On January 19th, Group buying site LivingSocial which sells vouchers for restaurants, spas, retail stores, teeth whitening and other services, usually at 50% to 90% off -- released a "once-in-a-lifetime" deal for a $20 gift card to Amazon.com. Cost: $10. Deal: What's rarer than spotting a snow leopard, Halley's Comet,...

Now you can see Windows Phone 7 handsets selling? Microsoft Store in Chicago is using Groupon to offer 50% off on two of the phones Samsung Focus on AT&T and HTC HD7. Both Samsung Focus on AT&T and HTC HD7 are on sale for $49 instead of the usual $99....

This is not the first time people have problem caused by switching to newest version of jQuery. Dustin Diaz, engineer at Twitter tweeted, "Turns out #NewTwitter has some major slowness due to upgrading from jQuery 1.4.2 to 1.4.4 - We will be downgrading." Dustin Diaz's further comments might prove useful...

Now There are ways to buy shares of social network companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, LinkedIn, Zynga, etc. Two Web sites SharesPost.com and SecondMarket.com, which is also a registered brokerage, provide electronic platforms that allow qualified investors to buy shares from company insiders and employees who want to cash...

The social networking site Facebook has courted a fresh privacy row, when Facebook announced that it had expanded the information users are able to share with external websites and applications, to include home addresses and mobile phone numbers. On Friday night at exactly 9:00 p.m. Jeff Bowen posted a new...

US group buying company, Groupon is in talks with Chinese internet major Tencent Holdings Ltd. for a partnership, Terms of the deal weren't clear, but it was likely to involve some sort of co-branded joint venture. Tencent is the dominant social network in China, thanks to its instant messaging platform...

Chinese e-commerce called E-Commerce China DangDang (DANG) , or DangDang for short CEO Li Guoqing said Morgan Stanley undervalued the Chinese e-commerce operator when arranging its $272 million initial public offering last month. "I am openly here criticizing investment banks, criticizing Morgan Stanley," Li said yesterday in a posting on...

Intel (INTC) and Nvidia Corp. (NVDA) have reportedly signed and renewed a six-year cross-licensing agreement for accessing each-others silicon related patents. In mid-February 2009, Intel dragged Nvidia to court over a four-year-old cross-licensing agreement. Intel allegedly told Nvidia to cease claiming rights for producing chips to work with Intel's next-generation...

India's Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Ltd (MRPL) issued on Wednesday a second tender this week to buy high-sulphur crude amid an ongoing oil payment dispute between India and Iran . The refiner, also India's largest buyer of Iranian crude, is seeking 650,000 barrels of sour crude for loading on Feb....

Public cloud services adoption will grow at over five times the rate of the IT industry. 2011 will be a big year for private cloud services adoption and deployment. The platform-as-a-service (PaaS) battle will determine 'the next Microsoft'. Battle for hybrid cloud management. But all of this will lead to...