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Facebook investors hoping for a second bite of the Apple effect have arrived too late
Mon, 21 May 2012 20:15:10 -0700
Zuckerberg's company is going to have to end the internet's free-love era in the way that Apple spurned "homebrew" computing in order to justify its valuation Mark Zuckerberg status update: richer than George Soros. When the closing bell rang at the end of Facebook's first day on New York's Nasdaq stock exchange, its founder was worth $19.4bn (£12.2bn). The Wall Street analysts whose job it is ...
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Google gets China OK for Motorola deal
Sat, 19 May 2012 13:11:23 -0700
Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.
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China adds conditions to approval of Google bid to buy Motorola Mobility
Mon, 21 May 2012 19:28:00 -0700
China approves search giant's £7.9bn bid for MMI but says the Android OS must remain stay free for at least the next five years Authorities in China have put a surprising condition on their approval of Google's $12.5bn (£7.9bn) bid to buy the US phone and set-top box maker Motorola Mobility (MMI): that the Android operating system must remain available to all for free for the next five years at ...
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Questions for Mobile Computing
Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:26:44 -0700
Mobile devices outsold PCs last year for the first time, and top smart-phone apps need little more than a year to win the kind of audience it used to take technologies decades to reach. What are the limits of mobile computing? When Facebook agreed last month to spend $1 billion to buy Instagram, a 12-person company with no revenues, technology watchers had to recalibrate their speedometers.
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Google gets approval from China for Motorola deal
Sun, 20 May 2012 18:58:19 -0700
Android must remain available to all at no cost for 5 years. 21 May 2012 11:33 AM
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Where IT is going: Cloud, mobile, and data
Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:14:30 -0700
Today's IT world is changing dramatically because of the convergence of cloud computing, mobility, and everything else associated with running apps on the Web, and big data. Originally posted at The Pervasive Data Center
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Are Massive HP Layoffs the Flip Side of the “Facebook Economy”?
Fri, 18 May 2012 13:49:30 -0700
If Facebook’s massive IPO represents the wealth created by the rise of social networking, mobile computing and the consumerization of IT, these tectonic shifts hold dramatic challenges to old-line technology companies built on yesterday’s revolutions. So even as Facebook mints a crowd of new millionaires and billionaires, Hewlett-Packard is preparing to send pink slips to some 30,000 of its ...
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China OKs Google-Motorola Deal
Mon, 21 May 2012 05:53:10 -0700
NEW YORK (AP) -- Authorities in China have approved Google Inc.'s bid to buy phone maker Motorola Mobility, clearing the way for the $12.5 billion deal to close early next week.
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Does Cloud Computing Matter?
Tue, 01 May 2012 05:44:52 -0700
This is a guest post by Joe Weinman. ??Joe??Weinman is a Senior VP at Telx and the author of??Cloudonomics: The Value of Cloud computing is top of mind for computer geeks, information technology (IT) providers, web and mobile start-ups, and most CIOs (chief information officers), but should other senior executives care??? After all, can CxOs ...
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John Sculley: future of health is in the cloud
Fri, 18 May 2012 14:40:35 -0700
The Newton was two decades ahead of its time, says the former Apple chief executive – and the future of healthcare will be driven by cloud computing John Sculley – the man who as Apple chief executive gave the world the Newton, which was the first glimpse of the "personal digital assistant" in the 1980s – can see a number of possibilities opening up before us. A world without work for millions ...
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