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Several big-name industry players have been looking for a way to reduce hefty patent-related legal costs for quite some time now, and now Apple and Microsoft are pushing forward in an accelerating rate. Apple is taking on the mobile sector with its …
Morgan Stanley’s Mary Meeker Moves to Kleiner Perkins
Venture capital company Kleiner Perkins recently snatched influential tech analyst Mary Meeker from Morgan Stanley. Meeker has been involved in the tech scene for some time, and has provided the industry valuable information for many years. There’s a very good reason Business …
IBM and Samlink Ink New Agreement
IBM announced it has a signed a new agreement with Finnish banking and IT solutions provider Samlink to manage the company’s IT infrastructure across its more than 400 branch offices throughout the nation. The 28M euro and five-year agreement follows a previous …
Acer Planning to Jump into the Tablet Market
Today Acer announced its hopping on the ever-growing tablet trend, planning to launch 3 new touchscreen iPad counterparts next year, joining HP and Samsung and the Android tablet market. There isn’t an official name, or even a price to any one of …
Microsoft Hires OSM Founder as Principal Architect for Bing Mobile
Steve Coast, the founder of OpenStreetMap – a project enabling users to draw over aerial imagery – has been hired by Microsoft for the role of Principal Architect at Bing Mobile in Seattle. Microsoft will also be contributing free access to its …
Apple Works Through the Holidays, Including Black Friday
Apple was never too eager to revamp its efforts towards Black Friday, the biggest shopping day in the U.S. where dozens of retailers take advantage of the yearly inventory purge. But lately they have been boosting their efforts to increase holiday sales, …
Facebook Home Seeks Residents, Staking Claim on Google Territory
It seems Facebook has one goal in mind, as it’s now heading towards getting users to make it their default homepage. The social network is taking the ‘portal approach.’ Yahoo, AOL and Microsoft did the same a decade ago, and it’s the …
HP Shows Handsome Rise : Q4 Earnings Report
Today Hewlett-Packard released its fourth quarter earnings reports showing a handsome rise of $2.5 billion, or an 8% increase from last year’s Q4, bringing in a total of $33.3 billion in net revenue. HP’s 2010 net revenue was $126.0 billion, as this …
HP demonstrating Enyo for Palm’s webOS
HP showcased its upcoming, tablet-friendly JavaScript framework Enyo for mobile operating system webOS, released by Palm, which it has acquired earlier this April. Aimed to replace the already existing Mojo for 2011, Enyo carries improvements in three areas including performance, ease to …
Valley Ventures Volley for Investments
According to a study released today and also covered here, venture capital investment in Silicon Valley is in a downturn last quarter due to high-value investments in already established and equally bright stars including social networking giants. “… while liquidity, usually in …