Amazon, which already employs more than 11,000 people at its seven New Jersey sites, is planning to bring another 2,500 full-time jobs to the Garden State as part of a nationwide hiring blitz, it announced Thursday.

Bret Morgan was just 24 when he bought the music venue. But, eventually, the cutthroat atmosphere of the touring side of the music industry left him wanting to work in a more artist-friendly field.

Hackensack-based Vidyo has been providing video communication services for the health care, the federal government and financial sectors for more than a decade.

Newark-based net2phone, a provider of unified cloud-based communications services for businesses, announced that it has acquired LiveNinja.

Holtec International CEO and President Kris Singh announced this week in a year-end post on the company's website that, in mid-February, the energy technology company will begin the process of relocating staff from its Marlton location to a new $312 million campus on the Camden waterfront.

Gary Vaynerchuk, the entrepreneur who first attracted notice as the head of the Springfield-based Wine Library, has acquired women's lifestyle media brand PureWow through his New York-based VaynerX holding company, the company confirmed Thursday.

Kyle Kirkpatrick remembers the incident well: One of his clients was conducting an interview when he made a dry, offhand remark that was meant to be funny.
“It didn't translate to print,” said Kirkpatrick, director at Beckerman.