Best Buy's Digital Chief Has Abruptly Resigned, And Management Didn't See It...
Best Buy digital chief Stephen Gillett has resigned after just nine months at the embattled consumer electronics retailer. He'll be joining Symantec as its COO.Best Buy had recruited Gillett from...
View ArticleCAROL BARTZ: What I Wish I Could Tell My 30-Year-Old Self
Carol Bartz is widely-known in Silicon Valley for two things: being a high-profile executive at some of the best-known technology companies, including Sun Microsystems, Autodesk and Yahoo, and being a...
View ArticleOur Favorite Gadgets Of 2012 (AAPL, GOOG, AMZN, IRBT, NTDOY)
Electronics and other gadgets permeate my life.Whether they came out this year or made themselves especially useful this year, here's a list of my 12 favorites.The iPad MiniIt's smaller and just as...
View ArticleFacebook Is Testing A System That Sells Access To Your Inbox For $1 (FB)
Facebook is testing a new system that would allow strangers to pay $1 to send you a message and have it land in your Facebook inbox.If this sounds a bit odd, that's because it is. But that doesn't...
View ArticleREVEALED: The Full Story Of How Facebook IPO Buyers Got Screwed
The Facebook IPO in May was a disaster.Hyped up as the must-buy of the decade, the stock faltered as soon as it opened, and the shares then crashed more than 50% over the next few months.IPO buyers got...
View ArticleBest Buy Has Lost The 'Single Most Important Executive In The Entire Company'...
Best Buy's digital savior has left.Stephen Gillett, former digital chief at the struggling retailer, was a high-profile hire when he was whisked away from his position as the CIO of Starbucks. He now...
View ArticleApple Retail Store Employees Spill Their Secrets (AAPL)
Click here for the full story on Gizmodo >Please follow SAI on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about this story »
View ArticleIf You Weren't Worried About iPhone Sales Before, You Will Be After Reading...
Apple's stock is down today, and the reason seems to be another brutal report about the state of iPhone demand.This time it's from Susquehanna analyst Chris Caso. He basically hits the same notes all...
View ArticleLet's Hope This Paid Facebook Message Experiment Fails (FB)
Facebook is not for reaching out to strangers.Facebook Messages is not an email replacement. Facebook is for sharing stuff with your friends, people you actually know and want to talk to.So I don't...
View ArticleA Former Facebook Executive Warns About The Problem That Could Kill The...
What's the biggest threat to Facebook?Some things leap to mind: Google, Twitter, the shift to mobile, government regulators.But a top Facebook executive says those aren't the real problem.Instead, it's...
View ArticleThere Will Be An 'Internet Moment Of Silence' Tomorrow For The Sandy Hook...
Twitter chairman Jack Dorsey, Spotify investor Sean Parker, and other tech celebrities are backing an effort Friday morning to raise awareness about gun violence in the wake of the tragic shooting at a...
View ArticleBERNSTEIN: Apple Is Going To Be A Single-Digit Growth Company In 2015 (AAPL)
When it rains, it pours.Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi is also cutting his price target on Apple. He's at $750, down from $800, says Eric Savitz, who has his report.Overall, Sacconaghi is very...
View ArticleRIM Beats On Earnings, But Now The Stock Is Plummeting (RIMM)
RIM's earnings are out and they looked solid at first glance. But investors appear worried about the possibility of cuts in the lucrative service fees the smartphone maker earns from its messaging...
View ArticleLEAKED: The Official Name Of The Next Blackberry Phone (RIMM)
RIM's next BlackBerry phone will be called the BlackBerry Z10, according to a leaked ad obtained by Unwired View.This will be the first BlackBerry to run RIM's new mobile operating system, BlackBerry...
View ArticleRIM's CIO Will Retire At The End Of The Year (RIMM)
RIM's Chief Information Officer, Robin Bienfait, will retire at the end of this year, the company announced today.Bienfait has been with the company for six years. She'll continue to advise the company...
View ArticleRIM Shipped 6.9 BlackBerry Phones And 255,000 PlayBook Tablets Last Quarter...
RIM announced today that it shipped 6.9 million BlackBerry phones and "approximately" 255,000 PlayBook tablets last quarter.The real head-scratcher is how the heck RIM managed to ship so many PlayBook...
View ArticleRed Hat Beats On Revenue And Buys A Cloud Startup (RHT)
Red Hat, the first open-source software company to reach a billion dollars in annual revenue, made investors happy today.It reported a quarter that beat analysts' expectations on revenue and matched...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Tech Giants Shift Their Mobile Strategies
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence that collects and delivers the top mobile strategy news. It is delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence...
View ArticleThere's An Easy Way To Quit Instagram
Instagram ticked off a lot of people off this week. The popular photo-sharing network dramatically changed its terms of service, in preparation for rolling out some kind of advertising.It's not the...
View ArticleThe 5 Coolest, Craziest Hacks Facebook Engineers Created In 2012 (FB)
Facebook engineers held 12 hackathons last year which led to some fun, offbeat projects.A "hackathon" is the techie version of brainstorming. Instead of just jawboning about some off-the-wall idea,...
View Article