Foxconn is world’s biggest contract electronics maker and it’s used by most of technology giants around the world, including Sony, Apple, Microsoft, HP and Nokia. The company employs ca. 800,000 workers worldwide and has labor issues since 2010. The company has recently issued a statement in which admits labor violation at China factory. It hired underage students, who also worked overtime and night shift. Continue reading »

According to Reuters, Google has been accused by Brazilian antitrust watchdog Cade of unfairly using rivals’ content, discouraging their advertisers and favoring its own product listings. Brazil’s Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo has already suggested that tech companies are not paying enough taxes. This regulatory pressure came after Brazilian authorities took a closer look at major US Internet companies (Google, Facebook etc.) after revelations that Continue reading »

Microsoft will launch in the middle of October three Xbox 360 holiday bundles. Xbox 360 base 250GB kit features Halo 4 and Tomb Raider. Xbox 360 4GB Kineckt bundle includes Kinect Adventures and Kinect Sports 2. Xbox 360 250GB Kinect pack offers supplements with Forza Horizon. Continue reading »

As we already reported, Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer will retire by the end of next summer and he won’t get retirement payout from Microsoft. According to Wall Street Journal, Microsoft is in active hunt for new CEO and Continue reading »

Steve Ballmer got only $550,000 of his predicted $700,000 bonus check, because Microsoft woefully overestimated how many Surface tablets it would sell. Microsoft was forced to take $900 million hit to its earnings due to awful Surface sales. Ballmer got also last year a smaller bonus than planned. Last year Microsoft failed to provide a browser choice screen on European PCs running Windows, as required by an 2009 antitrust settlement. Ballmer will retire by the end of next summer and he won’t get a retirement payout from Microsoft, but he owns ca. 333 million shares of Microsoft. And this stake is worth almost $11,3 billion. Continue reading »

Microsoft is accepting pre-orders for two latest models: the Surface 2 and Surface Pro 2. Both models are available from Microsoft’s online store (expected to ship around October 22nd). Price list is as following: Surface 2 32 GB for $450, Surface 2 64GB for $550, Surface 2 Pro 64GB for $900 and Surface 2 Pro 128GB for $1000. Momentarily the model Surface Pro 2 512GB is not available. If you are interested in it and don’t mind its $1799 price tag you have the option to sign up for an email alert when the tablet is ready to be pre-ordered.  Continue reading »