Daily Archives: August 10, 2012

Here’s How Apple Asked Samsung For $250 Million A Year (AAPL)

August 10, 2012
Here’s How Apple Asked Samsung For $250 Million A Year (AAPL)

Email More Associated Press Apple CEO Tim Cook thinks patent wars are a “pain in the ass.” See Also Insights From The Apple-Samsung Trial Apple And Samsung Just Revealed Their Exact U.S. Sales Figures For The First Time Ever Steve Jobs Would Have Hated What’s Happening In The Samsung Patent Trial Right Now Apple...

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Apple sought $30 per smartphone, $40 per tablet in royalties from Samsung

August 10, 2012
Apple sought $30 per smartphone, $40 per tablet in royalties from Samsung

New court documents in the Apple v. Samsung adventure have revealed that Apple felt its intellectual property was worth a $30 cut of Samsung’s smartphones and a $40 share of its tablets, AllThingsD has discovered. Apple, which made the offer in October 2010, was willing to give a 20 percent discount in exchange for a...

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As Marissa Mayer Annoys Investors By Keeping $4.2B In Dividends, YHOO Is Down 5.4%

August 10, 2012
As Marissa Mayer Annoys Investors By Keeping $4.2B In Dividends, YHOO Is Down 5.4%

Less than a month after taking over Yahoo, Marissa Mayer is already sending strong signals of leadership to investors. Yet, the announcement of a new financial strategy led to a 5.37 percent downturn of YHOO today as the company played down dividend expectations. Yahoo filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the strategy...

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InsideSales.com Raises $4 Million For Big Data Analytics Sales Force Automation Technology

August 10, 2012
InsideSales.com Raises $4 Million For Big Data Analytics Sales Force Automation Technology

InsideSales.com has raised $4 million from Hummer Winblad in a Series A Round that the company will use to grow its big data analytics sales force automation (SFO) technology. Joining in the round were Josh James, co-founder and former CEO of Omniture. Mark Gorenberg, managing director, Hummer Winblad, said before the funding, the company was...

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Inside Sales Raises $4 Million For Big Data Analytics Sales Force Automation Technology

August 10, 2012
Inside Sales Raises $4 Million For Big Data Analytics Sales Force Automation Technology

Inside Sales has raised $4 million from Hummer Winblad in a Series A Round that the company will use to grow its big data analytics sales force automation (SFO) technology. Joining in the round were Josh James, co-founder and former CEO of Omniture. Mark Gorenberg, managing director, Hummer Winblad, said before the funding, the...

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What digital fashion brands can learn from the Sears catalog and Facebook fans

August 10, 2012
What digital fashion brands can learn from the Sears catalog and Facebook fans

For a long time, Americans thought nothing of ordering up clothes by looking at pictures and reading descriptions without handling those clothes first, and the Sears catalog was a cultural touchstone for many. The advent of the car and modern shopping mall might have changed this, but a group of online retailers are going back...

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Another reason not to use corporate software: Your bosses are spying on you

August 10, 2012

As if the dread of heading into the office on Monday and firing up some ugly, cumbersome enterprise software after a weekend of playing with an iPad weren’t bad enough, here’s another reason: Your bosses might be spying on you. They probably won’t call it spying, though. They’ll call it something like monitoring employee...

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Take out your checkbooks: Who’s going to be the one to swoop in and “save” App.net?

August 10, 2012

In case you aren’t sure what Dalton Caldwell’s App.net project crusade is all about, you should read our past coverage here. As we reported earlier, the Facebook and Twitter killer alternative is 70% funded, with only three days left. Will the project get funded or not? Will Caldwell and company do the project anyways...

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The official Windows Phone Tango update appears to solve the Lumia 900′s camera issues

August 10, 2012

If you are a follower of the Windows Phone line of products, you surely know that photo-taking performance aboard the Lumia 900 has been lackluster. The Lumia 900, Nokia’s flagship phone for the US market, has been generally well received, but its camera has not. However, the Tango update to the Windows Phone platform may fix...

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DMD Panorama Opens API To Power Panoramic Photos In Any App

August 10, 2012
DMD Panorama Opens API To Power Panoramic Photos In Any App

It’s a strange thing to hear from the co-founder and CEO of a photo startup, but DMD Panorama‘s Elie-Gregoire Khoury tells me that panoramic photos will become “a commodity at the end of the day.” That doesn’t mean it’s time to get out of the photo business — instead, Khoury wants to see panoramas...

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