Ian Gavan / Getty Images British Pop Star Jessie J with her BlackBerrys As a part of its quest for a 2013 turnaround, BlackBerry just announced that it will be airing its first-ever Super Bowl ad. Considering that Samsung — which actually ran a Blackberry bashing spot during the NFC championship game last week...
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Business Insider The hot ticket in Davos this evening is a “taxidermy” party thrown by billionaire entrepreneur Sean Parker, Salesforce.com CEO Mark Benioff, and Ian Osborne of the London-based communications firm Osborne Partners. Billed as the “Future Of Philanthropy Nightcap,” the party is being held in what was until recently a crappy bar on...
Happy Friday friends, it’s been quite the week. Today in this post we will focus on three stories, keeping ourselves light as this entry is a bit late today. Ensure that you are following TNW Microsoft on both Twitter, and Facebook, and let’s dive right in. Microsoft + Dell Microsoft may provide up to...
Today the Financial Times reported a unique deal that will see several of early Twitter employees sell stock at a valuation of more than $9 billion to a fund managed by the BlackRock group. The $80 million offer to “a number” of early employees will allow them to shed some of their equity holdings...
I can think of few things in technology as widely detested as the QR code. Israeli startup Visualead understands that problem and is looking to make them more palatable with the release of a new revision to its visual QR code standard. Visualead says the new technology fades the look of standard QR codes by as...
Remember SUSE? Way back when it was the cutting-edge Linux distribution, and held its own with Red Hat. But that was a long time ago, long before Microsoft adopted it as its pet and Attachmate took it over as part of its Novell acquisition. With Red Hat dominating the enterprise Linux server market, Canonical owning...
In its Supplier Responsibility Report released Thursday, Apple revealed that it had fired a supplier, Guangdong Real Faith Pingzhou Electronics (PZ), because it had employed 74 workers under 16 years old who used fake papers. Bloomberg reports that the workers were recruited by Shenzhen Quanshun Human Resources Developing Co., which cooperated with the children’s...
Disclosure: I used to work with Yahoo in my two years as an editor for the website Tecca. While I was never on Yahoo’s payroll, our companies had a close content partnership and some leadership overlap. (It’s complicated.) Yahoo is a strange, many-headed beast. Not often commended for its corporate vision, cohesive net of...
In the past year, several startup accelerators have popped up around the country to give health tech entrepreneurs access to funding, mentors and other kinds of support. But a program launched this week in New York is taking an interesting new approach to encouraging digital health innovation. Backed by the New York City Economic...