Late last year as Dell was planning their $25 billion dollar buy back to take the company private, it was widely reported that the company would institute massive layoffs. Many believed that the number of layoffs could be around 15,000 of their 109,000 employees. recode reported earlier today that those numbers have been greatly exaggerated. [...]
In what some view as the best of both worlds, Microsoft has officially announced enterprise chief Satya Nadella as the company's new CEO. Along with that announcement Microsoft also announced that founder and Chairman Bill Gates will return to the company three days a week for now. Gates will come back in a supervisory role [...]
The pre-emptive promotion that AT&T started on January 3rd ahead of T-Mobile's planned "breakup" promotion is now in the history books. AT&T announced at the start of the year that they would pay T-Mobile customers $450 in incentives to move over from the "uncarrier" network to AT&T, Ina Fried at Recode.net reported. AT&T's decision to [...]
The must attend conference for app developers returns to North America starting this Wednesday February 5th. Appsworld, is coming back to San Francisco's Moscone center for two days of high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries in history, mobile apps. There are literally hundreds of app conferences every year now, [...]
While everyone in the world seems to be reflecting on the last 10 years of life with Facebook, including Mark Zuckerberg, one company isn't very happy with the social networking giant, and rightfully so. Fifty Three is the developer of the highly popular app called Paper. No not the new news sharing app released by [...]
While Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is truly a big winner in last night's 43-8 Superbowl over the Denver Broncos, everyone wants to know who the winner is in the ad space. The SuperBowl is the most sought after advertising time in America. At last count national ad time during the SuperBowl game cost $4 million [...]
We've seen some crazy things happen on Twitter. Take the career ending tweets from Justine Sacco for instance. What ended up being a horribly insensitive tweet from a "PR professional", ended up having the interwebs in a stir for an entire weekend and the perpetrator losing a very high profile job, in PR. With social [...]
We're in the midst of the biggest wireless game of chess that the industry has ever seen, and it can only be good for witless customers. This time AT&T has made another move that will make customers on the countries "largest 4G LTE network" happy, especially those using bigger data plans. The Associated Press reported [...]
By now I think everyone in the world knows that Nintendo didn't meet their revenue forecasts, that they had to revise their end of year forecast and that Wii U sales weren't even close to what they wanted. One of the most surprising things in all this is that Nintendo's President and CEO Satoru Iwata [...]
Amazon Prime is an extremely good value proposition for anyone that buys things regularly from the e-commerce giant. In addition to free 2 day shipping and deeply discounted overnight shipping, Amazon Prime customers get access to their e-book lending library, free streaming videos and other deals that make the service well worth $79 per year. [...]
