Saroj Kar, Author at SiliconANGLE

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The $550M Patent Trade Off: From AOL to Microsoft to Facebook

By Saroj Kar Apr 23, 2012

Microsoft and Facebook have reached an important agreement today that gives the social network access to a large number of strategic patents. Microsoft is selling a portion of the patents to Facebook that the…

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Early Amazon Cloud Marketplace Rivals

By Saroj Kar Apr 23, 2012

Amazon continues to strengthen its offering in cloud with an app store for cloud applications, the AWS Marketplace. The new portal allows customers to buy the Amazon’s cloud applications as well as third party software…

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Spotify Tunes Up Android but Still Has a Ways to Go

By Saroj Kar Apr 19, 2012

Spotify for Android gets an update with a complete design makeover and improved navigation, more social media integration and high resolution artist images. The update comes at a time when users have had many…

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Banjo Social Discovery App Hits One Million Users

By Saroj Kar Apr 18, 2012

Banjo, the location based social discovery app for iPhone and Android that lets you view users’ profiles based on their location, has hit the million user mark. Launched nine months ago on both iOS…

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Social Tools to Measure Your Real Influence and Success

By Saroj Kar Apr 18, 2012

With the growing buzz around Klout, it’s clear people want to gain a better understanding of our social network presence, its reach and influence. There’s several tools out there to help determine this to…

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Quality and Support – The Key to Customer Loyalty [REPORT]

By Saroj Kar Apr 12, 2012

April has been deemed customer loyalty month, in case you were wondering. To highlight customer loyalty, ClickFox revealed the results of a recent study on the relationship between customer loyalty and company performance. As it turns out,…

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AOL Lowlights – The Downfall of an Internet Innovator

By Saroj Kar Apr 11, 2012

AOL, the media company known early on for providing online services and electronic bulletin boards, has the fifth most popular search engine in the world. AOL was once instrumental in bringing people to web…

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A Breakdown of Facebook’s Goals with Instagram Acquisition

By Saroj Kar Apr 9, 2012

Facebook has taken control of the popular social photo sharing application Instagram for $1 billion, as reported by Mark Zuckerberg in his own Facebook wall. The acquisition will be Facebook’s biggest acquisition to date.…

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Who Cares about Facebook Timeline Cover Photos? Not Brand Fans

By Saroj Kar Apr 6, 2012

Just last week, Facebook updated all the business pages on its network to the new Facebook Timelines format. But is the new layout really better than the old one? Market researchers from SimpleUsability investigated the…

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Apple, Amazon Face Different Outcomes from Booming eBooks Market

By Saroj Kar Apr 6, 2012

Today’s e-reader roundup features a possible pricing settlement of The U.S. Department of Justice with three of the world’s biggest publishers that sells e-books to Apple, Amazon’s launch of the Spanish language Kindle store,…

Saroj Kar

The $550M Patent Trade Off: From AOL to Microsoft to Facebook

AOL Lowlights – The Downfall of an Internet Innovator

Apple, Amazon Face Different Outcomes from Booming eBooks Market

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