milkmit/Dylan Love All of the losers in the Facebook IPO haven’t forgotten about Nasdaq handled the botched offering that day. Nasdaq is planning to partially compensate early investors. But in the latest chapter of this ongoing saga, Citi blasts the Nasdaq in a new 17-page letter delivered to the SEC. Specifically, they argue that...
Grafetee, the Finnish startup with a focus on ‘world marking’ has launched new tools for businesses to reach consumers via their mobile devices. The Grafetee bookmarklet now works automatically on any site, making location bookmarking a smoother process. The new bookmarklet recognises addresses and relevant content on major websites. Already businesses can add a...
Joi via Flickr Dave McClure, an angel investor who competes with VCs to fund startups, went on a rant about VCs at a Vancouver conference. Among the things said: Wearing a suit around tech talent is stupid. “They are scared sh*tless of people in sales in suits,” McClure said. On the whole, VCs are...
NBC, CBS, ABC: Watch out, Google has you in its sights. If the company has its way, viewers looking to follow the U.S. elections won’t tune in to network and cable news outlets – they’ll log on to YouTube. To achieve this, the company launched the YouTube Election Hub, a multi-sourced video channel designed...
NBC, CBS, ABC: Watch out, Google has you in its sights. If the company has its way, viewers looking to follow the U.S. elections won’t tune in to network and cable news outlets – they’ll log on to YouTube. To achieve this, the company launched the YouTube Election Hub, a multi-sourced video channel designed...
Perhaps the original (and best?) file compression software –WinZip – is on course to hit its billionth download within the next four weeks, a milestone that has taken it more than twenty years to achieve. Famous for its payment model, which allowed you to use the trial software completely free-of-charge but nagged you to purchase...
The basic premise of Windows To Go sounds like it escaped from an alternate universe: Now you can take Windows home with you from work, and run it on your living room PC. “That’s crazy,” you might respond, “it’s already on my living room PC!” But this is Windows 8, which is so, so different...
With Sony’s association with Ericsson coming to abrupt end, Sony Mobile is continuing to adapt its corporate structure, today announcing that it will lay off 1000 jobs globally and move its headquarters from Lund, Sweden to Tokyo, Japan from October this year. Sony Mobile says that it will lay-off 15 percent of its personnel...
The crunch among the handset makers who are not Samsung and Apple continues apace. Today, Android handset maker Sony announced that its loss-making mobile handset division Sony Mobile Communications would be laying out 15% of its workforce — 1,000 people approximately — as part of a bigger restructuring. It will also move its HQ...
Dell stock, which hit an all time high at the turn of the century! has been slipping sliding! Dell, the company started by Michael Dell in his college dorm room, at one time was synonymous with the PC market. During the nineties, I reported on the company’s meteoric rise. Not a day passed when...