PayPal agreed to pay about $800 million in cash for Braintree
PayPal said Thursday it agreed to buy Braintree Payments Solutions as the payments division of eBay looks to expand further into mobile commerce and partner with hot start-ups like Airbnb and UberRead More >> Continue reading PayPal agreed to pay about $800 million in cash for Braintree
Shutdowns No Problem Long Term For WPL
Woodside Petroleum reported reduced second-quarter production, after planned shutdowns of the Pluto LNG (liquefied natural gas) plant and North West Shelf (NWS) Train 2. However, production was below expectations after a subsequent unplanned shutdown at Pluto. Processing has since resumed, but not before a revision to 2013 group production guidance of 1% to 10%, from between 88 and 94 million barrels of oil equivalent (mmboe) … Continue reading Shutdowns No Problem Long Term For WPL
Google introduces a major change to its core search engine: Hummingbird
15 years after Google was founded, the search giant is announcing a major update of its search engine: HummingbirdRead More >> Continue reading Google introduces a major change to its core search engine: Hummingbird
Yahoo reassigns your addresses and IDs
Yahoo email addresses reassigned to a new owner are receiving personal emails intended for the previous ownerRead More >> Continue reading Yahoo reassigns your addresses and IDs
“Protect,” the smoke detector
The company at the center of the explosion in automated home devices thanks to its learning thermostat is reportedly preparing its second smart product.Called “Protect,” it will be a smart smoke detector thatRead More >> Continue reading “Protect,” the smoke detector
STJ On Track to Hit Full Year Numbers
St. Jude Medical STJ released solid second-quarter results, and the firm remains on track to meet full-year projections. On the whole, the performance across St. Jude’s product segments are pleasing, and many are particularly heartened to see stability in implantable cardioverter defibrillator sales. After two years of soft demand following a published study that suggested overuse of ICDs, domestic demand fell off and we saw … Continue reading STJ On Track to Hit Full Year Numbers
