NEW YORK - Facebook collects 1.5 billion dollars, the currency of 50 billion dollars. The social network has not yet decided how to invest the funds. It states: before April 30, 2012 will be launched in the demand for the IPO. The raised funds also include the investment by Goldman Sachs, for which requests from customers outside the U.S.were higher bid. "We are pleased to be able to strengthen our liquidity position - said David Ebersman, chief financial officer of Facebook -. We now have greater financial flexibility that allows us to assess the opportunities that present themselves." Facebook will exceed quota by the year 500 shareholders or investors.
In the field of new Tehnologies, young shoots of South Africa are beginning to whet the appetite of foreign behemoths.
Hugh Hefner, the Playboy founder, announced Wednesday the launch in March of an edition of the famous magazine iPad. In a message posted on his Twitter account, the sprightly octogenarian also reveals that older editions of Playboy will be available for viewing through the tablet from Apple. "Great news! Old and new editions of Playboy will be available on iPad from the month of March," writes Mr.
The group of Internet distribution eBay announced Wednesday, January 19, the results (. Pdf) exceeded expectations despite 25% drop in net income for 2010, 1.801 billion dollars (1.34 billion euros). The market had largely anticipated because the decline due to a difficult comparison from one year to another, PayPal end of 2009 had benefited from the sale of 70% of internet telephony group Skype, which had reported more than 1 billion dollars (743 million).
The Canadian manufacturer of BlackBerry announced Thursday it had blocked access to pornographic websites on its smartphones in Indonesia, as required by the government which had set an ultimatum Friday. Research In Motion (RIM) was under the threat of a partial suspension of its services if it did not stop before January 21, access to sites "pornographic".
Are you tired of the annoying fluff that bar our mouse when using it on the bed or couch? Then the new Logitech Wireless Mouse M515 is what you need for your PC or laptop. The new Logitech wireless model presented has a totally enclosed housing that improves the performance on uneven surfaces like clothing, has also incorporated a special sensor detects human contact so that it does not move unless we want and .
Apple is implicated in a report released Thursday by Chinese NGOs to protect the environment for failures in the chain of manufacture of certain components of the iPad and iPhone. According to these NGOs, Apple came in last place, out of 29 multinational companies in the technology sector, a survey targeting the health risks at work and problems of industrial pollution in China.
Samsung Electronics has officially launched its new digital camera model ST6500, a device with a curved, ergonomic design, touch screen, which will make it easier to interface with the user. The Samsung ST6500 features a 16 megapixel definition ensure we capture every moment with excellent image quality, it also has optical zoom x5, 26 mm lens and the ability to record 720p video quality.
Of phones and applications will mainly our Galaxy Tech Buzz News this week. Because if there will be series of Angry Birds, and anything is possible. It is our review of the highlights of our environment in the technological field. Started.
It all started with a post from Matt Cutts, an engineer at Google, specializing in the fight against pollution of research results: there note that Make-my-baby. com, a site almost unknown, is one of the world's biggest advertisers on social networks, and especially MySpace. However, Internet users who visit this site (currently not available) is immediately offer to install a toolbar that also changes the default search engine for Bing, the engine of Microsoft.
It's back to the future. The earthquake was recorded at the top of Google goes something like this. It probably stems from the desire to perpetuate the leadership going to recover the spirit of the first steps as they moved. She certainly has surprised many observers of the universe hi-tech. The magazine Techcrunch has called a real "big bang", The New York Times tried to explain the desire to find the "spark of the start-up", CNN, you wondered: "Why?" That's precisely why the 4th of April, CEO Eric Schmidt, 55 years after a decade, will leave his executive position at one of the co-founders, Larry Page, 37 years to go and deal with external relations, with the other founder Sergey Brin, 37 years, which will focus on new products? The items that were included with this guide to the waltz of the global web of course all the honey, some traces of the damage.
The former Swiss banker Rudolf Elmer, who presented repeatedly to the site Wikileaks data sharing information on suspected tax evaders, was convicted Wednesday, January 19, violation of banking secrecy, and was sentenced to a suspended fine. Mr. Elmer, who was one of the leaders of the Baer bank in the Cayman Islands for eight years, was accused of sending client names to media and the Swiss tax authorities, after being dismissed by his employer in 2002 one of the leading Swiss private bank, due to "disagreements".
The shooter and reflection "Portal 2", will play on PC and Mac, but also on Playstation 3.
Even when we knew that Logitech took out the market a new mouse for sofa other ideas we have come to the head, finally we can only count on the Logitech Wireless Mouse M515, a mouse form factor. What is different about this mouse, it has, is the sealed housing to improve the sliding of the peripheral white surfaces such as pillows, sofa or any type of fabric.
Larry Page inherits top manager Eric Schmidt as Google's CEO. The transfer of power acts as a complete surprise, co-founder of the Internet giant is as shy and publicity-shy. This shows one thing: Page has been underestimated terrific. Who is in the public eye, about which there is usually a Wikipedia entry.
The President of the Board of Directors of the General Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE), Teddy Bautista, announced a few days ago a reinvention of the organization that defends the rights of copyright. That reinvention was going through a more open society and now digital has organized a meeting in which hundreds of Internet users have asked directly responsible for the SGAE by issues Sinde law, the so-called digital canon and also the salary of Baptist itself, a very controversial figure for Internet users.
The U.S. internet group Google announced Wednesday, January 19 morning, the Iranian Internet, with the exception of officials of the regime, would now have access to three programs to facilitate their communications: Google Earth, Picasa and Chrome. "Our products are specifically designed to help people create, connect, share their opinions and get information," said the blog of a Google group manager, Neil Martin, a specialist in compliance with the rules on exports imposed by U.S.
We continue with the analysis of HTC HD7, and having already talked about the terminal and its excellent screen pass with something really important: Phone operating system Windows 7 and its operation in this terminal. WP7 is not like what were the Windows Mobile 6.5 and earlier. That is totally different to that, and obviously kept the path he is following the competition: 100% tactile interfaces, transitions between menus and high usability are some of their characteristics.
The U.S. computer giant IBM announced Tuesday, Jan. 18, net profit up 10.5% year on year to 14.8 billion dollars (11 billion euros), with an increase equivalent to the last quarter. These results exceeded analysts' expectations. The turnover of the group, meanwhile, increased 6.6% to 29.0 billion dollars (21.57 billion euros) over the quarter and 4.3% on year whole, to 99.9 billion dollars (74.28 billion euros).
The Japanese company Asahi Glass wants to be the competition of the famous Gorilla Glass, resistant glass screens that accompany many of the major mobile phone market and we can also see the odd laptop. Your product is targeted initially to portable devices like mobile phones and tablets, has been named Dragontrail, and I'm sure we'll start to hear enough throughout 2011.
Although wirelessly connect any equipment seamlessly sure it is in the minds of all consumers, the implementation has not yet managed to forget problems. Yesterday's video show you how this technology promoted by Intel and today we're going to tell you how it has been our experience with our friend Widi.
Although there seemed to be hidden, HTC would not miss the opportunity to renew their catalog (which does not have much time if you remember) terminals and new terminal seems to be presented at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona a couple of weeks. No specs leaked but only a recreation of those who may be new terminals.
With such a long presentation time, Nintendo 3DS moments leaves more questions than facts. Fortunately, the European launch has virtually no gaps your resume features, services and 3D capabilities of this console. So it should be, we'll review the Nintendo 3DS from beginning to end so that no one is left with doubts about what this console can offer.
You do the law that I make the rules. This law reflects the principles established by a law may be altered in the regulation implementing it. This is the controversy that exists in Chile after release draft regulations for the law requiring him to defend Net Neutrality According Fayerwayer, picking up a leak of Neutrality Yes, some places the regulation could not be aligned with principles set forth by law.
Since in the next few years (probably sooner than we think because the concept of 4G Atrix Motorola I like) the desktop will evolve enough about its current concept, one must be very attentive to the patents that companies like Apple have in their portfolio. The last two we've met are quite interesting.
The National Institute of Communication Technologies (INTECO) has published on its website a notice warning of security flaws in the terminal operating system Android. The vulnerability would allow the extraction of data from the terminal and SD card contents via the Internet. The browser's operating system is responsible for the failure, so INTECO other browsers are recommended waiting for Google to solve the problem for future upgrades.
In the future we are convinced they have the tablets, it is common sense that brands try to concepts or prototypes that now seem more crazy that something workable. The MSI tablet with integrated projector is an example. Rugged design, the screen is a classic and 10 inches in which we see the operating system Windows 7.
Very cortita was the presentation of G-Slate LG at CES: a render, the use of Honeycomb, 4G connectivity, and its official name, we could summarize the information that Koreans wanted to perform at the premier event for consumer electronics world. Days later heard rumors about the possibility that the screen was capable of playing 3D content without the use of glasses, thanks to the technology of your screen, but it seems to be diluted by pure logic and filtering of certain information.
I think I am not mistaken if I say that so far, the most anticipated release for the Mobile World Congress Barcelona is the Samsung S2 Galaxy. The chosen (Palau Sant Jordi) and is a unique event before the official start of the show MWC 2011, we are literally eating us wait nails. But while we, few specifications will be discovered leaks are met in recent weeks.