Best Buy’s stock surges 9% following quarterly profit increase
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:20-08:00On August 20, 2013Best Buy
Marketo announces 6M share secondary offering
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:20-08:00On August 30, 2013Marketo, which went public in May and has seen its share price rise from $13 to more than $37 in the three months since, announced plans to offer 6 million shares in a public secondary offering. Just 10 percent of those shares will…
DailyDirt: People In Space
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:14-08:00Hundreds of thousands of people have already applied for a one-way ticket to Mars for the Mars One program to establish a human colony on the red planet by 2023. Funding for Mars One is expected to come from a reality TV show as well as sponsorships…
Samsung artificially boosts benchmark scores on Galaxy Note 3
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:14-08:00On October 1, 2013Ars Technica has discovered that Samsung has been gaming the system to boost its benchmark scores for Note products. After testing, the website found that when the Galaxy Note 3 runs benchmarking apps, it turns on a high-power CPU…
USAF Colonel: Starbucks WiFi Is More Secure Than The Pentagon Network
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:14-08:00Some of the major issues raised during this NSA debacle have gone beyond the question of if the government should be collecting all of this data on roughly all the people to where this data is stored, what's done with it, and how access to it is controlled…
Upcoming IPOs
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Can Amazon release a free smartphone before it releases a free Kindle?
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:08-08:00By Nathaniel Mott On September 6, 2013Amazon has long been rumored to be working on a smartphone. It’s a logical next step for a company that already offers its own apps marketplace, digital content stores, and Android-powered tablets. Now it seems…
Apple lost smartphone marketshare in September despite launching new iPhones
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:08-08:00On October 1, 2013Even with the launch of the iPhone 5S and 5C, Apple may have lost some marketshare to Android in September. According to Net Applications, iOS’s traffic went from 54.91% in August to 53.65% in September, indicating a potential loss…
If Twitter is the anti-Facebook of IPOs, it has Facebook to thank
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-31T14:45:17-08:00By Kevin Kelleher On September 12, 2013If the IPO market for social media companies were a three-act play, Act One would be LinkedIn, Facebook would represent the distressing second act and the Twitter IPO – announced by the company today on its own…
Bill Gates & Khosla Ventures Invest $8 Million Into Varentec
SWI Editorial Staff2013-12-10T11:38:08-08:00Varentec is no household name, but the electric grid “power control solutions” provider announced yesterday that it had closed $ million in Series B funding from Bill Gates and Khosla Ventures (names that you probably do know). The $8 million is…
