All the stories tagged with business
Sony store strategy is paying off
11/29/2011, We had an opportunity to talk to Phil Molyneux (President and Chief Operating Officer, Sony Electronics Inc) in San Francisco, and we discussed about Sony’s efforts to change its overall user experience, including the store experience. As Phil Molyneux would [...]
HTC massively cuts revenue estimates
11/23/2011, HTC just tamed its growth expectations by filing a document with stock market authorities in which it says that Q4 revenues will fall short of expectations by 15%-23% (depending on each analyst expectations). The new guidance equates more or less [...]
WebOS write-off costs HP $3.3B
11/21/2011, In today’s earning call from HP, the world has learned that HP has spent $3.3 Billion to write off things related to Palm and WebOS. This comes less than two years after HP spent $1.2 Billion to acquire Palm in [...]
Intel Shows 50 Cores Chip, wows to break Exaflop barrier
11/15/2011, While Intel has talked about its Many Integrated Core (MIC) architecture for some time, it has shown its 50 Cores chip for the first time today at the SC11 supercomputing conference. Codenamed Knights Corner, many 50-core chips will work as [...]
Iongrid Nexus Enterprise Cracks BYOD
11/15/2011, IonGrid just launched Nexus Enterprise, a solution that securely streams documents from an Enterprise server to an iPad, and it does so while preserving the original rendering of the document (it’s not as common as you’d think). While this may [...]
WP7 Apps @ Mobile Acceleration Week
11/10/2011, We met with Windows Phone developers who are part of a small group of companies that participate in Microsoft BizSpark, a worldwide program aimed at helping startups use Microsoft technologies (and stick with it for the long haul). They were [...]
Adobe to give up on Flash for mobile browsers
11/09/2011, Adobe has spent a great deal of time and energy making Flash work for mobiles but although Flash is relatively successful on tablets, Adobe is reportedly giving up on Flash for mobile browsers. At this point, its usefulness is relatively [...]
Pioneer Launches ZYPR Mobile API and Revenue Sharing Model
11/07/2011, Pioneer has just announced that it has launched its voice-powered ZYPR API for mobile and embedded applications like smartphone, tablets and automotive entertainment systems. The idea behind ZYPR is quite simple: there are dozens or hundreds of web services today, [...]
Sony Out of Samsung LCD Joint Venture
10/30/2011, Sony is reportedly selling some or all of its share of the Sony-Samsung LCD joint venture, which started years ago, when LCD was booming. Both companies started working together in 2004 as Sony realized that Samsung had advanced manufacturing and [...]
Amazon Profits Down 73%
10/25/2011, Amazon has been investing a lot on its tablets (including the Kindle Fire), and this shows on its quarterly earnings: the profits for the giant online retailer are down 73%, and the stock is taking a dive in after-hours and [...]
Meg Whitman is HP’s new CEO, sends letter to employees
09/22/2011, It’s done, HP’s new CEO is Meg Whitman, who had previously led eBay through a meteoric rise. This may finally stop the string of drama that has struck HP since the scandal involving Mark Hurd, followed by the radical changes [...]
HP Stock Up 9% On CEO Dismissal Rumors
09/21/2011, HP’s stock (HPQ) is up 9% following the rumor that HP’s board may dismiss current CEO Leo Apotheker. At the moment, no decision has been made, but under his watch the stock of HP has fallen 45%, which is always [...]
CNN Acquires Zite (Digital Magazine Tech)
08/30/2011, CNN has just announced that it was acquiring Zite, a digital magazine developer. CNN intends to keep Zite as a separate business and while it is not completely clear what CNN will do with it, it is evident that CNN [...]
