Reuters is reporting that the company now has a shortlist of just about five names, including Ford CEO Alan Mulally, former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, Microsoft cloud boss Satya Nadella, and former Skype president Tony Bates. Read more
In a bit of a surprise move, BlackBerry announced this morning that it has given up on its effort to sell itself to a large investor, and that it will be replacing Thorsten Heins with former Sybase chief John Chen as interim CEO. From the official press release: “BlackBerry (Nasdaq: BBRY; TSX: BB), a world leader in the mobile communications market, today announced that it has entered into an agreement pursuant to which Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (“Fairfax”) and other institutional investors (collectively, the “Purchasers”) will invest in BlackBerry through a U.S. $1 billion private placement of convertible debentures. Fairfax has agreed to acquire U.S.$250 million principal amount of the Debentures. The transaction is expected to be completed within the next two weeks…." ...
Microsoft’s CEO Steve Ballmer is one of the world’s hardest charging executives. He moved to tears on Thursday which is likely his last annual company meeting with employees. This video to 13,000 Microsoft employees in Seattle shows him crying as he says farewell after 13 years as CEO of the company and another 20 years by founder Bill Gates’ side before that. A couple of months ago, Microsoft confirmed that he would be retiring in couple of months and the company is in the search for a new CEO. ...
This shows the power of Twitter. Or just the power of a billionaire on Twitter. At around 2:20 p.m. ET, legendary investor Carl Icahn tweeted that he has a huge stake in Apple and then the stock jumped! Apple’s shares, which had been trading at $475.77 went vertical, gaining nearly $9 in less than 3 minutes. By 3:35 p.m. they had touched $494.66. This is the first tweet: ...
In this new hilarious commercial, Qualcomm imagines how today’s world would be like without mobile phones. Nothing special about this ad, but it is fun to watch how much we really are dependent on our smartphones these days. It highlights email, spam, video, tweeting, gaming, Angry Birds, Facebook, etc.
When Steve Jobs passed away on October 5, 2011, everybody raised a question - how will Apple survive without him? Apple answered all those critics in a remarkable video Jobs’ mission statement towards innovation. Titled “Designed By Apple – Intention,” the video displays words set against simple design patterns and its definitely worth a watch! The simple words in the video (at the end of the post) appears to be a message to consumers of the company’s product quality and more of direct answer to media, tech industry and everyone. The company just answered its competitors like Samsung who make more phones and throw in every feature they can think of to innovate them. Apple doesn’t work in that way and won’t rush things to market. ...
Windows 8.1 update is coming soon and Microsoft officially discussed several things about the new changes that are going to be available in this update. Major improvements include Start Button, Boot to Desktop, IE 11, deep SkyDrive integration, etc. This update is free to Windows 8 users and preview build is expected to be released sometime around June 26. Carry on reading to find out what’s new in Windows 8.1. ...
Welcome back Start Button! Microsoft seems to be really listening to Windows 8 users. We now have a leaked screenshot of the latest Windows 8.1 preview leaked build. Paul Thurrott from WinSuperSite posted some screenshots showing the brand new Start button fashioned as a Windows 8 icon. When you hover over Start button, the button changes color, with a black background and the accent color used on the flag logo. Yes, it looks exactly like the Start Charm, with similar animations. ...
Few hours ago (late Sunday), I saw the following alert message from AVG antivirus on my Windows 8 computer related to Trojan horse: Agent4.AQLZ and shdocw.dll file. Upon further research on the Internet, I found that this problem is currently faced by thousands of AVG users about virus detection which possibly is a false Trojan Horse alarm by AVG. The antivirus program continues to pile up above virus detection messages whenever you browse windows explorer. After this alert, I attempted to create AVG rescue disk as suggested by help page and followed instructions accordingly. I completely scanned my computer from the rescue disk with no luck. ...
Samsung has not yet announced the rumored Galaxy S4 mini device. But, the handset has shown up accidentally in the company’s website. [Credit] Originally spotted by TGSpot, Samsung’s app site over here allows you to sort apps by device which let you see a glance of all apps of your device. The following screenshot clearly shows Samsung S4 mini listed as S4 Galaxy mini GT-I9195 and SGH-I257 in one of those devices. ...