Category archives for: Sci-Tech

LinkedIn shares rise as Jefferies upgrades its rating on stock

LinkedIn, the professional social media network, was up 6 percent in afternoon trading on Wednesday, chiefly due to the favourable ratings by investment bank Jefferies & Co. The stock traded a fraction above $114 after the investment bank raised its ratings on LNKD stock from hold to buy. The bank says the company is expected […]

FCC plans to extend broadband speed test survey to wireless network in the US

The Federal Communications Commission said in a statement on Wednesday that it wants to extend the survey on broadband connection speeds to wireless networks as well. The fast spreading third- and fourth generation wireless broadband connections has enticed FCC to extend the research. The main goal of the research would be to bring wireless speed […]

Apple sends press invitations for a September 12 event in San Francisco

Apple is now inching near the official launch of the next generation iPhone. The company released an invite to a September 12 event to be staged at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. It is official now that Apple is holding the event on the day however, the release of iPhone […]

Apple loses the top-seller spot to Korean competitor Samsung

With the official invitation of a September 12 event officially out of Cupertino headquarters, Apple is again the centrepiece for the media. The company is expected to release the new iPhone at the event. However, one thing is not going to Apple way, the sales figures. According to Canaccord Genuity, a research firm, the sales […]

Chinese search engine Baidu releases its own mobile web browser for Android devices

Chinese top search engine Baidu on Monday introduced a new namesake mobile browser  for smartphones and tablets. The news was taken cordially by investors as the three-week long share price decline came to a halt. The new web browser will be available first on Google’s mobile operating system platform Android. The company said that the […]

Facebook will not sell shares: Zuckerberg

The CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, will not sell shares in the company over the next twelve months, an ad that matches the plummeting shares, the company has revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. (SEC). Zuckerberg has "no intention of carrying out any transaction with our shares for at least […]

Goophone set to make a copy for Apple iPhone 5

A Chinese electronics company has managed to make a carbon copy for the iPhone 5, the next smartphone that Apple will announce next Wednesday, thanks to leaks that have circulated on the internet of this new model, according to the website PConline. The firm has had the idea, Goford Electronics, confirmed to say output of said […]

Sysco subscribes to ThelRapp to strengthen the rapport with investors

Application development for mobile devices is slowly taking a new turn. Now, developers are moving their blazing barrels to a more serious business, and business it is. In a new wave of apps developed for the biggest app centres like Apple’s App Store and Google’s Google Play, applications related to investor’s relations is seen to […]

Facebook stock rise 2 percent as CEO Zuckerberg commits to not selling the stock

Facebook shares rose 2 percent in value in afterhours as CEO Mark Zuckerberg and two directors, and major investors in FB shares, said Tuesday in a statement that they do not intend to sell their stock. In an 8-K filing on Tuesday to the Security and Exchange Commission Facebook said that the CEO and other […]

Desire2Learn rounds up $80 Million in funding from investors

The main objective of the funding is to reinforce the cloud service for easy access of education material internationally Canadian education reforms-based company Desire2Learn has wound up an $80 Million round of funds for the development of the global education sector. The main goal of the company is to strengthen its cloud-based services to encourage […]

Hack group AntiSec publishes a million Apple IDs online

The group hacked over 12 Million such IDs from a database on an FBI agent’s laptop computer in March this year Computer hacking is slowly getting its footing in Macintosh environment of late. In the few months a number of incidences have raised security concerns over Apple’s security measures. In a recent event, AntiSec, an […]

90% of computer-owing homes subscribed to broadband but disparities in computer ownership, says research

Broadband internet is one of most widely used electronic technology in virtually every field of life and United States being the top subscriber has the densest use of it. However, in the latest findings by a research company, Leichtman Research Group, the odds are not all showing prosperity. According to the research, about 90 percent […]

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