By Olivia Oran and Alexei Oreskovic NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO | Tue May 15, 2012 6:07pm EDT NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Facebook Inc increased the price range on its initial public offering an average of 14 percent to raise more than $12 billion, giving the world’s No. 1 social network a valuation potentially exceeding $100 [...]
By Nivedita Bhattacharjee Fri Apr 27, 2012 2:59pm EDT <span class="articleLocation”>(Reuters) – Groupon Inc has hired another former eBay Inc executive to head its discount retailing arm Groupon Goods starting Monday, according to an internal email obtained by Reuters on Friday. The online coupon company named Faisal Masud to head the unit. Masud, who was [...]
By Poornima Gupta SAN FRANCISCO | Wed Apr 25, 2012 10:00pm EDT SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Sometimes even eye-popping results are not enough. Apple Inc’s shares rallied on Wednesday on the back of another spectacular quarter that included soaring iPhone sales in China, but the naysayers are still asking if the most valuable American company [...]
People store their emails, photos and documents online to keep them from being lost or accidentally deleted. But what about the records we never save to begin with, like phone conversations and text messages? These hold a lot of useful data and can sometimes be the only point of reference for important conversations. Calltrunk is [...]
A typical day for furniture showroom Suite New York co-founder Kris Fuchs may include helping a developer with schematics for a new condo tower, dealing with a client to personalize a classic Kjaerholm chair or fielding inquiries from a hotelier seeking a midcentury modern aesthetic. All this while her two daughters and long-term boyfriend bombard [...]
By Lee Chyen Yee and Jeanny Kao BOAO, China | Sun Apr 1, 2012 6:41pm EDT BOAO, China (Reuters) – Foxconn Technology Group will keep on increasing worker salaries in China and cutting the hours of work, Chairman Terry Gou said on Sunday, after it came under fire for poor working conditions for employees making [...]
By BEN WORTHEN It is called an advanced persistent threat, and if it sounds like something out of a Tom Clancy novel, that’s because it pretty much is. More in Leadership in IT Employees, Measure Yourselves IT Is From Venus, Non-IT Is From Mars Here Come Tablets. Here Come Problems. Better Leadership Through Social Media [...]
By Chris Gallagher TOKYO | Thu Mar 29, 2012 1:18pm EDT TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda frequently entertains dignitaries from all over the world, but he was a touch star-struck on Thursday when he hosted a young billionaire with a whiff of celebrity: Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. As cabinet ministers filed [...]
Editor’s note: Each month, Inside the Middle East takes you behind the headlines to see a different side of this diverse region. Follow us on on Twitter: Presenter Rima Maktabi: @rimamaktabi, producer Jon Jensen: @jonjensen, digital producer Mairi Mackay @mairicnn and writer Cat Davies @catrionadavies Their content — from pleas for sympathy and money to [...]
Amazon is launching a touchscreen version of its Kindle e-reader in the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy. The Kindle Touch will be available for delivery from 27 April, five months after it went on sale in the US. Unlike in America, there will not be a discounted version with adverts. The device aims to [...]