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Harsh anti-Abercrombie & Fitch video goes viral
Abercrombie brands itself as "exclusionary." And that means trouble.
FORTUNE -- A video depicting a hipster giving homeless people clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch (ANF) reached critical viral mass this week. It was a protest against Abercrombie's practice of only hiring "good-looking" people for its stores, not stocking women's clothes in large sizes, and marketing itself only to "cool kids."
"Abercrombie & Fitch is a terrible company," says filmmaker Greg Karber. Which MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - May 16, 2013 1:48 PM ET -
Samsung's radical plan to bring you faster wireless
The Korean giant wants to deliver 5G network technology by 2020.
By Peter Suciu
FORTUNE -- While many mobile phone users are still making calls, sending texts, and surfing the web over a 3G network and have yet to upgrade to a 4G handset, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung says it has successfully developed the world's first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for communications -- MORE
May 16, 2013 11:55 AM ET -
Windows Phone surpasses Blackberry for third place in smartphone shipments
Google's Android and Apple's iOS still make up the vast majority of the market.
FORTUNE -- There's a new number three.
Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows Phone operating system has overtaken BlackBerry (BBRY) for the first time, according to researcher IDC. The firm released its quarterly report on the smartphone market, showing that during the first quarter of 2013, Windows devices made up 3.2% of all smartphones shipped. BlackBerry devices accounted for 2.9% of MORE
Matt Vella, senior editor - May 16, 2013 10:46 AM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, BlackBerry, Google, iPhone, Lumia, Microsoft, Nokia, Smartphones, Windows Phone -
Tim Cook to testify on taxes: Did the N.Y. Times have it wrong?
Next week we'll find out what a Senate probe of Apple's taxes has uncovered.
FORTUNE -- According to the New York Times' Pulitzer Prize-winning iEconomy series, Apple (AAPL) has gone to extraordinary lengths to avoid paying its fair share of taxes -- well beyond the usual tax reduction strategies U.S. corporations have long considered fair game.
"Apple was a pioneer of an accounting technique known as the 'Double Irish With a Dutch MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 16, 2013 9:07 AM ET -
Break up Sony? It's harder than it looks
Until recently, takeover bids were rare in Japan, where private equity and hedge funds have been traditionally viewed as vultures.
By Michael Fitzpatrick
FORTUNE -- Sony's best selling TV, the Bravia, translates as "ferocious, savage, wild, untamed" -- the very adjectives that are probably on the minds of Sony executives as they consider the latest bid from gaijin, or outsiders, to upset the highly ordered decorum of doing business in Japan.
The MORE
May 16, 2013 7:37 AM ET -
Why Larry Page's kumbaya moment sounded hollow
Google's CEO decried the negativity in the tech industry. Too bad the company's executives have a long history of trashing the competition.
By Verne Kopytoff
FORTUNE -- Larry Page, Google's chief executive, is fed up with the negativity in the technology industry and the news media that covers its every detail like a prizefight.
"Every story I read about Google is 'us versus some other company' or some stupid thing, and I MORE
May 16, 2013 7:03 AM ETPosted in: Oracle, Apple, iPhone, Android, Facebook, Larry Ellison, Microsoft, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Google, Google I/O -
OTOY: Bringing the big screen experience to browsers
The brainchild of scrappy programmer Jules Urbach took a stealthy development route, and guess what? It might pay off.
FORTUNE -- Streaming movies via Netflix (NFLX) or music from Spotify are one thing, but games? Those are a computational challenge 38-year-old OTOY founder Jules Urbach will tell you are in a league all their own.
For the last nine years, the French-born, Los Angeleno has worked on a cloud-computing product that will MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - May 16, 2013 6:45 AM ET -
Briefings of the day: U.S.A. vs. Apple Inc.
In the DOJ's great e-book conspiracy, Apple is the sole defendant still standing.
FORTUNE -- The conspiracy case that the U.S. Department of Justice filed against Apple and five book publishers in April 2011 is finally coming to a head.
In the year that has passed, all five publishers have settled. Only Apple had the stomach -- or the wherewithal -- to take the case to trial.
It's scheduled to begin in a MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - May 15, 2013 3:51 PM ET -
Google wants to make photos Google Plus' killer app
Google is betting its algorithms can enhance your snapshots.
FORTUNE -- Most of us will never be Ansel Adams. But Google is betting that its algorithms can enhance our snapshots with the finesse of a darkroom pro.
On Wednesday, the company unveiled a set of improvements to the photo capabilities of Google+, its social network, that include the automatic refinishing of images. Using the same kind of machine learning algorithms it developed MORE
Miguel Helft, senior writer - May 15, 2013 1:48 PM ET -
Google takes aim at Spotify and Pandora
Its new music service -- Google Play Music All Access -- has features that are similar to both competitors.
By Ryan Bradley, senior editor
FORTUNE -- After months of buildup, on Wednesday Google announced a new, subscription-based streaming music service called Google Play Music All Access. The name may be clunky, but the offerings appear bountiful.
Google (GOOG) secured deals with three of the four major record labels—Universal Music, Sony, and Warner MORE
May 15, 2013 1:39 PM ETPosted in: Android, Apple, Google, Google I/O, Google Play, Google Play Music All Access, iTunes, online music, Pandora, Rdio, Spotify, streaming music, YouTube
