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Acer Founder Says U.S. PC Makers May Become Extinct

January 20th, 2010 | No Comments

The founder of Acer reportedly tells a Taipei paper that U.S. PC makers such as Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Dell may not be around in 20 years because they don’t know how to get low-cost PCs to market.
– PC makers Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Apple aren’t likely to be pleased by the
idea that they may not be in business in 20 years’ time, due to their alleged
inability to produce inexpensive PCs.
Stan Shih, founder of Acer, headquartered in Hsinchu
City, Taiwan,
shared this sentiment with the Taip…

Verari Founder Driggers Buys Company

January 19th, 2010 | No Comments

An investment group led by Verari Systems founder and former CEO David Driggers is buying the assets of the troubled systems maker and is relaunching the company as Verari Technologies. The announcement comes a month after Verari shut down most of its operations and laid off the bulk of its employees. Executives at the time said the company was restructuring. A couple of weeks later, Veraris assets were put on the auction block.
– Verari Systems, which appeared to be on its last legs a month ago
when it shut down most operations and laid off the bulk of its
workforce, is being brought back to life by a group of investors led by
former CEO David Driggers.
The group led by Driggers bought most of troubled systems makers
as…

TechCrunch Founder Arrington Files Suit Against JooJoo, Fusion Garage

December 13th, 2009 | No Comments

TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington filed on Dec. 10. a much-threatened lawsuit against Fusion Garage, a startup that he claims stole his idea for the long-awaited CrunchPad tablet PC. Fusion Garage began taking preorders for the $499 JooJoo tablet, which features a 12.1-inch touch screen and can primarily be used to surf the Internet, on Dec. 11. In addition to the lawsuit, Arrington posted on the TechCrunch blog describing what he termed a pattern of deceit on Fusion Garage’s part. The matter will be settled in court.
– Michael Arrington, founder of popular tech blog TechCrunch, announced that
he had filed a lawsuit Dec. 10 against Singapore-based Fusion Garage, formally
alleging that the latter company’s JooJoo tablet PC is a rip-off of Arrington’s
never-released CrunchPad.
The JooJoo, a 12.1-inch touch scree…

BetOnSports Founder Sentenced to 4 Years

November 3rd, 2009 | No Comments

The founder of a once high-flying online sports gambling company faces 51 months in prison and forfeitures of more than $50 million.
– Gary Kaplan, the founder of what was once one of the Internet’s most
thriving sports betting businesses, was sentenced to 51 months in prison Nov. 2
and quot;forfeited to the United States $43,650,000 in criminal proceeds. An
additional amount of approximately $7 million has been forfeited in re…

Michael Dell Talks Smartphones, Cheap Notebooks and Server Dominance in the Data Center

October 14th, 2009 | No Comments

Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell, appearing at a Churchill Club of Silicon Valley dinner event Oct. 13, addressed a number of topics before a near-full house of about 300 in Santa Clara, Calif. He made remarks about the impending public launch of Microsoft’s Windows 7 ( You’ll love your PC again! ), the 2007 EqualLogic acquisition ( This company had about 3,300 customers when we acquired it; we’ve added 10,000 new customers ), and the increasing dominance of the server in the data center.
– …

‘Epidural now!’ – wife of twitter founder ‘tweets’ child birth

August 11th, 2009 | No Comments

The wife of one of the co-founders of Twitter is keeping family and friends up to date with the birth of her child using the micro-blogging service.

"Dear Twitter, My water broke. It wasn’t like Charlotte in Sex and the City," Sara Morishige Williams, or @sara as she is known, wrote on Monday.

Updates follow her into hospital and through her contractions – which she timed using an Apple iPhone, she said.

Her last update asked for an epidural to be administered.

The father-to-be, Evan Williams, has not followed his wife’s lead by "tweeting" the birth.

It is not the first birth to be followed in real-time online.

In 1998 a woman from Florida was the first to webcast the birth of her child.

This article is from the BBC News website. © British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: The Diary: Traveling to Jerusalem

July 30th, 2009 | No Comments

Returning from abroad, the atmosphere in Britain strikes one as bitter and confused and at times morose and elegiac.

Felicia C. Sullivan: Interview: Entrepreneur Yuli Ziv, Founder of the Style Coalition

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

“Many times,” said Ziv, “it feels like the media is on the watch for the next designer to close their business or cancel their runway show at the fashion week.”

Bill Gates to receive Indira Gandhi Peace Prize today

July 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Microsoft founder Bill Gates will receive the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development here today.
The award will be received on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has been providing grants for public health activities, notably in the areas of HIV/AIDS prevention and communication.
The Gates Foundation started operations in India in [...]

John “Marmaduke” Dawson: NRPS Founder Dies

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

JOHN “MARMADUKE” DAWSON (1945-2009)

John Dawson

John “Marmaduke” Dawson passed away peacefully on July 21, 2009 at the age of 64 in Mexico, where he had retired several years ago. Born John Collins Dawson, IV on June 16, 1945, he was best known as the leader and co-founder of the country rock band the New Riders of the Purple Sage. Dawson inspired legions of fans with his energy, passion and love of music.

BlackRock’s Larry Fink Takes Aim At “Luxurious” Wall Street Profits

July 22nd, 2009 | No Comments

Larry Fink, BlackRock’s founder and chief executive, on Tuesday took aim at the “luxurious” trading profits enjoyed by Wall Street banks, saying that they have taken advantage of reduced competition to charge their customers more for even basi…

Blade Pioneer and RLX Founder Chris Hipp Dead at 49

July 16th, 2009 | No Comments

Chris Hipp, Â“the father of blade technologyÂ” and a founder of RLX Technologies, apparently died of a heart attack July 14. Hipp was an executive with RLX when the company unveiled the first blade servers in 2001, a move that at first got little attention from the major OEMs but has since transformed the hardware industry. Hipp, an avid competitive bicycle racer, had left RLX by the time HP bought the company in 2005, and had been working with the Blade System Alliance and various startups at the time of his death.
– Chris Hipp, one of the founders of RLX Technologies and a pioneer in blade
system technology, died of an apparent heart attack July 14 at the age of 49.
Details of Hipps death are sketchy, though the Blade System Alliance, of
which he was a technology chair and an adviser, had this brief note on …