Apple has a lot of cash in the bank, and now we know that Steve Jobs had at least one grand plan for it: Destroy Android. Excerpts from his upcoming biography show Jobs was willing to go to great lengths to remedy the “grand theft.” Read More »
Archive for October 2011
A plant at one of Apple’s key component suppliers for the MacBook Air that had been forced to shut down will be spending $3 million in order to reopen by November, according to a new report. Catcher is responsible for most of Apple’s unibody computer enclosures. Read More »
Groupon is moving forward with a scaled back initial public offering and is showing some better progress toward profitability. The company said that it will sell 30 million shares at $16 to $18 million a share, which would raise up to $540 million. Read More »
Everyone in flash sales seems to be having problems right now, from Groupon to Gilt. But the new boss of the American spin-off from Europe’s pioneering Vente Privée explains why things will be different for him. Read More »
The cream of London’s startup community turned out at Buckingham Palace for a special princely audience. But the best entrepreneurs won’t let a brush with royalty get in the way of their ambition to overturn the establishment. Read More »
Professor Tom Murphy warns us of the “energy trap,” the conundrum where he says when we get to the point where fossil fuels are in decline, it’ll actually take more energy to build the next-generation of energy infrastructure. Yet another hurdle for the world’s energy makeover.… Read More »
Thin Film Electronics ASA, a maker of disposable memory used in toys, has developed a way to add computing to its chips. This means it can offer thin, disposable tracking tags for a few cents apiece, providing a valuable component for the Internet of things. Read More »
Veokami hopes to make it easier to watch videos of concerts and other events with a new platform that finds, curates and pieces together videos from YouTube. By doing so, viewers can watch on-demand videos of concerts from many different camera angles and perspectives. Read More »
HP took a lot of flack when it decided to buy Autonomy for $10 billion, but if big data is a worthwhile investment, perhaps HP’s alleged overpayment really will pay off. Autonomy’s Nicole Egan explained to me why she thinks HP is in a good position. Read More »
BitTorrent Inc. is starting to stream a live DJ set out of its office every Friday afternoon to stress-test its new live streaming platform. BitTorrent inventor Bram Cohen and his team have been developing the live streaming platform for close to three years. Read More »
James Erwin had a writer’s dream come true when a story he wrote in response to a question on a Reddit forum was optioned by Warner Brothers for a movie. But who owns the rights to the idea that Erwin just sold to the studio? Read More »
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