In Q1 2013, 308.7 million smart mobile devices shipped worldwide, representing a year-on-year growth of 37.4 percent. Breaking down those numbers by operating system, Google’s Android dominated with 59.5 percent share, followed by Apple’s iOS and OS X at 19.3 percent share, and Microsoft’s Windows and Windows Phone at 18.1 percent share. The latest estimates…
Amazon announced its first quarter financial performance and it has $16.07 billion in net income and earnings per share of $0.18 . Its sales were up 22 percent from last year. Wall Street analysts had expected the online retail company to bring in $16.2 billion in revenue this quarter with $0.08 EPS. These figures were…
Faced with rising health care costs, employers are adopting stricter policies to keep workers healthy. Failure to comply with those measures could hurt employees' wallets.Workers at tire manufacturer company Michelin could miss out on reducing their deductibles by up to $1,000 if they show unhealthy signs like high blood pressure or waistlines over 40 inches,…
A pair of convenience store owners in south Florida have been busted for allegedly conducting a massive food stamp scam and using taxpayer money to stock their own shelves.Police say Bassam Sale Abu Diab, 55, and his son, Matthew Bassam Abu Diab, 22, bought EBT cards at deeply discounted prices from customers and then turned…
Integration software company MuleSoft is today announcing that it is bundling a set of new and existing products in a single offering dubbed the ‘Anypoint Platform’. In addition, the company is announcing that it has raised $37 million in new funding from prior and first-time backers like NEA and Salesforce.com. Anypoint With its new Anypoint…
SHARE THIS Print Email More sharing RedditStumbleUponDelicious Police: Man plows car into California Walmart, assaults customersFrom Scott Thompson, CNNApril 1, 2013 -- Updated 1135 GMT (1935 HKT)STORY HIGHLIGHTSNEW: Witness: "He almost ran me over. ... He was in there to hurt people" Police say a man is in custody after plowing into a Walmart store…
At the end of last year, Netflix suffered a prolonged outage because Amazon’s cloud services, which Netflix uses to host most of its infrastructure, went down. At the time, Amazon’s own video services continued to function without any issues. Last night, it was Amazon’s turn own to suffer from a multi-hour outage.
If you’re looking for a quick and easy voice messaging app that works across both Mac and iPhone, the new Pling app from De-De should do the trick. Pling just arrived on the Mac App Store this week, while its iPhone version has already gone through a few updates on the App Store. The Mac…
Facebook has just sent out an invite to press announcing an event Thursday, April 4th at its headquarters in Menlo Park California that appears to be related to Android. Some possibilities include a re-write of its Android app, a heavily modified Android OS or even its own hardware. The last event that Facebook held at…
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iran, Syria and North Korea on Friday prevented the adoption of the first international treaty to regulate the $70 billion global conventional arms trade, complaining that it was flawed and failed to ban weapons sales to rebel groups.
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