MailChimp has announced today that its users can now insert dynamic text link ads to their email campaigns using LiveIntent. The company, which offers email-marketing services through its email platform, said that the new offer would enable users to better monetize their email campaigns without necessarily having to hard code the ads into the email, as it was before.
LiveIntent is an Internet marketing company that offers a real-time ad platform for email to users. Using what they call …

Social gaming company Zynga has acquired popular mobile application game “Draw Something”. Zynga got shocked into taking out their checkbook after the new game, which has only been around for the past six weeks, reached 35 million downloads within the short period, and knocked Zynga from the top spot on the apps store.
In those six weeks, players created more than 1 billion drawings, with about 3,000 drawings per second last week. The shock-entrant utilizes the same game play …

Gaming Industry Surpasses Video in the UK

Getting into it and not merely watching has reached the trend peak in electronic-based entertainment, at least in the UK.
BBC this morning quoted the Electronic Retailers Association (ERA) in the UK as reporting that as of 2011, the gaming industry surpassed video as the country’s largest popular entertainment source.
ERA reported that the gaming sector chalked up 1.93 billion pounds in sales last year, compared to 1.80 billion pounds made from …

Linux Plus Android Equals Easier Multitasking / image via android-reviews.org

A new version of the familiar Android operating system and the Linux kernel project released on Tuesday marked a quiet linking of the two disparate projects responsible for much of the existing mobile phone operating systems.
Scientific American reports that Linus Torvalds, the founder and leader of the Linux project, has released Version 3.3 of the Linux kernel, considered as a mainline improvement of the Linux …

Mark Zuckerberg, Out from Spotlights until Facebook’s IPO Launch

Facebook is preparing for its $ 5 billion IPO, the biggest for a company with Internet-based activities in history, and the operation leaves a mark on the American company. An important change is the disappearance of Mark Zuckerberg not only from management board meetings, but also in public life.
The message sent by company’s executives Sheryl Sandberg (COO) and David Ebersman (CFO) at the last meeting with the analysts …

New Apple iPad Achieves All-time Sales Record with 3 Million Sold in Four Days

High technology and big business have intermixed in broader and broader dimensions as Apple announced Tuesday that it sold more than 3 million new iPads in four days after its release on March 16.
The official Apple announcement declined to reveal details of what it claimed was a record sales number, but executives said that a history-making weekend might have happened following the new iPad’s worldwide public …

Giant online retail company Amazon has acquired warehouse robot making company Kiva Systems in a deal worth $775 million. The all-cash deal will see Amazon integrate Kiva, which makes robots that move around equipment in a warehouse, into its customer order fulfillment operations, which accounts for a huge chunk of Amazon’s operational expenses.
Amazon has made strategic acquisitions over the years, mostly in its order-fulfillment department, as it aims to leverage better economies of …

Dropbox, the popular file sharing platform that has become a darling with many small businesses, has made it much easier to share files through its integration with Facebook today.
The new feature allows users to share files and folders with Facebook friends through the sync feature Dropbox has added.
To use the new feature, all users have to do is head to their Dropbox account, click on the share option for the folder or file they wish to share, and in the pop-up window, they will see an …

Apple yesterday agreed to give its shareholders a dividend after almost 18 years of a dry spell. The payment of dividend, pegged at $2.65 per share, will arrive quarterly to a collectively assumed very relieved shareholding group.
Apple under Steve Jobs declined to pay out any dividends to shareholders in a play down to Steve Jobs’ style of leadership, which did not lean too much on the generous side.
New CEO Tim Cook is however rearranging the furniture, as it were, as he begins to turn …

Google Response Keenly Awaited on Delayed Payments to Software Makers / image via Flickr

An immediate explanation from Google is set to arrive today following its apology on Sunday over the reported delay in payments to software makers in Europe.
The apology on Sunday from the giant firm’s developer relations manager came almost a week after a stream of complaints reached the company’s forums  regarding the delay on the payment of apps writers based mostly in Europe, particularly in the …