Ambulant Inc. is taking a medical approach to e-reading with an ergonomically designed tablet case called Wingo.
Apple CEO Tim Cook faces an uphill battle today as he tries to explain to a US Senate committee why the tech industry darling shouldn’t face a massive tax burden after researchers determined the company paid almost no taxes on billions of dollars in income last year by sheltering its money overseas. The company is…
Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer flipped the switch on her first major tactical move as CEO, acquiring Tumblr for $1.1 billion. According to AllThingsD, Yahoo’s board of directors had already approved the deal. The announcement was made this morning by Mayer, who posted on her own Tumblr blog that Yahoo “promises not to screw it up.” The…
Just two days before the opening of its annual meeting and conference, the Bitcoin Foundation has been thrown through a loop as reports surfaced that the US Department of Homeland Security had shut down a primary exchange account owned by MtGox, one of the major Bitcoin exchanges worldwide. The warrant for the account sends a…
Google tore it up at the annual Google I/O Developer Conference in San Francisco, announcing a string of over forty new features and products that should keep many of the best developers Silicon Valley focused on the company and the Android platform for many months to come. By far the most anticipated service is the…
Researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory are pushing a supercomputer to operate at Warp Speed – and so far, they’ve managed Warp 2.7. The computer, known as Sequoia, is the most massively parallel supercomputer in the world. According to official sources, it’s using 1,572,864 processor cores in an arrangement known as the IBM BlueGene/Q architecture…
Intel has elected Brian M. Krzanich as the chipmaker’s next chief executive officer. He will become the sixth CEO in the company’s history, succeeding Paul S. Otellini on May 16. Krzanich began his career at Intel in 1982 in New Mexico as a process engineer and progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles,…
Virgin Atlantic, the cool Australian airline with an even cooler founder, has found its way to San Jose. The company today inaugurated a new “nerd bird” round-trip service between San Jose and Los Angeles – one of several new destinations created with the high-tech business traveler in mind. Other destinations include Boston, New York, Newark,…
Mobile music app Shazam has hired Rich Riley, Yahoo’s former executive VP for the Americas, as its new CEO. Riley replaces Andrew Fisher, who was appointed CEO in 2005 and has done a credible job of steering the company through multiple high-profile partnerships and into the iPhone and Android app era. Fisher now becomes executive…
A Facebook filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission pursuant to the company’s upcoming June shareholder meeting let slip that CEO Mark Zuckerberg is taking a cash salary of just $1 this year, putting him in an elite group of CEOs who are cultivating an image of modesty while carrying stock portfolios worth billions of…