We reported earlier that Hewlett-Packard senior vice president Prith Banerjee is leaving the company effective from April 15, but no one know where in the world he is heading into. According to AllThingsD, Banerjee who has worked with HP for five years as the head of its research and development organization, HP Labs, will join Swiss industrial-tech giant ABB as...
Yahoo yesterday announced that it would be laying off 2,000 employees as a part of restructuring effort with AllThingsD reported that company’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving has resigned. On next Tuesday will see company’s CEO Scott Thompson outline his long-term strategy and vision for the struggling Internet Company. The reorganization meeting on Tuesday is likely to focus around the three main businesses that Thompson cited in a memo to staffers on Wednesday: “core media and communications,” “platforms”...
Moving a step further towards its giant IPO, Facebook will list its share on Nasdaq. According to CNBC, Facebook will list its shares on the Nasdaq exchange, and not on the NYSE. The company intends to use the ticker symbol “FB” when it does go public. The social giant is looking to raise around $5 billion from the open market in its offering. Facebook’s IPO is so high profile that investment bankers have agreed to take a fantastically low rate on the deal: Wall Street firms usually expect payment of 3-7 percent, according to the...
The Wikimedia Foundation has released updates for both iOS and Android versions and the features are jampacked. The new feature is the fact that Wikipedia has opted to ditch Google Maps in favor of OpenStreetMaps for its popular “nearby view” feature. The reason behind the move has to do with support for as many devices as possible: Previous versions of our application...
Microsoft keen on struggling from years in order to make it presence in the phone market with the latest it had teamed up with Nokia last year and bring on Lumia 900. But wait, this is not the complete part of story as hundreds of thousands of apps that run on Apple and Android devices will not work on phones like the Lumia 900 that use Microsoft’s Windows Phone...
Yesterday we reported that the scandal-hit Olympus may are in the form of getting support from three companies: Sony, Fujifilm, Terumo in the form of partnership. Today 43Rumors reports that the upcoming new Olympus CEO Hiroyuki Sasa during an interview with JapanTimes confirmed the partnership new but also underlines the possibility that Olympus may be able to handle the current financial situation alone without any external help. Some types of inexpensive compact digital cameras will be withdrawn but at the same time the company also...
The social giant recently rolled out its Timeline for all brand pages and we have seen plenty of brands rounding up the timeline – including The White House Timeline which had taken back to us in 1789 – adding more glory to this new feature – Nokia drives us back into in its past, dates back to 1865 when the company was little more than a wood pulp mill. ...
Being on poor results and the loss of senior executives since from the time the BlackBerry maker RIM’s last week’s grim earnings call, the company have someone to offer on board. United Vision Marketing Firms CEO announces that they are making an offer to Research In Motion (RIM) to acquire its Black Berry assets. The decision was made to acquire RIM after a...
Last year YouTube kicked off a beta feature that let creators convert YouTube videos into 3D with a click, and since then users have converted hundreds of thousands of your videos to 3D. The company is expanding the beta by adding automatic 3D conversion for short-form videos uploaded in 1080p. Meaning, you can select 3D viewing in the Quality settings (click on...
What it would be look like if we see Facebook and Twitter in the era of 80s and 90s when computing arena started off. Following a look at Facebook from the 90s, Twitter reimagined what it looks like in 80s – the time where we attach documents and executable to our tweets rather than links or photos. ...
