As a homeless man lies in a Miami hospital with 75 percent of his face chewed off from a horrific cannibal attack, a drug company is using the crime as an opportunity to boost sales of bath salts, which are thought to have crazed the attacker.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell again Wednesday, giving back their early gains from Tuesday?s record-low close of $28.84.
Hundreds of volunteers have joined the search for teenager Pierce Crowley, who has been missing since Friday, May 25. Celebrities have joined the effort as well, utilizing their social media networks to spread the word about the missing boy from Westchester, N.Y.
Two months ago, Toronto activist investor Victor Alboini, whose Jaguar Financial had acquired a stake just below 5 percent in Research in Motion (Nasdaq: RIMM), said the company won?t be around in its current shape in two years. Now it's for sale.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trading Wednesday are: Delcath Systems Inc., Quicksilver Resources Inc., Research In Motion Limited, Nokia Corp., Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson, Facebook Inc. and Western Digital Corp.
Opera Software shares soared over 20 percent on Tuesday on talk Facebook Inc. was in discussion to buy the firm, while analysts said competition from Google and others could push the price tag of any deal over $1 billion.
Locals filled Asbury Park's historic music venue, the Stone Pony, on Friday night for the Parlor Mob's Memorial Day weekend homecoming show. After a sick body rocking (and trippy) set from Florida based psychedelic rockers, Le Blorr, chants for the Parlor Mob filled the venue.
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin has been pretty uncommunicative ever since the details of his flashy Singapore lifestyle, along with the renouncing of his American citizenship, made news headlines. But that all changed recently when Zuckerberg's former business partner, now a newly made billionaire thanks to the Facebook IPO, sat down for an interview with a magazine from his family's native Brazil.
Pierce Crowley, a 15-year-old boy from Westchester County, N.Y., has been missing since Friday and family and friends are desperately trying to find the teenager. However, in the midst of this sorrow is exploitation. A family friend has warned volunteers to beware of online fundraising scams.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell to a new low following its $16 billion May 17 initial public offering.
The companies whose shares are moving in pre-market trade Tuesday are: Popular Inc, North American Energy Partners Inc, United States Steel Corporation, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc, Pfizer Inc, Banco Santander S.A. and Facebook Inc.
Since Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook in 2004, the social network has become one of the most important centerpieces in society, especially as it becomes increasingly digital and mobile. Yet, the value of Facebook has not yet translated to revenue dollars. That may change, however, if Facebook decides to build its first-ever piece of hardware: A Facebook smartphone.
Indian government bowing to the political pressure has decided not to hike diesel, Kerosene and LPG prices for the time being. The ruling UPA government is still fighting the fallout of its unpopular decision to steeply increase the petrol prices last week, as the opposition parties as well as some of its own allies are demanding a rollback.
Google is not the only software company trying to get into the hardware arena. If ongoing rumors are to be believed, Facebook too wants its own smartphone. Reports said that it hopes to release its own smartphone next year and has already hired more than half a dozen former Apple software and hardware engineers.
Greece's conservatives have regained an opinion-poll lead that could foreshadow the formation of a pro-bailout government committed to keeping the country in the euro zone, a batch of new surveys showed on Saturday.
Apple quietly tweaked its App Store platform for Mac computers and iOS devices, rebranding a few categories and adding new features. But while most users may not notice these subtle changes, it's possible that these moves are in fact a precursor to a larger, more wholesale redesign of the App Stores.
Campaigns on Twitter and Facebook have sprouted up to save the Times-Picayune, New Orleans' oldest paper, from going to printing only three days a week following an announcement from the paper's parent company yesterday to put the plan into action in the fall.
Shares of Facebook (Nasdaq: FB), the No. 1 social network, fell 3.4 percent again Friday, a week after their disastrous debut in their initial public offering.
A Facebook friend request set the wheels in motion for Brian Banks to be cleared of rape 10 years after he was accused by former high school classmate Wanetta Gibson and had already spent five years in prison.
Former Boston Red Sox pitcher and tech entrepreneur Curt Schilling fired his entire staff at his Rhode Island-based video game company, 38 Studios, on Thursday, leaving more than 300 employees without jobs because the company couldn't repay its debt to the state.
Felix Roque, the Democratic Mayor of West New York, N.J., and son Joseph Roque have both been arrested on charges of hacking into a website and various emails in an effort to identify the parties plotting to rally against him.
In the week since Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB) went public, its founder, CEO and majority shareholder saw his $20.2 billion stake in the social media giant quickly swell to $24 billion only to shrink by day's end to $17.6 billion.
