Yahoo chief operating officer Henrique de Castro, who had been poached from Google by CEO Marissa Mayer in 2012, has been fired after being taken on to transform the company’s advertising business. He had the second most senior position in the firm. No reason has been given. De Castro’s departure is seen as bad news […]

Engineers in the US have found a way to vastly speed up the performance of organic transistors, bringing closer the day when these thin, transparent semiconductors bring in a new generation of cheap, high-resolution TV screens, computer displays, and similar devices. Writing in a recent online issue of Nature Communications, engineers from Stanford University and […]

Bitcoin recovered its value to over $1,100 on the Mt. Gox exchange after social online games company Zynga Inc. said it plans to accept Bitcoin payments. The virtual currency with no central banking authority rose to $1,119 today. Zynga says it has started to accept Bitcoin paymenst for tokens of virtual goods on the web […]

Facebook faces a class-action lawsuit filed in a Californian federal court for scanning private messages of its subscribers to provide data to marketers. According to the complaint registered in the US District Court for the Northern District of California, Facebook gleaned plaintiffs’ private messages containing URLs (website addresses) and then searched those websites for “purposes […]

Global semiconductor sales expanded by 6.8% in November 2013 compared to November 2012, according to the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), which represents US leadership in semiconductor design and manufacturing. Global semiconductor sales in November 2013 reached $27.24 billion, versus $25.51 billion in November 2012. November sales were 0.6% higher than in October. World semiconductor sales […]

Open collaboration – which created Wikipedia, Bitcoin and TEDx – is likely to spread and progressively replace traditional organizations, researchers from Emory University and Columbia University wrote in the journal INFORMS. The study, written by Sheen S. Levine of Columbia University and Michael J. Prietula of Emory University, is titled “Open Collaboration: Principles and Performance.” […]

This article provides up-to-date Xbox One and PS4 sales figures and information – the two newest generation game consoles that entered the market in late 2012. The Xbox One was launched in North America, Europe, and Australia on November 22, 2013 while the PS4 was launched in North America on November 15, 2013 and launched on November 29, 2013 in […]

Apple and China Mobile, the largest carrier in the world with over 760 subscribers, have signed an iPhone deal, Apple have announced. China Mobile was among the country’s three carriers to be awarded their first 4G licenses at the beginning of December. Apple says this deal will help the company gain much more market share […]

The smartphone apps processor market expanded by 31% in the third quarter of 2013 compared to Q2 2012, says a new service report published by Strategy Analytics. According to the service report “Smartphone Apps Processor Market Share Q3 2013: Qualcomm, Apple and MediaTek Together Capture 80 Percent Revenue Share.”, written by Sravan Kundojjala and Stuart […]

Advances in technology over the past century have given rise to an ever-increasing number of information technology companies. Information technology companies are involved in electronics, computer hardware, computer software, computer services, and the internet. This article provides details on what the biggest information technology companies are based on their annual revenue, it also includes some […]