Former Microsoft accounts analyst Randal Ray Seal was found guilty of stealing over a million dollars from the company’s coffers and sentenced to two years in jail,according to a report bySeattle P-I. The 54-year-old Shoreline, WA resident was indicted in December 2010 and pleaded guilty in May this year. According to federal prosecutors, Seal exploited a loophole in Microsoft’s bookkeeping system and had been surreptitiously laundering the money since 2003, only to be discovered after he had left the company....

In March 2010, Gina Bianchini stepped down as the CEO of Ning, a DIY social network with more than 45 million registered users. Carried bythe wind of change, she started working on an idea for a new social technology. In April, she hired an engineering team and began to build in earnest. Today,Mightybell, a web and iOS app, is launching in limited beta, focused on users who want to “create an experience” based on the simple premise:you are what you do....

A former Samsung manager has admitted to supplying confidential Apple data to a hedge fund manager, supplying information on liquid crystal displays (LCD) used in the Cupertino-based company’s iPad, before it was due to launch. BusinessWeek reportsthat Suk-Joo Hwang, a US-based Samsung employee, testified at the insider-trader trial of Primary Global Research, detailing a lunch meeting with Fleishman and a hedge fund manager, providing them with information on Apple’s plans to use Samsung screens in a new tablet device that was to become the iPad – four months before it was released....

The mobile VoIP market is crowded, so you definitely need something unique to stand out from the crowd and Swiss startupVoxtrotcould well have hit on a great idea – free calls without having to launch an app. Unlike rivals services such as Truphone and Viber, Voxtrot sits on top of your phone’s native phone app. When you call someone who isn’t a Voxtrot member, it’s routed normally. However, if you call a fellow user, it’s sent by VoIP and is free....

Formstackhasintroduced a landing page builderthat assists users in quickly developing marketing pages that users will typically come to after clicking on an advertisement. The landing page builder gives you several layout options, divided by columns, and allows you to drop just about any content including videos and RSS feeds into those columns. Since it’s so important that landing pages represent an organization’s branding clearly, the builder allows you to use custom CSS code to style the page however you like....