On his last day as chairman of Warner Music Group, industry leader Edgar Bronfman Jr. sat down for an interview at the D: Dive Into Media conference in Dana Point, California. He was asked about a wide variety of topics, including his thoughts on various technological aspects of music which inevitably includes Apple, Spotify, Google and other players in the digital music scene Read more...
Google: Microsoft ‘hassles’ its own partners over Android
During yesterdayís Google conference call, CEO and co-founder Larry Page took some time out to answer a number of questions. Chief among them, were his thoughts on the various patent disputes currently plaguing the companyís Android platform. When it came to Microsoft, he did not mince his words and attacked the Redmond based software giant claiming that it is hassling its own partners.... Read more...
Ron Wayne: working with Jobs "one of the great privileges"
Apple's only sometimes mentioned third co-founder, Ron Wayne, offered his thoughts on the death of Steve Jobs in an interview late Wednesday. He told AppleInsider that working with Jobs was "one of the great privileges" of his life, first at Atari and later in a brief stint for Apple's earliest days. Many of the traits that would define Jobs were still present in 1976, including his emphasis on the future... Read more...
Ce-Oh no he didn’t!: Larry Ellison likens HP board to ‘idiots’ at Apple
Larry Ellison, Oracle CEO and regular tennis buddy of the disgraced (and now former ) chief of HP Mark Hurd, has decided to share his thoughts on the matter of Hurd's departure in an impassioned email to the New York Times : "The H.P. board just made the worst personnel decision since the idiots on the Apple board fired Steve Jobs many years ago. That decision nearly destroyed Apple and would have if Steve hadn't come back and saved them." The communique, also obtained by the Mercury News , included other tasty tidbits such as Ellison describing HP's disclosure of the apparently unfounded sexual harassment claim against Hurd as "cowardly corporate political correctness," and dismissing the financial irregularities that forced the former CEO's resignation as "petty expenses report errors." So, in short, the world according to Larry is populated by messianic CEOs who shouldn't be held up to the same petty standards as the rest of us. Ce-Oh no he didn't!: Larry Ellison likens HP board to 'idiots' at Apple originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:45:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Read more...
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