Yesterday, jurors in the latest courtroom battle between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung sent no fewer than five requests for additional information to Judge Lucy Koh. Four of the five requests were turned down flat by the judge, but the tenor of the juror queries reveals that … [Read more...]
Bank of Canada unconcerned about growing popularity of bitcoin
The Bank of Canada is not concerned about the growing popularity of bitcoin. Delivering testimony to the Senate banking committee Thursday, the nation’s top banking officials explained that it was still too early to tell if the cryptocurrency industry will go mainstream. It if … [Read more...]
Larry Summers former US Treasury Secretary: It’s a serious mistake to write off bitcoin
Larry Summers, former United States Treasury Secretary and economic advisor to President Obama, was candid in his viewpoints regarding the economy, the financial system and bitcoin in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. He began the interview by labeling the … [Read more...]
Bitcoin believers find over 4100 bitcoin businesses at Coinmap.org
In the past year, numerous businesses all over the world have entered the bitcoin economy by allowing its customers to pay for the goods or services in the digital currency. This way, they save money on credit and debit card transaction fees and get a little bit of publicity from the … [Read more...]
Idaho Finance Department issues investor alert regarding bitcoin
An influx of investor advisories from states? It appears so after several state departments have issued consumer alerts warning individuals about the risks posed by peer-to-peer decentralized digital currencies like bitcoin. The latest is the Idaho Department of Finance, which … [Read more...]
Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) iOS shrugs off mobile threats while Android suffers
Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iOS platform received a nearly clean bill of health from Finnish security firm F-Secure yesterday, as an article and PDF posted on the Scandinavian firm's website proclaims, while Google Inc.'s (NASDAQ:GOOG) was found to be the vector for a toxic soup of … [Read more...]
Google will no longer harvest data from users of Google Apps for Education
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has given in to pressure from students and other users of Google Apps for Education. It said it has stopped scanning student accounts for data gathering purposes after its business practices were recently examined in the courts. When Google created the free … [Read more...]
Study: Majority of Americans did not change passwords amid Heartbleed bug
Businesses and government agencies are still working to contain the immense Heartbleed computer bug, an OpenSSL security flaw that infected computers all over the world. Despite most technology experts and computer firms urging people to change their passwords, there are still a large … [Read more...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) iTunes challenged by Spotify with Sprint’s help
Though the news naturally focuses on the swaggering accusations and courtroom drama of Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung's latest patent brawl, where a $2.2 billion award is at stake, the Cupertino electronics titan is also engaged in a struggle for supremacy in less high profile … [Read more...]
Facebook expanding Altoona campus in Iowa with plans for Altoona 2
Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ:FB) is planning on expanding its Altoona campus in Iowa by announcing that it has applied for planning permission to construct a second local data center named "Altoona 2". Facebook’s Altoona campus is the home to a local data center that is nearing the end of … [Read more...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) hard on the heels of Nokia for total phone sales
In a sign of the changing times, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) is on the brink of passing Nokia's feature phone sales with sales of its iPhone smartphone. The figures released today by Strategy Analytics are important not only because of Nokia's historical interest as one of the world's … [Read more...]
MasterCard’s lobbying focus in Washington will be on bitcoin
In a quarterly federal lobbying disclosure record report, it was discovered that MasterCard would be paying lobbying firm Peck Madigan Jones to focus on peer-to-peer decentralized digital currencies like bitcoin. Five of the firm’s lobbyists will centre on bitcoin and mobile payments … [Read more...]
Twitter getting flack from NBC Universal about poor advertising ROI
Just ahead of their much anticipated earnings report, Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) is facing some major criticism. While the company courts major media players for advertising revenues, a head executive at NBC Universal says that Twitter just has not worked yet. Ouch. Alan Wurtzel, … [Read more...]
Google Inc. (GOOG) set to absorb Samsung’s losses if Apple Inc. (AAPL) wins suit
The jury is deliberating in the lawsuit between Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Samsung, but their decision is modified and perhaps complicated by the fact that any damages awarded to Apple will be paid not by the Korean copycat, but by Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Google, the creator of … [Read more...]
Bloomberg incorporating bitcoin prices into financial terminals
Bloomberg is planning to incorporate bitcoin prices into its suite of financial data terminals, according to a blog post written by the company on its corporate website. Some experts say that this measure is another step toward complete legitimacy and perhaps even a supposed stamp of … [Read more...]
Apple Inc.’s (AAPL) new-found success guts Twitter, Amazon and Facebook
A mass exodus of investors has been triggered by Apple Inc.'s (NASDAQ:AAPL) positive Q2 earnings report and upcoming stock split. The abrupt hike in Apple's share prices to nearly $600 per share, after lingering in the doldrums closer to $500 per share for years, has been paralleled … [Read more...]
Bitcoin advocate Stefan Molyneux’s YouTube, Google accounts disabled
Stefan Molyneux is a libertarian commentator who operates Freedomain Radio, a YouTube channel that allows him to pontificate on the matters of political philosophy, history, libertarianism and virtual currencies. He has been a staunch supporter of bitcoin and has recorded numerous … [Read more...]
Apple Inc. (AAPL) and Samsung menaced globally by second tier smartphone manufacturers
Though they are still the biggest fish in the global electronics pond by any measure, and remain powerful and profitable, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and its rival Samsung slipped below an important threshold during the first financial quarter of 2014. According to a report issued today … [Read more...]
Google will be using IBM Power8 processors
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) is one of the world's biggest buyers of servers and data centers. For obvious reasons, they need powerful servers to facilitate the services they offer to clients such as cloud storage, email and search, to name a few. In fact, since 2013, Google has spent … [Read more...]
New Yelp feature helps consumers find businesses that accept bitcoin
Are you interested in doing business with a retailer that accepts bitcoin as a method of payment? Well, instead of doing an extensive web search, visitors can now simply visit Yelp and it will inform them if the merchant does in fact accept bitcoins or not. Yelp officially … [Read more...]
