Google has rolled all of its finance tools into one product today, merging its mortgage, credit card and bank account comparison tools into Google Advisor. Google Advisor allows you to compare offer options for your credit cards, checking and savings accounts, CDs or mortgage. With Google Advisor, users can enter in whatever criteria they’re...
Daily Archives: May 19, 2011
New Data Center, Patents Shed Light on Apple’s Cloud Ambitions
This post is part of our ReadWriteCloud channel, which is dedicated to covering virtualization and cloud computing. The channel is sponsored by Intel and VMware. Read the white paper about how Intel Xeon processors help organizations get unprecedented levels of performance. Apple’s huge new data center in North Carolina is getting a little brother....
Google Wants to Kill the URL: Chrome 13 Lets Users Hide the Address Bar
Since Google’s official unveiling of the Chrome Web Store six months ago, the company has been on a mission to redefine our perception of what constitutes an operating system, a browser and a program, blurring the lines between each. In Google’s world, an OS is a browser and a program – one of those...
Here Are The Lessons Of LinkedIn
Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed | May 19, 2011, 3:01 PM | 68| The Triple-Digit IPO League Tables Fun with LinkedIn Some LinkedIn Lessons Implications Three Dudes. A Dinghy. The Ocean. No Gas. What Could Go Wrong? See Also: Sorry, LinkedIn’s IPO Is NOT Proof Of A New Tech Bubble CONGRATULATIONS, LINKEDIN! You Just Got...
The 10 Biggest IPOs Of The Last Decade: Where Are They Now? (LNKD, BIDU, YOKU, QIHU, CMG)
Image: Flickr Today’s LinkedIn IPO has blown away expectations, with shares popping 90% on its debut. But how does the LinkedIn IPO compare to IPO’s of the last decade? In the past 10 years, 6 firms have seen their share price pop over 100% on their debut, according to data from Renaissance Capital. We...
HTML5: It’s Last Call for Comments
After more than 3 years of development and discussion by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Working Group on the subject, the draft specifications document for HTML version 5 will now be moved into Last Call status after a 63 to 2 vote, with 3 abstentions. HTML5 is quite hot already, having being deployed...
Do You Have A Car? Please Take Our Brief Survey
If the open road is your idea of a good time, then we want to hear from you! If you currently own a car, or are in the market for one, this survey is for you! Please take two minutes to answer our brief survey. The better we know you, the more we can...
The Apple Store at 10: Past, Present, and Future
On May 19, 2001, the Apple Retail Store at Tysons Corner in Virginia opened its doors to the public and no small amount of criticism. From only two days later, the headline “Sorry, Steve: Here’s Why Apple Stores Won’t Work” is hilarious now, especially the prediction of it being “two years before they’re turning...
AT&T to finally carry the HD7S WP7 handset on June 5th
In a move that will make new waves in the Windows Phone 7 ocean, ATT plans on releasing the HTC HD7S handset on its network this June 5th, less than a month from today. The phone will cost $199 with a two-year contract, a premium price point over other WP7 handsets that can often...
Microsoft Denies Some, or Maybe All, of Intel’s Claims About Windows 8 and ARM
Visit the Qwest resource center forrelevant briefs and reports to help you better manage your enterprise. Learn how you can outsource your infrastructure in this brief from Qwest: Do More with Less – How Service Providers Can Help Consolidate IT Expenses. Yesterday we told you about some details about the ARM version of Windows...