concealment sends this excerpt from the NY Times: “Late last year, Zoe Keating, an independent musician from Northern California, provided an unusually detailed case in point. In voluminous spreadsheets posted to her Tumblr blog, she revealed the royal…
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Amazon.com Suffers Outage: Nearly $5M Down the Drain?
First time accepted submitter Brandon Butler writes “Amazon.com, the multi-billion online retail website, experienced an outage of unknown proportions on Thursday afternoon. Rumblings of an Amazon.com outage began popping up on Twitter at about 2:40 PM…
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How Videogames Help Fund the Arms Industry
FhnuZoag writes “Eurogamer has an expose of the shady world of games developers licensing guns. From the article: ‘”We must be paid a royalty fee — either a one-time payment or a percentage of sales, all negotiable. Typically, a licensee pays bet…
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Toshiba’s 2012 Q3 makes $322 million net profit, sees a future in nuclear
Toshiba’s latest numbers may not reach the dizzying heights of last quarter, but at least it’s not back to filling out its spreadsheets in red pen. The company is announcing profits of $322 million from net sales of $14.9 billion. A big chunk of that…
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Silicon Valley Before the Startup
kenekaplan writes “An upcoming PBS documentary reveals how technology pioneers transformed Silicon Valley into the epicenter of technology innovation. From the article: ‘Gordon Moore remembers a time before the idea of a Silicon Valley startup existed….
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Excessive Modularity Hindered Development of the 787
TAGmclaren writes “The Harvard Business Review is running a fascinating article exploring the issues facing Boeing’s Dreamliner. Rather than simply blaming outsourcing, as much of the commentary has been focused on, the article delves into the benefits…
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Lenovo’s Q3 sees sales reach $9.4 billion, profits rise to $200 million
While big chunks of the industry may be feeling gloomy, the artist formerly known as IBM’s PC Division keeps on raking in money. Lenovo’s third quarter earnings report reveals that the company sold $9.4 billion worth of hardware, keeping $200 million…
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Philips sells off its Hi-Fi and DVD business to Funai for $201 million
Philips has decided that there just isn’t any money in home entertainment, and as such is flogging off the remainder of its interests to Funai for $201 million. It had already sold its North American TV and DVD operations to the Japanese company back…
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How Newegg Saved Online Retail
bargainsale writes with an account at Ars Technica of “the inspiring story of Newegg vs the patent troll. Perhaps the system does work after all.” Newegg’s lawyer Lee Cheng has some choice words for the business model employed by Soverain Software, the…
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Credit Card Swipe Fees Begin Sunday In USA
An anonymous reader writes “A speedbump on the road to a cash-free economy will go into effect Sunday in the USA, as retailers in 40 states will have the option of passing along a surcharge to customers who pay with credit cards. The so-called swipe fe…
