Kara Swisher in Commerce on June 8, 2011 at 11:08 am PT
A Chicago boy is going home, as former Yahoo PR exec Bradford Williams takes over as VP of Global Communications at Groupon.
Williams, who worked at Yahoo during its ugly takeover fight with Microsoft, will need his even-keeled personality more than ever now, as the social buying phenom heads into its upcoming IPO.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 14, 2011 at 5:45 am PT
The personal computer market is shrinking. Shrinking! Is Apple’s iPad to blame? Of course it is.
Peter Kafka in Media on November 10, 2009 at 5:11 am PT
AppNexus, an ad-buying “platform,” has raised $5 million in round led by Kodiak Venture Partners, along with Venrock and First Round Capital. The company is one of many trying to take advantage of “real-time” bidding for Web display ad inventory.
John Paczkowski in News on November 4, 2009 at 9:07 am PT
Looks like it’s going to be a very busy fall for Intel legal. This morning, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed a federal antitrust lawsuit against the company, alleging that it violated state and federal laws with a “systematic campaign” of illegal conduct.
John Paczkowski in News on October 14, 2009 at 1:14 pm PT
Six months. That’s how long it’s going to take Acer to surpass Dell in market share. Speaking at a news conference in London, company President Gianfranco Lanci took a few moments to talk a bit of smack about his rivals. Said Lanci: “Between this quarter and the next, we can finally pass Dell.”
John Paczkowski in News on May 11, 2009 at 4:40 am PT
Gateway officials once claimed that Intel “beat them into guacamole” in retaliation for doing business with rival AMD. Five years later, the European Commission is poised to give Intel a similar beating for doing so.
Kara Swisher in News on February 13, 2009 at 6:00 am PT
Displaying BoomTown’s advanced age and elephantine cache of meaningless tech memories, after news yesterday that the software giant was plunging into the retail market, I was surprised to find little mention that Microsoft’s last store effort had ended in failure in 2001.
That’s not to say it’s a particularly good or bad idea to hire a former Dreamworks and Wal-Mart exec named David Porter as vice president of retail stores to create Microsoft-branded stores–or as the company announced yesterday, “to create a better PC and Microsoft retail purchase experience.”
Just as long as the Zunes go on the back shelf!
John Paczkowski in News on June 6, 2008 at 10:55 am PT
What a lousy week for Intel, yeah? First Korea’s Fair Trade Commission fines the company $25 million for abusing its dominant market position in the country and offering discounts to PC makers in an effort to drive rival AMD out of the market. And now Federal Trade Commission has opened a formal investigation into its pricing practices.
John Paczkowski in News on January 10, 2008 at 5:07 pm PT
There’s a reason Intel’s processors are in more than four out of five x86 computers sold in the global market and–like the European Union, Japan and South Korea–New York’s attorney general thinks it might be an anticompetitive one. Empire State AG Andrew Cuomo today opened a formal antitrust investigation against Intel to determine if it [...]
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on December 27, 2007 at 12:01 am PT
Dell’s new all-in-one PC, the XPS One, is a stylish Windows Vista machine that runs well and won’t cost a fortune. If it didn’t have the Dell logo on it, the XPS One might be mistaken for a product of the PC industry’s design leaders, Apple or Sony.
