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Facebook’s Revenue for Q4 2012 at $1.585 Billion
Facebook has disclosed their financial results for Q4 2012 and the numbers are pretty impressive. Q4 2012 revenue is at $1.585 billion, signifying a 40% growth from the previous year of the same quarter, which recorded revenue of $1.13 billion. In a statement accompanying the financial results Mark Zuckerberg reiterated Facebook’s evolution into a mobile [...]
Blackberry Replaces RIM Brand, unveils Z10 and Q10 phones and Hires Alicia Keys as Global Creative Director
Speaking about reinvention, CEO Thorsten Heins took advantage of the Blackberry 10 event to announce his company’s decision to rebrand itself from Research In Motion to Blackberry. The BB 10 affair took place primarily to launch the new software Blackberry 10 and two new BB phones, the Z10 and the Q10, accompanied by a basejumping [...]
Twitter Marks User Growth Rate of 714% Since 2009
Move over Facebook and Google+. The latest research findings by Global Web Index has crowned Twitter as the fastest-growing social platform in the world for Q4 2012, having experienced a whopping 714% growth in its number of active users since 2009. Global Web Index, a market-research firm specializing in social media and Web trends, made [...]
YouTube to Offer Paid Subscriptions from $1 to $5 Monthly
Very soon YouTube will allow you to watch your favorite TV shows right on the site in exchange for a fixed fee. According to Ad Age Digital’s multiple sources, YouTube is well on their way to offering individual channel subscriptions, possibly in as early as the second quarter of 2013. One of the people who [...]
Global Smartphone Shipments Growth at 38%, Android and Apple Capture 92% of Shipments
As expected, Android and Apple smartphones are the undisputed leaders in the global market, taking up as much as 92% of total shipments worldwide, only 8% away from grabbing the full share of the market. These findings were published by Boston-headquartered research company Strategy Analytics, which also reported on the massive growth of global smartphone [...]
Yahoo Reports Q4 Revenue at $1.22 Billion
Yahoo! has sent in their fourth-quarter financial results, ending 2012 with a more or less optimistic note as to where this now-embattled Internet company is heading, given the burgeoning doubts by investors and financial analysts. This is the second full quarter for recently appointed CEO Marissa Mayer, who replaced Ross Levinson in 2012. The financial [...]
Apple Possibly Setting Up for a 128GB iPad Release between $799 and $929
If recent reports posted by 9to5Mac are to be believed, a new 128GB iPad will be joining the line of iPad models presently available. According to sources cited by the website, Apple is reportedly preparing for the release of this new iPad, which will more or less be an upgrade on the fourth-gen iPad rather [...]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire Represents 33% of Global Android Tablet Market in U.S.
The worldwide Android tablet is ruled by Amazon’s Kindle Fire, and not Google’s Nexus 7, according to TheNextWeb. Kindle Fire, released in 2011, has been able to hold its dominance in the market impressively despite the more recent introduction of Google Nexus 7 just last year. This piece of information is sourced from Localytics, a [...]
NC State Researchers Develop Self-Healing Wires
North Carolina State University researchers have found a way to devise self-healing, stretchable wires for use in industrial processes, mainly through special polymer materials and liquid metal. Liquid metal is found in the cores of the wires, allowing the polymer sheath to reconnect effectively after being cut off. Researchers involved in the project have been [...]
Microsoft Announces Q2 2013 Revenues of $21.46B
The financial results for Microsoft’s 2013 second fiscal quarter is here, showing strong revenue figures of $21.46 billion, according to The Verge. Additionally, the company’s net income for the quarter is at $6.38 billion and earnings-per-share at $0.76. Microsoft’s revenue shows a 2.7 percent increase from the figures posted on the same quarter of last [...]
Google Tweaks Image Search Yet Again for Faster, Easier Searches
More than a month ago, Google made a few tweaks on Image Search, allowing users the option to turn on the SafeSearch option as a way to keep pornographic images from cropping up in image searches. Now, Google is set on making Image Search more efficient for both users and webmasters, making changes in the [...]
Apple Shares drop 10% due to slower growth
The figures for Apple are in: the quarter brought in total sales of 47.8 million iPhones and revenue of $54.5 billion. This is a sharp increase compared to figures of the same quarter one year ago, wherein Apple sold 37 million iPhones, bringing an all-new record to a company besieged by current rumors of fast-declining [...]
Psy’s YouTube Gangnam Style Video Reaps $8 Million
There’s more to Psy’s Gangnam Style video than meets the eye. Already dubbed as the most-watched video ever uploaded on YouTube and getting more than a billion views, Gangnam Style has already pulled in a whopping $8 million in revenues from ads, according to Google — and that’s only from YouTube. The disclosure was made [...]
Microsoft Surface Pro Available by February 2013
Having launched the Surface Windows RT last year, Microsoft has finally announced the availability of the Surface Pro by February 2013 in a recent blog post. Compared to the Surface RT, the Pro runs on a full version of Windows 8 Pro and designed more specifically for productivity and performance. The Microsoft Surface Pro tablet [...]
Windows RT Update Bug Confirmed by Microsoft
Several days after firmware update issues surfaced on the Surface RT tablets, which include complaints from users who are disallowed access from Windows store as well as several connection problems, Microsoft has confirmed existing issues on Windows RT devices. A spokesperson from Microsoft has released a statement to TheNextWeb clarifying and confirming these current update [...]
Google’s London Headquarters will be valuated at $1.6 billion in 2016
The last two years has seen Google investing in more international offices; and to add to its growing list of global headquarters from Dublin to Paris, the U.S.-based Internet behemoth is set to open its London office sometime in 2016. image : guardian Google’s Matt Brittin, VP for Northern and Central Europe, released a statement [...]
A Tablet Slimmer than the iPad Mini? Try Sony’s Xperia Tablet Z
The arrival of the Sony Xperia Tablet Z has usurped the iPad Mini’s throne as the thinnest tablet available. Just announced recently, the Xperia Tablet Z is the latest offering from Sony after the company introduced their Xperia Z smartphone at CES, reports The Verge. While pricing details and information with regards to its availability [...]
A River Once Flowed Through Mars, Scientists Say
Continuing space exploration efforts by the European Space Agency have revealed that a gigantic river has coursed through Mars about 3.5 billion years ago, which has since been overrun by a glacier, as revealed by various 3D images taken from the upper area of the Red Planet’s Reull Vallis region. According to images collected by [...]
Google Planning to Do Away with the Password for Better Security
In view of all the sordid hacking stories and online account takeovers by cybercriminals all throughout last year, Google is dead set on ditching the password in favor of more secure alternatives, including a cryptographic card designed to work with a USB reader and a finger ring that can authorize you into an account with [...]