Nasdaq shareholders mum on Facebook IPO
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Not a single shareholder asked a question at Nasdaq OMX's annual meeting on Tuesday, just days after the exchange operator bungled Facebook's widely anticipated market debut, which helped launch the new stock into a three-day slide. When Nasdaq Chairman H. Furlong Baldwin called for questions at the Tuesday morning meeting in New York, he got eight seconds of silence. Technical glitches marred Facebook's IPO on Nasdaq's exchange on Friday, delaying the social networking giant's market debut by 30 minutes and delaying order confirmations for hours afterward. The U.S. ...
WikiLeaks launches encrypted social network
Backers of the whistle-blowing organisation WikiLeaks recently launched Friends of WikiLeaks (FoWL), an encrypted social network for like-minded individuals. “Friends of WikiLeaks is a network of people from across the globe who defend WikiLeaks, its people, its alleged sources and its mission,” the website’s homepage says. “We publicly and privately promote WikiLeaks and individuals and organisations aligned with the mission of WikiLeaks. This site will help you to join with people like you in your area and across the world. You will make new friends and new allies, care for treasured values and fight in common cause.” Instead of having users find people to friend, as is the case with Facebook and Google+, Friends of WikiLeaks will assign users 12 friends each,
Google completes Motorola deal, heralding new era
Google has completed its $12.5 billion purchase of device maker Motorola Mobility in a deal that poses new challenges for the Internet's most powerful company as it tries to shape the future of mobile computing.
First Earth-Size Planets Found in Space
Scientists using NASA's Kepler space telescope say they have found two planets orbiting a distant star -- and say the planets are the first ever that are the size of Earth or smaller. That could be critical in the search for extraterrestrial life.
NASA Time-Lapse of Sea Currents
Click on the video below and prepare to be mesmerized. It’s called “Perpetual Ocean,” and it was put together by NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland. It was actually done about a year ago, compiling data from several satellites...
How chips, PCs, services companies are faring
A look at how selected companies providing computers, components, services and related software are faring:
