Apple is being sued by Kodak, the camera company that recently filed for bankruptcy, for a number of patents, which Apple says Kodak doesn't have the right to sell.
According to Reuters, the Cupertino-based company is standing in the way of Kodak auctioning off its patents as part of its bankruptcy deal. Kodak filed for bankruptcy in January and must liquidate its assets, including its patent portfolio, in order to pay back a nearly billion-dollar loan the company borrowed to stay afloat.
Reblogged from Fortune Management & Career Blog:
FORTUNE -- Everybody knows a communications outlaw. Maybe it's the colleague who sends you three emails in the space of an hour, each with partially formed ideas about a project. Or the conference call host who lets the conversation ramble, without any thought of an agenda.
The key to small-space living is not feeling cramped, which makes this Barcelona apartment the pinnacle of the genre. The home uses sliding doors to open the 430-square-foot apartment up for a sense of space, or close it for privacy. But the centerpiece of the house is the hole in the ceiling -- a plant-filled half-outdoor shower that's built like a chimney, open to the sky.
Reblogged from Business & Money:
For many employees, a job is a place they go because they have to. They have to pay the bills. They have to get in by 8, work 8 hours, and leave by 5. They have to report to their boss because he has to report to his boss who has to report to... you get the idea.
If your employees are spending well over a third of their time doing things simply because they have to, it should come as no surprise if they seem, well, a little less than motivated.
The markets were having a hard time identifying an early direction and now the move looks more entrenched on gains. Traders and investors need to be watching the technical pivots against yesterday's trading levels in order to not get burned. We are tracking the daily buy/sell pivot points on the SPDR S&P 500 (AMEX: SPY) as the most liquid equity ETF that there is.
Reblogged from Financial Post | Business:
By Sherry Su and Rupert Rowling
Oil rebounded along with equity markets as Spanish bond prices recovered after the government met its target at a debt auction.
Futures in New York rose as much as 0.5 percent, after dropping 1.2 percent, as the cost of insuring Spain’s debt fell from a record. Greek political leaders may agree as soon as today to form a government and to seek relief from austerity measures, also helping ease concern that Europe’s debt crisis will curb fuel demand.
"It embodies hardware and software working together. People want to work and play," Steve Ballmer said today amid much fanfare at Milk Studios in downtown Los Angeles. Microsoft has officially entered the ring with Apple.
Microsoft views the Surface as a "stage for Windows 8." It's 9.3mm thin, has full size USB 2.0 ports, a massive kickstand and weighs only 1.5 lbs.
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