Arik Hesseldahl in News on November 1, 2011 at 4:40 pm PT
A Microsoft concept video on how we’ll get things done in the future shows lots of touchy-feely screens everywhere. But where can I find me those universal-translating glasses?
Kara Swisher in News on March 21, 2011 at 6:19 pm PT
As it gets ramped up for a wider launch, Asana, the high-profile group collaboration start-up founded by top former Facebook execs, has hired former SolarWinds product strategy exec Kenny Van Zant in a “COO-type of role.”
Co-founders Dustin Moskovitz and Justin Rosenstein remain at the top of the leadership at the San Francisco company, which–perhaps in keeping with its yoga-style name–does not have official titles.
But Van Zant will essentially fulfill the COO role, focusing on bringing Asana to the enterprise market in a socially-fueled “bottom-up” approach.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on March 16, 2011 at 6:13 pm PT
A brief primer on how to get such documents into and out of an iPad, and how to view, edit and create them on the tablet.
Walt Mossberg in Personal Technology on February 16, 2011 at 2:37 pm PT
Walt reviews the Motorola Atrix 4G Android smart phone, which acts as the brains of a small laptop device.
Kara Swisher in News on February 1, 2011 at 1:44 pm PT
Salesforce.com has bought Manymoon, the social productivity start-up.
The price of the acquisition was not disclosed, but one source put the sale at upward of $25 million.
Manymoon makes one of the more popular tools on Google’s apps platform.
Kara Swisher in News on January 25, 2011 at 9:58 am PT
Yahoo, which will announce earnings later today, is also laying off another one percent of its staff, according to sources.
The layoffs of well over 100 employees are taking place across the company, although cuts are largely in the media and advertising group.
After initially declining comment, a Yahoo spokeswoman later confirmed the action.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on January 18, 2011 at 9:00 pm PT
One year later, it’s time to see what the world’s biggest software company and the world’s biggest IT company could do with $250 million and a year to collaborate on cloud products.
Ina Fried in Mobile on January 18, 2011 at 11:32 am PT
Starting Jan. 30, Sprint plans to charge all new Android, BlackBerry, Instinct, Palm and Windows Mobile data customers the extra fee. The charge had previously applied only to the carrier’s 4G phones, such as the Evo and Epic.
Kara Swisher in News on January 14, 2011 at 4:00 pm PT
Shan Sinha headed the start-up DocVerse, which was acquired by Google in March for a reported $25 million to $30 million.
Since then, he’s has been ferreting away on scaling up DocVerse’s product, which allows users of Microsoft Office documents to collaborate in real time on the Web, for the search giant.
Its new name: Google Cloud Connect.
John Paczkowski in News on January 6, 2011 at 6:21 am PT
Apple’s Mac App Store
went live this morning with the release of Mac OS X 10.6.6. And it’s off to a good start already. At launch there are some 1,000 apps, paid and free, spread out over the standard of categories–productivity, games, etc. Among the Apple apps on the store’s virtual shelves: Pages and others from the iWork suite for $19.99, iPhoto and GarageBand for $14.99 and Aperture 3 for $79.99.
