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34 posts and columns on Switzerland
HP’s Future, ESPN’s March Madness and Jerry Yang Strikes Back: The AllThingsD Week in Review 3/17/13 — 3/23/13
The Top 10 stories of the week, in one convenient serving.
How Apple Gets All the Good Apps
While Apple never creates apps for other mobile systems or devices, its major mobile-platform foes — Google, Amazon and Microsoft — make many of their apps available for Apple devices.
Q4 Earnings Call: Mayer Says “Chain Reaction” Needed to Blast Yahoo Into the Future
Turnaround via nuclear fission.
Sweet! Mayer Declares That It’s Peanut Butter and Jelly Time at Yahoo.
Good riddance to the Peanut Butter Manifesto and hello to Process, Bureaucracy & Jams.
Where in the World Is HP’s Prith Banerjee Going? Answer: Zurich.
Banerjee is off to be CTO of the Swiss Industrial giant ABB.
Pulling Back Apple’s Magic Curtain: Fortune’s Lashinsky Talks About New Book (Video)
And you’ll be interested to see what he found.
News Byte
eBay Acquires Invoicing Company in Germany
EBay has acquired BillSAFE, which serves 15 million accounts in Germany, after buying a minority stake in the company last year. Terms were not disclosed. With BillSAFE, PayPal customers will now be able to receive an invoice for an order, after items have been shipped and received. Because of its security benefits, purchasing by invoice is used heavily in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Netherlands, eBay says.Exclusive: Groupon’s Mason Tells Troops in Feisty Internal Memo: “It Looks Good.”
Facing a barrage of negative press about its upcoming IPO, Groupon CEO and co-founder Andrew Mason took up a pen to counter critics of the social buying service in a pugnacious email to employees.
Swiss Court to Google: You Can't Afford Manual Street-View Blurring? Are You Kidding?
Google argues that manually blurring out the faces and license plates sometimes captured by Street View is financially and logistically unfeasible. But the company’s going to have to do it anyway if it wants to continue offering the service in Switzerland.
You've Got Arianna: AOL Buys Huffington Post for $315 Million in Cash and Stock, Appoints Huffington Editor in Chief
In a bold and definitive move, AOL is paying $315 million, mostly in cash, to buy the Huffington Post, one of the Web’s most prominent news and opinion sites. As part of the deal, Huffington Post co-founder Arianna Huffington–who was derided by some when she co-founded the left-leaning site in 2005 with investor and well-known communications exec Kenneth Lerer–will become editor in chief of a new unit that has purview over all of AOL content properties. The deal was signed just this afternoon.