazon Adds 'Pulp Fiction,' Other Miramax Films to Streaming Catalog | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:50 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| Hundreds of Miramax films, including classics like Pulp Fiction, Good Will Hunting and Amelie, are coming to Amazon's Prime Instant Video streaming service as part of a new licensing agreement with the studio. The deal isn't exclusive: Based on the details we know, it appears to be similar, if not identical, to the multi-year deal Miramax signed with Netflix in mid-2011.
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| Magazines Increase iPad Ad Sales 25% in First Half | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 2:25 PM | Lauren Indvik |
| While magazines' print ad pages were flat in the first half of the year, publishers continued to see a nice uptick in growth in sales of iPad units, which increased by 25% in the period. Using figures from Kantar Media, the Publishers Information Bureau looked at the 58 titles that reported ad sales both in print and in their iPad editions.
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| Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Hits 5-Year High Under Marissa Mayer | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 1:55 PM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Marissa Mayer has said the first step in her plan to turn around Yahoo is to make the company a more desirable place to work. So how well has that worked out? The average employee satisfaction rating at Yahoo was 3.7 out of 5 in three of the four quarters that Mayer has been CEO, according to data provided to Mashable by Glassdoor, a job site that features reviews from anonymous employees for thousands of companies.
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| Fake Porn Site Directs You to IKEA Beds | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:43 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| A faux porn site called "Hot Malms" for IKEA's Malm beds is certainly one of the odder projects we've seen lately. The site beckons users to click with captions like "Twin Blonde Malms" and "Hot Malm's Bottom Stuffed," which show grainy shots of the beds that are definitely SFW. There's even a live web cam that entices you to "live chat with Hot Malms now." Click through, and you're taken to the official IKEA site to buy a bed.
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| Apple Found Guilty in E-books Conspiracy | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 10:21 AM | Lauren Indvik |
| In a surprise ruling, a New York district judge found Apple guilty of conspiring to raise the retail prices of e-books with publishers and violating antitrust and state laws. A trial on damages is set to follow.
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| Microsoft Ad Slams iPad for Striking Out When You Need It Most | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:53 AM | Seth Fiegerman |
| Microsoft has a new pitch for the Windows tablet: It's much better for baseball recruiters than the iPad. No, we're not joking. Microsoft's latest ad shows two scouts watching a promising pitcher and trying to pull up stats about him on their tablet while simultaneously video chatting on the device with representatives from their respective teams.
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| 7 Hot Marketing Jobs in New York, Portland and More | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:38 AM | Sarah Ang |
| Unemployed, underemployed or somewhere in between? The Mashable Job Board is here to help. Since 2005, Mashable has been dedicated to providing the hottest digital, social and tech news to our readership of 25 million and counting. Top companies know you excel in the digital world, so they come to Mashable to find the best and brightest minds. New jobs — including ones exclusive to us — are added every day to the Mashable Job Board.
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| Report: BlackBerry Fires U.S. Sales Chief, More Layoffs Planned | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:18 AM | Todd Wasserman |
| Lower-than-expected sales will prompt a new round of layoffs at BlackBerry and at least one exec — the company's U.S. sales chief — is already gone, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal writes that Richard Piasentin, the company's VP of sales, was fired last month.
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| Getting to Know Evernote Business | | Wednesday, July 10, 2013 7:37 AM | Sarah Ang |
| Ah, common office frustrations. There's the back-and-forth messaging between employees for triple-confirmation, the sharing and re-sharing of lost Google Docs, and those long and confusing email threads that never seem to die. But imagine how efficient your workplace would be if everyone — designers, marketers, C-suiters, salespeople — had a shared knowledge of all of your company's information.
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