Acer's been on a quest to reinvent itself pretty much since the sunset of the netbook era — which both fuelled the Taiwanese company's rapid growth and left it floundering when consumers moved on to other devices. Most recently, CEO and chairman J.T. Wang announced his resignation, expressing...
Rearranging the board room chairs once again
IBM's Watson supercomputer is taking a big step towards public use. Today, the company announced plans to open Watson up to developers in 2014, establishing an open platform and API that would let coders build apps on top of the supercomputer's database and natural language skills. It's not the...
If you build it, they won’t necessarily come.
In 2009, the Obama administration invested $1.2 billion into US-based factories creating batteries for electric vehicles. The result was a disaster. One by one, every company that received federal funding went belly-up or admitted the money hadn't had a real impact. For instance, LG-owned Compact Power quietly revealed that it hadn’t produced a...
Eight years ago, Amazon revolutionized the way companies could draw on human labor by creating its Mechanical Turk platform. With "MTurk," as it is sometimes known, workers could be delivered the same way Amazon sold computing resources through its AWS division: on demand, via the cloud, and in a way that was capable of scaling up and down with ease. The only drawback was that Mturk was largely limited to "simple human intelligence tasks," or as critics called them, "SHITS."
Programming with people
Tesla may one day take on the likes of Ford and Dodge and produce its own pickup truck. That's according to CEO Elon Musk, who made the "announcement" during off-the-cuff remarks at a Business Insider event in New York City. Musk was asked whether Tesla has considered building commercial fleet...
At one time, it was taken for granted in China that music and video content would be shamelessly pirated online. But a new lawsuit suggests the country may have to get serious about enforcing its copyright laws.
A group of Chinese companies...
Hulu officially appointed its new CEO last month, and it appears the company may now be pursuing a new business strategy as well. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the streaming video service is in talks with several high-profile television providers about potential...
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