Ex-employees take Intel, Apple, Google to court

SAN JOSE: Internal emails show that executives at tech companies including Apple and Google believed that a legal contract to avoid poaching each other's workers would bring real financial benefits, a US judge said.

 Five former employees of assorted tech companies have filed a civil lawsuit against Apple, Google, Intel as well as others, alleging an illegal conspiracy to reduce competition per other's employees.

 At a hearing in San Jose, California federal court, US District Judge Lucy Koh also ordered Apple Leader Tim Cook being questioned by plaintiff attorneys for four hours.

 Koh must decide regardless of if the lawsuit can proceed as a class action, which could provide the plaintiffs more leverage to extract a large settlement. Koh asserted right at that moment no-poaching agreements were forged, top executives felt a collective approach toward hiring was better than coping with employees individually.

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How Google is making an effort to create another Silicon Valley in US

Inside a small bungalow within the street separating Kansas, Kansas, looking at the sister city in Missouri, a small number of entrepreneurs will work on the ideas for the following high-tech startup, tapping Google's new superfast internet connection that has turned the neighborhood into an unlikely settlement dubbed the " Silicon Prairie."

 The property on State Line Road is among several startup-friendly locations that contain sprouted up in Kansas City lately. The catalyst is Google Fiber, the search-engine giant's fiber-optic network being tested within the Kansas area that advertises speeds up to a gigabyte per second a rate that massively exceeds the normal internet speeds at homes hooked up with cable modems.

 The power in charge of startups is not hard: A fast internet pipe makes it easier to manage large files and eliminates buffering issues that plague online video, live conferencing or other network-intensive tasks. Although the Kansas location presents challenges for startups, such as the capability to raise money outside the traditional Silicon Valley growth capital scene, entrepreneurs like Synthia Payne believe oahu is the place to be at this time for up-and-coming tech companies.

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Google, Apple chiefs visit China

Google chief Eric Schmidt then Apple Inc's CEO Tim Cook has visited China to try to expand their presence in the Chinese market. Schmidt's visit will be monitored by the IT sector as Google continues to be facing serious problems in China making use of their gmail accounts getting partially blocked every once in awhile. Apple is facing severe challenges with Chinese authorities investigating labour practices at Foxconn manufacturing units, which produce the bulk of Apple's products and assemble them.

 Each visits increase competition to the mobile software scene in China, the earth's biggest smartphone market. Schmidt gave tips on how to develop start-up companies to mobile software personnel at a meeting on Friday in Beijing. Google just has a compact share of the Chinese search market at 15.4% that's covered with a Chinese domestic company Baidu which controls 78.6% of it, according to a domestic research company Analysys International.

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