All the stories tagged with business
Lenovo Introduces Its M75e Business Desktop
10/21/2010, Business owners who are shopping for a new system to expand their business might be interested to check out Lenovo’s latest ThinkCentre machine, the M75e. The computer will be available in both small form factor mini-tower and standard tower designs, [...]
Apple purported to purchase Swedish face recognition firm Polar Rose
09/20/2010, Word has been going around that Apple has purchased Swedish face recognition firm known as Polar Rose. Apparently, this new information seemed to have been confirmed by Swedish news service Rapidus and sources for IDG News Service, although company CEO [...]
Second Life lay off: times are tough for virtual worlds too
06/09/2010, As an adjustment to the economic situation, Linden Labs -the company behind Second Life- will lay off 30% of its staff to increase its bottom-line. The company says that it will focus on making virtual good the top income-generator in [...]
SaaS, Open Source, Freedom, and Funding (SaaS Gone Open Source panel)
07/30/2009, By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) at AlwaysOn Summit at Stanford – Open source has been getting traction in the recent year with the release of Android, continued success of companies like Mozilla, and google Chrome’s open platform approach. In this panel, [...]
Who’s Making Money in Mobile? (Panel)
07/29/2009, By Ravit Lichtenberg (blog) – At the Always On Summit at Stanford, an impressive panel is underway, discussing mobile monetization, the role of the operator, platform, apps, etc. Being in the Silicon Valley, the iPhone conversation dominates. Purnima Kochikar starts [...]
Sprint To Acquire Virgin Mobile
07/28/2009, Looks like Virgin Mobile is going to be acquired by Sprint, the third largest cellular operator in the US. Sprint will have to pony up a whopping $83 million in all, where Sprint’s 13.1% stake in Virgin Mobile does play [...]
Twitter To Start Charging
06/24/2009, Rumor has it that Twitter might want to harness its extremely large user base and current popularity by charging businesses to verify their accounts – definitely the easy way out when it comes to making a quick profit. After all, [...]
Sony Posts a Loss of $1 Billion For Last Year, Expects More Losses
05/14/2009, Sony just reported a rare annual net loss of $1B amid a slump in demand for electronic products, especially from expensive brands like Sony. The company is now under pressure to reduce the cost of its operations. It has started [...]
Android Smartphones Shipments Expected to Jump 900% This Year
05/11/2009, That’s according to Strategy Analytics’s Tom Kang: “We forecast global Android smartphone shipments to grow an impressive 900 percent annually during 2009. The Android mobile operating system from Google gained early traction in the United States in the second half [...]
