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Community Spotlight: Denis Parfenov, restoring trust in politics through open government
AMD Reports Third Quarter Results and Announces Restructuring
Google Play Seller Support in India
David Eaves delivers a talk on the Science of Community at OSCON 2012
How one manager transformed his company's approach to the dreaded performance review

Community Spotlight: Denis Parfenov, restoring trust in politics through open government

Posted: 19 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

According to the 2012 Web Index Report, modern technologies are critically under utilized in Ireland—making the work of citizens like Denis Parfenov significantly challenging. If he wants to open up the Irish government, he's got to find a way to open up the data.

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AMD Reports Third Quarter Results and Announces Restructuring

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:00 AM PDT

Q3 2012 Results

AMD revenue $1.27 billion, 10 percent sequential decrease and a 25 percent decrease year-over-year
Net loss $157 million, loss per share $0.21, operating loss $131 million
Non-GAAP⁷ net loss $150 million, loss per share $0....

Google Play Seller Support in India

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 12:05 PM PDT

Posted by Ibrahim Elbouchikhi, Product Manager on the Google Play team

Over the past year, Android device activations in India have jumped more than 400%, bringing millions of new users to Google Play and driving huge increases in app downloads. In the last six months, Android users in India downloaded more apps than in the previous three years combined, and India has rocketed to become the fourth-largest market worldwide for app downloads. To help developers capitalize on this tremendous growth, we are launching Google Play seller support in India.

Starting today, developers in India can sell paid applications, in-app products, and subscriptions in Google Play, with monthly payouts to their local bank accounts. They can take advantage of all of the tools offered by Google Play to monetize their products in the best way for their businesses, and they can target their products to the paid ecosystem of hundreds of millions of users in India and across the world.

If you are an Android developer based in India, you can get started right away by signing in to your Developer Console and setting up a Google Checkout merchant account. If your apps are already published as free, you can monetize them by adding in-app products or subscriptions. For new apps, you can publish the apps as paid, in addition to selling in-app products or subscriptions.

When you've prepared your apps and in-app products, you can price them in any available currencies, publish, and then receive payouts and financial data in your local currency. Visit the developer help center for complete details.

Along with seller support, we're also adding buyer's currency support for India. We encourage developers everywhere to visit your Developer Console as soon as possible to set prices for your products in Indian Rupees and other new currencies (such as Russian Rubles).

Stay tuned for more announcements as we continue to roll out Google Play seller support to many more countries around the world.

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David Eaves delivers a talk on the Science of Community at OSCON 2012

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 04:00 AM PDT

With a background on negotiation theory, David brings a fresh and interesting perspective on the behavioral norms of open source communities.

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How one manager transformed his company's approach to the dreaded performance review

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 03:00 AM PDT

Determined to foster a culture of continuous feedback, enable coaching relationships outside traditional hierarchies, and encourage meaningful recognition among his engineering team, Gilt Groupe's John Quinn began experimenting with Rypple—a disruptive social performance management platform. Usage spread rapidly and organically, HR took notice, and Gilt soon rolled out Rypple companywide.