Earlier last month, reports leaked stating that Dell was preparing to layoff a massive amount of its workers worldwide. The Register, a British technology website, stated on January 9th that Dell would layoff 20% of its U.S.-based sales members, while also relieving 30% of its sales and marketing staff in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. These numbers would mean that over 15,000 Dell employees would lose their job.
Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. You’re struggling to find that gift for that very special someone. Chocolates and flowers are so passé it hurts and you’re too poor to buy them that new car. Now you can compromise and get them that new Nexus 5 in a brilliant red.
A few weeks ago, Houston furniture store owner Jim “Mattress Mack” McIngvale lost $685,000 in a promotion that gave 100 of his customers free furniture for correctly guessing that the Denver Broncos and the Seattle Seahawks would square off in this year’s Super Bowl.
Apparently, Mattress Mack is a gambling man. The store owner up the ante and bet $7 million that the Broncos would be victorious in the big game.
Bad news has arrived for fans of French film especially, and those who have come to love the work of Kristin Scott Thomas. She is one of the most talented actresses that has been seen in recent years, but has now decided to end her career.
Kristin Scott Thomas is an actress who has been seen in a handful of American films, but she is primarily known for her work in French films.
Microsoft’s new CEO comes with a fresh deal with Foursquare, boosting the young mobile app company and creating stronger ties between the companies. The two had been growing close, and there were talks last year of Microsoft even buying Foursquare, according to sources. That was before New York-based Foursquare and its CEO, Dennis Crowley, secured new venture capital late last year. In December, it raised $35 million, bringing its total funding to more than $100 million since 2009.
Over the past decade energy drinks have risen to prominence with ads promising to give workers that extra boost they need after lunch or jack up customers’ mood to “extreme” levels. Teens a big market for such products, and now a new study has shown that energy drinks could have more far-reaching effects than just being possibly unsafe.
Back in the aughts, when Google wanted to recruit developers, it famously put up a billboard with a complex math problem that led to a website with an even more complex math problem. Last year, when Flickr, owned by Yahoo, wanted to recruit developers, it less famously hid a link to its jobs site in the page's source code—which unlike some superhuman math problem, any old muppet from the non-coder underclass can access using the menu bar or keyboard hotkeys. Last week, the buried ad—"You're reading.
Seven years after the Harry Potter saga came to an end, author J.K. Rowling has revealed some interesting information.
For those of you who followed the series to its completion, you already know that two of the main characters Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger ended up romantically involved. While many loved the ending, more people were upset that Hermione did not end up with the famous wizard Harry Potter, who she was so perfectly made for.
Since Dylan Farrow wrote that detailed description of being molested by her adopted father Woody Allen in the New York Times, opinions have been coming in from all over.
Some have championed Farrow’s decision to once again speak out about the alleged molestation, and others have said that Allen needs to be left alone, since the allegations were looked into many years ago and nothing was actually proven.