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2012-05-18T04:07:58Z
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 Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street.
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2012-05-18T09:30:38Z
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 China's government on Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment and Chinese manufacturers warned possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy.
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2012-05-09T05:57:33Z
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 Despite the explosive innovation around digital picture-taking, the end result has actually changed very little. A photo is still a photo. And a poorly focused photo is still as bad as ever. Ren Ng aims to fix that.
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2012-05-18T02:00:48Z
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What's the next best thing for those of us who can't afford a $190,000 hovercraft? Who knows. But if you have at least 10% of that figure, you could get yourself a Quadrofoil — an electric vehicle that looks like a crab. … Continue reading → |
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2012-05-18T01:53:30Z
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Are you an avid coffee drinker? Here's something you can use as an argument every time someone warns you against drinking your third cup of coffee for the day: Coffee may actually add some years to your life. A paper published recently … Continue reading → |
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2012-05-18T00:11:52Z
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When you get a lot of really smart people together to make a prediction in aggregate, it can be scary accurate. Anyone who has read the James Sureowicki business science classic The Wisdom of Crowds, and a host of corroborating authors such as Malcolm Gladwell, knows that. |
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2012-05-18T01:31:04Z
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Hewlett-Packard is poised to eliminate as many as 30,000 jobs to compensate for dwindling demand for personal computers as more people connect to the Internet on smartphones and tablets, according to reports published Thursday. |
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2012-05-17T17:52:17Z
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 Don't try to friend MaLi Arwood on Facebook. You won't find her there.
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2012-05-18T02:17:09Z
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Yahoo's new boss is reorganizing a consumer-commerce division created by recently dispatched CEO Scott Thompson. |
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2012-05-17T18:48:16Z
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 Billionaire Warren Buffett's company is making another foray into newspapers, agreeing to buy 63 newspapers from Media General Inc. for $142 million.
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2012-05-17T21:30:00Z
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Some great new games hit the iTunes App Store this week, with several titles taking players into side-scrolling 2-D worlds. Gene Effect leads the pack, bringing gamers into the deep and mysterious caverns of Mars, where they’re tasked with mining for important substances, discovering hidden objects, and conducting a rescue mission to locate a missing vehicle. With its fascinating story, it’ll keep you entertained, but we’ve got a few other great titles for you to check out below as well. |
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2012-05-18T09:30:38Z
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China's government on Friday rejected a U.S. antidumping ruling against its makers of solar power equipment and Chinese manufacturers warned possible higher tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy. |
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2012-05-18T09:19:18Z
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 LONDON/HELSINKI, May 18 (IFR/Reuters) - Nokia Oyj is tearing through its cash reserves at an unsustainable rate, raising what some analysts say are serious questions about the struggling Finnish phone maker's ability to stabilize its finances in the months ahead. With the cost of Nokia's debt rising, the most bearish of analysts in a Reuters poll said the company could even be at risk of default if it fails to slow the burning of its cash. Over the past five quarters, the onetime darling of mobile telecoms has eroded its cash pile by 2.1 billion euros ($2. ...
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2012-05-18T07:07:00Z
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 (Reuters) - ZTE Corp, the world's No.4 handset vendor and one of two Chinese companies under U.S. scrutiny over security concerns, said one of its mobile phone models sold in the United States contains a vulnerability that researchers say could allow others to control the device. The hole affects ZTE's Score model that runs on Google Inc's Android operating system and was described by one researcher as "highly unusual." "I've never seen it before," said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of cybersecurity firm, CrowdStrike. ...
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2012-05-18T06:52:30Z
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Chinese producers of solar power equipment on Friday rejected an American anti-dumping ruling in a case that threatens to worsen U.S.-Chinese tensions. They warned proposed punitive tariffs might hurt efforts to promote clean energy. |
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2012-05-18T04:55:14Z
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Samsung has received 9 million pre-orders from more than 100 international carriers for its upcoming flagship smartphone, the Galaxy S3, Korea Economic Daily reports. |
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2012-05-18T04:33:00Z
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 NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lot of loyal Facebook fans and occasional investors are discovering a hard truth this week: Money and connections talk, especially when it comes to a hot deal handled by Wall Street. The scramble for shares in what is one of largest initial public offerings in U.S. history quickly divided the haves from the have-nots on Thursday. Those with big brokerage accounts and a long history as customers of Wall Street firms likely got at least part of their orders for Facebook shares filled, but would-be buyers who had no such ties were lucky to get any. ...
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2012-05-18T04:09:05Z
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 A company started in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 has just raised $16 billion and is valued at $104 billion. All that from an initial public offering of stock.
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2012-05-18T04:08:58Z
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 (Reuters) - Investors are bracing for Facebook's Wall Street debut on Friday after the world's No.1 online social network raised about $16 billion in one of the biggest initial public offerings in U.S. history. Valued at $104 billion, Facebook is larger than Starbucks Corp and Hewlett-Packard combined, sparking intense speculation on how much higher its valuation will rise once shares start trading. "A 15 to 20 percent pop is in the realm of possibility," said Tim Loughran, a finance professor at the University of Notre Dame. ...
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2012-05-18T04:07:58Z
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Facebook is about to find out just how much status updates, puppy photos and billions of "likes" are worth on Wall Street. |
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