January 19, 2014 China Decries U.S. Spending Bill by REUTERS By REUTERS China’s Commerce Ministry has condemned a $1.1-trillion spending bill passed by the U.S. Congress last week over clauses that limit technological purchases…
January 18, 2014 Yahoo’s Asian Lifeline by JEFF SOMMER By JEFF SOMMER Despite the company’s recent shake-up, Wall Street still likes its valuable holdings in China and Japan. Published: January 19, 2014 at…
January 18, 2014 Sharing Web Links Without Cutting and Pasting by J. D. BIERSDORFER By J. D. BIERSDORFER There is an easier way to email a web page link on the Nexus 7 without copying it from the…
January 18, 2014 Artkick Wants to Be the Spotify of Art by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY A startup called Artkick has secured 50,000 digital representations of paintings and photographs from 2,000 museums around the world. It places…
January 18, 2014 A Sensor Guided by Voice or Gestures by THE NEW YORK TIMES By THE NEW YORK TIMES Microsoft wants the Xbox One to be the center of a home’s entertainment universe, providing Skype video calls and…
January 18, 2014 Resisting Mobile Hurts Nintendo’s Bottom Line by NICK WINGFIELD By NICK WINGFIELD The game maker admitted that it stumbled and said that instead of an annual profit of $527 million, it would report…
January 18, 2014 In Keeping Grip on Data Pipeline, Obama Does Little to Reassure Industry by DAVID E. SANGER and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER By DAVID E. SANGER and CLAIRE CAIN MILLER While President Obama bolstered some protections for citizens, he did nothing, at least yet, to address…
January 18, 2014 Yahoo’s No. 2 Executive Made More Than His Boss (and Virtually Everyone Else) by VINDU GOEL By VINDU GOEL Henrique de Castro, who was fired this week as Yahoo’s No. 2 executive, will walk away with as much as $109…
January 18, 2014 Intel Plans to Cut 5,000 Jobs in 2014 by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY Intel, the big chip maker, is cutting positions as it shifts its sights to more profitable lines after failing to recognize…
January 17, 2014 IBM Plans Big Spending for the Cloud by QUENTIN HARDY By QUENTIN HARDY IBM is planning to spend $1.2 billion this year on increasing the number and quality of computing centers it has worldwide,…