Email More Steve Ballmer and HTC CEO Peter Chou introduce the Windows Phone 8x and 8s. HTC announced this week that it would not sell its upcoming Windows Phone 8s in the U.S., according to a company statement provided to Engadget. The 8s is a budget version of HTC’s well-reviewed Windows Phone 8X, which...
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If you’re looking for answers as to what has gone wrong in the U.S. economy–why so many people are unemployed, why so many Americans barely make enough to live on, why “the 1%” just keeps getting richer–here are two charts for you. 1) Corporate profit margins just hit an all-time high. Companies are making...
In the last 24 hours, a fresh draft of President Obama’s potential executive order on the issue of cybersecurity has been leaked, and widely critiqued. As you will surely recall, TNW dove into the first draft of the order that was also leaked. However, that draft came as there was still a sliver of dawn...
It’s hard to run two companies, especially when they’re both some of the tech industry’s most popular ones. But Jack Dorsey has done it and has succeeded — very impressive for the co-founder of Twitter and Square. In the book “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good“, author and journalist Sarah Lacy explained that first-time...
As Agence France-Presse reports, a short entry on the website WhoIsMcAfee, set up by John McAfee himself states that he may have been captured. To wit: “We have received an unconfirmed report that John McAfee has been captured at the border of Belize and Mexico.” Interestingly, McAfee has enough content written for his blog for...
When GE touts the Industrial Internet, in reality what the industrial giant really means is that it is becoming more data-centric and building a future that helps data create better experiences for the customers of its diverse businesses — consumer appliances, jet engines, turbines, and more. In this world, the network — you know,...
Let me clear something up straightaway: my passion is, was, and will always be theater—singing and acting, to be specific. I dreamed of becoming an actor while growing up in Brooklyn, was classically trained at the University of Pennsylvania, and worked for a number of years at a local theater in Philadelphia (as both...
With ATT’s news earlier this month that it wants to get our of the old-school telephone business and transition to an all-IP network, we’re at a watershed moment in telecommunications. But for the millions out there who can’t tell circuit-switched voice from voice over the Internet (VoIP) one of the bigger issues is what...
Editor’s note: David Haber is an analyst at Spark Capital. Prior to Spark, David helped launch Locus Analytics, a start-up asset management business. Follow David on Twitter. I spent the summer of 2007 working at an online education startup in San Francisco’s SOMA district called Batiq. It was the summer after my sophomore year in...