Thursday, November 3, 2011

Groupon prices IPO at $20 per share (AP)

Groupon prices IPO at $20 per share (AP)

Groupon prices IPO at $20 per share (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:13 PM PDT

FILE - In this Sept. 22, 2011 file photo, employees at Groupon pose in silhouette with the company logo in the lobby of the online coupon company's Chicago offices. Daily deals company Groupon Inc.'s initial public offering is expected to price after the market closes Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011, with some analysts expecting the stock to price slightly above its current range of $16 to $18. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast, File)AP - Daily deals pioneer Groupon priced its initial public offering late Thursday at $20 per share.

AMD to cut 1,400 workers, new CEO's first big move (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:24 PM PDT

AP - Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is cutting some 1,400 workers as a weak computer market and manufacturing delays have hurt the world's second-biggest maker of microprocessors for PCs.

LinkedIn posts 3Q loss; revenue growth accelerates (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:02 PM PDT

AP - Online professional networking service LinkedIn got demoted by many investors after suffering its first quarterly loss in its brief career as a publicly traded company.

Scientists begin tracking the mysterious narwhal through the Arctic (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:32 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - As many wonders as modern science has unfolded in the natural world, some of nature's creatures still remain a mystery â€" especially animals in the ocean's lesser explored regions. One such creature is the narwhal or Monodon monoceros, a tusked whale-like …

Astronauts ready to end 520-day fake mission to Mars (Yahoo! News)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 06:23 PM PDT

Yahoo! News - For the past 18 months, a crew of six men in Moscow have been simulating what it would be like to embark on a real-life mission to Mars. The experiment â€" called Mars500 â€" was designed to see how a …

Will 3D Televisions Actually Hurt the TV Business? (Mashable)

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 04:35 PM PDT

Mashable - It's strange to think fancy new advances in TV technology may actually end up hurting the television business in general. That conclusion is not so far-fetched for Retrevo.com and its latest study, which shows interest in 3D television technology continuing to wane. Retrevo, a consumer electronics and shopping site, surveyed more than 1,000 people from diverse backgrounds. Of those surveyed, one third said they were planning to buy an HDTV in the coming year. While that number is encouragingly high, only 22% of that fraction said they'd buy a 3D television and another 23% of that fraction said they'd consider it if the price point was similar.

Groupon raises $700 million in biggest Internet IPO since Google (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 08:20 PM PDT

Reuters - Groupon Inc raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest IPO by an Internet company since Google Inc raised $1.7 billion in 2004.

Top U.S. companies urge new Internet trade rules (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:00 PM PDT

Reuters - Google, Microsoft, Citigroup, IBM, GE and other top-tier American companies on Thursday urged the United States to fight for trade rules that protect the free flow of information over the Internet.

Android hardware failure rate higher than iPhone and Blackberry (Digital Trends)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:59 PM PDT

Digital Trends - Not all smartphones are created equal, and now WDS has proven that not all Android phones are created equal. During a year-long study of customer service support calls it was discovered that more Android phones suffered from hardware failures than iOS, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone 7. Android phones also cost carriers $2 billion dollars a year in replacement costs.

GO Locker tops Android Apps of the Week (Appolicious)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:30 PM PDT

Appolicious - It seems mobile customization is regaining popularity with the recent rush of software updates on Android and even iOS. Not everyone will witness the fresh capabilities of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich's lock screen security features first hand, so It's no wonder GO Locker's custom lock screen options have become so popular this week. Google's also readying its mobile apps for a brighter future with ICS, pushing a major revamp to its Google+ social app.

LinkedIn raises 2011 outlook (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 05:24 PM PDT

Reuters - Professional networking company LinkedIn posted a third-quarter net loss but raised its full-year outlook after it posted a 126 percent rise in third-quarter revenue.

Motorola To Debut Xoom 2 In U.K. (NewsFactor)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:45 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Motorola's Xoom tablet is up for an update, and the mobility giant has one in the form of a slimmer, lighter and faster model of its Android slab.

Dungeon Defenders: Second Wave tops iPhone Games of the Week (Appolicious)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:00 PM PDT

Appolicious - This week's best games haul is headed by a big content update to Dungeon Defenders: First Second Wave, adding a new head-to-head versus mode in addition to the strong online cooperative multiplayer mode featured in the game. If you liked Dungeon Defenders before, you'll love it now, but we've also got four other great titles that'll keep your interest as well. Check out all five below.

Customer Analytics Come To Real Stores (NewsFactor)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 02:13 PM PDT

NewsFactor - If you run a physical store -- remember them? -- you may have looked longingly at the kinds of analytics that your Web site, or your online competitors, may have enjoyed for years. Now, a new company is making a data analytics platform available for the real world, taking advantage of the fact that most store visitors carry a mobile phone with Wi-Fi enabled.

Canon offers new camera for Hollywood filmmakers (AP)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 07:02 PM PDT

Fujio Mitarai, chairman and CEO of Canon, Inc., holds one in the line of new EOS C300 interchangeable-lens digital cinema cameras, at the introduction of the Cinema EOS System, Canon's all-new lineup of professional motion picture cameras and lenses, at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011. The Cinema EOS offers compatibility with Canon's existing array of EF lenses used in digital single-lens reflex cameras, including the existing video-capable EOS 5D Mark II. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)AP - Four decades after winning Academy Awards for its cinema lenses, Canon Inc. was back in Hollywood on Thursday, unveiling a new high-end digital video camera before an audience of some of the world's most famous filmmakers.

Sporadic Siri outage leaves iPhone 4S users without their virtual assistants (Digital Trends)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 03:29 PM PDT

Digital Trends - The beloved and already meme-worthy iPhone 4S feature, Siri, is experiencing its first glitch. Twitter and the rest of the blogosphere are lighting up with reports that the voice control application is inaccessible, responding to requests by saying “Sorry, I am having trouble connecting to the network.”

HP Updates Windows Tablet PC for Professionals (NewsFactor)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 04:19 PM PDT

NewsFactor - Having recently reaffirmed its commitment to the PC side of its business, Hewlett-Packard is poised to launch an updated tablet PC running the professional edition of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. Called the HP Slate 2, the machine will enable business professionals to maintain seamless continuity with the entire range of content residing on the machines used by their managers and fellow workers.

Duqu hackers shift to Belgium after India raid (Reuters)

Posted: 03 Nov 2011 10:56 AM PDT

Reuters - Hackers used a server in Belgium to collect data stolen from machines infected with the Duqu computer virus, after authorities shut down another rogue collection system in India, according to security experts.
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