This weekend in New York city, dozens of developers gathered together for the second Cleanweb Hackathon, where programmers spent the entire weekend building mobile and web apps around new ways to manage energy, water, food and fuel. As Sunil Paul, the founder of the event and a partner with Spring Ventures, put it in...
SOPA and PIPA, the twin bills before the U.S. Congress, may not be dead dead. But after the past few weeks of protest, culminating in Wednesday’s remarkable day of action, they’re not looking at all well. Votes on both bills are now delayed indefinitely. (Or, to put it in terms the MPAA would understand,...
This guy doesn’t exactly make you want to run through a wall to smash the competition. Meet RIM’s new CEO, Thorsten Heins.
Research In Motion New CEO, Thorsten Heins At the end of the Wall Street Journal’s story on RIM’s CEOs stepping down, “a person familiar with the matter” says, “There is no intent to put the company up for sale.” Pretty vague language there. Sounds like RIM would sell if it got the right offer....
I suppose some might have seen this coming. In December, Research In Motion (RIM) released their third quarter earnings, which were yet another disappointment for the struggling maker of BlackBerry. RIM Co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis announced subsequently that they would only draw yearly salaries of $1 to help combat the company’s financial...
Beleaguered mobile firm Research In Motion will be getting a change in leadership as its much-maligned co-CEO’s Jim Ballsillie and Mike Laziridis are stepping aside, reports The Wall Street Journal. The CEO’s will be replaced by RIM’s COO Thorsten Heins. After more than 20 years sharing the job, Lazaridis and Ballsillie have been replaced...
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RIM’s 2000 Annual Report Research In Motions’s co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis are stepping down as CEOs, and COO Thorsten Heins will take over. In an interview with the Globe and Mail, Heins said of RIM, “It’s a fantastic growth story and it’s not coming to an end … What you will see...
Startups and small businesses are the engine of job creation. In the U.S., companies less than five years old created 44 million jobs over the last three decades and, over that time, accounted for all net new jobs created in the U.S. — just ask the White House. Of course, you’d think from reading...
Do you remember ‘Charlie bit my finger’? Charlie’s family certainly does: they made £120,000 in YouTube earnings. Yet, this remains an exception; unless they go incredibly viral, YouTube videos aren’t a reliable source of income. However, it doesn’t mean you can’t monetize your digital content online. Yet you may want to look elsewhere than...