Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL)’s Siri voice assistant technology is one of the company’s key products found exclusively in iOS. Late last year, the iPhone maker’s large 92-page patent application was published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Apple patent offers details of Siri application for Mac computers with useful features to transform experience. While…
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s (VRTX) second-quarter 2014 loss came in at 79 cents per share (including stock-based compensation expense), much wider than the loss of 21 cents reported in the year-ago quarter. Second quarter 2014 loss was also wider than the Consensus Estimate of a loss of 74 cents. Excluding the impact of stock-based compensation expense,…
The Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that owns and curates noted online encyclopedia Wikipedia, has received more than $140,000 in bitcoin donations since it began accepting contributions in the digital currency last week. The news follows the announcement of the organization’s partnership with California-based payments processor Coinbase to accept bitcoin on 30th July, a development that…
The iPhone 6 is now expected to be unveiled on Sept. 9. Several sources report that Apple Inc (NASDAQ AAPL) has scheduled an event for that day. However, there is no particular source, and it doesn’t seem like any reporters have received invitations for an event. Although Apple isn’t officially saying it’s the iPhone 6…
Security firm Kaspersky Lab has found that bitcoin is the target in more than one fifth of all malware attacks aimed at victims’ money. According to Kaspersky’s latest threat report, entitled ‘IT Threat Evolution Q2 2014’, bitcoin mining malware accounted for 14% of attacks in the second quarter of 2014, while bitcoin wallet stealers accounted…
In an impressive piece of news on the Stock Market, Celgene (CELG) reported second-quarter 2014 earnings (including stock-based compensation expenses) of 80 cents per share, which surpassed the Market Consensus Estimate by 3 cents. The company’s earnings were 70 cents per share in the year-ago quarter. Figures have been adjusted to reflect the two-for-one stock…
