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TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| August 5, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
You might have worried that the Olympic Games would lead to a dearth of tech news, but never fear: the march of technology stops for nothing. As such we’ve still got a week bursting with news: high-profile departures from Yahoo! and Facebook, an algorithmic slip-up that cost one company $440mn in 45 minutes, the start of a major patent trial between Apple and Samsung, the launches of Mountain Lion and Outlook.com, and plenty more. If there were medals for excitement, this week’s news would definitely be in the running. Business Marissa Mayer, who departed Google to join Yahoo! two weeks ago, has already started to influence the culture at her new fiefdom – and it’s beginning to look a lot… more
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| July 15, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Welcome back to TSR on tech! This week we’ve got all sorts of exciting news, from the sudden sale of Digg right through to a nuclear-powered underwater deep-sea Chinese mining station. Quite seriously. Plus there’s everything in between: funding for GitHub, funding from Bing, patent settlements, activity from Anonymous, announcements about the next two major operating systems, and much more. Read on! Business Digg, the social news site that was once valued at $175mn and was seen as one of the main drivers of internet traffic, has been sold to Betaworks, a technology development company, for just $500,000 plus equity. The site fell from favour after a series of missteps in the way it engaged its community, and since its… more
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
