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...
According to Global Equities Research (via VentureBeat), the new inexpensive digital textbooks Apple launched last week was downloaded over 350,000 times in just three days. iBook Author, a new free of charge Mac tool to author iBooks Textbooks, saw some 90,000 downloads in the same period. The company launched a new version of its iBooks iOS application for the...
Social business has evolved itself from multiple sources resulting now in taking the businesses across the world into a completely new direction. Social business – one of the big business buzzwords of 2012 but how many people actually know what it really means? This explanatory Infographic from Global Dawn shows all the routes business has travelled in order to...
SoundCloud, leading social sound platform, today at the DLD conference in Munich announced that they hit a 10 million users’ mark. The site is moving in the same path as of YouTube for sound. The site made its debut in October 2008, has had over five million official SoundCloud iPhone/android apps downloaded and over 10,000 party apps have been developed on SoundCloud’s...
Pocketnow reported that LG will flagship its quad-core phone this year that runs on Tegra 3 chipset. The phone will be out by somewhere in the spring or summer. LG’s X3 will comes with nVidia powered Tegra 3 chipset, a lage, high resolution display – 4.7 inches at 1280X720, rear and front facing cameras are said to be 8 megapixels and 1.3 megapixels camers, while...
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...
ArenaNet Founder and President Mike O’Brien announced today that Guild Wars 2 would be coming this year following the beta released in February. O’Brien mentioned in the post that the upcoming MMO will bring a completely new approach to questing and combat. He writes, “This year, the Year of the Dragon, let’s usher out old thinking.” Guild Wars 2 has been...