There's a lot to be said for the satisfaction of workers in this day and age, especially here in the tech industry where Apple is gaining on Windows machines for employee use due to what CBS Interactive CTO Peter Yared implies as a "time machine" effect. In a talk with the Wall Street Journal's CIO Journal, Yared spoke candidly about why he's seeing Apple gain relatively quickly in businesses where employees have Apple computers at home and therefor expect to be able to use the same hardware and software when at work.
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Spotify premium service fails to deliver
If you were a fly on the wall at Spotify's office, you might be hearing a lot of murmuring about how to improve the company's premium music streaming service, which isn't performing up to expectations. The New York Post wasn't a fly on the wall, but it did manage to get some behind-closed-doors comments from an unnamed source at the social music pioneer. And the comments aren't very positive.
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Google CEO reiterates Android open ecosystem for 2012
The current CEO of Google, Larry Page, has sent out a state of the union address under the title CEO Letter to address many topics, Android not least of all. In his words on Android specifically, he spoke not only of the lovely new experiences Google has with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and Google Wallet and mentions the search giant’s relatively recent announcement of plans to acquire Motorola Mobility. In this mention, he make sure to make the world know that Google plans on continuing to work with a wide variety of hardware partners with their Android open environment experience.
Facebook listing with Nasdaq
The social networking giant known as Facebook has been reported as working with Nasdaq OMX Group Inc to list their shares this summer as the most coveted newly listed Internet Business of this decade. Reports are that Facebook's stock will be working with the Nasdaq as a brand connection that's sure to bring even more attention to the already massively popular listing. Facebook PR has thus far declined to comment on the situation.
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Upcoming Olympus president wants to cut back camera portfolio
Hiroyuki Sasa was named as the potential new president of Olympus back in February, but already seems to have a strategy in place for getting the camera manufacturer back to profitability. Speaking to Japan Times, Sasa confirmed that Fuji and Sony have expressed interest in a financial partnership with Olympus, but he hasn’t ruled out weathering the financial storm alone.
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Consumerist’s Worst Company in America award goes to EA
Electronic Arts has been voted the "Worst Company in America," a title it's unlikely to boast about in its company profile. EA is one of the largest video game publishers in the world and some of its titles are heralded as the cream of the crop within the industry, but its business practices and corporate culture overshadowed that in the series of polls conducted by consumer watchdog website The Consumerist.
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PayPal launches new tiered structure for business, seamless product integration
With all the new products and services PayPal has launched over the last several months, the company has now taken the organizational step of making sure all those new platforms are available and easily accessible to users, particularly those in the world of small and medium-sized business. The bottom line is that PayPal will now offer a free level as well as an Advanced tier and a Pro tier.
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Nintendo’s newest hire is the co-creator of Sonic
Welcome to a new chapter in the ever continuing battle of Sonic versus Mario. This time, it looks like a rather unexpected person is joining team Mario - the man who helped create Sonic the Hedgehog. Hirokazu Yasuhara, who worked at Sega for more than a decade, will join a team that is assumedly comprised of people he fiercely competed with back in the 1990s, and could likely be working on a Mario game in the near future.
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RIM launches BlackBerry Mobile Fusion for businesses
Part of RIM’s success in the enterprise market is making available easy deployment and access tools for its line of BlackBerry devices. Today they’ve announced BlackBerry Mobile Fusion, which will allow enterprise administrators to access and manage BlackBerry devices from a simple to use web interface. Mobile Fusion is able not only to manage BlackBerry devices, but also Android and iOS.
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LivingSocial Instant deals are dead
LivingSocial has abandoned its location-based "Instant" deals service before it ever made its mark. In addition, company co-founder and former president Eddie Frederick has left the site, and it's assumed that his departure was not by choice. Frederick likely had an active hand in developing the Instant platform, which has been described as essentially being dead on arrival. Internet success isn't as easy as it looks.
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Nintendo Wii U gains Green Hills partner
Nintendo has announced that it will partner with development company Green Hills Software to create and implement a development solution for its coming Wii U game console. The company will provide its MULTI integrated development environment to help third parties more easily and efficiently write code for the impending system. It will hopefully help third-party game makers to come on board and support Nintendo in the next generation.
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Yahoo to begin massive layoffs next week
Yahoo is planning to announce layoffs next week followed by a major restructuring plan the week after, reported AllThingsD citing multiple sources. Under new CEO Scott Thompson, Yahoo is trying to refocus its products and drastically slim down its operations. The job cuts are expected to be in the thousands.
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