Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) has announced its first app for sellers called Amazon Sellers. The new app provides tools to sellers for managing accounts and interacting with customers. The app can be used for tracking prices and creating sales listings. Sellers can track sales ranks, customer reviews, and can search for new items to sell.
Vobile is a content identification company that has acquired video analytics startup called Blayze in order to better target YouTube networks and other publishers. Both of Blayze’s co-founders will join Vobile and will establish a new L.A. office. The acquisition is part cash and part stock.
[Source: GigaOM]
Disney Interactive has announced that 700 jobs will be eliminated, which is around 26% of their staff. These cuts were expected and will mostly affect the Disney Playdom group. Playdom creates games for social media platforms and mobile devices. Disney Interactive is going to develop fewer mobile and social games in-house, but will continue to license games from development partners.
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General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) is planning to build a 225,000 square foot stamping plant at the Lansing Grand River assembly plant site in Lansing, Michigan. The stamping plant is expected to cost $165 million and will create 65 jobs.
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Satoshi Nakamoto is a Japanese-American man that lives in a modest home in Southern California. He has denied involvement with the digital currency and got into a freeway car chase to the local headquarters of the Associated Press. Nakamoto has been anonymous since the currency was introduced, but a Newsweek reporter named Leah Goodman unveiled his identity. He apparently lives in Temple City, California.
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Sony Corporation (TYO:6758) has announced that Jack Tretton will be stepping down from his role as President and CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment America. Jack will be replaced by Executive Vice President and COO of Sony Network Entertainment International Shawn Layden on March 31st, 2014.
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General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) and Ford Motor Company (NYSE:F) have both reported double-digit sales gains in China for February. GM increased 20% and Ford jumped 67% from a year earlier period.
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DigitalOcean is a cloud hosting company that has raised $37.2 million in funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Previous investors IA Ventures and CrunchFund also participated in this round.
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