Steve Jobs announced plans for Apple’s new headquarters, a “spaceship”-type design that could accommodate 12,000 employees.
The circular, four-story building with glass walls would be built down the road from Apple’s current location in Cupertino, and is expected to be completed by 2015. Read more
Resellers rethinking RSA
So it begins. Infosec, a UK-based IT security company has said it will no longer be selling RSA’s SecurID tokens, following news that the authentication devices had been hacked and used in an attack against defence contractor Lockheed Martin. Read more
The fallout of the Sony PlayStation data breach, in which hackers stole personal information about more than 100m gamers, was more a failure in management than a failure in security technology. The latest estimated loss of $171m seems conservative, capturing only direct costs to Sony, and preceding the company’s admission of three subsequent global attacks in Canada, Thailand and Indonesia. The true extent of damage of these breaches and their reputational consequences will likely unfold over time. Read more
Tech news from around the web:
Online gaming group Zynga is planning to sell a small number of shares in its initial public offering - adopting a strategy used by LinkedIn – to maintain control of the company while raising money to expand, according to Bloomberg. Zynga may make less than 10 percent of its shares available to the public in its IPO, the report says. Read more
Boxee comes to the UK with BBC iPlayer
Boxee, the internet entertainment service, is bringing its TV set-top box to the UK this week. Netflix, Pandora and Major League Baseball have proven popular on its D-Link-manufactured device in the US since its launch last year, allowing owners to watch web TV and their own digital downloads on the big-screen TV set. Read more
What the iCloud will cause to happen next
There’s always a danger, when a company like Apple comes up with a sweeping move like the iCloud, of viewing it in isolation. But the responses from Apple’s rivals will be rapid.
That, of course, is exactly why Steve Jobs has just tried to stake out the territory in his own inimitable way, months before Apple is actually in a position to launch a service. Sound familiar? It’s the same game plan that Microsoft followed for so many years. Read more
Facebook rushed to explain an unannounced change in its privacy settings on Tuesday when advocates beat them to the punch in alerting users to a global roll out of its face-recognition technology that helps users identify friends in photographs. Read more
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Richard Waters has headed the FT's San Francisco bureau since 2002 and covers Google and Microsoft, among other things. A former New York bureau chief for the FT, he is intrigued by Silicon Valley's unique financial and business culture, and is looking forward to covering his second Tech Bust.
Chris Nuttall has been online and messing around with computers for more than 20 years and since 2004 has reported from the FT's San Francisco bureau on semiconductors, video games, consumer electronics and all things interwebby.
Maija Palmer has been writing about technology for the FT since 1999 and is fascinated by cybercrime, privacy and all the other issues of the information society. Based in London, she covers European tech companies and hopes that they won't all get acquired by American rivals.
Robin Kwong is the FT's technology, media and telecoms page editor in London. Formerly he was the Taipei correspondent and wrote about the companies that manufacture the vast majority of the world's computers and gadgets. He is interested in the intricacies of the technology supply chain and how China is increasingly changing the tech landscape.
Tim Bradshaw is the FT's digital media correspondent, and has just moved from London to join our team in San Francisco. He has covered start-ups such as Twitter and Spotify, as well as the online ambitions of more established media companies, such as the BBC iPlayer. He also covers the advertising, marketing and video-game industries. Tim has been writing about technology, business and finance since 2003.
