The biggest story in the tech industry as well as in the financial industry over the last week was Facebook IPO. Facebook has finally gone on the trade floor on 18 May, 2012. Before its final debut in the stock market, Facebook has announced some big acquisitions, opened up an app store, entered in the security software selling business with major companies, revised its user policies and so on. But it was not only the company which was wrapping up everything. The CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg was wrapping up his personal life too.
The Amazon Kindle Fire tablet is the best-selling Android tablets around, mainly due to its low entry price and deep integration with Amazon products and services. One of the complaints some people have with Amazon’s Kindle Fire device is that it’s only 7 inch long. Rumor says soon they will be able to put their arms around a bigger Kindle Fire. According to a report, Amazon is likely to launch a 10.1 inch Kindle Fire in the third quarter of 2012.
Apple has been quite keen in having its patents enforced around the globe, and particularly in U.S. One of the reason why the company is so hard-on about this is that Apple has pioneered a number of things in the smartphone market. Recently, Apple was able to gain a key victory against HTC by having certain HTC devices blocked because they infringed Apple patent. It now seems that HTC has found a way around this import ban.
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You read the title right. Analysis from a prominent source, be it true or entirely false, has deep implications on the world of finance. So is the case too, in the tech world. While DigiTimes is often known for claiming things which eventually turn out to be true, this time a report from the publication has cost Samsung a whopping $10 billion in market value.
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You may have often seen that words with offensive connotations or related to obscenity are presented with a lot of asterisks so that they are not fully visible. This is often in many formal platforms. However, does ‘jailbreak’ also fall under the same category and should receive the same treatment? Apple sure thinks so.
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Bitley has been around on the web for a while, being known as one of the most popular and widely-used link-shortening services online. While that is what we know Bitley for, the company is much more than that. It has now revealed plans of venturing to create a real-time viral search engine which will tell the user what is the most buzzing news related to a particular topic at a given time.
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Just days ago, Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced at an event that Facebook’s focus, in the coming days, will be on the mobile platform. To this end, Facebook acquired Instagram a while ago. And now, Facebook has made yet another acquisition which goes on to show that the social network is serious about the mobile platform.
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With Apple’s WorldWide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2012 drawing closer by each passing day, the rumors and speculations surrounding the event are running high. A lot is expected from the event, including the unveiling of iOS 6 and other features from Apple. Now, Wall Street Journal has claimed that Apple may update iCloud with a new photo-sharing feature, something which will be announced at the event.
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We have been hearing about Facebook’s IPO for a few weeks now. In what is expected to be the largest public valuation of a tech company, Facebook is hoping to be worth up to a whopping $96 billion! While many prospective investors may be eagerly waiting for this to happen, the good news is that the social network is one step closer to going public from 18th May.
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The Yahoo fiasco seems to have taken more toll than we have expected it to be. While we posted earlier that Yahoo’s CEO, Scott Thompson, had resigned over the whole issue that ensued because of a critical error in his resume, it now seems that he was not the only one to resign. Along with, four members of Yahoo’s board of directors.
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As the time approaches for Next Big thing – Windows 8 release, we are getting alot of buzz about this upcoming Windows Operating version. Now a source close to CNet reported Microsoft will give some offer to Upgrade to Windows 8 for its existing customer. Check the details of this news below.
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Taiwanese website Digitimes reported that Amazon may launch a Kindle with color E-Ink display in the second half of this year. According to the report, Amazon’s new color E-Ink based ebook readers will be built with multi-touch capacitive panels instead of infrared touch panels used in the previous mono-color e-book readers.
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This week at the Electric Vehicle Symposium in Los Angeles, Siemens has announced its ‘eHighway’ concept. The eHighway concept introduces the idea of diesel-electric hybrid trucks which can work like a electric trolley when overhead electric lines are available and work as a diesel truck when overhead electric lines are not available. Siemens says that the technology can significantly reduce carbon emissions by reducing the use of fossil fuels in trucks.
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DigiTimes has a knack of churning out Apple-related rumors regularly, now many of which eventually turn out to be accurate enough. Now, the publication has claimed that the manufacturer, Pegatron, has been acquired the manufacturing of the next-gen iPhone from Apple. And that this iPhone is expected to be released during September this year.
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Lenovo,one of the world’s biggest computer manufacturers, recently announced that they are going to establish a new manufactureing plant in Wuhan, China. Lenovo is investing $800 million on this project. The investment will be used step by step over the next five years. However, the facility will begin operations in October 2013. The company hopes that they will be able to deliver new mobile internet products and bring them to its customers faster through the new plant.
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