Etsy scraps previous policies for sellers
ETSY, the online vintage and handmade goods marketplace, will allow sellers to hire staff, use shipping and have products made by manufacturers.
Technology
Tech guru’s tearful farewell to Microsoft
NOBODY puts Steve Ballmer in a corner. The Microsoft CEO bid farewell to his company with his favourite song – the theme from Dirty Dancing. Get the tissues ready.
BlackBerry announces plan to go private
THE struggling former leader of the smartphone market BlackBerry has announced a $5 million deal to go private.
Blackberry agrees to $5 billion buyout
STRUGGLING smartphone maker BlackBerry has agreed to a buyout by a consortium of investors, for $5 billion.
iPhone wait spirals into chaos
THE iPhone campout has turned nasty, with two men arrested for fighting and another man mobbed after hiring homeless people to wait in line for him.
‘Fail hard, fail well’ – Richard Branson
SO you’ve failed. Congratulations. Tycoon Richard Branson says you shouldn’t see this as a sign to give up, on the contrary, it means success is just around the corner.
Everything you need to know about the iPhone 5S and 5C
DIDN’T stay up for Apple’s iPhone 5S and 5C launch? Never fear. We’ve got the answers. Here’s what you missed: a new mid-range colourful iPhone, gold and silver 5S models and fingerprint scanners.
Review: Is the new iPhone a dud?
TECH types are impressed with the look and feel of Apple’s new iPhone 5S and 5C but both consumers and investors are sceptical.
BlackBerry ‘may cut 40pc of staff’
STRUGGLING smartphone maker BlackBerry could cut its workforce by up to 40 per cent by the end of the year, reports say.
Did Apple make a mistake releasing two iPhones?
APPLE is keeping quiet on iPhone 5C presale figures, for the first time since it released the 3S in 2009. Analysts say the tech giant may have cannibalised its own business by releasing two phones at a time.
Google buys ‘Bump’ start-up
WHAT if you could share pictures, contacts and other data by simply bumping phones? Google has purchased a start-up that developed an app that does just that.
Dell shareholders approve $27b offer
DELL says shareholders have approved a $US24.8 billion ($26.7 billion) offer from its founder to buy back the company and take it private.
Investors take a bite out of Apple
APPLE shares fell hard overnight after it unveiled two new iPhones that failed to allay concerns over a loss of momentum in the smartphone market.
Icahn ends takeover battle for Dell
BILLIONAIRE investor Carl Icahn is ending his bitter takeover fight for Dell a few days before shareholders consider the latest buyout offer.
Kim Dotcom resigns as Mega director
KIM Dotcom has resigned as a Mega director to focus on his extradition case, “an upcoming music website and to build a political party”.
Microsoft buys Nokia’s devices for $7.9 billion
NOKIA has agreed to sell its “devices and services” business to Microsoft for the hefty fee of $7.9 billion to help it expand its share of the smartphone market.
New Twitter MD not much of a tweeter
TWITTER Australia’s new managing director has an empire to build. And she might also want to work on her tweets.
Google: Co-founder’s mistress stays
THE young staffer at the centre of the split between Google co-founder Sergey Brin and his wife may still be working with her billionaire beau.
Five great ideas no one thought would work
SOME of the world’s greatest ideas were intially met with rejection. Here are five game-changers that nearly never made it.
Marissa Mayer is ‘brutal, blunt, pedantic’
A NEW unauthorised biography of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has described her as pedantic, stubborn and controlling of almost all aspects of the business. But is it working?
How Yahoo! came back from the dead to beat Google
IT WAS the darling of the 1990s dotcom boom, but by the late 2000s Yahoo! was washed up, perpetually second to Google. Has Marissa Mayer achieved the seemingly impossible?
Facebook’s plan to connect the world
FACEBOOK wants to get more of the world’s 7 billion people online through a partnership with other large mobile technology companies.
‘Insta’ and ‘Gram’ banned by Instagram
THE photo social network has banned its competition from using the words “Insta” or “Gram” leaving many popular apps scrambling for a new name.
Google goes down, breaks internet
GLOBAL web traffic plunged 40 per cent when Google servers went offline for up to five minutes in an unprecented outage.
Facebook tests mobile payment app
FACEBOOK will test a mobile app payments service that would use account information users store on the social media site.
Craigslist costs newspapers billions
WHILE sites like Craigslist have long been blamed for declining newspaper revenues, a new study puts the impact at $US5 billion since 2000.
World War G: PR stunt leaves 20 injured
A SMARTPHONE promotional event named after a zombie movie went horribly wrong when people turned up with BB guns and knives.
Is this The Social Network’s sequel?
IT’S Facebook all over again. The founders of Snapchat are embroiled in a messy legal battle over the picture messaging app.
BlackBerry considers possible sale
STRUGGLING smartphone maker BlackBerry will consider selling itself.
Whiz kid makes fortune, can’t move out
A STUDENT likely to become the latest social media millionaire still lives at home, because he can’t iron or wash his own clothes.
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