{"id":650029,"date":"2013-04-02T08:35:37","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=409090"},"modified":"2013-04-02T08:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T12:35:37","slug":"something-secret-in-the-works-as-amazon-hires-former-windows-phone-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/650029","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Something secret\u2019 in the works as Amazon hires former Windows Phone exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/amazon-kindle-smartphone-windows-phone-409090\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"435\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/04\/amazon-sign.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=435&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Amazon Kindle Fire Smartphone Windows Phone\" title=\"Amazon\" \/><\/a><\/center>It has been widely reported that <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/amazon\">Amazon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=amzn\">AMZN<\/a>) may be working on <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/27\/amazon-kindle-smartphone-specs-rumors-399936\/\">a Kindle smartphone that is expected to debut later this year<\/a>. Adding more fuel to the fire, the company has hired Charlie Kindel, a former general manager at Microsoft (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=msft\">MSFT<\/a>) who headed the development of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/windows-phone\">Windows Phone&#8217;s<\/a> app platform and developer experience. Little is known about Kindel&#8217;s new role at Amazon, although he revealed that he will be a director of \u201csomething secret.\u201d <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/04\/02\/amazon-kindle-smartphone-windows-phone-409090\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/RgggFoYXXjk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been widely reported that Amazon (AMZN) may be working on a Kindle smartphone that is expected to debut later this year. Adding more fuel to the fire, the company has hired Charlie Kindel, a former general manager at Microsoft (MSFT) who headed the development of Windows Phone&#8217;s app platform and developer experience. Little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}