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In Wake of Delivery Delays, Amazon Offers Gift Cards to Customers
Better late than never?
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RapGenius and Google: Tales in Growth Hacking Gone Wrong
A startup gets in hot water with Google’s search team. Was it a misstep, or did it just get caught doing what other companies are doing?News Byte
Twitter Stock Has a Very Merry Christmas
Shares of Twitter jumped another 2.5 percent upon opening on Thursday morning, trading at $71.65 per share — yet another all-time high for the newly public company. In a little over a month of its trading on the New York Stock Exchange, the stock has soared to gains of more than 200 percent of its debut price of $26 per share.News Byte
Freshdesk Nabs $7 Million Series C
Customer support startup Freshdesk announced on Thursday it had raised $7 million in a Series C round of venture funding. Existing investors Accel Partners and Tiger Global Management participated in the round. Freshdesk has raised $13 million in venture funding since its launch in mid-2011.Tweets Are the New Black: NYT Reporter’s Twitter Book to Be Made for TV
Hopefully it’s more of a Netflix joint than a Lifetime one.Continuing Its Public Content Push, Facebook Acquires SportStream
Take note, Twitter!News Byte
Yahoo Acquires Content Delivery Startup PeerCDN
Yahoo on Tuesday acquired PeerCDN, a small California-based startup that aims to reduce bandwidth costs for companies’ servers while decreasing content delivery response times. It is unclear what the acquisition — which was first reported by TechCrunch — will bring to Yahoo, though PeerCDN alludes to its love of Web technologies in its blog post on the matter.Apple’s New iPhone and Apple TV Ad Will Make You Cry
It’s a tearjerker. And it will also probably sell a lot of iPhones.News Byte