Tag Archives : Wall Street Journal

  Twitter may be close to receiving an injection of capital. This is because, an investment fund linked to JP Morgan in talks to buy a minority stake in the microblog. According to a statement released by New York Times, that would make the social network was valued at about $ 4.5 billion. According to the news, the source who disclosed the information [...]

Executives from Facebook, Google and other companies have held talks with Twitter about a possible purchase of the microblogging service, bringing its estimated value to around 10 billion dollars, according to the Wall Street Journal. The value is high for a company whose revenues were only $ 45 million last year, posted a loss, and estimated that [...]

A poll published by The Wall Street Journal raised several information gathering and transmitting data of users of smartphones. Among the findings are shared ID, passwords and user location. To collect data the newspaper selected 50 applications for iPhone and Android, based on list of most popular apps for each of the stores. For the analysis, it [...]

Google Editions had been promised for next year, but according to industry sources and The Wall Street Journal, the new bookstore giant must happen before the end of this year. In the publishing market, Google will try to get ahead highlighting the major players betting on new formats and business relationship. Selling formats, like Amazon Kindle or [...]

China announced the first order of C919 – its first commercial flight – a day after submitting an original-sized prototype of the aircraft during the air show in Zhuhai, in southern Afghanistan.  The C919, designed to compete with the Boeing 737 and Airbus A320, represents a threat to the business of both companies in China, a market that [...]

Apple is expected to announce today awaited the start of sales of Beatles songs in your iTunes Store, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. The recordings of the legendary boys of Liverpool, who separated for nearly 40 years, will be sold for the first time in the shop of the company, reports an article published yesterday by the WSJ, citing [...]

Facebook said that some of its applications violated the privacy practices of business users and vowed to solve the problem. Most transfers of information to third parties happened inadvertently wrote Marne Levine, vice president of Facebook, in a letter released on Wednesday and dated Oct. 29. Levine said in the letter that Facebook will solve the [...]

In a text published on the blog for developers, Facebook admits that a data broker has paid the application developers to identify information of social network users. The finding is the result of an investigation by the social network team after complaints of privacy violations made by the newspaper The Wall Street Journal in October. The same text [...]

Microsoft said the beta version of Internet Explorer 9 (IE9) was downloaded by 10 million internet users in the first six weeks after launch, according to figures from the manufacturer. Also according to the study, users utilize only 12 of the regular features of the browser. According to Microsoft, the IE9 promises to speed up web browsing. For this, [...]

The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday that the launch of BlackPad, the provisional name of the tablet from RIM – Research In Motion should happen next week at a conference in San Francisco, California. The newspaper says that the launch of the tablet is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2010, sources close to the company say could happen [...]