Due to rampant piracy, Microsoft’s revenue in China this year will only be about 5% of what it gets in the U.S., in spite of the comparable PC sales in the two countries, said Chief Executive Steve Ballmer. Speaking at the opening of the new Microsoft Asia-Pacific RD Group headquarters in Beijing, Microsoft CEO Ballmer claims...
Daily Archives: May 26, 2011
Et Tu Bedier? Why PayPal is Suing Google, Execs
PayPal, the e-payments subsidiary of eBay has sued two of its former executives — Stephanie Tilenius and Osama Bedier — who defected to Google and have helped the search giant ramp up its mobile payments offering including its newly announced Google Wallet NFC platform. The lawsuit, which also names Google, alleges misappropriation of trade...
PayPal Lawsuit Against Google Reveals Recruiting Saga And A Deal Gone Sour
Google is making a bold play to enter mobile payments, and PayPal doesn’t like it one bit. Shortly after Google announced its new mobile wallet for Android phones today, Paypal filed a lawsuit against Google and two former PayPal executives who now are in charge of mobile payments at Google (Osama Bedier and Stephanie...
Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Twitter, LinkedIn
For related material, please read my recent post Making Money With Blogs. It would give you some concrete details to tackle this somewhat hairy strategy question that I believe the CEOs of Twitter, LinkedIn, TechCrunch and others need to consider. Got Produce? As for the presenters, first up, Deborah Walliser from Redding, California, presented...
Crowdsourcing Project Will Help Identify and Recover Lost Films
Do you know this man? The folks at Lost Films hope that you do and that you can identify the name of the film from which the still was taken. Archivists know it’s a German film, and they believe it was made in the 1930s. And they’re asking for anyone with more information to...
PayPal sues Google over trade secrets as Google Wallet is announced
PayPal is suing Google and two of its executives following today’s announcement of Google Wallet, claiming that former PayPal employees who worked on the project have violated their contractual obligations. PayPal claims that former PayPal executive Osama Bedier shared trade secrets with Google, and that Stephanie Tilenius, also a former PayPal executive, violated her...
SOAP is Not Dead
Visit the Qwest resource center for relevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can best use green business practices in this report from Qwest: Green IT and Your Business: Boost Your Bottom Line While Being Environmentally Responsible. SOAP is dead. No it’s not. SOAP is undead. And...
ooVoo Releases Multiuser Video Chat App for the iPhone
Online and mobile video chat provider ooVoo has just released a new app for the iPhone that offers multi-platform video chat for Apple devices. By doing so, iPhone and iPod touch users now have one more way to launch multi-user video chat wherever they are. The mobile video chat market is heating up, ever since...
Glmps: A Social Photo App, With a New Dimension
When serial inventor, pro candle maker and very early YouTube star Paul “Renetto” Robinett called me on the phone six months ago and told me he and a team were creating a new video service, I was interested. When I got to see the service on Robinett’s phone in the lobby of the Driskill...
If you never watch another kitten video again, make this the last one. Trust me.
Cutest thing ever!!