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If innovation favors the young, it's no surprise that Amazon earned an impressive 180 patents at its Seattle operations in 2011.

Few companies truly understand how the consumer thinks, and even fewer are able to successfully translate this understanding into an integrated mobile experience.

The payment will depend on a number of factors, of course, but may still work out to the retailers advantage Amazon is finally getting in on the fandom and fanfiction action online in their latest business move.

With Yahoo's $1.1 billion purchase of blogging platform Tumblr, this week's podcast will focus on the future of the two companies and how, or if, they'll survive the transition.

Dwell Media, the San Francisco based publisher of modern design bible Dwell, has hired Brandon Huff as its new evp of digital media to lead a new e-commerce push.

's stock had its "buy" rating reaffirmed by research analysts at TheStreet in a report released on Friday, Analyst Ratings Network.com reports.

KKR & Co. and Silver Lake Management in partnership with William Morris Endeavor Entertainment have submitted bids for Hulu, Bloomberg reports.

WordPress.com parent company Automattic today announced a $50 million investment from Tiger Global, in a secondary deal that will provide liquidity to early company shareholders.

Every two weeks, Search Influence's Kelly Benish - who knows practically everyone in hyperlocal - covers some of the latest job changes taking place in this dynamic industry.

Or it could shout after you as you hurry out its front door: 'Oi, you've left your keys inside me again, you muppet!' But bestowing our humble abodes with the ability to communicate could be rather helpful, which is why the idea holds a particular fascination for us.

Tumblr founder David Karp is set to become one of the richest 'techies' in the world.

Jeffrey M. Johnson, the newly named publisher of the San Francisco Chronicle, and Joanne K. Bradford, the newly named president of the San Francisco Chronicle, are seen on Thursday, May 23, 2013 in San Francisco, Calif.

The new interest for companies looking for acquisitions is in social-networking sites with youthful, active users - regardless of whether these start-ups have figured out how to make money.

In a key hire, Jawbone said today that it had hired Mindy Mount, a top corporate VP at Microsoft, as its president.

Another day, another acquisition from Sunnyvale-based Yahoo. The Internet giant on Thursday announced it was buying Belmont-based gaming infrastructure startup PlayerScale.

Amazon selling fanfic may sound a great idea, but the whole point of these stories is they go where the powers that be won't 'Fan fiction exists to create what the original work is failing to offer a such as stories where two male characters get it together.' It's been a tumultuous week for internet fandom.

According to Tribune's release, the new company will be based in Silicon Valley, and Seth will report directly to Tribune CEO Peter Liguori.

Ken Ackerman stands in front of his mobile home on Wednesday, May 22, 2013, in Novato, Calif.

GADGET DESIGNER Apple reportedly is planning to introduce Flickr and Vimeo integration in iOS 7, which will launch next month at its Worldwide Developers Conference .

Tumblr Inc.'s $1.1 billion purchase by Yahoo! Inc. returned $192 million to its two biggest venture backers, a person familiar with the matter said, disputing an estimate by research firm PrivCo.