Latest News
Microsoft needs an anti-Ballmer — but it won’t get one
Wishful thinking isn’t enough to shake things up at Microsoft.
The top 10 ‘arms merchants’ of the cloud
Editor's Pick A host of companies have been scrambling for a leadership position in one of the hottest areas of the economy: providing the technology needed by businesses to embrace the cloud.
The core of Apple’s problem is Tim Cook, Scoble says
“Tim just doesn’t hit me as a guy who’s excited about the future.”
Qnekt wants to be the last event app you’ll ever download
I’ve run into the problem at events before: The official mobile app for the conference was updated at the last-minute — only to be completely unusable for the whole event.
The DeanBeat: At Europe’s E3, Microsoft gets a second chance, and Sony gets to tease Microsoft again
But it’s still harder than ever to tell who will win the next-generation wars, given Microsoft’s strong launch line-up.
Microsoft’s briliantly simple 3D printing mission: Make it just like 2D printing
Microsoft is leading the charge to standardize and simplify 3D printing on Windows.
Microsoft stock surges 8% on news that Ballmer is retiring
Investors appear to be quite pleased with the today’s big news that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will step down in the next 12 months.
Apple supplier Foxconn sells augmented reality patents to Google, probably for Google Glass
Which, of course, will compete with Apple’s products.
Amazon reportedly tested new wireless network with spectrum from satellite company Globalstar
Leave it to Amazon to explore something beyond mere cellular networks to get its devices online.
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire in less than a year
Steve Ballmer, the long-time chief executive of Microsoft, has decided to retire within “the next 12 months,” Microsoft said today.
iWork for iCloud beta now available to all with free access to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote
iWork for iCloud — Apple’s take on the cloud-based office suite — was launched initially to developers to mid-June, but now it is available for free to anyone who wants to try it.
Helpful ecommerce app Slice snags $23M from Rakuten, Lightspeed, and others
The Slice team set out in 2011 to help you track your packages and spending. And it just scored $23 million to stay on this mission.
Nissan’s electric Le Mans racecar tested by gamer-turned-racer
Nissan’s latest electric masterwork is built for speed — and who better to help develop it than a former gamer?
Reddit’s Alexis Ohanian: Sucking at something is the first step to being sorta good at something
Editor’s Pick MALMÖ, Sweden–”If you’re not at least a little embarrassed by something you just launched, you probably waited too long to start it,” said superstar entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian to a large crowd at the 2013 Media Evolution conference yesterday.
Boat rental platform Yachtico sails to US with million-euro funding
Yachtico sells itself as the “Airbnb of boat rentals,” and it’s ready to take on the U.S. market of leisure travelers and online rental enthusiasts.
Delta passes out 19K Windows Phones to flight attendants
Flight attendants will start using the new phones on August 26. At that point, fliers will start getting emailed receipts rather than physical ones. Delta also says the transactions will become a lot faster.
Pirate Bay’s Peter Sunde: ‘I hate being called an entrepreneur’
“I actually hate being called an entrepreneur,” fugitive Pirate Bay cofounder Peter Sunde said via a Skype video call at the Media Evolution event in Sweden yesterday.
Funding Daily: Flying Ubers
Uber was the big funding story today, but wine, recruiting, photo-sharing, and a distributed storage startup raised money too.
Why you should ignore startup failure stats
Guest Post Eran Laniado is the managing director of BMN!
Nanotech gets $3.9M for its butterfly-inspired counterfeit technology
Nanotech Security, an anti-counterfeit technology company, raised $3.9 million for its “nano-optics” that are modeled after butterfly wings.
