LinkedIn The question of when a founder should step aside is a difficult one. The trend used to be that founders stepped aside in favor of more professional management. This is how they did it at Google, Yahoo, and Cisco. More recently, those examples have been overshadowed by phenomenally successful founder-CEOs, like Jeff Bezos, Steve...
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Today a Microsoft spokesperson provided TNW with a statement regarding the reported update bug on the Surface RT device. It was unclear until today if the issue related to Windows RT itself, or the Surface tablet specifically. As it turns out, the bug appears to be Windows-RT specific. However, given the leading market share...
Founder of Sundance Robert Redford opened Sundance at the famous Egyptian theater in Park City by saying technology and change were the main themes for 2013. Referring to the industry changes technology has bought to Hollywood, Redford said “I think change can be divided into three sections. Since it’s inevitable, some people fight it...
As Swedish television stations begin moving their programming online, a local law has come into effect that will require tablet and PC owners to pay the same $320 annual license fee as TV owners, The Local reports. National broadcaster Sveriges Television (STV) announced earlier this week that it will offer its shows for free...
Last November, analysts wondered whether anyone would buy the Surface Pro, Microsoft’s $899 Windows 8 tablet priced similarly to a standard ultrabook. Unfocused Announcements From Microsoft On Tuesday, Microsoft unveiled its latest incentive: three “special edition” Touch Covers, in red, magenta, and cyan, that Microsoft will sell for $129.99 apiece. Oh, and Microsoft will...
As TechCrunch reported Tuesday, Apple has pulled the apps from photography network 500px from its App Store because, after 16 months of use, their clearly marked nude photo galleries suddenly became intolerable. In addition for 500px’s own app, the third-party 500px app ISO500, whose parent company 500px acquired because of ISO500′s excellent integration, has...
Quarterly earnings reports from the two major chipmakers seem to indicate an unusual trough, rather than a peak, at about the time Microsoft launched Windows 8. For the fourth quarter of 2012, AMD reported a loss of $473 million on revenue of $1.16 billion, with revenue off by about a third compared to a...
We’ve been arguing for some time now that Twitter is becoming a media entity in its own right, and some of the company’s moves around the Summer Olympics and other events have helped flesh out that theory. John Battelle of Federated Media argues much the same thing in a new blog post — that...