A jury at a court in California reaches a decision on whether Samsung copied Apple’s smartphone. Samsung has been ordered to pay Apple $1.05bn (£664m) after a court in California found it had infringed patents. The decision in the complex case came after the nine-member jury began deliberations on Wednesday. Apple said it may now [...]
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Beyond Concorde: The next generation of supersonic flight A rendering of the Aerion SBJ, a proposed eight to 12-passenger business jet whose backers predict it will enter service by 2020. For more than three decades, Concorde represented the pinnacle of business travel — the ultimate status symbol for the jetset executive. Considered a marvel of [...]
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If you are in need of a reminder that the world is indeed beautiful, look no further than this amazing timelapse video put together by photographer Knate Myers. Myers says every photograph in the video was taken from the International Space Station. The awe-inspiring visuals are accompanied by music by John Murphy. This timelapse is [...]
Continue reading …Amazon Founder and Wife Give $2.5 Million to Washington Marriage Campaign.
July 27, 2012 323 Comments
(Theadvocate)Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos and his wife MacKenzie have contributed $2.5 million to the campaign to retain marriage equality at the ballot in Washington this fall, an amount that advocates believe to be the largest-ever individual gift to such efforts. Washington United for Marriage, the coalition working to protect the law by approving Referendum 74 [...]
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(Mashable)Facebook allayed some of the fears about its business on Thursday — by beating Wall Street’s estimates for its fiscal second quarter revenues and earnings. Facebook posted revenues of $1.18 billion and non-GAAP earnings per share of $0.12. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters predict Facebook to report non-GAAP earnings $0.12 per share on revenues of $1.1 [...]
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. reported a strong jump in earnings for its third fiscal quarter on Tuesday, but the company missed Wall Street’s expectations for the period on lower-than-expected sales of the iPhone. For the quarter ended June 30, Apple AAPL -5.16% reported net income of $8.8 billion, or $9.32 per share, compared [...]
Continue reading …Microsoft Executives Bill Gates And Steve ballmer Donate $200K to Support Marriage Equality
July 3, 2012 No Comment(THEADVOCATE) Bill Gates (left) and Steve Ballmer The founder and CEO of Microsoft have each donated $100,000 to support Washington state’s marriage equality law that is being challenged by a referendum vote this November. Checks from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and CEO Steve Ballmer were delivered to Washington United for Marriage on Friday. “It’s going [...]
Continue reading …Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Gets Married To Partner Sean Eldridge.
July 2, 2012 850 Comments(via JustJared ) Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan take a stroll on Sunday (July 1) in New York City. The newlyweds were presumably on the east coast to attend the wedding of the 28-year-old entrepreneur’s Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes to longtime love Sean Eldridge. Chris, who is currently the editor in chief and publisher of The New Republic, posted his [...]
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(Mashable) Apple has agreed to pay Chinese Company Shenzhen Proview Technology $60 million for the name “iPad,” The New York Times reports. Apple has bought the iPad name in various countries from a Proview affiliate in Taiwan for $55,000 in 2009. However, a Chinese court ruled in December that Proview, which registered the iPad trademark in China back in [...]
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The Nintendo 3DS XL has a 4.88″ top and 4.18″ bottom screen – 90% larger than those in the original handheld – and a longer lasting battery. It will sell for $200 and will come with a 4GB SD card.
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