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Business Mobile

HTC Reports Lowest Sales Since Jan 2010, Worst Revenue Decline In 4 Months, As February Sales Fell 44% To $384M

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As reported on TechCrunch. by INGRID LUNDEN The new HTC One unveiled last month is increasingly feeling like last-chance saloon for the troubled Taiwan handset maker. Today HTC noted that its sales for the month of February fell by nearly 44% to 11.37 billion Taiwan dollars ($384 million), from NT$20.3 billion for the same month one year ago. Looking at thebigger picture, that NT$11.37 billion is barely higher than what HTC made in January 2010, when it reported NT$11.12 billion in…

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Business Culture

Learn to Manage Up to Keep Your Boss Happy and Off Your Back

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As reported on LifeHacker. by Alan Henry You know that a bad boss is bad for you, but a good way to keep a boss from going bad in the first place is to get a handle on their expectations and manage them while they manage you. After all, it’s a two-way street. “Managing up,” as the saying goes, is easier said than done, but it’s not impossible. The real key is to learn your boss’s prefered communication style,…

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Business Culture Trends

Bartendro cocktail mixing robot lands on Kickstarter, wields Raspberry Pi (video)

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As reported on Engadget. By Alexis Santos  If you prefer robot bartenders to lack limbs that could be used against you in the impending robopocalypse, Bartendro might be your kind of bot. After two years of building and tweaking, the folks at Party Robotics have finally polished theirRaspberry Pi-powered cocktail-making rig and have posted it to Kickstarter. Born from a need to re-create mixed drinks in perfect proportion, Bartendro uses food-grade tubing, pumps and custom-built electronics to pipe liquids out with a measurement accuracy…

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Business Entertainment

Green Scream: The Decay of the Hollywood Special Effects Industry

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As reported on Wired. BY ANGELA WATERCUTTER A funny thing happened during the Oscars, but it wasn’t anything that came out of Seth MacFarlane’s mouth. Rather, it was a moment during Life of Pi VFX supervisor Bill Westenhofer’s acceptance speech for Best Visual Effects that quickly became emblematic of the problems currently plaguing the Hollywood special effects industry. The traditional time-to-end-your-speech music began playing just as Westenhofer thanked his family, and right after he said, “Sadly, Rhythm & Hues is suffering…

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Business Cloud

Salesforce 4Q Revenues Up 32% With $3.05B For The Fiscal Year

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As reported on TechCrunch. by ALEX WILLIAMS Salesforce.com has announced its fourth-quarter earnings with revenues of $835 million, up 32%, compared to last year. Non-GAAP earnings per share were 51 cents. Financial analysts had expected revenues ranging from $825 million to $830 million. EPS was estimated to come in at 40 cents. For the full fiscal year 2013, the company reported revenue of $3.05 billion, an increase of 35% from the prior year. Salesforce.com is reporting that revenue…

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Business

Sony unloads ‘Sony City Osaka’ building for $1.2 billion, will remain as lessee

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As reported on Engadget. By Steve Dent In a bid to bolster its bottom line, Sony’s been selling properties like a desperate monopoly player, and the latest space on the board to go is the Sony City Osaka building for 111.1 billion yen ($1.2 billion). That follows the sale of its NY headquarters for a similar sum, and the move of its global HQ from Sweden to Tokyo. The Osaka building has been purchased by a Japanese holding company who will…

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Business

Why Local Commerce Will Be Larger Than E-Commerce For The Next Decade, An Analysis

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As reported on TechCrunch. by MIKE GHAFFARY Marc Andreessen and Reid Hoffman recently debated whethersoftware would eat traditional retail, leaving no brick-and-mortar presence behind. Both articles noted that e-commerce is currently only 5 percent of retail in the U.S., while the other 95 percent is brick and mortar. While Andreessen holds firm that e-commerce will completely overshadow physical retail, the debate missed why some industries will never go completely online. Some industries will have a hard time competing…

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Apple Business Google

The Shift From Apple To Google Is Part Of A Much Larger Economic Development

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As reported on Businessinsider.com by Joe Weisenthal By Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Google is the new Apple.  Well, not necessarily, but while Apple’s stock continues to grind lower, Google’s stock is on a tear. And now analysts are jumping over themselves to get more bullish on Google. Just yesterday, two separate analysts put $1,000 price targets on the stock. What gives? Well, of course people can make up all kinds of stories about the momentum of either company, and…

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Apple Business

Apple Updates Retina MacBook Pro, Drops 13-inch Retina Pro, MacBook Air And SSD Upgrade Prices

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As reported on TechCrunch. by DARRELL ETHERINGTON The MacBook Pro with Retina and 13-inch MacBook Air got some mid-cycle improvements under the hood today, with a new 2.6GHz processor for the 13-inch Retina MacBook Pro, new 2.4 and 2.7GHz processors for the 15-inch version, and 16GB of memory as a top-end spec on the larger Retina model. The MacBook’s 256GB version has a new lower price of $1399, and the 13-inch Retina now starts at $1499 and $1699…

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Automotive Business

Elon Musk produces Model S data logs to disprove New York Times’ Tesla review

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As reported on Engadget. By Daniel Cooper We liked Tesla’s Model S, but some of the other outlets didn’t feel the same way. TheNew York Times‘ John Broder, for one, described being stranded 25 miles away from the nearest supercharger station. However, after Tesla’s litigious run-in with Top Gear, the company keeps detailed vehicle data logs to ensure it gets a fair deal in reviews. Now, Tesla (and SpaceX) CEO Elon Musk has posted the data that, he says,proves Broder wasn’t being…

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