Facebook shares rally over 12% with profit jump
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook has said that profit soared in 2013 on the back of sizzling mobile ad revenue as the social network’s membership swelled. The...
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Yahoo! revenues fall 6pc and leaves Marissa Mayer more work to do
Revenues slipped to $1.27bn as intense competition with rivals pushed the amount of money Yahoo! can charge for advertising space down by 7pc year on...
Bitcoin Exchange CEO Arrested For Laundering Drug Money With Bitcoins
BitInstant CEO Charlie Shrem has been charged with laundering money for customers of online drug bazaar Silk Road. U.S. government agents have arrested BitInstant CEO...
Apple Mac 30 years on: memories of an early adopter
The Mac came in with a bang that still reverberates three decades later. When Steve Jobs launched the Mac 30 years ago today, I was...
Facebook is rife with more video spam campaigns
MORE SPAM VIDEOS have gone viral on Facebook, enticing members of the social network to click on links that take them on magical journeys to...
Wikipedia founder backs ‘good causes’ mobile operator
(Reuters) – Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales has taken a substantial stake in The People’s Operator (TPO), a London-based mobile provider that pays 10 percent of...
Google set to face Intellectual Ventures in landmark patent trial
(Reuters) – Intellectual Ventures is set to square off this week against Google Inc’s Motorola Mobility unit in the first trial that the multibillion-dollar patent-buying...
The U.S. government’s bitcoin bonanza: How, where and when to sell?
(Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors in Manhattan are sitting on a multimillion-dollar bitcoin gold mine. And it could get much bigger. Federal authorities hauled in 29,655...
Yahoo COO de Castro departs; no reason given
(Reuters) – Yahoo Inc chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, the high-profile recruit Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer poached from Google Inc shortly after she took the helm, will...