ZDNet’s Tom Foremski recently met with the team of Intel’s “iQ”, an online magazine team which features daily news and articles from all around the world along with what’s happening inside at Intel. Interesting is that content is selected by potentially by more than 5,000 of its staff. Foremski comes with some amazing facts and figures about the magazine....
Just a day away from the giant IPO – the Facebook IPO and analysts predict that India will overtake U.S. as the world’s largest Facebook market by number of users by 2015. We reported earlier this month that Brazil bags the second rank by overtaking India on Facebook but with such futuristic estimation we believe that India will definitely overtake US as well as Brazil. “India could overtake the United States in the next three years. Last year, Facebook users in India doubled. Growth will be driven by mobile internet users in second-...
The education publisher, Pearson today announced that it is buying Certiport, a developer, marketer and distributor of certification exams and practice tests for IT and digital literacy skills, for $140 million in cash from the private equity firm Spire Capital Partners. Certiport sells its certifications and assessments through a network of 12,000 testing centres...
HP in late April sued Oracle over the software creation that runs on HP System Intel’s Itanium chips. Oracle’s attorney ruled out a settlement with HP with a day after the judge refused to resolve the case for either side before trial. Oracle now strikes back by releasing a cache of documents. Jeb Dasteel, Oracle’s senior vice-president and chief customer officer,...
Facebook recently filed eighth amendment state that the social giant will offer 180,000,000 share of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. Furthermore, some of social giant’s biggest shareholders are now selling as much as half of their stakes in the company. Now what important is that if everything goes as planned, the social giant options trading will begin in two weeks time –Yes, two weeks – the International Securities Exchange (ISE) today announced...
Facebook is now offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock, according to the eight amendments filed by the social giant. Furthermore, WSJ reported that some of social giant’s biggest shareholders are now selling as much as half of their stakes in the company. Over the top what not to forget is that there are 139 million options held by employees. Now, how this 139 million options brings smile at least for California State. H.D. Palmer from...
We reported earlier that Facebook tend to increase its share volumes by 25% and with the social giant’s eight amendments, the company increased its initial public offering range from $28-$35 to $34-$38 per share, and offered 50.6 million more shares. Facebook is now offering 180,000,000 shares of its Class A common stock and the selling stockholders are offering 241,233,615 shares of Class A common stock. The Wall Street Journal reports that some of social giant’s biggest shareholders are now selling as much as half of their stakes...
We reported earlier today that General Motors planning to stop advertising on Facebook after the company’s marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers. GM confirmed the news and said: “We regularly review our overall media spend and make adjustments as needed,” a GM spokesperson said in a statement. “This happens as a regular...
We reported earlier today that General Motors planning to stop advertising on Facebook after the company’s marketing executives determined their paid ads had little impact on consumers. Interesting fact is that the news broke out only three days before the social giant IPO. GM spends about $10 million of its 2011 ad spending out of $1.8 billion on Facebook Two aspects coming out with the news: first why and what brings the news certainly at this time only and second as said, if GM pulls out its campaign from social giant – then it...
Yahoo’s recent CEO Thompson resignation seems not much enough for Third Point Daniel Loeb, Loeb bought up its stake in three new technology companies besides Yahoo: Apple, Cisco and Google, according to an SEC filing, Bloomberg reports. Third Point now has 360,000 shares of Apple stock, accounting to $217 million, 5 million shares of Cisco and around 280,000 shares of Google. Furthermore, Loeb also increased its Yahoo shares unit, with current totalling its stake to 70.5 million (valued little more than $1 billion). ...
