Judge Wants To See Apple, Google, And Intel Chiefs In Court
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh wants to see Google's Eric Schmidt, Apple's Tim Cook, and Intel's Paul Otellini in her office. Or courtroom, rather.She's ordered each corporate chieftain to appear for...
View ArticleHow Not To Pitch Business Insider
I get dozens of PR pitches a day. It stinks, but I simply don't have enough time to respond to all of them between all the writing, editing, and gadget testing I do all day.One way to guarantee I won't...
View ArticleTexas Senator Wants To Know Whether Prosecutors Were Going After Aaron Swartz...
A top Senate Republican is suggesting the federal government harshly prosecuted Aaron Swartz because the Internet activist asked for too much information.After Swartz killed himself last week in his...
View ArticleMicrosoft Is Jacking Up The Price Of Windows 8 Upgrades (MSFT)
Microsoft announced today that it's ending the introductory price of Windows 8 upgrades.Here are the new prices as listed by Microsoft for each version of the operating system.They go into effect on...
View ArticleCHART OF THE DAY: Tumblr Has 700,000 Visitors Per Employee – Way More Than...
Blogging platform Tumblr is very popular. According to Comcore, it had almost 100 million worldwide visitors in December. What's particularly impressive about that huge number is that Tumblr only has...
View ArticleThe Price Of Loyalty: Color Employees Missed Out On Apple Millions (AAPL,...
Some employees of failed startup Color have it even worse than we initially believed.Leaving a steady job to join a startup is always a gamble, but Color employees were in a particularly dramatic...
View ArticleCisco May Be Breaking Up Microsoft's Relationship With A Vital Cloud Partner...
Cisco just bought a small stake in Parallels, a small company best known for its software that runs Windows apps on a Mac.And that just complicated things for Microsoft, which has grown closer to...
View ArticleTrulia CEO Reveals How He's Monetizing His Mobile Audience
Trulia's stock has been underperforming since the company's IPO. CEO Pete Flint stopped by Business Insider to talk about how going public has impacted the company.He also tells us that mobile usage...
View ArticleWhen Hurricane Sandy Struck, This Company Changed Its Entire Sales Plan -- In...
When Sandy struck the East Coast, Providence was largely spared. But Swipely, a startup based in the Rhode Island city, had a different problem: The storm wiped out its chance to sell its payments...
View ArticleHP: Windows 8 Was Clearly 'A Slower Start Than Many People Expected' (HPQ, MSFT)
Microsoft's new touch-based remake of Windows is off to a slower than expected start, says HP's PC boss Todd Bradley.Speaking with Bloomberg TV's Emily Chang, Bradley said, "Clearly it's as been...
View ArticleA Simple Chart That Explains The Drop In Apple's Stock (AAPL)
Apple closed at $500.00 on the nose yesterday. An eerie close to an odd week for Apple.It all started Sunday night when the Wall Street Journal and Nikkei simultaneously reported Apple cut its March...
View Article8 Enterprise Startups Creating A Brand-New, $4 Billion Market (CSCO, VMW)
A new enterprise technology called software-defined networking is still in its infancy. But it's already created some billion-dollar success stories, capturing the imagination of Silicon Valley's...
View ArticleFormer Convict Reveals How Hard It Is To Be Targeted By One Of Aaron Swartz's...
Aaron Swartz's legal team and family are justifiably outraged at federal prosecutors, a man prosecuted by one of the same attorneys said.Swartz's former lawyer said this week that Assistant United...
View ArticleA Q&A With Sheryl Sandberg's Husband, Dave Goldberg On Why He Avoided An IPO...
Over a year ago, Dave Goldberg, the CEO of online survey company SurveyMonkey decided he wanted to raise fresh capital for his 13-year-old startup.He didn't want to go public to raise capital. He...
View ArticleDemand For Google's Nexus 4 Phone Is 10X What Google Expected (GOOG)
The demand for Google's Nexus 4 is ten times what it was expecting, CNET reports.CNET's report is based on comments from LG's comments to a French publication. "LG says it simply built as many phones...
View ArticleKAYAK: iOS Usage Is 3X Android Usage (GOOG, AAPL)
Here's another small, but interesting data point in the debate around iOS and Android.Bill O'Donnell, who runs the mobile group at travel booking company Kayak, tells me, "iOS is 3X what Android usage...
View ArticleSamsung's Next Challenge: Make A Killer Tablet
By virtue of its capturing a large share of the global smartphone market, Samsung has worked its way into the elite group of tech companies like Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, and (depending on who...
View ArticleWhat Are The "Big Stories" Of 2013?
Well, I'm headed off to Europe again for the 18-hour-a-day annual schmoozefest known as "Davos" (with a prior stop in Munich for DLD).The folks who run Davos, the World Economic Forum, have been kind...
View ArticleThere Was Only One Lousy Thing About My Lufthansa Business Class Flight To...
I'm in Munich this morning, jet-lagged to all hell (so I apologize in advance for any giddiness).I came to do a panel at the DLD conference. The DLD folks were kind enough to airmail me over last...
View ArticleThis Fancy Hotel In Munich Has Complimentary Dog Bowls [PHOTO]
Everyone has descended on Munich for the DLD conference.The conference hotel, the Bayerischer Hof, is overwhelmed, and no rooms are ready. So we're all jet-lagged in the lobby with nothing to do but...
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