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Avid Technology Inc., a Burlington company that designs technology for recording music and video, said today it will lay off about 20 percent of its permanent employee base as the company “streamlines operations” and sells various product lines.Avid has agreed to sell its consumer audio and video product lines. The company’s consumer audio products are […]

working vintage Apple-1 computer sold Friday for $374,500 at a Sotheby’s auction in New York where a memo written by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs also went for $27,500. Both went to undisclosed individuals. The selling price of the Apple-1 was a record for an Apple-1, according to Computerworld. One sold nearly two years […]

In an interestingly timed announcement Microsoft Corp. today announced two things. First they gave $200,000 to support Gay Marriage in Washington State. Then they announced that they lost 6.2 BILLION DOLLARS in advertising revenue through their Bing Portal Ads. Neither of these two things are small events but honestly the loss of 6 billion dollars […]

MSFT CEO Ballmer, co-founder Gates each donate $100K to campaign supporting Washington state’s gay marriage law. The two with more money to burn then any individual will ever earn have been supporting a number of political goals of theirs in the past 10 years. Unfortunately most of their ambitions hurt the average person. Their push […]

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Domino s Pizza announced that they have hit the 1 Billion dollar mark for sales generated through the internet and their online aps. In Celebration they are offering a %50 discount on  orders placed online or through http://mobile.dominos.com. Dominos started taking orders through their digital ap platform in 2008 and sales now make up over […]

Google is being sued by Oracle who BOUGHT not developed the Sun Java programming language which is open source.. The motive behind it is a Billion Dollars and future royalties that Oracle would get from every Android Phone, Device and maybe app developer. It seems a little outrageous that Oracle would decide to buy up […]

This is  a pretty interesting story … I always figured that one of these antivirus companies would eventually  be arrested for making viruses to promote their product but … so far there is no real reason other then McAfee is fucking stupid and decided to make his home in Mexico.. dude your worth millions why […]

So it looks like there are a lot of strange things going on over at Microsoft lately.. First we heard that they were in a deal with Facebook for the sale of Bing and some AOL Patents that Facebook really needs so they won’t get sued by Ariana Huffington.. Now Microsoft is tossing 300 million […]

Online storage and backup are quickly becoming necessary as people move from desktops to laptops to tablets and smart phones. A lot of people have been talking about the new Google Drive which for most of us is still not available. Like normal Google is releasing their product to select persons and migrating accounts to […]