BACK the intersection between big business and the world of social networking. On the day when the social network arrives in China Renren Wall Street picking up nearly $ 750 million from investors, they share a surprise negotiations for the sale of Skype. The news was reported from across the Atlantic and is twofold: to contend for control of the company popular with Web users because it allows the possibility of free phone calls are actually the two giants of the Internet world: Google and Facebook.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Electronic Arts cut its loss in its fiscal offset
The American publisher of video games Electronic Arts (EA) announced Wednesday, May 4, a greater reduction than-expected net loss, 276 million (EUR 186 million) on its overall performance offbeat 2010-2011. In 2009-2010, the net loss was $ 677 million (457 million dollars. The turnover for its share declined 1.8% to 3.6 billion dollars (2.4 billion euros ), below analysts' expectations, which stood at 3.76 billion dollars (2.54 billion euros).
Intel Announces Transistor 3D
World number one microprocessor Intel announced Wednesday, May 4, a new breakthrough in the history of microprocessors, saying for the first time able to include a transistor chips in three dimensions, for more efficient appliances. "Scientists and engineers at Intel have once again reinvented the transistor, this time using the third dimension," said Intel CEO Paul Otellini said in a statement.
"We're undergoing a revolution"
When she called Brendan Cahill, a young manager, to launch a startup in the digital book, he did not hesitate. "Everything is new. We must constantly invent, decide quickly. That risk, lots of adrenaline, but a lot of confidence when we see how it progresses." Brendan is now vice-president of the Open Road, a publisher of books exclusively digital.
She is Jane Friedman, her boss, who has released a management position at the leading publisher HarperCollins in spring 2009 at the peak of the economic crisis, to start this business. The fund financier-producer-director Jim Kohlberg (director of The MusicNever Stopped) has invested $ 7 million.
She is Jane Friedman, her boss, who has released a management position at the leading publisher HarperCollins in spring 2009 at the peak of the economic crisis, to start this business. The fund financier-producer-director Jim Kohlberg (director of The MusicNever Stopped) has invested $ 7 million.
The wave of e-book engulfs New York
New York Correspondent - December 27, Amazon has sold in a day of digital books (e-books) that during the previous three months, indicating that its portable reader Kindle was a hit at Christmas. And, after the teenagers, the American online bookseller attacks the "segment" of the parents. In major newspapers in the country flourishes an advertisement reads: "Kindle, the perfect gift for Mother's Day.
Anonymous to the origin of the piracy game platforms from Sony?
The hackers who attacked the gaming platform Sony Online Entertainment (SOE) have claimed the group hacktivists Anonymous says, Wednesday, May 4, the Japanese group. "When Sony Online Entertainment was discovered last Sunday in the afternoon that the company's data servers were stolen, he also discovered that intruders had set up a folder on one of these servers under 'Anonymous' with words' We are legion ", said the head of a subsidiary of Japan, Kazuo Hirai, in a letter to U.S.
Apple reduced the tracking data recorded by iPhone
Apple on Thursday launched an update of its operating system IOS for iPhone and iPad tablet, one of the main developments is to reduce the number of location information recorded by these devices. The company hopes to put an end to criticism that she was subjected in recent days after the publication of a study showing that many Apple devices recorded location information, and for a period of one year.
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