Oct 17

Square: turn your smartphone into a cash register

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 Square App

Square is the new mobile app (available for Apple’s iOS devices and for Android) that lets you make payments with Square Cash or you can also use Square Cash remotely via e-mail. You don’t have to sign up for using Square Cash. For example if you want to send money as a birthday gift, you just Continue reading »

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Oct 17

IBM fails in sales forecast by over $1 billion

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IBM

IBM has released 3rd quarter results and its showing that the company missed sales forecast by more than $1 bn. Fewer customers need storage infrastructure of their own and that’s why IBM took a hit from the transition to the cloud. IBM’s income $4 a share came in ahead of estimates. Continue reading »

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Oct 16

Twitter’s heading to the New York Stock Excange

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Twitter

Twitter has finally made a decision and intends to list the common stock on the New York Stock Exchange. Previously we were guessing if it will choose NYSE or NASDAQ. The company will list the common stock under the symbol „TWTR“. Many people are guessing if NYSE had the upper hand, because of the NASDAQ’s massive failure at the Facebook’s initial public offering last year. But despite all these great news regarding initial public offering later this year, Continue reading »

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Oct 15

Rumor: Amazon hooking up with HTC for new smartphones

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Amazon

According to Financial Times, Amazon has partnered with HTC for new line of smartphones. But this is not the first time that we have received the news about Amazon’s smartphone. Two years ago Amazon has already said it’s not going to release its phone in 2013. Continue reading »

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Oct 15

Homebrew Computer Club reunion funded through Kickstarter

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Steve Wozniak

The reunion of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club is scheduled for 11th November at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. In this club Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak first showed off their early retail computers. There’s a Kickstarter campaign for raising money for event organization and so far 25 members from the club’s old guard have RSVPed for the event (including Steve Wozniak). Continue reading »

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Oct 13

Foxconn has once again labor violation problems

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Foxconn

Foxconn is world’s biggest contract electronics maker and it’s used by most of technology giants around the world, including Sony, Apple, Microsoft, HP and Nokia. The company employs ca. 800,000 workers worldwide and has labor issues since 2010. The company has recently issued a statement in which admits labor violation at China factory. It hired underage students, who also worked overtime and night shift. Continue reading »

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