I mentioned a couple of months ago that one of the big changes coming to The Loop in 2013 was a responsive design, making it easier for people to read the site on mobile devices. That feature went live late last night.
I thought about how to handle mobile devices on The Loop for a long time. I could do an iPhone app, but it seemed silly to do a separate app just to show the same content; I could use one of those themes, but I found those to be unreliable in certain situations; I could also use a special URL like m.loopinsight.com and force everyone with a mobile device to a special site.
None of those seemed right to me.
What I wanted was for everyone to come to the same site and have it format itself for that device. That seemed like the right thing to do.
You can see the new design by visiting the site on your iPhone. It should make the reading experience much better.
The Loop logo also now supports Retina displays. I don’t have many images on the site, but at least that one is now Retina friendly.
Groupon lost 12 cents per share in the fourth quarter, far worse than analysts expected. Its shares sank 26% in premarket trading, mimicking what happened after the previous quarter’s similarly dismal results.
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding – I was fired today. If you’re wondering why… you haven’t been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that’s hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.
Respect due for Mason’s reference to the NES classic game Battletoads near the end of his letter – be sure to check it out.
When the fights are live on SPIKE, this app is your companion, allowing you to participate in the on-air broadcast. The fight is in your hands, as you become The 4th Judge. Score the fight as it happens using comprehensive real-time fighter analytics you can only get in this app. Developed from the ground up to make watching LIVE fights richer, Bellator MMA allows you to compare fighters and historical statistics to make your pre-fight picks, watch exclusive videos, and dig deep into robust bio pages.
The Tokyo District Court rejected the request as Samsung hadn’t negotiated “sincerely” with Apple over licensing data- sending patents, Judge Ichiro Otaka said in a ruling today. The court also ruled that Samsung doesn’t have the right to seek damages from Apple.
Now AT&T wants approval to convert all of this to an all-IP system. And because of the FCC’s flawed view of IP, this move would jettison all of the public interest protections that govern common carriers like AT&T. (The centuries-old “common carriage” concept applied to entities like railroads, shippers, and telecoms that transport goods often using public rights-of-way; since these functions are critical to commerce, common carriers are usually regulated even if they don’t operate in monopoly markets).
Get ready to grab your ankles, folks. And don’t expect so much as the courtesy of a reacharound.
Apple is the most profitable, can’t make enough products to meet demand, is the most admired by its peers, yet it is doomed. Reality distortion field.
The facts don’t line up with the picture being presented by the street and the headline seeking mainstream media. And the most unfortunate thing about it is that it is affecting many who aren’t stuck in the reality distortion field. Apple’s shareholders.
Apple on Thursday announced that iTunes U, the educational arm of iTunes, has topped 1 billion downloads.
“It’s inspiring to see what educators and students of all types are doing with iTunes U,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “With the incredible content offered on iTunes U, students can learn like never before―there are now iTunes U courses with more than 250,000 students enrolled in them, which is a phenomenal shift in the way we teach and learn.”
According to Apple there are more than 1,200 universities and colleges, and 1,200 K-12 schools and districts involved in iTunes U. Course material spans many topics including the arts, sciences, health and medicine, education and business, among many others.
Apple said that iTunes U is the world’s largest online catalog of free educational content. Some of the world’s top schools participate in iTunes U, including Duke, Yale, Cambridge, MIT and Oxford.
As a result, Leap said, it could end up with $100 million worth of unsold iPhones by the middle of this year. That spells more trouble for Leap, a company struggling to keep pace with larger competitors, and sheds light on the challenges facing Apple in cracking the huge market for smartphones being bought by lower-income consumers.
Oh NOES. The iPhone is a failure! Everyone hates Apple now! SELL AAPL! SELL! SELL!
Leap, which has about 5.3 million total subscribers, is also handicapped by the fact it lacks the robust nationwide networks of the country’s biggest carriers, and because technological limits mean it can’t sell the iPhone in all of its markets.
Oh, gee, you think this may explain part of the reason why fewer customers than expected are rushing to buy iPhones from this company? No, it has to be “challenges facing Apple.” Right.
Earlier today, CBS This Morning (video clip not yet available) mentioned that Mayer had viewed remote workers’ VPN usage, only to discover that employees were not using the virtual private network when and as often as they should be. If true, this would sound alarm bells for any executive, especially one at the helm of a company facing as many challenges as Yahoo does today.
This furthers my belief that telecommuting isn’t the core issue, but rather effective management of the remote workforce. Right now I’m sure everyone at Yahoo is under Mayer’s microscope, including the managers who have done a particularly poor job of handling telecommuting employees.
It may also save Yahoo money to make it unpleasant enough for these workers to quit rather than offer them severance.
Launched 55 years ago, in 1958, the ES-335 is undoubtedly a classic, not only of Gibson’s but of all electric guitar designs. What the Les Paul model is to solidbodies, the ES-335 is to semis – beautiful, versatile and coveted by players across all genres.
Now thinner to accommodate the Retina Display-equipped MacBook Pro. Some of the best and prettiest camouflage you can buy for your Apple devices – make them look like hardbound leather books.
A little while ago I sarcastically asked on Twitter how the Wall Street Journal could take good news about Apple and turn it into bad news. Well, they did it. I can’t even link to them, but Gruber noticed it too.
But it’s hard not to pin Tuesday’s action in Apple to [Seabreeze Partners hedge fund president Douglas] Kass’ Twitter posts or to see how he profited from them. The stock was down. He tweeted the split rumor. The stock went up. He sold shares while tweeting that his rumor was baseless.
Good on Philip Elmer-Dewitt for calling this like he sees it.
The manga will be an adaptation of the Japanese edition of “Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography,” an official biography based on interviews with Jobs and published in 2011 with his blessing.
No word on whether it’ll be translated into English, but I’m willing to bet scanlations will appear before too long. Just remember kids, every time you read a scanlation, the angry copyright gods kill a kitten.
(Some NSFW content on that page – unrelated to the Steve Jobs content – just FYI.)
