An interesting piece of news broke from the CNBC Twitter account today, having to do with Apple’s former Head of Retail Ron Johnson. Leaving in late 2011, he joined JC Penney as its CEO. Here is the tweet from CNBC that makes it worth mentioning: @CNBC: BREAKING: Ron Johnson out as J.C. Penney CEO – source Yep, that’s right – Ron Johnson is out as CEO at…
I can’t speak for everywhere, but in the UK, Kobo is one of the eReader brands that is left in the shadows of the likes of Amazon and Barnes & Noble (in terms of public awareness, anyway). Well, it seems the company is attempting to change this, as it has just appointed Jean-Marc Dupuis – former Apple sales director – to try and boost its…
Remember when Apple bought Lala? The small startup music streaming company? Well, today, a former Color employee opened up about how that acquisition went down. If you aren’t sure on what Lala was, it was a service much like that of Pandora or Spotify, where users would stream rather than store their music, and in a new blog post by the former…
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you would have heard about the cheaper iPhone rumors. Well, according to the former CEO of Apple, John Sculley, Cupertino has some work to do before this will become a reality, namely in the supply chain. In a report from Bloomberg, Sculley talks about how Apple needs to look to emerging markets, and not the…
Since Scott Forstall was given the boot by Apple, losing his position as chief of iOS, many have wondered, “was this a good decision?” Well, according to former Apple senior engineer Michael Lopp, no. Lopp actually posted on his blog that Forstall “was the best approximation of Steve Jobs that Apple had left.” As I’m sure many of you already know,…
A new hire as been made at Apple in the realm of its Siri division coming in the form of former Amazon executive William Stasior. Described as a “prominent search technologist,” Stasior has been hired by Apple to lead the Siri search team, which some are saying could point towards something big coming from Apple in the search business. Google is…
No longer than a month ago, The New York Times reported that Facebook would be doing a complete overhaul of their iOS application, mainly focusing on improving speed by moving away from it’s HTML5 base and writing it in iOS’s native Objective-C. Well, now, Bloomberg has now published a report on Facebook’s growing mobile efforts, including talks of…
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