Alisha Slaughter goes onto Pinterest at least once a week in order to organize different pieces of her life. She “pins” Web images with information on gardening, interior design ideas, holiday crafts, recipes, patterns for her family’s clothes, and search engine optimization strategies to help with her marketing business. “It’s kind of like what you would do with magazines in the olden days,” said Slaughter, an Aptos, Calif.,
Amazon.com (AMZN) school is in session. The world’s leading e-commerce retailer has launched a new educational curriculum concerning the cloud. Amazon operates Amazon Web Services, the largest provider of cloud services. AWS has rapidly become a big business. The company’s new service, AWS Educate, is designed to help educators and students use real-world cloud technology in the classroom and prepare students before they enter the cloud workforce.
Tencent Holdings (TCEHY) received a price target increase by Pacific Crest Securities, which called it the best positioned Chinese Internet company. Tencent reported better-than-expected first-quarter earnings Wednesday morning, with online advertising revenue more than doubling. “We see an inflection in the advertising segment and view it as a significant, multiyear revenue driver for Tencent,” wrote Pacific Crest analyst Cheng Cheng. “We