8 posts and columns on Duke

CaptainU Builds the Mint.com for Student Athletes

in News on November 20, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

The path from high school sports superstar to college scholarship MVP can be a treacherous one. CaptainU — a start-up built by former collegiate athletes — helps navigate it.
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Nokia’s Jo Harlow Outlines the Game Plan for the Windows Phone Transition

in Mobile on March 1, 2011 at 7:00 am PT

In an interview with Mobilized, the head of Nokia’s smartphone unit (and former Duke women’s basketball team captain) talks about the many challenges she faces as the Finnish cell phone giant prepares to completely change the way it develops its products. Harlow outlines her approach to the multifaceted challenges, which range from managing employee angst, to rapidly embracing a new partner to continuing to churn out the Symbian models that are essential to maintaining the company’s market presence.

Salesforce Buys Small Contact Management Start-Up Etacts

in Social on December 21, 2010 at 11:59 am PT

Salesforce has bought Etacts, the contacts management tool, according to a source familiar with the matter. Etacts informed users today that it will shut down as of January 31 in order to “pursue other opportunities.”

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Android Apps Transmitting Private Data

in News on September 30, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

A new study shows that many popular Android apps transmit private user data to advertising networks without the user’s consent or knowledge. Researchers from Duke, Penn State and Intel Labs developed an application called TaintDroid, which detects such transmissions, and tested 30 apps from the Android Market–half of which were found to be sending GPS coordinates to remote servers. The developers of the TaintDroid application plan to make it available to the public to enable user awareness of data collection.

CBS: No Web Ad Recession for March Madness

in Media on March 5, 2009 at 12:39 pm PT

Here’s a pleasant, rare bit of media news sunshine: CBS says advertisers are still lining up to get into its March Madness Webcast. The company expects to generate $30 million in Web ads from the college tournament this year, up 30 percent from 2008.
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