Android’s Droid browser may be the world’s most popular mobile browser, thanks to the phenomenal rise of the Google-owned operating system, but it has a just got a very worthy competitor in Japan’s growing smartphone market after Yahoo Japan released a rival Android browser. The Yahoo! Browser has been launched by Yahoo Japan, as...
What’s the penalty for lying on a resume? It’s an important question for new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, after his PR department offered up the laughable excuse that he made “an inadvertent error” on Yahoo’s website and in an SEC filing claiming he had a Computer Science degree. TechCrunch editor Eric Eldon just wrote...
“You guys might want to cover this before he resigns tomorrow,” one hardcore reader emailed in this evening. And yes indeed, newish Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s “inadvertent error” about which degree he got in college is looking like it could cost him his new job. It should. After a day of TechCrunch covering companies...
Sometimes people ask me why we’re still here even though we’re owned by poopy pants Aol, and I’m all like, “Huh what? Oh I’m sorry I’m drunk, who are you again?” Lolz. Okay so the real reason that I and the rest of the TC team are here, despite the fact that we’re all...
The last thirty days have been nothing but full of twists and turns in tech-land. Maybe it is the “bubble” or maybe it is just an up cycle, but it sure is exciting. Lots of fundings, news and new startups launches have pock-marked the face of the Valley. However here some events from today,...
If you are an avid dictionary, or well, Dictionary.com that is, user then you’ll absolutely love “The Clean Dictionary“. At first, I thought the name meant that it would be lacking dirty words. I was wrong, but boy does this dictionary have the cleanest design that I’ve ever seen: There’s not much I can...
Microsoft is pulling out all the stops when it comes to changing the market perception about its company and its operating system, Windows. With Windows 8 looking to be the biggest overhaul and refresh the OS has seen since Windows 3.1, it seems like the company is ready to make some other radical changes...
Mario Tama/Getty Images mployment seekers attend the ‘JobExpo’ employment fair at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway hotel on January 25, 2012 in New York City. Canada, Singapore world’s strongest banks, says Bloomberg rankings Obama’s ‘Life of Julia’ campaign tool drawing criticism Emotions in brain depend on what hand we use, says research See Also...
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Ronald Zarrella, Bausch Lomb Title: Chief executive officer Tenure: November 2001 – January 2008 Lie: Zarrella said he earned an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He did attend the program from 1972-1976, but he didn’t graduate. His previous employers never checked. Punishment: He had to forfeit $1.1 million...