Boris Johnson Pushes London Tech for Asian Funding (videos)

Boris Johnson Pushes London Tech for Asian Funding: Video - Bloomberg:
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Claire Cockerton, chief executive officer at Innovate Finance, talks with Anna Edwards about London Mayor Boris Johnson’s visit to Singapore as he seeks funding for U.K. financial technology companies. She speaks on “Countdown.” Nov. 28 (Bloomberg)

London Is Becoming a Tech Capital: Burbidge: Video - Bloomberg:
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Passion Capital Partner Eileen Burbidge discusses the growing tech scene in London, the talent issues in tech and their push for collaboration in Asia with Bloomberg’s Haslinda Amin on “First Up.” (Source: Bloomberg 11/28)

Steve Jobs Still Wins Plenty of Patents | MIT Technology Review: "Who is named on a patent is sometimes just as important as what it says, at least that’s true for Jobs. In 2012, during a lawsuit with Motorola and Google, a Chicago judge had to order Apple’s lawyers to stop referring to a key patent covering swiping and scrolling on touch screens as “the Steve Jobs patent.”  Her reasoning: Apple’s lawyers were trying to turn the case into a popularity contest by invoking the beloved Apple founder. (Jobs was the first of 25 inventors named on that patent.)"

Microsoft distances itself from Steve Ballmer
USA TODAY
Longtime Microsoft (MSFT) Chief Steve Ballmer, in August 2013, issued the now-infamous statement that he would retire "within the year." News of ...

BeatThatQuote's Judo Move: How To Outdo Google
Forbes
As the European Parliament approves the break-up of Google, and Europe across the board targets US internet firms with regulation, we are failing to ...

Forbes
Is Google Doing Anything New?
Forbes
Apple's “simplicity of design” is no different from Henry Ford's Model T ... The possibility that Amazon's goals might be “missionary” rather than purely .... there was, in computingtechnology, I.B.M., of course, and then Microsoft; in the ...

Fortune
Apple and the crisis of disruption
Fortune
He may have been right about disk drives, mechanical excavators and steel mills. But Clayton Christensen, whose theory of disruptive innovation ...

Wall Street Journal
Wal-Mart and Target Take Fight to Amazon for Holiday Sales
Wall Street Journal
Competition from Amazon.com Inc. and other online retailers is forcing brick-and-mortar chains to get more aggressive with deals. The online prices ...

Forbes
The Art Of Anticipation: Why Apple Stores' Retail Customer Service Is Better Than Yours
Forbes
With the Apple Store app, Apple allows a customer to schedule an ... on you the customer, a source of comfort rather than technology induced. One of ...

Business Insider
Here's How Returns Work With Apple Pay
Business Insider
A good number of people will be using Apple Pay to do their holiday shopping this year.Apple activated a million people on Apple Pay during the first ...

The Independent
Amazon smashes Black Friday forecasts with busiest sales day ever
Telegraph.co.uk
Amazon has reported its busiest ever sales day on Black Friday as consumers rushed ... Last year, Amazon sold more than 4m items on Black Friday.

EU Parliament Passes Non-Binding Measure Expressing Desire To Break Up Google Search Into...
Microsoft, IBM, and Apple are among many such companies singled out by the ... What exactly would breaking up Google accomplish, according to the ... In the European Parliament's ideal world, Outlook.com, Yahoo Mail, and .... for people that don't understand the technology they are trying to legislate.

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What the New Microsoft CEO Should Do

• Consider everything Steve Ballmer has done in the last 10 years as "suspect;"
• Recognize that Ballmer has hung Microsoft with "losing strategies" in many areas (hints: 1. there's very little profit, if any, in "hardware" for the Redmond giant going forward; 2. Windows 8 was a huge mistake and major #FAIL);
• Identify the strengths and weaknesses within the company and the tech landscape in which it exists;
• Stop the Google (and Apple) bashing -- those "Scroogled campaigns" only reinforce the impression that Microsoft is inferior, desperate, pathetic (and fire the Ballmer guys who are behind this);
• Consider splitting up Microsoft into multiple companies--each focused on its respective business (this will give shareholders a "lift" who are otherwise probably doomed to a "go nowhere" stock for the next 10 years);
• Acknowledge that Microsoft is not, and never will be, Apple nor Google, and that's OK.
• Nurture the strengths, cut the losers, don't be afraid to make drastic changes, rediscover the Microsoft magic.

What Microsoft's new CEO should do
USA TODAY
Microsoft isn't a consumer PC company anymore. It gets more than 60% of its sales and 70% of its profits from selling software to small, medium, and large businesses. Microsoft isn't Apple. Microsoft is a business software company – and a great one ...

Why Apple's claim that it can't intercept iMessages is largely semantics
Washington Post (blog)
This news is important because previous reports suggested that iMessage encryption was a major impediment to law enforcement, and Apple specifically described iMessage data as “protected by end-to-end encryption so no one but the sender and receiver ...

Google Hangouts for iOS dials up free voice calls for US, Canada

CNET
Version 1.3.0 of Hangouts for iOS adds outbound calling on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, and also lets US users of Google Voice receive calls in the iOS ...

TopNews New Zealand

Roadshow: Apple 'spaceship' has supporters

San Jose Mercury News
Q Gary, are you going to post any comments sent to Troy Wolverton following his article on the traffic impact of Apple's new headquarters in Cupertino?...

Microsoft yanks Windows RT 8.1 update from Windows Store ...

Mary Jo Foley
Microsoft has pulled temporarily its recently released Windows RT 8.1 update from the ... Thumbnail image of Apple decks out venue for iPad event next week.
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Developments with Microsoft's new Windows 8 system

Las Vegas Sun
The launch of Windows 8 a year ago was heralded as the biggest change to the industry's dominant operating system in at least 17 years. It attempts to bridge ...

Pentagon Post

Google's jumps to No. 3, after Apple and Exxon, in market cap

Fortune (blog)
CORRECTION: Google did not overtake Microsoft on Friday, as the headline implies. ... During the same period, the shares of Amazon.com rose 830 percent....

Amazon author: Bezos' drive has shaped the company

The Seattle Times
A handful of authors have tried to write the Amazon.com story. But no one had put together a definitive account of the juggernaut's rise from a Bellevue garage to ...

San Francisco Chronicle

Apple's iRadio tries to stay in tune

Newsday
It's also why Apple has jumped into the fray with iRadio. Now, nearly a month since launching the service, Apple's plans to take market share away from Pandora ...

Newsday

Google rolls out new search engine changes

Washington Times
WASHINGTON, October 19, 2013 — Just when everyone assumed they had figured out how to rank higher in Google search results, the giant engine ...

Washington Times

iPhone Sales Test Apple Strategy

Wall Street Journal
iPhone Sales Test Apple Strategy ... Apple has asked its suppliers to manufacture more of the new gold-colored iPhone 5S due to high demand, the constraints ...

Apple observes ask, Is iPhone 5C a hit or a miss?

UPI.com
CUPERTINO, Calif., Oct. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. technology giant Apple is remaining silent on sales data on its September launch of two phones, butApple observers ...

WPTV

Google Stock Breaks $1000 Per Share Making Company History ...

Hot Hardware
Google's stock was the talk of Wall Street as the trading week closed, with its per-share price soaring (and staying) beyond $1000. The company's third-quarter ...

Hot Hardware

Google cracks open Project Loon's antennas, explains balloon ...

Timothy J. Seppala
Google has done an admirable job of demystifying Project Loon (that ambitious broadband-via-atmospheric-balloon initiative), but its latest video takes it a step ...
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This Is War (for a Game Industry's Soul)
New York Times
The Swedish Army drafted Patrick Bach in the early 1990s and tried to make a soldier out of him. No such luck. Mr. Bach couldn't see the point of pretending to protect a country at peace since the Napoleonic wars. The only part he liked was the shooting.

Orionid meteor shower this week: See if you can catch a fireball
Los Angeles Times
Looking for something to do tonight? Why not see if you can spot a fireball? The Orionid meteor shower will peak today and Monday. If you can stay up past midnight, or get up before dawn, you may be treated to one of the super-bright "fireball" meteors for ...

Gravitational Wavelengths Could Crack the Black Hole Code
Guardian Express
A paper published in the Science Journal details how a team of researchers is about to crack the mysterious black hole code. The research has been making waves within the science media community, with some claiming that the secret to how they grow has ...

Astronomers discover strange tilt-a-whirl planets
The Space Reporter
NASA's Kepler space telescope has discovered more than 900 confirmed exoplanets orbiting over 700 stars; just today, October 17, eight additional exoplanets were confirmed orbiting six different stars. Even so, Kepler's field of view in the region of the ...

iPhone 6: A Look At The Mistakes
ValueWalk
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has had a lot on its plate this week. Reports emerged a few days ago that the company was lowering its production order for the iPhone 5c by anything up to 50%. Apple clearly fumbled the launch of the phone, and though there is ...

Huawei firmly denies spying for the Chinese government
CNET UK
Chinese mobile and networking company Huawei has rebutted claims it's an arm of the Chinese government before, but now it's offered its firmest denial yet. It's never even been asked to hand over customer data, it says, let alone has it volunteered to do so.

Google's At $1000 Because Of A Wall Street Fetish
Forbes
Or perhaps this should be phrased the other way around, Google's Google's stock is now at $1,000 a piece or so because Wall Street has rather gotten over an old fetish that is used to have. This isn't anything at all to do with the value of Google as a company ...

Elon Musk Reveals Plans to Upgrade James Bond's Amphibious Car – Well ...
Highlight Press
Elon Musk Reveals Plans to Upgrade James Bond's Amphibious Car – Well, Who Else Would Most of us have to make do with occasionally dreaming we're James Bond – Elon Musk however is anything but 'most of us'. Nope, when it comes to this eccentric ...

Large asteroid not likely to hit Earth in 2032: NASA
Hindu Business Line
NASA This diagram shows the orbit of asteroid 2013 TV135 (in blue), which has just a 1-in-63,000 chance of impacting Earth. Its risk to Earth will likely be further downgraded as scientists continue their investigations. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech).

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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft, is it too late?

Ballmer finally announced his plan to retire -- but is it too late?

Ballmer to retire: Can Microsoft change? - CBS News: "The timing of Ballmer's decision, coming as it does after major strategic flops, suggesting that it may not have been entirely voluntary. But whatever the cause, it's not clear what actions a new CEO can take to put the company back on course."
Windows 8.1 fall release won't save Microsoft
Microsoft Surface: Mobile strategy looks shattered
Microsoft earnings fall well short as Surface flops

Moving forward: "...This is an emotional and difficult thing for me to do. I take this step in the best interests of the company I love; it is the thing outside of my family and closest friends that matters to me most.... " (Steve Ballmer - Aug. 23, 2013, Text of an internal email from Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer to employees regarding his plan to retire, at link above)

For Steve Ballmer, Resistance Was Futile - Ina Fried - News - AllThingsD: "...Ballmer was famous for discounting pretty much all of the products that have defined the recent computing age. His comments about the iPhone in 2007 to USA Today distill it perfectly: “There’s no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.” The result of such thinking? The PC industry is tanking, and Microsoft’s longtime partners are struggling in an era where mobile devices — mostly made by others — are flourishing. Windows 8 was a stab at redefining the company’s operating system for a world sure to be dominated by mobile devices. But, as shown by the tepid response to the software — and to the initial Surface tablet device the company makes itself — Microsoft has a long way to go in that effort. It’s like that across the Microsoft empire, which too often feels like it is in its sunset. . . ."

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to retire within 12 months: "Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, upon the completion of a process to choose his successor. In the meantime, Ballmer will continue as CEO and will lead Microsoft through the next steps of its transformation . . ."

Microsoft's next CEO: Who's on the short list? | ZDNet: "Microsoft is starting a formal search process for its next CEO, following the news that Steve Ballmer will be retiring from that role within the next 12 months."

Microsoft Says Bribery Investigation Includes Russia - Bloomberg: "The statement followed a Wall Street Journal report that federal regulators are extending their examination of the company’s relations with business partners that allegedly bribed foreign officials for contracts. The investigation had earlier looked into allegations made by a former Microsoft representative in China, and the company’s relationships with resellers and consultants in Romania and Italy, the newspaper said."

Windows 8: Lenovo brings back Start menu, sidesteps Windows Store with Pokki - GeekWire: "Lenovo, which recently took the title of world’s largest PC maker, is going around Microsoft to restore something much closer to the traditional Start Menu in its Windows 8 machines, in addition to letting users sidestep the Redmond company’s built-in app store."

Microsoft outshines broader market
CNNMoney
What Nasdaq technical glitch? The big news on the Nasdaq Friday: Microsoft's (MSFT, Fortune 500) stock is soaring following news that its CEO Steve Ballmer will retire within the next 12 months. The Microsoft news kept the Nasdaq in positive territory.

Google buys augmented reality display patents from Foxconn
PCWorld
Google has bought Foxconn's Hon Hai Precision Industry display patent portfolio as the search company ramps up its development of Google Glass. Hon Hai, a major supplier for Apple and other top IT brands, sold a portfolio of Head Mounted Display (HMD) ...

Apple battles US over scope of e-books injunction
Chicago Tribune
At issue is how to ensure that Apple does not violate antitrust law, following a July 10 ruling by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote in Manhattan that it had conspired with five major publishers to undermine pricing by rivals including Amazon.com Inc ...

Icahn turns up the heat on Apple stock buyback - Aug. 22, 2013: "The activist investor said the pair plans to have dinner in September, and that Cook "believes in buyback and is doing one. What will be discussed is magnitude.""

Carl Icahn and Apple CEO Tim Cook to discuss buyback proposal ...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who owns a major stake in Apple, is planning to discuss expanding the company's share buyback program with Chief Executive ...appleinsider.com/.../carl-icahn-and-apple-ceo-tim-cook-to-disc...

Apple Acquires Embark For Transit Maps
InformationWeek
From 2007 until last year, Apple and Google worked together on the Apple-owned Maps app that comes with Apple's iOS mobile operating system. But relying on Googleas a supplier of backend map data became untenable as the two companies began ...

Amazon Is Said to Have Tested a Wireless Network
Bloomberg
Amazon has moved deeper into wireless services for several years, as it competes with tablet makers like Apple Inc. (AAPL) and with Google, which runs a rival application store. Amazon's Kindle tablets and e-book readers have built-in wireless ...

Yahoo tops Google in US Web traffic in July
USA TODAY
Microsoft properties, Facebook and AOL rounded out the top five. Granted, the rare monthly win for Yahoo does not include search and mobile results. But it is, by any measure, a landmark achievement for a company left for dead by many. Yahoo and Google ...

Apple, Samsung do not have to disclose profit details -court
Reuters
(Reuters) - Apple Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd do not have to make public the financial details submitted to a U.S. court during high-profile patent litigation, a federal appeals panel ruled on Friday. The Federal U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in ...

Why Apple customers should worry about security
Computerworld (blog)
Among the many walls Apple has built to protect users of its mobile gadgets is the App Store. Unlike Google, which allows others to provide Android apps through their own online stores, Apple keeps that business all to itself. Not only does this keep ...

Apple's iWork for iCloud Beta now open ...
CNET
Apple has previously offered iWork for iCloud Beta to developers. The company also quietly tested out the service with some invited users. It appears now, however, that the apps are available to anyone on iCloud. Apple announced iCloud for iWork at the ...

Report: Amazon Is Testing Its Own Wireless Network - Gizmodo

Casey Chan
According to a Bloomberg report, Amazon has tested its own wireless network. As in a network that people ... Report: Apple's Future of TV Is an Actual Television ...

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Google Keep Updates with In-Note Photos, Time and Location ...

Alan Henry
Android/Web: We already love Google Keep, but today it picked up some useful updates. Now you can add time and location reminders for your to-dos, add ...

Lifehacker

HEARD ON THE STREET: H-P's Separation Anxiety - WSJ.com: "The story is similarly bleak in H-P's other businesses. The PC market hasn't stabilized as Ms. Whitman says she anticipated. Meanwhile, the 4% drop in sales of high-margin printer ink would have been worse without the effect of rising inventory, suggesting end-user demand is weaker still."

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