While everyone is consumed with deciphering how Google’s bid to acquire Motorola will affect Apple’s (a aapl) dominance in the smartphone market, Apple has other fights on its hands elsewhere. Among them is a class-action lawsuit filed recently that alleges the company conspired with major book publishers to keep e-book prices high, by implementing...
Here’s the form Google used to get its hardware partners to write those silly statements of support for its purchase of Motorola. *Unless Google sells the operating business immediately. Read » “Larry Page Goes Crazy” 10 Things You Should Know About Tech But Were Too Afraid To Ask Please follow SAI on Twitter and...
Over the last few years, the music industry has endured some serious growing pains. And while the industry still wears its new digital outfit like an ill-fitting coat made of cassettes, I, for one, love hearing about young startups that are trying to make the music industry a better (and more modern) place to...
OpenLogic, a software vendor that helps companies better utilize open source software, is turning its attention toward cloud computing. On Tuesday, it announced $2 million in funding from Pelion Venture Partners, Red Rock Ventures, Appian Ventures, OnCorps, Highway 12 Ventures, Village Ventures and others for a new Platform as a Service offering that lets...
For lack of a better term, Apple has been more than a little litigation-happy lately. While they’ve focused most of their recent efforts on Samsung and Motorola, Apple is now coming under fire from a company they’ve already sued: HTC. HTC has filed a suit (warning: PDF) in the U.S. District Court in Delaware...
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Image: Wikimedia Commons Mark Suster Why You Need to Take 50 Coffee Meetings What Startups Can Learn About PR and Crisis Management Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding? 50 coffee meetings. It should stick in your head as a metaphor for networking. For getting outside of your comfort zone....
UK supermarket chain, Tesco, is to transform its Direct website from ‘manual merchandising’ into an automated ‘algorithmically merchandised’ platform, reports Marketing Magazine. Tesco Direct is the non-grocery website of Tesco, selling everything from home furnishings and electrical equipment, to toys and clothes. The transformation is expected to make Direct a more Amazon-esque portal, with...
Nintendo caused a major splash in the video game world when it announced to slash the price of the 3DS in Japan, the US and elsewhere by 30-40% (depending on the country) – just a few months after the system went on sale. And now we have the first hardware sales numbers from Japan...
Image: Motorola Solutions Good morning! The huge news everyone’s talking about is Google buying Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. Here’s what you need to know: Google bought Motorola mostly to buy patents and protect the Android ecosystem from Apple and Microsoft. Here’s how Google explained the acquisition → Google could also do cool stuff around...