Bob Mansfield Stayed at Apple After CEO Tim Cook Offered Him ‘Exorbitant’ $2M-per-month

13 years ago

Details on the behind-the-scenes politics were published on Wednesday in a feature byBloomberg Businessweek. It revealed that Cook "nearly witnessed an insurrection"…

Microsoft Considering ‘Surface Phone,’ But Not This Year

13 years ago

Microsoft won't release its own Windows Phone device this year, sources have told The Verge. Multiple insiders have confirmed there are…

Xbox Music to Launch on October 26th With Free Ad-supported Streaming

13 years ago

Microsoft is preparing to launch its Xbox Music service on October 26th. Multiple sources familiar with Microsoft's plans have confirmed…

The Forgotten Mapmaker: Nokia Has Better Maps Than Apple and Maybe Even Google

13 years ago

Apple's maps are bad. Even Tim Cook knows this and apologized for them. Google's maps are good, thanks to years of work,…

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison Talks More About the Cloud

13 years ago

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison certainly had a big day. He delivered his second keynote at the Oracle OpenWorld conference in…

Just Eat Buys Spanish Online Food Ordering/Delivery Rival SinDelantal For A Few Million Euros

13 years ago

Just Eat, the multinational online food ordering and delivery company that raised $64 million in April from Vitruvian Partners, Index Ventures, Greylock and…

The Sudden, Mysterious Exit Of A Quora Cofounder Has Silicon Valley Baffled

13 years ago

Quora cofounder Charlie Cheever was suddenly bounced from the company almost a month ago, on September 11. This was a huge…

Microsoft to Make its Own Windows Phone: On the Rumor That Keeps Resurfacing

13 years ago

Earlier this summer, rumors swirled that Microsoft was going to make its own Windows Phones and maybe even market them under its…

The “Lost” Steve Jobs Speech from 1983; Foreshadowing Wireless Networking, the iPad, and the App Store

13 years ago

In 1983, Steve Jobs gave a speech to a relatively small audience at a somewhat obscure event called the International…

Microsoft Takes the Wraps Off TypeScript, a Superset of JavaScript

13 years ago

As of today, we now know more about the formerly secret Microsoft JavaScript effort upon which Technical Fellow and father of C#…