We give news about acquisitions and deals made by different companies, policy changes, growth and downfall, and strategies of companies in our business section.
Short Bytes: Facebook CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg has topped the list of world’s richest individuals under 35, according to a Wealth-X report. His estimated worth is about $46.2 billion, while Facebook’s other co-founder Dustin Moskovitz holds the second position in the list with net worth of $9.3 billion.
Short Bytes: Samsung is crazily desperate. Today, Korean smartphone maker has launched an aggressive 1$ promotional offer that allows the iPhone users to test drive its Galaxy phones including the Galaxy S6 Edge, along with S6 Edge+ and Note 5.
Short Bytes: Google is being accused by Oracle for copying code from Java in building Android platform. With the enormous growth of mobile market and expansion of Android from mobile phones to smart TV, wearable etc., Oracle’s Java business has been seriously harmed.
Short Bytes: A study conducted by Assocham and Grant Thornton has revealed that there’s going to be an increase of 10% in the online purchases made through mobile phones. The market is expected to touch $40 million by 2016 from the current level of $30 million.
Short Bytes: Google has decided to restructure itself under a new company called Alphabet Inc. and Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin will be Alphabet’s CEO and president respectively.
In this never ending battle of supremacy between Google and Microsoft, the latter bragged that theirs is a much better company than Google. Although these companies are fundamentally different including their targeted users, both these tech giants are always compared in fronts of their technology and business sense.
Earlier, Microsoft coined the phrase “supported device lifetime” with the announcement of Windows 10. They said Windows 10 will be offered free of cost to the people running legit Windows 7 and 8.1 on their devices, and once upgraded, Windows 10 will receive free updates for the entire lifetime of the device. But, Microsoft has …
Windows 10 to Receive Free Updates for 2 to 4 Years Read More »
When you have the power of anonymity, you can do things that are unimaginable for others. The hacktivist group Anonymous is well-known for its activities. In the past, it took down ISIS websites and issued warning to President Obama. In the latest development, Anonymous is being seen as the reason behind the shutdown of the …
In an unprecedented but much-needed move, Yahoo! Inc. has announced that it is working with Google Inc. on a new partnership to use the Google for some regular search results and search ads. It should be duly noted that back in 2008, the Justice Department blocked Yahoo from making a similar kind of deal with …
Yahoo Search Partners with Google Search and Internet Goes Crazy Read More »
Like most intelligent people, Bill Gates too is kind of visionary. He wrote a book named ‘Business @ the Speed of Thought’ in which he predicted a few happenings and start-ups that would come through the course of time and change the conventions. ut unlike most people, Bill Gates’ predictions have come true with a remarkable …
Bill Gates Made 15 Predictions in 1999 That Came True Read More »
