Daily Archives: January 24, 2013

Etsy Has Hired A CFO, But CEO Uncertain About IPO

January 24, 2013
Etsy Has Hired A CFO, But CEO Uncertain About IPO

YouTube See Also A QA With Dave Goldberg On Why He Avoided An IPO For His Company, SurveyMonkey Etsy Buys Mixel For Its Mobile Team LinkedIn Is Perfectly Poised To Make A Huge Acquisition Chad Dickerson, the CEO of Etsy, just announced at a PandoMonthly event that he’s hired a CFO for the fast-growing...

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5 Ways To Save Battery Life On Your iPhone

January 24, 2013
5 Ways To Save Battery Life On Your iPhone

Email More When my iPhone’s battery hits the 20% mark, I drop everything and look for the closest outlet available.  For anyone who dreads the sight of those “Low Battery” pop-ups on their iPhone, watch below for five different tips and tricks to save battery life on your iPhone. lt;divgt;Please enable Javascript to watch this...

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GOOGLE: US Government Requesting Even More Private Data Without A Warrant

January 24, 2013
GOOGLE: US Government Requesting Even More Private Data Without A Warrant

zweroboi David Cameron makes swipe at Starbucks as he promises focus on tax Plebgate: Met police calls in external force to review Scotland Yard inquiry Britons should leave Benghazi immediately, says Foreign Office NHS chief: stop playing politics with closures Wall Street and City stock markets on upward trajectory See Also Obama Administration Says...

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Foxconn dismisses reports of worker strike in Beijing as ‘completely inaccurate’

January 24, 2013

After reports of more than a thousand workers going on strike at a Beijing factory surfaced earlier this week, Foxconn has denied that the alleged incident took place and dismissed them as “without foundation and completely inaccurate”. Foxconn did confirm that it had hosted a town hall meeting with many of its employees to...

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Samsung’s Q4 2012 sets new record: Profit up 89% YoY to $8.3b, revenue hits $52.4b

January 24, 2013

Samsung announced its Q4 2012 financial results today and, as expected, they are impressive. Consolidated operating profit over the three-month period hit a new record of 8.84 trillion won (circa $8.3 billion), from revenue of 56.06 trillion won (approximately $52.4 billion). The firm saw its profit increase 10 percent on the previous quarter — that’s...

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With the DMCA making unlocking phones illegal, a new White House petition emerges urging its repeal

January 24, 2013

This Saturday, a new federal policy in the United States is set to take effect in which a certain group of mobile phones will not be able to be unlocked legally. Yes, that’s right, in two days, if you unlock a specific phone, you could be in violation of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act...

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Confessions Of A Digital Hoarder

January 24, 2013
Confessions Of A Digital Hoarder

In the dawning era of persistent digital experience, an obsessive documentarian like myself should flourish. In my pre-Web, analog life, I was the one with shoeboxes of photos, scrawling notes and lists on anything scrawlable. But the advent of the cloud – the arrival of multi-gigabyte virtual storage lockers, auto-syncing, and bookmarklets, oh bookmarklets!...

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Hey Fanboys: Is Today The Day To Buy Apple Stock?

January 24, 2013
Hey Fanboys: Is Today The Day To Buy Apple Stock?

Apple shares are getting killed after Apple fell short of Wall Street expectations with its earnings report. Shares started sliding in September, dropping from $705 to about $514 just before the earnings came out. And then, when investors saw the numbers, the bottom fell out and Apple stock plunged more than $50, settling at...

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Facebook Graph Search Starts Rolling Out

January 24, 2013
Facebook Graph Search Starts Rolling Out

Get ready for the social explosion. Facebook Graph Search has begun to roll out to earlybirds who opted into the beta of the new social search bar, which was announced last week at the company’s Menlo Park HQ. If you haven’t seen the feature yet, get ready for an onslaught of experimental searches elbowing...

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Too soon to tell if it’s the beginning of the end for the Mac

January 24, 2013

One of the bigger surprises of Apple’s earnings call Wednesday was the revelation that Mac sales declined. Compared to the same quarter a year ago when it sold 5.2 million Macs, this holiday season Apple sold 22 percent fewer, or 4.1 million. It’s the first time in over six years that Apple’s Mac sales...

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