With the Apple quarter’s result is just a day away, Philip Elmer-Dewitt, an analyst compiles his best guess for what the Apple has in the store for Quarter 1 or can also be called as Apple’s holiday quarter. If his prediction is going to be right tomorrow, than we will see the company behind iPods and iPhones first quarter of worth $40 billion – Elmer Dewitt’s numbers coming in at a mind-blowing $42.76 billion. If the numbers hold as it says, Apple could see a quarter almost exactly 50% better than their last record quarter....
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Dasient, a Sunnyvale-based internet security firm, on Monday through its company blog announced that it had been acquired by micro-blogging website, Twitter. The purchase deal price was not disclosed in the company’s post. The company was founded in 2008, is the brainchild of Neil Daswani and Shariq Rivzi. “Effective immediately, we will be bringing our technology,...
“Again we must say that we will not attack #Facebook! Again the mass media lie,” the group tweeted from the @AnonOps feed. Anonymous on Monday denied that it was planning to take down Facebook on January 28. Facebook attack news start spreading like a fire, when individuals claiming to be a part of Anonymous posted a YouTube video that called on supporters...
“While it is true that Facebook has atleast 60,000 servers, it is still possible to bring it down”, words of the Hacker Group Anonymous voice that purports to represent the group in a video posted on video sharing website YouTube. The group is planning to target Facebook in an attack on January 28. “An online war has begun between Anonymous, the people,...
According to a report on WSJ, an average Silicon Valley tech salary hit six figures last year. Comparison with a job growth elsewhere in the whole nation has remained slow. U.S companies added 200,000 jobs last December, and the unemployment rate move down to 8.5%, its lowest level since 2009 starting. Dice Holdings Inc. said salaries for tech employees in Silicon...
The White House is following through on its plans to host Hangouts on Google+ with an online interview scheduled for next week. President Obama will deliver his State of the Union address. He will lay out his vision for a nation where hard work and responsibility are rewarded, where everyone does their fair share, and where everyone is held accountable for their...
TRUSTe, the leading privacy management solutions provider, announced that it closed a $15 million Series C Financing Round – led by Baseline Ventures and followed by existing investors Accel Partners, DAG Ventures and Jafco Ventures. The company also announced its plans to expand its product suite to address the exploding global, big data privacy challenges. “TRUSTe...
Billionaire Warren Buffett has made an appearance on Chinese TV playing “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad” on ukulele. Buffet’s performance was a part of China Central Television’s Annual New Year’s Gala, along with singer Leehom Wang playing a dragon-shaped guitar. “I’ve been working on the railroad, all the livelong day,” Buffett, 81, sang in...
Netflix, on-demand internet streaming media company share on Monday (ET) are trading lower probably in lieu of its Q4 financial results that are due on Wednesday. The company (trades with the name NFLX) share price this morning is down $2.63, to $97.61 – change in -2.6%. Netflix shares ranks among one of the best result oriented shares for the year. The company is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media in the United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, and flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States. The...
Entertainment Software Association or commonly known as ESA, has lifted out its support of the anti-piracy bill SOPA. The bill which was after the strong protest from different big and smaller websites across the globe (blackout day) and strong opposition in the white house leads the bill to wrenched from the ground. “From the beginning, ESA has been committed...
