Archive : Business

Few days after reaching numero uno position and becoming the most valuable technology company in terms of market capitalization, Apple has joined the infamous club  of big companies –  including IBM, Intel and Microsoft – which got  investigated for antitrust allegations by United States Department of Justice(DoJ). The Department of Justice is  investigating Apple over antitrust [...]

After the tremendous sales and success which Apple has seen since  iPhone launch helped  it overtook Microsoft to became world’s most valuable technology company and the the second largest company in the US after Exxon Mobile in market capitalization,  it  to become the most valuable technology company which was a mixture of persistent run-up in Apple shares and the dwindling value [...]

Tony Blair, the  former Prime Minister of UK  has been hired as a senior adviser by Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley firm which is promoted by Vinod Khosla who is  known as the brains behind Sun Microsystems and is one of Silicon Valley’s smartest investors. Khosla Ventures  is planning to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in green technology and is banking on Blair’s international [...]

Foursquare, the popular location-based social networking service for mobile devices, which also doubles up as a game and rewards users with virtual badges and mayorships for checking into various establishments has tied up with Dominos Pizza in UK .   Dominos, which promotes itself as the UK’s leading pizza delivery service, will offer free pizzas and discounts to Foursquare users who visit [...]

Google TV  which was being talked about for some time and which was officially announced during the Google Developers conference held last week at California saw Logitech mentioned as a prominent partner for hardware which was further acknowledged by the peripheral maker through its website. ” To help bring Google TV to life, Logitech will offer the first retail companion box to work with [...]

Illinois based Heil Sound has which pioneered the live sound industry with clients such as the Grateful Dead, the Who, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck and scores of major touring acts of the 1960’s – 70’s had introduced the HC -6 Wide Response Microphone Element at the Dayton Hamvention at Dayton, Ohio in US. The new Heil Pro Set Elite is designed for commercial sportscasters, [...]

If you were angry with Facebook’s self serving and financially motivated user policies this would outrage you. WSJ ( Wall Street Journal) reported that  Facebook along with MySpace, Digg, and a few other  social-networking sites sent advertisers information (user names, ages, hometowns and occupations) about  which specific users were clicking on ads, based on a report at AT&T Labs [...]

Paypal, the electronic money transferring service which had recently launched Mobile Payments Library for iPhone has now extended it toGoogle’s Mobile OS Android, the Library lets apps developers add checkout functionality for physical goods and services to their apps online. eBay, which owns  Paypal  has also introduced a PayPal X Toolkit for Google App Engine, a platform for developing [...]

British web start-up Huddle, which is a  web-based team collaboration and project management tool  announced a $10.2 million second round of funding, Huddle has now raised more than $15 million in  total. The funds will help the company stay competitive in the crowded collaboration market which is dominated by Box.com. With focus on US expansion it opened up an office in San Francisco with  [...]

Image via CrunchBase One of the most loved and used P2P  sharing web service LimeWire is facing imminent closure, courtesy,  a verdict by a US  federal court judge which  has  delivered a death blow to LimeWire , which is still  one of the most popular and oldest file-sharing systems. U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood granted summary judgment in favor of the RIAA (Recording Industry Association [...]