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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
| 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
| December 4, 2011 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Well, after a quiet week last week, the usual pre-Christmas lull seems to have evaporated as we’ve suddenly been flooded with news from all quadrants of the map! We’ve got Zynga heading for an IPO, the most money ever spent online in the US in a single day, the Carrier IQ scandal, printers bursting into flames, WikiLeaks returning from the dead, GCHQ failing to impress anyone, YouTube’s redesign, an angry Effin Irishwoman – and is that the Higgs boson? You’ll just have to read on to find out. Business Zynga, the mobile gaming company which makes Words with Friends (similar to Scrabble) and Farmville, is set to announce its IPO this month and begin trading on the stock market with the… more
