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Usman Khalid
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Top 5 Hybrid Cars that go easy on the wallet – Part 1

Gone are the days when you could only look for a gasoline engine in a vehicle. The gas prices would trip you off but you would have no other choice but to settle for it. However, the new wave of electric and hybrid cars is getting people the much craved choice on fuel economy. Electric […]

Top 5 Hybrid Cars that go easy on the wallet – Part 2

2012 Lexus CT 200h Lexus, Toyota’s luxury brand, has been offering its own hybrid vehicles for years, giving buyers who want a car with nicer appointments than the Prius an option. The CT 200h is one of the more recent hybrid entrants to the Lexus model line. This hatchback has no gasoline-only equivalent and cuts […]

iPhone sales boost Apple shares to another all-time high

Apple shares hit another record high on Friday shortly after it commenced the sale of iPhone 5. The shares reached $704.63 in the middle of the morning. The shares were at $704.85 in the start of the business on Friday. The new phone is on sale in nine countries, the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, […]

Alibaba finalizes first round of repurchasing its stock from Yahoo

Alibaba Group announced in a statement that it has finished the first round of repurchase of Yahoo’s stake in the company. The transaction will stream $7.6 Billion in Yahoo’s direction. China’s largest online retail and B2B giant announced on May 20 jointly with Yahoo that it will reduce the US-based web portal’s stake in Alibaba […]

Verizon Wireless-Vodafone merger will be a tough sell, say experts

Verizon Wireless’ pending dividend payment to its parent companies, Vodafone and Verizon Communications has hit the investors’ nerve. The carrier is still to announce a profit payment that is the delaying Vodafone’s dividend distribution. Vodafone owns 45 percent stake in the major US carrier, while the rest majority goes to Verizon Communications. The dividend has […]

Red Hat slated for quarterly report on Monday, experts speculate increased profitability in future

Red Hat is expected to report a profitable quarter on Monday next week. The company is increasing its business, expanding services in virtualization and producing new storage products. Red Hat provides Linux-based software that are inexpensive compared to the old-Unix-based enterprise solutions. Moreover, the company is thriving to grab a bigger share in the cloud […]

FDA allows ViroPharma and Halozyme to continue clinical trials, stock up on the news

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed both ViroPharma and Halozyme Therapeutics to resume their combined clinical trial treatment Friday after close inspection that spanned more than a month. Both ViroPharma and Halozymes were working on a hereditary angioedema disorder with a combination of former’s Cinryze and latter’s Enhanze platform. Cinryze ViroPharma’s patented drug that is […]

Apple shares cross 700 dollar mark on the release of iPhone in stores

Apple is running a hot streak. First the court case win on the legal grounds and now customer confidence win the market. The company set a new trend of all-time highs five days running and after a break of one day it hit another record high in the stock market. The shares were at $700.07 […]

Western Digital and Seagate lower their revenue expectations for the current quarter

Western Digital and Seagate Technology announced their expectations for the current quarter ending September 30. Both companies lowered their estimations on sales and shipments due to lack of demand in global market. Western Digital and Seagate are the suppliers of hard disc drives to PC makers and also sell the storage products as standalone sells. […]

Oracle first quarter report expected to show flat sales, say analysts

Oracle is slated to report its first fiscal quarter results on Thursday but experts think the company does not pack a punch this time around and the sales will have a flat growth. Analysts, in a poll conducted by Thomson Reuters, have the opinion that the enterprise solutions provider is not going to report any […]

iRobot finishes deal to acquire Evolution Robotics

iRobot, the makers of household robotics, has struck a deal with rival Evolution Robotics for its acquisition. Evolution’s addition to iRobot will increase the profitability of the company, especially in the international market. Both companies make hefty amounts by selling their flagship automatic floor cleaning robots. Mint is the Evolution’s product while Roomba and Scooba […]

Data centres, a solution to a problem or a root of a problem?

Data centres started as a cost-effective way to handle gigantic chunks of information. However, increasing use or, as some circles put it, the overuse of the these centres is costing more than it is saving. The overall cost of handling data centres as centralized data providing sources and the overuse by the public and corporate […]

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