Apple’s heady days as one of the Nasdaq’s ruling indexes may be over–for the moment, anyway.
The world’s largest electronics trading market, Nasdaq OMX, announced plans to cut Apple’s weighting in a massive rebalancing of its indexes on May 2.
Rebalancing’s relatively rare, but not unheard of for a capitalization-weighed index …
Want to start a tech company? Make sure the word “social” is involved somehow. Social shopping site LivingSocial—second only to social shopping site Groupon—has just raised another $400 million, and is said to be worth over $3 billion now, according to the New York Times.
That’s still quite a bit short of Groupon, which “is said …
Want to wipe your mobile device clean of any incriminating data while simultaneously sending messages to your allies in the struggle for emerging democracies? Turns out, there’ll soon be an app for that.
According to the British Daily Mail newspaper, the US State Department is working on a special app for use in developing democracies …
Whether it’s Farmville, Mafia Wars, or any of the hundreds of titles vying for attention in your news feed, social games get a lot of flak for trapping players in repetitive loops of shallow, sometimes compulsive gameplay. You can pull in your friends to help with that barn or take out a made man, but it ultimately doesn’t feed back into …
Facebook for iPhone just got more lethal. We already know how addicted you guys are to Facebook on the phone. Wanna add a new friend? That’s been around from some time, but now you can un-friend on the go. Imagine that.
The latest update to the app also adds several other features. You’re now able to check out where your friends …
Pandora might not be the only company getting hit with subpoenas. If the Wall Street Journal is correct, a major shake-up could be involved, affecting hundreds of smartphone apps. Federal prosecutors are investigating whether these mobile apps are transmitting information about users without their proper consent and knowledge.
The …
Chances are you haven’t been waiting 201 days to find out who was calling under a blocked number. TrapCall, an iPhone app that lets you do that, did spend that long waiting for Apple to approve the nifty functionality, though. World beware, the app’s been unleashed.
TrapCall is an app that lets phone users pretty much unmasks …
Tired of sifting through endless droves of tweets that pop up on your feed? If you really don’t care to follow certain people, then let a new Twitter app get rid of them for you–on your Twitter account, that is.
The Grim Tweeper – created by Wesley Zhao, Tess Rinearson, Dan Shipper and Ajay Mehta – allows you to manage your …
While T-Mobile has been shockingly mum about the much-buzzed launch date of the Sidekick 4G, Radio Shack may have spilled the proverbial beans. Posting on its Twitter last Thursday, the retailer joyously proclaimed the next iteration of the Sidekick would hit its shelves on Wednesday, April 20th.
All we’ve heard so far is that the …
As if Google didn’t already have its hand in everything, it’s now looking to help mold young minds through a science fair.
Here’s the twist: It’s online. Unlike more traditional fairs, such as Siemens or Intel that require you showcase your work in person, the Google fair asks competitors to submit their work via Google …
Apple stunned tech pundits in January 2010, when it announced the iPad for a $499 base price. The company known for premium products was selling its cutting-edge tablet for near-netbook prices.
More than a year later, the competition is about to give Apple a run for its money. Three upcoming tablets — Acer’s Iconia A100, Asus’ Eee …
It’s taken…well, far too many years, actually, but Harry Potter might finally be getting around to entering the 21st century. The Scotsman newspaper reports that after years ignoring the format, JK Rowling is considering e-book versions of all seven installments of the series that made her name. The newspaper quotes Liz Thomson, editor …
