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The New York Times website is currently down, according to several sources around the nation. Any attempts to reach the main page, section pages, or individual articles has failed   HTTP 1.1 Take...
courtesy of NvidiaTake-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TTWO) is trading at its highest levels since the recession. Things are about to get even better for investors, if Bank of America Merrill...
ThinkstockCloud-based enterprise event management software provider Cvent Inc. (NYSE: CVT) sold 5.6 million shares of stock today at $21 a share in its initial public offering. The stock priced above...
courtesy of Facebook Inc.The future often seems to knock at the door when you may not be ready. Facebook aficionados recently received a message from founder Mark Zuckerberg explaining that the...
ThinkstockLost in the frenzy of news coverage about the purchase of the Washington Post Company’s (NYSE: WPO) flagship by Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos is whether Amazon itself...
ThinkstockIn what an obvious effort to beef up its widely panned iOS mapping capability, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) has acquired a small Canadian firm, Locationary, for an undisclosed sum. The company...
ThinkstockThe migration of data, video, music and other information to the cloud for safe storage and retrieval is becoming ubiquitous. While the process was slow and more difficult at first, it is...
courtesy of Google Inc.For the first time in months, the most popular free app from the App Store at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) is not Candy Crush Saga. The honor in June goes to Despicable Me: Minion...
courtesy of MicrosoftAlmost every product gives consumers a set of warnings about ramifications of its use. Windows 8.1 is no exception. Below is the list Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) has released:...
ThinkstockThere is a broadly held assumption that research and development (R&D) budget sizes matter a great deal to the current and future financial prospects of most tech companies. A review of...
ThinkstockThe disclosure that the U.S. government tracks phone call patterns and a broad spectrum of data from large consumer-facing tech companies, which probably include Facebook Inc. (NASDAQ: FB),...
courtesy of Google Inc.The mergers and acquisitions process at Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) cannot be measured against those of most other companies. The search company is willing to take chances...
ThinkstockTextura Corp. (NYSE: TXTR), an enterprise software maker for the commercial construction industry, held its initial public offering (IPO) this morning, selling 5.175 million shares at a per...
ThinkstockCustomer relationship management firm Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) has agreed to acquire cloud-based marketing firm ExactTarget Inc. (NYSE: ET) in a deal worth $2.5 billion....
Microsoft Sweden, via Wikimedia CommonsSteve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp.’s (NASDAQ: MSFT) chief executive officer for more than a decade, will try to do what he has been unable to do through most of...