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* Sony (SNE) predicts a $1.2 billion annual loss and slashed sales targets for TVs, personal computers, compact cameras, and Blu-ray players. (Bloomberg)
* Colleague Scott Olster on how the race for education tech is heating up. (Fortune)
* Apple (AAPL) will reportedly release a new store app that will, among other things, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Nov 2, 2011 10:55 AM ET
He mapped out a strategy to rescue the failing merger on a whiteboard in 2003
After a long meeting with Steve Jobs last year about what the iPad would mean for publishers, Fortune's technology editor Stephanie Mehta -- known to her colleagues as "Stephanie Telephony" when she covered telecommunications -- remarked that Jobs was a surprisingly astute student of other people's businesses, including hers.
Case in point: A story Brent Schlender, who covered MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 25, 2011 7:05 AM ET
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"Google+ is a prime example of our complete failure to understand platforms from the very highest levels of executive leadership (hi Larry, Sergey, Eric, Vic, howdy howdy) down to the very lowest leaf workers (hey yo). We all don't get it." -- Google engineer Steve Yegge in a reportedly leaked blog post. (Silicon MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Oct 13, 2011 3:30 AM ET
Up 13.59% in a quarter in which the NASDAQ fell 12.91%
In his Tech Trader Daily column last week, Barron's Tiernan Ray noted that the three months that ended Friday saw some spectacular flameouts in the tech sector, including Netflix (NFLX) down 56.88% for the quarter, AOL (AOL) down 39.58%, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) down 38.32% and Yahoo (YHOO) down 12.4%.
Amid the carnage, however, there were some relatively safe havens. Ray mentioned Apple MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Oct 3, 2011 5:00 AM ET
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* Thanks to an 8K HP (HPQ) filed, we now know ousted CEO Leo Apotheker walked away with almost $10 million in payouts and bonuses. Meanwhile, new company head Meg Whitman will earn $1 -- yes, $1 -- a year, joining former Apple CEO Steve Jobs and Google execs Larry Page, MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 30, 2011 3:30 AM ET
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* Google (GOOG) is reportedly developing a competitor to the popular curated news app, Flipboard, with a project dubbed "Propeller." Sources tell Robert Scoble that it's "mind-blowing good." (All Things D and Robert Scoble via Google +)
* BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion (RIMM) reported lower-than-expected revenues and profits for its latest quarter, telling MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 16, 2011 7:50 AM ET
Word leaked that the three players may work together in the ad space -- and the initial reaction is nothing short of discouraging.
FORTUNE -- Could the news that Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL (AOL) are planning to join together to sell ads on each other's sites be a trial balloon –- a leak designed to test reaction?
If so, the early responses aren't so encouraging. AllThingsD broke the news on MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 15, 2011 2:30 PM ET
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* Gamestop (GME) president Tony Bartel revealed that the videogame retail chain is testing the sale and distribution of a branded Android tablet that will likely stream console games to it. (GamesIndustry)
* It's (still) official: TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington confirmed at the tech blog's Disrupt conference yesterday morning that he's no longer an AOL MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Sep 13, 2011 3:30 AM ET
At this point, the ultimate fate of the beleaguered Internet company is anybody's guess. But here are some of the executives that may get a chance at taking the top spot.
FORTUNE -- It's impossible to guess who might be Carol Bartz's replacement at Yahoo because it's impossible to guess what Yahoo might look like when a replacement is named. It could be a totally different company before a CEO is MORE
Dan Mitchell, contributor - Sep 8, 2011 2:39 PM ET
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* Om Malik over at GigaOm proposes that Yahoo's (YHOO) slow-moving board should ousted too, and offers up a few new board candidates. (GigaOm)
* AOL (AOL) execs have decided to fire TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington, though how they plan to do it remains unclear. The timing perhaps couldn't be MORE
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