business

Lenovo Looks to Bridge Business and Consumer With New Ultra-Light and Ultrabook ThinkPads

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 14 at 9:01 pm PT

Lenovo’s ThinkPad X1 carbon Ultrabook is definitely not your father’s ThinkPad.

Paying With Square’s New Mobile-Payments App

Lauren Goode in Reviews on April 30 at 6:00 am PT

Square’s app for “hands-free” consumer payments is worth trying.

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 9:00 am PT

And so it begins.

Turning Attention to the Payment Side, Square Rebrands Its Card Case as “Pay With Square”

Lauren Goode in News on March 25 at 7:35 pm PT

As the mobile payments race heats up, Square, which has traditionally focused on small businesses, is turning its attention to consumers.

Fortune Gives Facebook the Apple Treatment

Peter Kafka in Media on March 1 at 5:40 am PT

Fortune is so proud of its new Mark Zuckerberg story that it’s making it hard to read.

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Kodak to Stop Making Cameras

Lauren Goode in News on February 9 at 6:56 am PT

Eastman Kodak Company has said it will stop making digital cameras, pocket video cameras and digital picture frames in the first half of 2012, in an effort to achieve annual operating savings of more than $100 million. Rochester, N.Y.-based Kodak says it plans to expand its current brand-licensing program instead, and that it will continue to produce retail-based photo kiosks, inkjet printers, online photo gallery and apps, and camera batteries and accessories. The announcement comes a few weeks after the iconic camera company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Treemo’s Appafolio Turns Brochures Into Offline Apps

Lauren Goode in Mobile on January 31 at 6:06 am PT

A Seattle-based start-up has launched an app maker for business users and marketing professionals.

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Atlantic Media Officially Announces Unnamed “Global Business Brand” Site

Kara Swisher in Media on January 19 at 4:20 am PT

As AllThingsD previously reported, Atlantic Media will be launching a new “digital global business brand,” a site that will be helmed by WSJ.com managing editor Kevin Delaney. There is no name for the site, but the media company said it “will provide high-quality content and services to business executives navigating the increasingly complex global economy.”

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LinkedIn Nabs Dow Jones Exec in Asia

Kara Swisher in Media on January 16 at 10:24 am PT

LinkedIn has hired Olivier Legrand to run its advertising business in the Asia Pacific region, where the business networking site has more than 20 million members. Legrand has most recently been running digital initiatives in Asia for News Corp.’s Dow Jones, including The Wall Street Journal.