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Having reached an all-time high of $74.73 last week, Twitter’s shares are rapidly plunging back down to Earth. slid 6.4% in early trade, building on Friday’s 13% plunge. The stock has now slumped 20.1% from Thursday’s intraday high of $74.73, putting it in bear-market territory. Af
Previously, researchers in Antarctica were forced to use what essentially were walkie-talkies if they wanted to communicate with each other long distance. This is because there was no network coverage in Antarctica, but fortunately this has changed. Thanks to a new system from Range Networks, resear
Using social-engineering techniques and remote-access tools, Pro-government Syrian hackers are using malware attacks against journalists, workers at non-governmental organizations, activists, and others. Basically any person or organization that is sympathetic to the Syrian rebels, and the attacks a
We’ve known for a while now that Amazon breaks even on Kindle Fire HD sales, which means the company begins to turn a profit the second someone boots up a Kindle and buys an item from its ecosystem of apps, music, movies and more. A new report from Consumer Intelligence Research Partners reveals how
After giving 30-day free trials a shot, Amazon has a new master plan to get its Kindle Fire HDX tablets under as many trees as possible this holiday season: a nine-month financing option. You’ll be able to pay just 25 percent of the tablet’s purchase price up front, with another quarter due every ni
After spending years trying to persuade U.S. regulators to ease their restrictions, China’s Huawei is acknowledging that the political climate prevents it from building any sizable business selling network infrastructure to carriers here. However, the company is still wanting to build a U.S. brand f
Back in 2010, when Minecraft was first starting to take off, Valve flew out Markus “Notch” Persson to its headquarters for “a cup of coffee.” In an excerpt of the English translation of Daniel Goldberg’s Minecraft: The Unlikely Tale of Markus ‘Notch’ Persson
This week is shaping up to be the biggest Computer Science Education Week yet.The annual event, meant to promote computer programming education worldwide, is focusing on a new “Hour of Code” initiative powered by the non-profit Code.org. The goal: To give students a taste of coding with an hour-long
On Monday, Yahoo is set to announce a deal with ABC News, after months of negotiations, to have Katie Couric become Yahoo’s “Global News Anchor”. As AllThingsD had first reported in August that it was working on, Yahoo is poised to announce a deal with well-known television news star Katie Couric to
Sony sold a million PS4 consoles in the first 24 hours of its release, equalling about 11 consoles sold per second. Should they continue to be met with such success, Sony will most likely be able to reach their goal of 3 million consoles sold before the end of the year. Before the launch of [&hellip
Gaming hardware sales have been going down for a few years now due to current-gen consoles becoming more and more dated. The release of the Wii U was supposed to be the beginning of the next generation but mild reception and terrible sales have kept the system down. However, this months is going to
Verizon has purchased upLynk, a startup company that has been aiming to help programmers and pay-TV providers with their “TV Everywhere” strategy. The purchase, as well as Verizon’s discussion with Intel to purchase its Web TB business, point to an ongoing effort by Verizon to stock up on digi
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