Good news for Whisky lovers – a website name Scottish Whisky Blender is a site that lets its visitors design and name their own custom whisky blends. The Whisky Blender is a brainchild of Glasgow-based Whiskersons of Bothwell Ltd., gives users seven hand-picked whiskies to choose from when crafting their own blend. Consumers simply pick which ones they’d like...
With the news confirmed, Yahoo has lost one of its top advertising sales executive Seth Dallaire to Amazon. Dallaire, earlier left Microsoft for Yahoo, and has worked with the company all since 2009 as an advertising sales executive. At Amazon, he will take a newly created role of VP of North America sales. His departure is a blow to Yahoo, especially at the time...
PC gamers from now on need not to worry as Intel wants to give overclockers some peace of mind with its new Performance Tuning Plan. The Performance Tuning Protection Plan being offered by Intel is a chance for you to experiment with the overclocking features of your processor without the worries of what will happen if you push the processor too far. The Plan allows...
Amazon added a new cloud computing service to its Amazon Web Service suite, a distributed database called as DynamoDB. The database is currently in beta stage. Amazon DynamoDB is designed to address the core problems of database management, performance, scalability, and reliability. Amazon DynamoDB is a fully managed NoSQL database service that provides fast and...
Sony Ericsson this morning reports that its pre-tax loss of 247 million euros ($318 million) in the 2011 Q4, after reporting a profit of 31 million euros in 2011 Q3. The company is a 50-50 percent joint-venture between Sony and Ericsson. The company blames the loss is due to the unfavourable macroeconomic conditions and effects from the flooding in Thailand. The...
Eastman Kodak Company (“Kodak”) announced today that it and its U.S. subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for chapter 11 business reorganization in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The Company has made pioneering investments in digital and materials deposition technologies in recent years, generating approximately 75% of its revenue from digital businesses in 2011. Kodak has obtained a fully-committed, $950 million debtor-in-possession credit facility with an 18-month maturity from Citigroup to enhance...
Facebook, an 800+ million users social network, at its ongoing media event announced its Open Graph program plans where it has teamed up with 60 developer partners. The apps it will bring to its users’ timelines. The company has teamed to roll out the apps for its users that will encourage to tell their friends more that what they’re doing, like buying a scarf...
Zynga, a social network game company confirmed the names of all those four small mobile game companies it has recently acquired. The company’s top mobile executive David Ko told reuters that it had acquired the companies in recent months. The company acquired Hanover based GameDoctors in December, San Francisco based Page44 Studios in September, another San Francisco based HipLogic in August and New York based Astro Ape Studios. It did not disclose the sums paid for those companies. GameDoctors created mobile game ZombieSmash, Page44...
Google+ has long been the place to share and interact with friends either through using Hangouts or watching YouTube Videos. The company move a step further and announced its new feature, letting you allow to record and share videos of yourself using your webcam. The feature was announced by Shana Gitnick, an engineer on the Google+ Photos team on her Google+ page....
eBay, an e-commerce conglomerate announced that it increased it 2011 revenue by 25 percent and made a expectation break record revenue of $11.7 billion. The company generated its net income on GAAP basis of $3.2 billion and $2.7 billion in non-GAAP net income for the full year. The report confirms the company earning closed out at $3.4 billion in revenue during the Q4. “We had a strong fourth quarter finish to an excellent year, increasing our confidence in our three-year outlook,” said eBay Inc. President and CEO John...
