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Investors Eye Positive Q4 Result for Amazon
0By: Umair Yousuf | January 29th, 2013 | Business, News
The holiday period is the busiest time for retailers and no retail giant is kept busier than Amazon as it processes millions of orders across the world. Like all years analysts are once again expecting a strong fourth quarter performance by the online retail giant. Amazon is expected to announce double digit sales growth for the fourth qua...
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Amazon Enters Digital Marketing Business
By: Umair Yousuf | January 29th, 2013 | Business, News
Amazon is making a big push towards becoming relevant in the digital marketing space as it rolls out new advertising packages for marketers in order to grab a chunk of the fast growing digital advertising segment. The company faces stiff competition in this segment from established giants such as Google
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RIM’s Stock Price Declines Just Two Days Before Launch of BlackBerry 10
By: Ali Raza | January 29th, 2013 | Business, News, O Canada, Smartphones
After hitting a low around $6 back in September of last year, shares of Research In Motion started to climb thanks to positive reviews of the Waterloo-based company’s new BlackBerry 10 OS and smartphones. The string of positive reviews and stories did not break and with each passing day more and more carriers and enterprise client...
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Microsoft Begins Mentorship Programme for Kenyan Developers
By: Umair Yousuf | January 29th, 2013 | Business, Mobile Apps, News
Technology giant Microsoft has launched a new mentorship programme in Kenya to help software developers in the country as well as the entire African continent to realise their potential. The mentorship programme will focus on Microsoft technologies through training and development of programmers. Carried out by Microsoft’s Afri...
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Apple Losing Its Value in Asian Markets
By: Zain Nabi | January 29th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Apple’s iPhones are reportedly losing their values in the trend-setting Asian markets of Singapore and Hong Kong, as users shift their interest to other smartphone devices, especially those made by Apple’s rival, Samsung,
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Applied Micro Circuit’s Server-on-a-chip Offers Increased Efficiency To Data Centers
By: Talha Bhatti | January 28th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets
Applied Micro Circuit's CEO Paramesh Gopi is convinced that the company's new ARM chip is the replacement for the current server. The product takes up very little room and uses less electricity than competitors like Intel and AMD x86 servers. Most data centers utilize the Intel and AMD products but as data grows, these huge data centers take up ...
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Study Shows Samsung Is Most Recommended Smartphone In UK
By: Talha Bhatti | January 28th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News, Smartphones
Apple and Samsung have been battling it out in the smartphone sector for quite some time and have created one of the great corporate rivalries of our time. Court cases and sales numbers define victories and defeat but as other competitors have jumped in the market, staying on top has become ...
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Japan Plans To Launch 4K Television Broadcasting By 2014
By: Talha Bhatti | January 28th, 2013 | Business, Gadgets, News
Consumer electronic manufacturers are always trying to entice customers with new innovations and technology. This is usually most apparent in the television sector with a new type of product hitting the market every other year. Once broadcasters starting offering HD channels, sales of the current HD television sets started picking up quickly. Similarly, it has been announced that Japan will become...
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Apple CEO Tim Cook Not Concerned By Falling Stock Prices
By: Talha Bhatti | January 28th, 2013 | Apple, Business, News
Apple's stock recently went in a direction that has been rarely seen the last couple of years after the company released its quarterly report to the public. The falling stock prices were attributed to news that the iPhone had less than expected demand and Apple had ended up cutting orders for parts. The drop in price also caused the technology gi...
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Microsoft’s Profits Decline
By: Zain Nabi | January 28th, 2013 | Business, News
Microsoft has reported a decline in its profit even though its new operating system, Windows 8, seems to be doing well and has received positive response from the market. According to the figures released by the company, Microsoft’s profit in the quarter that ended last December was $6.4 billion. This is lower than what the co...
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