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Managing director at Parrott, Chris Roberts - Talking Technology 2012 - Ep29
Category: Technology
Duration: 00:46:08
Publish Date: 2012-08-17 00:00:52
Description: Interview with Chris Roberts, managing director at Parrott Leon and Garry talk about issues including: How the last Olympics have been the most social yet with 150 million tweets generated , Google rolling out death benefits to employees, including a generous offer to pay the spouse or partner of a deceased staffer half of their salary for a decade. Google acquiring the Frommer's travel-guide business, further thrusting itself into content publishing in a bid to attract more advertising dollars tied to online-travel bookings and local-business information Google announcing that it will be closing a third of Motorola Mobility’s 94 offices and laying off 20 per cent of its workforce, including 40 per cent of its vice presidents. That amounts to 4000 jobs. Google chiefs facing the prospect of being hauled before British MPs to explain themselves over their tax avoidance schemes India's antitrust regulator launching a probe against Google Inc over alleged anti-competitive practices by the Internet search giant, following a complaint by a consumer advocacy group. The US Federal Trade Commission voting to finalise its settlement with Facebook, resolving charges the social network exposed details about users' lives without getting the required legal consent The UK's Office of Fair Trading (OFT) halting its probe into Facebook's $1 billion purchase of Instagram Australian MPs calling for legislative powers to compel social networks to swiftly remove offensive content, after Facebook failed to act decisively to remove a page containing numerous racist stereotypes of Australian Aboriginals. At the same time, the Australian Competition And Consumer Commission has entered the row over corporate Facebook pages, saying that it expects large businesses to act to remove offensive material within 24 hours – or face the prospect of a large fine Gartner reporting that worldwide mobile phone sales this quarter dropped 2.3 per cent as buyers postpone upgrades and hold out for the next big thing The court battle between Samsung and Apple continuing with Apple claiming that more than a quarter of Samsung’s $30.4bn in US smartphone and tablet sales result from copying of the iPhone and iPad or infringe on other patents Wikileaks reporting that it’s been under serious attack for the better part of a week Long-running ABC program Play School, which has been going for 46 years, now teaching children who can't even read or write how to use social media The Curiosity rover on Mars undergoing what NASA describes as a "brain transplant." Now that the rover has safely completed the flight and landing part of its mission, it's getting a software update to help it with the next phase — exploring the surface of Mars Lenovo announcing its first tablet to run the new Microsoft operating system. The product, pitched as a “multi-use” tablet, has a 10.1 inch display, is 9.8 mm (0.39 in) thick and features a digitizer and pen Spotify introducing a rating feature for the desktop version of its Radio service, allowing users to respond to its automatic selections with either a "thumbs up" or a "thumbs down”.
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