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Today in Tech: Massive Yahoo layoffs coming
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* According to All Things D, thousands of Yahoo (YHOO) employees will likely get laid off as CEO Scott Thompson gets ready to restructure the struggling Internet company. Divisions that may get hit include public relations and marketing, research, and local efforts. (All Things D)
* IBM's (IBM) stock hit an all-time high MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Mar 6, 2012 3:30 AM ET -
Apple as the new GM or IBM
Is it a flash in the pan or one of those rare companies that defines an era?
Investors, analysts and business historians have been struggling in the weeks since Apple's (AAPL) most recent earnings report to make sense of this corporate oddity: a mega-cap company ($487.1 billion) that grows like a start-up (first quarter earnings up 115.7%).
Since November, when it pulled decisively away from Exxon Mobil (XOM), Apple has been the MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 26, 2012 6:28 AM ETPosted in: 5by5, Apple, Asymco, General Motors, Horace Dediu, Howard Silverblatt, IBM, New York Times, Standard & Poor, The Critical Path -
Video: ABC takes a camera crew inside an iPad factory
Nightline to air its special after the kids are asleep Tuesday at 11:35 p.m. ET and PT
Four years ago, when I first starting writing about Foxconn, it was almost impossible to get a photo of the factory workers who assemble 40% of the world's electronic devices.
Now, 18 suicides, two fatal explosions, an off-Broadway show and a New York Times exposé later, Foxconn has opened the factory where Apple's (AAPL) iPads MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Feb 20, 2012 12:01 PM ET -
Today in Tech: Why HP's Touchpad was doomed to fail
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the long holiday weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
"Maybe Brits have too many holidays for broke country!"
-- Reported, quickly deleted Tweet from @rupertmurdoch (The Sydney Morning Herald)* According to former Palm employees, HP's Touchpad tablet, which the company eventually liquidated last year with a $99 fire sale, didn't have a chance. Leadership and engineering talent was lacking. The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Jan 3, 2012 6:00 AM ET -
Personal tech gets down to business
After seeing executives jury-rig consumer gadgets and software for work, companies like Google and Apple are suiting up for success in the office.
By Richard Nieva, contributor
FORTUNE -- In recent years employees have been bringing their personal smartphones and tablets to work and tricking out their gadgets (sometimes without the tech department's okay) with productivity-enhancing apps and software. Now, instead of standing by as savvy individuals co-opt their technology for the MORE
Dec 28, 2011 5:00 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Why Windows Phone 7 hasn't taken off
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the holiday weekend. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* Former Windows Phone general Manager Charlie Kindel explains why he thinks Windows Phone 7 hasn't taken off, chalking up much of it to Microsoft's relationship with manufacturers and carriers. However, tech influencer Robert Scoble thinks it really has to do with the operating system's lack of apps, while TechCrunch columnist MG Siegler argues that it arrived to the MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 27, 2011 11:41 AM ETPosted in: Amazon, Charlie Kindel, Google, IBM, iPad, iPhone, Microsoft, RIMM, Walt Mossberg, Windows Phone 7 -
Reports: iPads and iPhones accounted for 92% -- or was it 13.4%? -- of online holiday sales
An analytical gap big enough to drive a sleigh through
Here are a pair of headline shockers:
AppleInsider: iOS dominates mobile shopping with 92% of market
Forbes: iOS Took 13.4% of Online Sales on Christmas DayBoth stories got pretty big play over the Christmas break. But they can't both be right, can they? Let's look at the facts.
The 92% figure comes from a Dec. 21 report by a San Francisco-base company called RichRelevance MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Dec 27, 2011 6:41 AM ET -
Today in Tech: Research in Motion's troubles continue
Fortune's curated selection of tech stories from the last 24 hours. Sign up to get the round-up delivered to you each and every day.
* The real story behind former Windows Mobile head Andy Lees' removal from his role. According to The Verge, Lees' lofty, public estimates for Windows Phone 7's success -- and the hard reality that it hasn't made much of a dent in the market -- created a rift. (The MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 15, 2011 3:30 AM ETPosted in: BlackBerry, Flipboard, Google, IBM, Intel, ReadWriteWeb, Research in Motion, SAY Media, SurveyMonkey, Xbox -
Today in Tech: Citi says next iPad due in February
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* Twitter unveiled and launched a major redesign of the social network, nicknamed #LetsFly, aimed at making the experience of using it faster, simpler, and more accessible. (CNNMoney)
* Citi analyst Richard Gardner believes the next iPad will launch in February with a screen resolution double that of the current MORE
JP Mangalindan, Writer - Dec 9, 2011 10:32 AM ET -
IBM report: iPhones and iPads accounted for 10.2% of Black Friday online retail traffic
Online sales were up 24.3% overall. iPad shoppers were most efficient. Android less so.
Apple (AAPL) devices figured prominently in an IBM (IBM) Smarter Commerce survey issued Saturday that reported double digit increases in online sales Thanksgiving Day (up 39.3% from 2010) and Black Friday (up 24.3%) and a 200% increase in purchases made on mobile devices (from 3.2% in 2010 to 9.8% this year).
In particular: (I quote)
The Apple Shopper: Mobile shopping MORE
Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Nov 27, 2011 6:04 AM ET
