Apple’s head of iOS product marketing was spotted by journo Tom Kratiz of Paid Content on the floor at CES 2012. Kratiz was wandering around the Las Vegas Convention Center on Tuesday when he bumped into “Joz” just adjacent of Sony’s booth. He apparently “grinned sheepishly” after realizing he’d been recognized and stopped briefly to chat about what he’d noted.
Sharp-eyed observers at TheNextWeb have noticed that Apple has subtly altered Senior Vice President Phil Schiller's title on Apple's leadership page, possibly representing changes being made internally to expand his role to also cover retail operations, formerly the territory of recently-departed head of retail Ron Johnson, who left Apple to head up JC Penney. Schiller was head of worldwide product marketing, and is now head of worldwide marketing.
Excel Software is shipping MarketBuddy 2.0, an update to the automated marketing tool. Among the new features are custom fields, contact-record check boxes and choices, form creation and data entry. MarketBudy stores and organizes contact information, then automates marketing activities, like posting news to websites and sending press releases to distribution sites.
TiVo on Tuesday announced it has teamed up with Amazon to offer buyers the opportunity to buy items associated with the shows they're watching via their TiVo remote. The new Product Purchase feature gives television advertisers to promote products sold on Amazon.com via in-show pop-ups that are related to mainstream TV shows. The feature would not only allow the possibility of viewers purchasing products featured on shows, such as a new album or book of a guest on a talk show such as Oprah.
