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Tricia Duryee in Social on May 24 at 1:16 pm PT
File this one under a small talent acquisition: Facebook has just “acqu-hired” a number of employees from Bolt Peters, a so-called research and design agency. Co-founder Nate Bolt says it will officially close on June 22, after working on more than 200 projects for 90 clients, including Sony, HP, Electronic Arts and the Washington Post. Most of the company’s six employees will be joining Facebook and reporting to Design Director Kate Aronowitz.
John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 22 at 8:16 am PT
If lawyers didn’t design the Galaxy S III, then why is it so ugly?
iCloud is among the best products Microsoft has ever designed.
– Mike Monteiro, via Twitter
Kara Swisher in News on May 7 at 1:37 pm PT
There is a growing feeling that the social communications companies are on a product collision course, with a possible troubled or perhaps more attractive result.
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Mike Isaac in Social on May 7 at 12:17 pm PT
Wilson Miner, the lead designer at streaming music application Rdio,
has left the company for a design position at Facebook, according to a message Miner posted from his Twitter account on Monday. Miner was most recently responsible for a complete redesign of the
Rdio web application launched at South by Southwest in March, and had been at the company for more than two years. Facebook also recently snagged two other prominent hires to work on design: Ex-YouTuber
Margaret Stewart, and
Elizabeth Windram, formerly of Quora.
Lauren Goode in Product Reviews on April 2 at 6:00 am PT
HP’s Ultrabook, the Envy Spectre 14, is a good-looking, fast laptop. Is it worth $1,400?
Kara Swisher in News on March 12 at 3:00 pm PT
Even if increasingly irrelevant, being there at the start apparently has to count for something, says Yahoo in its allegations against the social networking giant.
Tricia Duryee in Commerce on February 9 at 6:22 pm PT
The videogame industry is hosting an Oscars-like ceremony Thursday in Las Vegas, where a few hundred of the top leaders will recognize the achievements in the interactive arts and sciences.
For obsessive Gawker watchers and redesign doom-mongers: the 35.6m uniques in Jan 2012 is record and 55% up from last April’s nadir.
– Nick Denton, via Twitter, almost a year after Gawker’s controversial redesign
Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 26 at 6:24 am PT
Autodesk proves that the Mac is a serious contender for running software in the workplace.
