| Today's Top 3 Stories | | #1 | Google Sued Over Deals That Made Android Phones Pricier
| | | A lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Google of strong-arming device
manufacturers into making its search engine the default on Android
devices, driving up the cost of those devices and hurting consumers.
(ComputerWorld)
Why This Is Important: The class-action complaint contends that Android phones are more expensive because of backdoor deals between Google and manufacturers.
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| | #2 | Tablet Sales Slowdown Comes Sooner Than Expected
| | | Between the iPad and its rivals, the tablet computer has become one of the most successful consumer electronic products ever. Apple has sold more than 210 million iPads since the device's 2010 debut, about double the rate of iPhone sales in its first four years. The boom has helped the electronics industry make up for the drop in sales of desktop and laptop PCs. Suddenly, though, the market is slowing down. (Businessweek)
Why This Is Important: Tablets may prove to be more like gaming consoles than smartphones: compelling but not compulsory.
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| | #3 | Its PC Sales Tailing Off, Sony Now Expects Loss
| | | Sony slashed its profit outlook for the third time in a year on Thursday, putting increased pressure on its chief executive, Kazuo Hirai, to show he can still engineer a turnaround. (The New York Times)
Why This Is Important: Other than some much-needed success with the PlayStation 4, Sony's products have all been received with lackluster skepticism. Analysts say new, exciting products are essential to its turnaround -- not just heavy cost-cutting measures.
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"There's been so many write-downs at Sony, you come to almost expect them rather than be surprised by them," said Daniel Ernst, founder of Hudson Square Research, an equity research firm in New York.
| | | Blog Post of The Day | High-Tech Companies, Low-Tech Offices
By Monica Kim
Last summer, two nineteenth-century cabins were salvaged from remote
ranch fields in Montana, to be moved to an Art Deco building in San
Francisco. The houses were hewn from lodgepole pine and had adze marks on the beams. These relics once housed homesteaders as they worked the dry Montana soil; now they hold Twitter engineers. The cabins could be just another example of startup culture's quirky opulence, but they might also illustrate the industry's odd love affair with "low technology." More » |
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