Posts Tagged by Ryan CLeary
TSR on tech: your weekly news summary
| July 1, 2012 | Posted by Elliot Davies under TSR on tech |
Wow, what a week! This might be the most stories we’ve ever covered in one go, so let’s not waste too much time on introductions. Want to know about Sheryl Sandberg and Bob Mansfield? Jimmy Wales’ petition to save Richard O’Dwyer? Apple’s injunctions against Samsung? Details of the Natwest “meltdown”? Google skydiving? All that and much, much more below. Business Facebook has named Sheryl Sandberg, its chief operating officer, as its eighth director. In a statement, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, said: “Sheryl has been my partner in running Facebook and has been central to our growth and success over the years. Her understanding of our mission and long-term opportunity, and her experience both at Facebook and on public company boards makes… 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
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
