Unidentified hackers broke into the Web site of the Japanese videogame publisher Square Enix. The company that produces games like Final Fantasy or Deus Ex and Tomb Raider, acknowledged that, in the hands of the attackers were at least 25,000 customer accounts of people who registered on its website.In addition to a database of clients Square Enix in the hands [...]
Corporation Microsoft, the world’s largest software maker, reported that in the fiscal third quarter sales of Windows were below expectations due to falling sales of new computers and transfer some of the users on the tablet is running Apple iOS and Google Android. Revenue Corporation in the period fell to 4.45 billion dollars, against the previously published forecast of 4.6 [...]
World’s largest manufacturer of network hardware Cisco Systems announced plans to cut several thousand jobs worldwide. Reductions are carried out within the framework of the reorientation of the company’s main activities and the rejection of non-core or unprofitable areas. Previously, Cisco CEO John Chambers has come under fierce criticism from shareholders who accused him of being a company that tries [...]
Facebook signed an agreement with one of the agencies on the online distribution of critical materials about the search engine Representatives of the world’s largest social networking site Facebook acknowledged the agreement with the PR-agency Burson-Marsteller to organize in the PR-media company against Google. In particular, employees of Burson-Marsteller had talks with journalists, the American media, inviting them to write [...]
U.S. Department of Justice launched an investigation in respect of a corporation to Google, which is suspected of profiting from ads banned in the U.S. online pharmacies. About it writes The Wall Street Journal, citing sources familiar with the situation. May 10 Google released an updated financial report for the first quarter of this year, which indicated that the corporation [...]
Edition of The Wall Street Journal announced its intention to open a project, whose goal will be to collect and publish information relating to corruption and crime in the banking industry and the violation of laws by the authorities. The project WikiLeaks, famous throughout the world publish sensational material, there is another competitor. Service, called SafeHouse, launched the publication of [...]
Microsoft employee is accused of stealing software. Defendant’s name is Ulugbek Shodmonov, he is 31 and is likely to come from the former USSR. The amount of damage is estimated at 9,900 dollars. The scheme, which was exploited by the fraudster, is not sensational. Shodmonov worked in the Microsoft store in Redmond. He just took disks with Microsoft products from [...]
Microsoft Corp. agreed to buy VoIP-service Skype, reports The Wall Street Journal. The acquisition price is 8.5 billion dollars. Skype shareholders will receive from 7 to $ 8 billion. Microsoft and Skype now refuse from detailed comments on the deal. But according to WSJ, an official statement will likely to be made today. Among the major assumptions regarding the development [...]
On the official website of the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer was reported about moving company in the near future on a mobile platform from Microsoft. The result of this transition will be mass layoffs of employees of the firm. Nokia has plans to dismiss from their posts about 4 thousand employees. The most widespread will be staff reductions in the [...]
Profit of Microsoft Corporation, the world’s largest software maker, for the third quarter of 2010-2011 fiscal year was $ 5.2 billion. It became lower than the profit of its main competitor Apple company for the first time in 20 practically years – Apple earned $ 5.99 billion. As the ”Euronews” inform, Microsoft loses traditionally strong market position in operating systems and Internet browsers, but the growth in sales of office applications allowed Bill Gates to compensate these losses.
