Earlier this year itemergedthat YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen were acquiring social bookmarking serviceDeliciousfrom Yahoo. Nowjob listingshave appeared on Hurley and Chen’sAVOScompany website, listing three development positions, a community manager and a general counsel to cover legal matters related to the company. From recruitment information we’ve been passed separately, it appears that Avos is planning to relaunch Delicious this fall. Although, the job listings don’t tell us much about what the new version of the service will be like, a key part of the web developer role will be to “Design and develop highly intuitive interface components that provide a high degree of utility without sacrificing simplicity”, another vacancy is for someone to develop new browser extensions, while an Application Developer will be working on web app components for the new service....

Mitch Joel, digital marketing guru and he ofSix Pixels of Separation, tells us the consumer has never been more in control. I think he’s being generous: I’m sceptical whether as entrepreneurs we haveanycontrol of the agenda today, let alone have the power to resist. I’ve been watching the slow and unyielding digression of power from the C-suite to the guy and gals in the customer service hot seats who are the ultimate decision makers to whether we keep or lose our most valuable asset: The customer....

Have you heard ofDelivery.com? I’ll give you three chances to guess what it is…But I bet you’ll only need one. Since its launch in 2004, Delivery.com has connected over a half million users to merchants in over 40 U.S. states. Whether a busy lifestyle or a lazy lifestyle has caught you with zero time to spare, this company provides you with delivery and pickup services from local restaurants, grocers, flower, pet stores, etc....

American computer maker Dell and search giant Baidu have announced a partnership to produce tablet computers for the Chinese market. The news comes as device-makers Apple and Lenovo consolidate an ever-stronger leadership position on a market with 900 million mobile phone subscribers. But even capturing a fraction of this potential customer base would be a big deal. “We have a partnership with Baidu and you know we have the Streak 5 tablet, so the partnership will be in that space,” a Dell spokeswoman said in an interview withReutersyesterday, and added that the two companies would be collaborating on handsets as well as tablets....

Dell is out of the game. And we don’t mean the snow business, we are talkingWindows Phone. Not that Dell was ever a very important cog in the WP7 wheel, but it is certainly a player no more. As background, the company’s only phone that it built for the Windows Phone ecosystem, the Dell Venue Pro, was plagued with issues. From delays, to shipping experimental hardware, to simply faulty devices, Dell had a very rough run in the early months of Windows Phone’s life....