A new social media billing itself as an online country club launches today at $3000 a year. The new social media, Netropolitan, is primarily billed for the rich. That’s the initiation fee for this elitist social media site that promises to keep you away from the complaints of the 99%. The $3,000 is simply the…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) recently announced plans to make encrypted user data automatic on the upcoming Android L operating system. This announcement comes after Apple’s confirmation that iOS 8 was encrypted to protect users. Interestingly enough, both companies offered data encryption for some time, however many users didn’t know about the feature or didn’t enable…
Facebook Inc (NASDAQ FB) CEO Mark Zuckerberg has expressed his views on the most promising career in the future, according to a report from ABCNews. He believes that the technology will rule the world, and wants the American high-school students to opt for a career in this field only. Zuckerberg wants them to become techies…
The end of Nokia Corporation(NYSE NOK is near. Nokia users in the United Kingdom are now being redirected from Nokia.com to Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT)’s website. This is part of Microsoft’s absorption of the Nokia brand. As of this writing, this only affects U.K.-based users. Microsoft now directs U.K.-based Nokia.com users to a new Microsoft…
Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ MSFT) did a second round of layoffs on Thursday, cutting 2,100 jobs worldwide. About 747 of these jobs were from the Seattle area. Last July, the company laid of 13,000 employees and an additional 2,900 jobs will be cut within a year. The previous job cuts were due to the Nokia wave,…
Google Inc (NASDAQ GOOG) is fighting a new combatant in its European antitrust case while Peter Theil called the European anti-trust measures a significant challenge to the firm. Google, for its part, humorously pointed to a famous incident of News Corp distorting the news. News Corp says Google distorts search results on news stories, Google…
