the agile lean blog: April 2012

Monday, April 30, 2012

Groupon?s board plays musical chairs as stock drops

Groupon’s board of directors is playing musical chairs as the downtrodden daily deals company attempts to address fallout from an accounting restatement that sent its stock price plummeting.

The company, now trading at more than 60 percent off its initial …

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Kiip Extends Developer Fund Deadline, Sweetens Pot With Services And Advisors

For game developers who thought about applying for the $100,000 Build Fund from rewards network Kiip but didn't get around to it yet ? good news! The deadline has been extended from today until May 30. And for those of you who weren't planning to apply, well, the company is adding some features to the fund that may entice you. The goal is to encourage the creation of games that incorporate Kiip's reward programs in their initial designs (rather than adding them later). Twenty developers are supposed to receive $5,000 in cash (adding up to $100,000 in all) ? it's not a huge amount of funding, but CEO Brian Wong says it could make a real difference to an independent developer.

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2012 Jerez MotoGP Saturday Press Release Round Up

Press releases from the MotoGP teams after qualifying at Jerez on Saturday:

Year:

2012

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Exclusive: Teresa Giudice Apologizes: "I Miss My Friends And Family"

As she watched the April 22 premiere of The Real Housewives of New Jersey, Teresa Giudice longed to turn back the hands of time. Here were the women she was once closest to ? now all discussing how much they can?t stand her. ?Things have gotten out of hand,? Teresa admits to In Touch. ?I want to accept responsibility for the things I did wrong. I?m truly sorry.?

Teresa?s tearful olive branch stems from an epiphany she had while playing for a charity on Celebrity Apprentice. ?All of this drama seemed insignificant after I was exposed to people with real problems.? And so, in an attempt to bury the hatchet, Teresa, 39, has written open letters to Jacqueline, Melissa, Kathy and Caroline. ?I wish I could take it all back and start over,? she confesses.

In her open letter to Jacqueline, Teresa writes, "Dear Jacqueline, I wish we could have resolved things sooner because I?m sincerely sorry for upsetting you ? and I?m sorry I didn?t respond to your apology on Twitter. I feel like things have gotten out of hand, which is sad. I miss our friendship. I miss being like Lucy and Ethel with you. And so I hope we can work through these problems one day, when you are ready. Teresa xoxo"

To read all of Teresa's open letters to her former friends, pick up this week's issue of In Touch.

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'My Big Fat American Gypsy Wedding' EP Says Gaining the Group's Trust Was 'Incredibly Difficult'

Jethro Nededog
Executive Producer David Herman tells THR that shooting the new TLC series was "the most extensive pre-production and production period I?ve been on."

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Sunday, April 29, 2012

Jimmy Kimmel Plays It Safe With White House Correspondents' Dinner Speech (Video)

Michael O'Connell
The "Live!" host gets a steady stream of laughs for skewering President Obama's chances of reelection and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie's weight -- after Obama opens with pot shots at his own childhood encounter with dog meat.

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'Fringe': John Noble Previews 'Massive' Two-Part Season Finale (Video)

Philiana Ng
"It deals with the great question that has been postured over four years: Are we capable or do we have a moral right to behave like gods?" Noble told THR.

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iPad Mini: 6 Reasons Apple Must Do It

Apple has good reasons to think smaller with its next iPad, as a Google Android tablet waits in the wings.

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Cuisines From My Stepfather

Mark Steyn, National Review
A couple of days ago, Obama-campaign top dog David Axelrod threw in the towel on the dog war. “I thought it was a little absurd to talk about what the president had done as a ten-year-old boy,” he sniffed to MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell, which is as near as the suddenly sheepish attack dog will ever get to conceding that Barack Obama is the first dog-eating president in the history of the republic. For those coming late to the feud, the Democrats started it, assiduously promoting accounts of a 1983 Romney vacation to Canada in which the family pooch Seamus rode on the...

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