Herea4a4s our roundup of the weeka4a4s top tech business news. First, the most popular stories VentureBeat published in the last seven days:
Will Applea4a4s subscription plan spark a developer exodus &8212' For developers, it seems like ita4a4s Applea4a4s way or the highway. And the highway is getting more appealing every day.
Apple iPad 2 said to be unveiled at March 2 event &8212' Apple will finally debut the iPad 2 at a San Francisco event on March 2.
HPa4a4s new business laptops offer up to 32 hours of battery &8212' Hewlett-Packard announced a new family of laptops for business users with new industrial designs and one very interesting feature: a battery life of up to 32 hours.
Amazon takes on Netflix with Prime instant videos &8212' This is Amazona4a4s first move to counter Netflixa4a4s streaming video dominance.
Apple rumored to launch new Macbook Pros &8212' Rumors said Apple was going to introduce new MacBook Pro laptops last week &8212' and it did.
And here are five more stories we think are important, thought-provoking, fun, or all of the above:
Room 77 helps you avoid bad hotel rooms &8212' Therea4a4s no shortage of ways to book hotel rooms online, but most services have little information about one of the most important factors a4a4 the quality of the room itself.
Grameen IT CEO on how technology transformed Bangladesh &8212' Kazi Islam describes his job as a4Aimplementing the futurea4.
Apple looks towards music files that surpass CD quality &8212' Apple, the company responsible for the widespread popularity of heavily compressed music, is looking into offering high-fidelity music files that will surpass the quality of CDs.
Googlea4a4s investment in Transphorm could be good news for electric cars &8212' Google is backing a startup called Transphorm, whose power-conversion efficiency technology could some day help create more efficient electric cars.
Killzone 3 with Move controller: a novel but not brilliant gaming experience &8212' Sonya4a4s newly launched Killzone 3 video game for the PlayStation 3 promised to be a big step up in first-person shooting sci-fi combat, but it has serious shortcomings.
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Companies: Apple, Google, Grameen IT, Hewlett Packard, HP, Room 77, Sony, Transphorm
Companies: Apple, Google, Grameen IT, Hewlett Packard, HP, Room 77, Sony, Transphorm
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