Category: TSR on tech
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 17, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s the Apple edition of TSR on tech, with the WWDC keynote on Monday dominating the news cycle for the rest of the week. There were other goings-on, which we have duly reported on: cuts at Nokia, a rejected appeal for Assange, some important security updates; but all eyes were on San Francisco for Apple’s announcements about hardware updates, the new MacBook Pro with a Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion, and iOS 6. We’ve got the details on all of the aforementioned and more – just read on! Business Nokia, formerly the world’s largest mobile phone maker, has announced layoffs of up to 10,000 employees. The company will also close a factory in Finland and research facilities in Germany and… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 10, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s been a fairly slow week for those of us not frantically predicting what Apple will (or most likely won’t) change in iOS 6, which is due to be announced on Monday at WWDC. But the tech world never really grinds to a halt, and so we’ll still be taking a look at layoffs at HP and Olympus, wheelings and dealings in various courtrooms, Google’s 3D maps, Toshiba’s laptop with a 21:9 display ratio, and how you can get your very own Iron Throne. All this and more, below. Business Meg Whitman, CEO of HP, has announced that the company will be laying off 27,000 employees, or 8% of the company’s workforce, by October 2014. The cuts are expected to… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| June 3, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
For once it has been a generally positive week in tech, with good news on ACTA (i.e. bad news for ACTA) and an outcome to the Google-Oracle Java suit that will have developers everywhere cheering. There are also some nice announcements from Facebook, a slight increase in momentum for Do Not Track, exciting event announcements from Apple and Google, and several product launches and releases. The news might not be so good if you’ve invested in Facebook or RIM, or if your name is Julian Assange, but at least you’re not a mayor who has just been arrested by the FBI. Business Facebook’s foray into the public market is looking less and less like the grand success Mark Zuckerberg &… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It has been a most unusual week in the tech world, with neither news about Apple nor any more mind-numbing patent lawsuits. Instead we’ve got some exciting intrigue at Yahoo! – did he alter it or didn’t he? – along with good news on ACTA, bad news about The Pirate Bay (sort of), several announcements from Facebook, and a couple of highly amusing computer glitches. Read about all this, and more, below. Business The headlines this week were that Scott Thompson, CEO of Yahoo!, is being accused of falsifying his academic record. Thompson’s official Yahoo! profile (included as part of regulatory filings submitted to the SEC), as well as his official bio from his previous job at eBay, stated that… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| April 22, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It was all about the numbers this week, as several major companies reported their quarterly earnings. Many hit the mark but we weren’t left without any surprises; you’ll have to read on to find out more. If finance isn’t your thing then don’t fret: we’ve also got the low-down on the Flashback virus infecting everyone’s Macs, a brief open beta for Diablo III, a very fancy watch, and MacBook Pro perfume. I kid you not. Business Microsoft’s Q3 earnings were better than expected this week, as the Redmond company reported profits of $5.11bn – 60 cents a share – on revenue of $17.41bn. Analysts had expected $17.18bn. The greatest increases were in Microsoft’s Business Division, which reported a 9% year-on-year… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s a business-heavy week this time around, with Facebook’s highly priced acquisition of Instagram and the launch of the first major Windows Phone handset. We also have some number stories as usual: this week it’s Google’s Q1 earnings, Apple’s market cap, layoffs at Sony and a patent purchase by Microsoft. Not only that, but Apple is being sued by the American government, Anonymous is unexpectedly topping a poll of influential people, and Google+’s metamorphosis into Facebook is nearly complete. For all this and more, read on! Business By far the biggest tech story this week was the sudden announcement that Facebook will be buying Instagram, a popular photo-sharing service, for $1bn. Many are wondering how sensible this was: not yet… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| April 8, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
After a couple of weeks’ absence, owing in part to very slow news weeks (and one to a brief Soviet takeover), TSR on tech is back this week with a round up of all the week’s most important, interesting, and inspiring technology stories. We unfortunately have to start off grimly with cuts at Yahoo!, but then we get to look at how busy the world has been arresting hackers and discover a very cool new idea from Google, so it’s not all bad. Without further ado, read on! Business The big story this week was of course the laying off of 2,000 employees at Yahoo!, representing 14% of the permanent workforce. The cuts, championed by CEO Scott Thompson, are the largest… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| March 11, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
It’s been a slightly crazy week for tech, with the arrests of five prominent hackers across the front pages of international newspapers mixed up with Apple’s announcement of the new iPad. Still, at least we’ve some continuity: Yahoo!’s senior management continues to flee the company, Adobe continues to fix security holes in Flash, and Google continues to struggle to unify itself. At least Bethesda and Mojang have finally sorted their little tiff out. Business According to SharesPost, a company which has been managing the private trades of some of Facebook’s shares, the social network’s value has rised to $100bn since its IPO announcement. Although investors are obviously excited by the news, analysts have been cautious in confirming anything since Facebook’s… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| March 4, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Hurrah – no one is suing anyone else this week! Thankfully we don’t need to repeat last week’s mass (or should that be ‘mess’) of legal rumblings. Instead, we’ve got… job layoffs and the fall from grace of the world’s favourite tech blog (which, for some inexplicable reason, is not TSR). Oh well, what can I say? It’s tough in the world of technology. But it’s not all doom and gloom. We’ll also look at YMAN (Yet More Apple News), some exciting gaming updates, the iPad 3 launch invitation, the highly anticipated Raspberry Pi computer, and much more. Shall we? Business These days it is seemingly impossible to start a weekly news review without mentioning Apple’s latest achievement, and this week… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| February 26, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Plenty of legal mumbo-jumbo this week as Kim Dotcom is released on bail, ACTA is delayed and Microsoft accuses Motorola of asking just a little too much for its patents, but not to fear – we’ll make sure to lighten the mood a bit with a positive earnings report from HP, a “Privacy Bill of Rights” announced by Obama, some product goodness with the PS Vita and BlackBerry PlayBook, and a patent for a keyboard made of polished meteorite. Onwards! Business Dell failed to meet the expectations of many analysts – and the hopes of many shareholders – when it posted its Q4 results this week. Its net income fell 18% year-on-year to $764mn or 43 cents per share, compared… more
