Based on initial customer interactions, they divided themselves into two complementary but standalone teams.
Berger also stated that the publisher is employing "a standalone service team to provide worldwide 24/7 customer service for Elite members".
Instead of having a standalone customer support team for enterprise clients, the company is bringing its product and customer support teams closer together.
I'd heard whispers that certain higher-ups at the company had almost entirely switched from Facebook for iOS to Paper, and some of the standalone app's team members haven't had the old Facebook installed on their phones in months.
But it looks and feels more like a standalone site, giving the team what Zasada said is "a new domain and a new brand".
At the time of its acquisition, Pinterest said that it would allow Instapaper to operate as a standalone service, while the team was tasked with working on both the core Pinterest experience and Instapaper.
Instead, he explains, the company itself decided to pull down its standalone application because the team hadn't worked on it in over a year, and the app was now causing confusion about what Heyzap is all about.
For now, Genius Hub remains a product from Panda Network, not a standalone company, but the team is talking with investors who are likely waiting to see if the app will gain traction in the weeks ahead.
It wasn't going to launch as a standalone title; instead, the team built it as a mini-game within School of Dragons, the studio's massively-multiplayer online game based on Dreamworks Animation's "How to Train Your Dragons" universe.
Lovely will continue to operate out of San Francisco as a standalone brand, while the team also starts to look at how it can apply some of its existing technology and yet-to-launch ideas across the rest of the portfolio, although it's not committing to describing just what that might mean.
