New Hire Hints Further at Upcoming Amazon (AMZN) Smartphone
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Amazon.com (Nasdaq: AMZN) is getting serious about developing a new smartphone, but is it tapping the right sources?
In a bit of fantastical research by AllThingsD -- which appears to have scoured the ends of the social media sphere from Twitter to LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) -- a 15-year Microsoft vet is joining the ranks of Amazon.
As an App Store Director.
Now, the executive, Robert Williams, was formerly Senior Director of Business Development with the Microsoft Windows Phone division.
AllThingsD also points out the Williams will be joining another Windows Phone employee, Brandon Watson, who left Microsoft in February for Amazon.
The news source did admit that current roles don't lend to the two working on an Amazon smartphone, but their credentials give them a leg up.
Then again, let's look and see how well the Microsoft Windows Phone has done in the past. Recent data suggests that Windows Phone does, in fact, have some U.S. market share.
Microsoft and Amazon stock are both about 1.8 percent lower Thursday afternoon.
In a bit of fantastical research by AllThingsD -- which appears to have scoured the ends of the social media sphere from Twitter to LinkedIn (NYSE: LNKD) -- a 15-year Microsoft vet is joining the ranks of Amazon.
As an App Store Director.
Now, the executive, Robert Williams, was formerly Senior Director of Business Development with the Microsoft Windows Phone division.
AllThingsD also points out the Williams will be joining another Windows Phone employee, Brandon Watson, who left Microsoft in February for Amazon.
The news source did admit that current roles don't lend to the two working on an Amazon smartphone, but their credentials give them a leg up.
Then again, let's look and see how well the Microsoft Windows Phone has done in the past. Recent data suggests that Windows Phone does, in fact, have some U.S. market share.
Microsoft and Amazon stock are both about 1.8 percent lower Thursday afternoon.
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