If you have been following Windows 8 for any amount of time, you must have run across the Building Windows 8 Blog, the official organ of the Windows team. It is not for massive, Internet-bending pieces of non-fiction that pack…
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Sprint now offering $100 credit when you trade in an iPhone from any other carrier
In an effort to attract iPhone users to its network, Sprint has begun offering a $100 credit when you turn in an iPhone from any other carrier.
Sprint sent us the details of the offering, which stipulates that a new…
The Financial Times predicts more digital subscribers than it sells print copies by end of year
By the end of the year, the Financial Times could have more digital subscribers than it sells print copies, FT.com‘s managing director Rob Grimshaw predicted this week during an on-stage interview with NewsCred‘s CEO Shafqat Islam as part of the Internet Week New York.…
7 Things You Need to Know About Saturday’s SpaceX Launch
Following a series of delays, private spaceflight company SpaceX is set to finally launch its Dragon capsule toward the International Space Station on Saturday. The event will be historic — if the mission is carried out, it will be…
Facebook makes its first post-IPO acquisition announcement with social gifting app Karma
Just after it closed its first day of IPO very close to the opening day price of $38, Facebook has made its first acquisiton with the social gifting app Karma. We got a notice in our inbox from the app…
Zynga’s stock ended up where it was during this morning’s dive, down over 13%
As we pointed out earlier, one of the tech stocks that got hit the hardest during the Facebook IPO hoopla was Zynga.
The company’s stock started off the day down 13.3% and ended the day down 13.42%. As Facebook officially…
6 Reasons Why the Facebook IPO Fell Flat
Well, that was anticlimactic.
After all the hullabaloo about Facebook’s IPO, this is how it ends, with a mere $0.23 jump in share price? That kind of movement is what happens after Procter & Gamble announces a more absorbent…
Facebook’s IPO becomes the first ever to see 500M shares traded in its first day
The Facebook IPO opened hot and heavy in trading on its first day, with an opening price of $38, a spike to $42 and a closing price of $38.37. According to CNBC, it also became the first IPO to see…
Facebook’s first day marked by a thundering unch, ending essentially flat after dull launch
It was the crazed IPO that wasn’t. Following pricing discussions that went to the wire last night, it appears that the gurus behind Facebook initial public offering got at least on thing right: the price.
Or, they mostly did. Twice…
19-year-old girl in Egypt invents a spacecraft propulsion device
A 19-year-old Egyptian university student called Aisha Mustafa has invented a propulsion device intended to offer spacecrafts a new method and cheaper means of energy consumption.
The propulsion device promises chances of using quantum physics and chemical reactions in artificial satellites,…
