According to Financial Post, Apple hosted a party on 26^th September for BlackBerry employees just 20km away from BlackBerry’s Waterloo home base. The party was at the Cambridge Hotel and Conference Center and Apple invited local talent by LinkedIn messages with the aim of luring them to their Silicon Valley operations. 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 »

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 »

Aston Martin began with production of its small small car in 2011, but it will end this production at the end of the year. Company targeted annual sales of ca. 4,000 but they sold fewer than 150. The main reason for unsuccessful sale was probably $51,500 selling price that was double the price of competing cars in that segment such as Audi’s A1 and BMW’s Mini series. Continue reading »

Alcatel-Lucent wants to cut costs and save $1,4bn by 2015, that’s why they will cut 14% of its 72,000 workers. The company has already fired 5,000 workers this year (the news was announced in July). Continue reading »

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has launched tiny cheap computer Pi in February last year and by now they made million Pi computers. They made around 12,000 computers per day and it looks like Pi will become best-selling British computer since the 1980’s. Continue reading »