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Zaarly, a startup peer-to-peer marketplace that has been called an alternative to eBay, has announced that eBay’s former CEO, Meg Whitman, will join its board of directors. The startup’s founder and CEO Bo Fishback, who also announced a $14 million round of funding on Tuesday, says th...

IBM has named 30-year company veteran Virginia Rometty as its first female CEO. Rometty will succeed the outgoing Samuel Palmisano (both pictured) in the post on Jan. 1, 2012. Palmisano will remain chairman of IBM’s board. Rometty, who joined IBM in 1981 as a systems engineer, currently ser...

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Nokia N9 probably won’t be a best-seller among smartphones. It’s the first and only smartphone based on the MeeGo platform, and Nokia has no plans for ever making it available in the U.S. It’s a device that, unfortunately, serves mostly as a reminder of Nokia’s misguided s...

The Occupy Wall Street protests have spread to cities across the world. Now they’re also spreading to banks’ websites. A program called Occupy the URL, launched Tuesday, will turn any website into a protest, complete with pop-up photos of Occupy Wall Street protesters. Users need onl...

The woman who started and managed Google‘s blogs will now be shaping Twitter‘s voice. For the past nine years, Karen Wickre has been senior media liason at Google, where she built the now more-than-150-strong Google blog platform. Here’s how she described her role in the blogs i...

UNAIDS, the UN‘s branch dealing with HIV/AIDS, has launched a digital crowdsourcing campaign to combat HIV/AIDS across the globe. The campaign, CrowdOutAIDS, stems from the idea that young people will have the best ideas about how to stop the spread of the virus, which infects 3,000 people be...

Digital subscription and single-copy sales have spiked following the launch of Apple’s Newsstand app two weeks ago. Magazine publisher Conde Nast has seen a 268% jump in digital subscriptions sales per week on average, Monica Ray, Conde Nast’s EVP of consumer marketing, announced Tues...

Sony is moving forward on a cinematic adaptation of Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs, and is courting Aaron Sorkin to write the screenplay, according to one report. The LA Times cites a source “briefed on the project but not authorized to speak publicly,” who says that ...

It’s hard to believe that a mere three months ago, Netflix stock had reached its all-time high at $300 per share. After Monday’s announcement that the company lost over 800,000 subscribers due to its price hike, the stock took a sharp dip. Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has admitted to the co...