3 posts and columns on William Lynch

The Nook Doesn’t Need the Cloud. The Nook Needs the Cloud. Discuss.

in Media on November 7, 2011 at 11:49 am PT

Unlike Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble’s new tablet isn’t tied to a proprietary cloud service. The bookseller seems to have mixed feelings about it.
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Spring Design: Here’s How Barnes & Noble Turned Our Reader Into the Nook

in Media on November 3, 2009 at 3:00 pm PT

Puzzled by the weird story of the “Alex,” the would-be e-reader that looks something like the “Nook,” the e-reader Barnes & Noble introduced last month? Then this won’t clear anything up: Spring Design’s court case against the bookseller, which it says broke an “implicit promise” and stole its idea for a two-screen device.
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Rapp Becomes CEO of Gifts.com

in News on June 2, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

Jason Rapp, IAC’s SVP of mergers and acquisitions, will become CEO of Gifts.com, an IAC-created gifts recommendation engine. Gifts.com President & CEO William Lynch, who founded the site for IAC (IACI), will transition to HSN full-time as its EVP of marketing and content. He had previously been managing the HSN.com site, while also running Gifts.com. [...]