Analysts reacted differently to Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s pledge to vacate his role this April, leaving Google co-founder Larry Page in his place. – Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s announcement
that he is relinquishing his title to company co-founder Larry Page has
hijacked the news cycle throughout the tech industry in the last two days.
Schmidt made the news on Google’s fourth-quarter earnings call Jan. 20.
The news was a bombshell for analysts …
A journalist of a private television channel was shot dead by a group of unidentified assailants in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, where at least seven others were also killed in different incidents of target killing, police said. Wali Khan Babar, 29, who was working with the Geo News, was attacked near Liaquatabad Dakkhana bus [...]
Small business owners are increasingly turning to cloud-based solutions, a survey finds. – With cloud adoption accelerating rapidly, research performed by
MarketBridge, a provider of technology-enabled marketing and sales
managed services and solutions, showed that marketing and sales are
leading business applications while security is becoming a cloud asset.
The company released the …
SysTools has remarkable tools which offer high performance and reliability to users so that they can perform email conversion. Among several Lotus migration tools is SysTools Export Notes.
Following are the first nine players auctioned for the Indian Premier League (IPL) season four here Saturday. Gautam Gambhir (India): Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.4 million Tillakaratne Dilshan (Sri Lanka): Royal Challengers Bangalore $6,50,000 Zaheer Khan (India): Royal Challenger Bangalore, $900,000 Ross Taylor (New Zealand): Rajasthan Royal, $1 million Yusuf Pathan (India): Kolkata Knight Riders, $2.1 [...]
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Serbs are the fourth most pessimistic nation in the world – on a list topped by the French, a Gallup survey has shown. Europeans are less optimistic than Americans, while people in Nigeria, Vietnam and Afghanistan cherish most hope and optimism, the BBC reported, quoting an article from the Tuesday edition of the Times newspaper.
What tech company holds the key to your dream IT job? Here, eWEEK ranks the 20 best technology companies to work for, according to Glassdoor.com’s "50 Best Places to Work" study. The Glassdoor list is based on data collected from real employees. In addition, while companies such as Google, Apple, Saleforce.com and Intel made the cut, many of the other firms are ones that fly under the radar. While the majority of companies on the list are tech, several others include design, traditional engineering, bio-technology, health care and consulting companies with major research and development, IT strategy and technical practices. For purposes of this presentation, the number associated with each company is where companies rank on the Glassdoor list and includes an overall company rating from 0 to 5, with 5 being the highest. Also included are CEOs and their overall approval rating as a percentage from employee reviews. "Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards recognize stand-out companies that have retained the support and commitment of their employees despite the tough economic climate," Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman wrote in a statement. "For companies on the list, we typically get positive feedback on the company culture, benefits and open communication practices while we also tend to see high opinions of the chief executive." For a complete list of all 50 companies, please check out Glassdoor’s Website. – …
The usual frontrunners like Shah Rukh Khan, Hrithik Roshan and even megastar Amitabh Bachchan failed to charm audiences with their big budget outings this year except for Salman Khan and Ajay Devgn who were followed by underdogs and first-timers. Here’s an IANS list of the top actors on the basis of their box office performances: [...]
Australia’s Centro Properties Group has received A$13.5 billion ($17.5 billion) worth of indicative bids for its shopping malls, with top bidders including Australian and Singapore investors, the Sydney Morning Herald said on Monday.
Among the interested buyers for some or all of Centro’s assets up for sale are Westfield, Lend Lease’s Australian Prime Property Fund, CFS Retail Trust, Queensland Investment Corp, and the Singapore Government Investment Corp (GIC), the paper said without citing its sources.
Lady GaGa is among the world’s 20 best-dressed people, according to a new poll. The 24-year-old was above soccer ace David Beckham’s wife Victoria, 36, and Rosie Huntington Whiteley, 23, reports the Daily Star. British PM David Cameron’s wife Samantha, 39, was also given the seal of approval in the poll by Vogue. TV presenter [...]
In a new report, the Yankee Group is taking a close look at the effects 4G will have in 2011. Expecting 4G to lay the foundation for a "fundamental reshaping of the telecom industry and commerce as a whole," the big message for 2011 is to get ready: Corporations and consumers will see 4G beginning to make inroads next year, but the really big changes will arrive in 2012. Still, therell be plenty of shifts and adjustments in 2011, with prepared companies& such as Sprint, AT&T, Google and Apple& expected to benefit, while others& including Clearwire, Nokia, and, again, even Apple and AT&T& feel the pinch of being unprepared or otherwise losing out to rivals. Among Yankees 13 predictions are that carrier VOIP (voice over IP) still wont be in the picture, Google will benefit from mobile data, Chinese vendors will beat out 3G incumbents, and a malicious denial-of-service attack with take down a 4G network, to its enormous expense. Happy New Year. – …
X Factor co-judge Cheryl Cole has been named as one of the 50 most powerful women in film and television this year. Cole, 27, joins the likes of on-screen talent like Dames Maggie Smith, Julie Walters and Helen Mirren as well as bosses of TV stations, filmmakers and writers. Judges of the prestigious annual list [...]
Opportunities exist for vendors to educate small businesses on social media marketing benefits, an AMI study concludes. – Social media marketing is growing among small businesses (SBs) in the U.S., but true breakout growth in this category is being challenged by SB owner inertia, according to a report by IT research firm AMI-Partners. In the study, “2010 U.S. Small Business Marketing Activity and Spending Study: Where …
Temasek Holdings Pte and Government of Singapore Investment Corp. raised about US$9.9 billion ($13 billion) from international investors over the past year, selling more debt and equity than any other state investment firm.
Temasek, based in Singapore, sold almost US$6 billion of bonds since October last year. Temasek-controlled Mapletree Industrial Trust and Global Logistic Properties, GIC’s overseas logistics unit, raised $5.1 billion selling shares in October, accounting for 10% of the record initial public offerings in the Asia-Pacific region that month, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini jumped to the #2 ranking from #9 last year in CRN’s ranking of the “The 25 Most Influential Executives of 2010.” CRN praised Otellini for keeping Intel relevant in a fast-changing industry and singled out Intel’s planned purchase of McAfee. Solution providers and industry executives nominated the executives for channel influence, effectiveness and visibility, and business and sales impact.
