Posts Tagged ‘CEO’

First Lady Opens Tech Door to Service Members

On Thursday, May 2nd, 2013
Michelle Obama Service members face big challenges when they come home. Don’t forget what happened with Vietnam. Now the White House, with a push from First Lady Michelle Obama, has partnered with some of the biggest technology powerhouses in America to get them jobs before they even leave the force. The new program is known as, The ...

$210,000 for a cup of coffee with Apple CEO

On Friday, April 26th, 2013
Tim Cook presentation Through a charity auction site called Charitybuzz, the top bidder can enjoy a cup of coffee with Apple CEO, Tim Cook, at Apple Headquarters. Proceeds benefit the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, as it has its Spring Auction with opportunities to meet celebrities and experience wonderful opportunities. The current highest bid ...

Invest in Cannabis the Right Way

On Thursday, April 25th, 2013
Marijuana market “Cannabis is going to be the next great American industry,” straight from the Marijuana Venture Capitalist himself, Troy Dayton. CEO of ArcView, the Marijuana investors Angel Network. ArcView has a little over 50 investors. All accredited. Some billionaires. Some with smaller amounts of venture capital. And invests in the ancillary pot market. They own See ...

Nokia CEO Throws an Apple iPhone During Interview (WATCH)

On Monday, March 25th, 2013
Nokia CEO throws iPhone Stephen Elop, Nokia CEO, appeared on Thursday, at the MTV3 TV station, in Finland, for an interview with the host, Hjallis Harkimo. The subject of the discussion was supposed to be Nokia’s future, Lumia 928 and a the launch of a new version of Lumia 920, but things turns wrong when Nokia CEO throws an ...

Bass Egg Review: It Makes Everything a Speaker

On Thursday, March 14th, 2013
Bass Egg VERB speaker The Bass Egg line represents portable, wireless audio devices that use different surfaces and vibrations to amplify music. Bass Egg is the creation of Jonathan Bouchlas (currently CEO of Bass Egg LLC), Cameron Hitchcock, Adam McPherson (EVP). The first product from the Bass Egg line is VERB, which offers capabilities of a frequency range of ...

Crunchies Winners: GitHub Wins Best Startup Overall

On Friday, February 1st, 2013
crunchies-hosts-2011 The 6th Crunchies Annual Award Show has ended with TechCrunch, GigaOm and Venture Beat handing out 20 awards to the best startups, founders and venture capitalists. The big winner of the 2012 Crunchies is the GitHub, which is the Best Startup overall. Congratulations to all the winners: Best Technology Achievement (2011 winner: Siri) Mars Curiosity – ...


Microsoft Revenue Is Up Thanks to Windows 8, But Profit Declines

On Friday, January 25th, 2013
microsoft ces Microsoft revenue increased to $21.46 billion (a 2.7 percent jump) for the second quarter of its fiscal year, which ended Dec. 31., partly because a 24 percent jump in sales from its Windows 8. Despite this good news for Microsoft, the profits of $6.4 billion were actually down 4%.  By comparison, Apple’s profits were up 13.5%. The ...

Firefox Phone With Its Own OS Announced by Mozilla

On Tuesday, January 22nd, 2013
Firefox OS phone Mozilla has unveiled the first Firefox phone this week, which the company has created for developers worldwide to preview and test their new Firefox OS. Smartphone maker ZTE mentioned that it will work with a European wireless carrier to launch a smartphone with Mozilla’s Firefox mobile OS. ZTE’s CEO Cheng Lixen told Bloomberg news that the mobile ...

Email Mark Zuckerberg: It Will Cost You $100

On Friday, January 11th, 2013
0927-Facebook-Conference_full_600 Do you want to send Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a message? Well now you can, but it will cost you $100, since the company is testing a new revenue stream that allows people to pay to get their messages read by the big boss. Facebook announced it would be testing the pay-to-message model on some ...

Steve Jobs Movie Coming in 2013

On Friday, January 4th, 2013
Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs   The independent movie jOBS about the life of Steve Jobs, former Apple CEO, the person who revolutionized the tech world, is set be released this year. Don’t confuse this with the Sony Pictures movie, which is created based on Walter Isaacson’s biography of the late tech luminary. The filmmakers behind the Steve Jobs movie ...

Apple Reportedly Looking to Bring Mac Mini Production in U.S.

On Thursday, December 27th, 2012
mac mini While there are already some parts being produced in the U.S. — like the Samsung chips used for iPhones and iPads – Apple CEO Tim Cook claims that he wants to do more than just “assemble” Macs here. Hardware partner Foxconn is supposedly preparing for the shift by ramping up hiring for its U.S. plants. ...

This App Tells You The Best Things Happening In Your City

On Thursday, November 29th, 2012
spun Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the latest things going on around you. The solution comes from Spun, a mobile app that gives you information in real time about the best things happening in your city. Spun app was created by the same team behind Broadcastr, an application allowing users to create audio ...

Best 5 Gadget Innovations of 2012 (PHOTOS)

On Wednesday, November 28th, 2012
google glass Check out the Best 5 Gadget Innovations of 2012: 1. Google Glass Project Glass is a research and development program by Google Inc to develop an augmented reality head-mounted display (HMD). The gadget would display information in smartphone-like format hands-free and could interact with the Internet via natural language voice commands. The prototype’s functionality appearance ...

Jeff Bezos (Amazon CEO) Receives Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year Award

On Sunday, November 18th, 2012
COV.12.03.12.indd Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos won the Fortune’s Businessperson of the Year Award today for his part in changing both the bookstore and the book itself. Bezos founded Amazon in 1994 and has since redefined what a bookstore should be. He has always prioritized long-term gains over short-term profitability, a philosophy that’s yielding palpable results. It is estimated that ...