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A little Marissa Mayer for the weekend?

Posted on August 24, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Some fascinating reading for the weekend from Business Insider, as Nicholas Carlson writes about Marissa Mayer. “The Friday before she came on, the parking lots would be empty till 10 a.m. and would be empty again after 4 p.m. That happened day after day after day for seven months in a row. Marissa comes, the next week, the parking lots are full at 8 a.m. and people are still there at 6:30. “The changes that she brought — making food free, focusing on quality, shutting some things down, being open and honest during the Friday FYI meetings — all brought

Qualcomm still three years behind the smartphone’s cutting edge

Posted on January 3, 2013 by Ewan Spence

Via VentureBeat: As he told it on [Charlie] Rose’s interview show tonight, Jacobs then took his personal Newton over to Palm, taped it to a Palm Pilot brochure (which was shaped just like one of the company’s PDAs), and began negotiations to put Palm’s operating system in a Qualcomm-powered smartphone That device ended being the Qualcomm PDQ, which has long been forgotten (it doesn’t even have its own Wikipedia entry) but remains an important milestone in the journey to the smartphone as we know it. The PDQ could be considered the first smartphone, since it combined a mobile (and app-focused) operating

What would Rafe Blandford have done as the CEO of Nokia?

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Ewan Spence

But then again, if I was going to be really ruthless, I wouldn’t have released the N9 at all. Rafe, interviewed by Everything N9. And you know what? I agree with him.