Chinese banking shares fell for a second day on Wednesday, while the euro clawed back losses but was still seen at risk after Moody's slashed Portugal's credit rating to junk status, reigniting fears that it may need a second rescue package.
There are conflicting reports about iPhone 5’s release date. However, a whole lot of possible iPhone 5 features have been revealed through several sources, image leaks and estimates by analysts and industry experts. Following is detailed look at what your spanking new iPhone 5 will look and feel like when it hits shelves in September, as some experts say, or sometime in 2012:
Going by the latest reports, it looks unlikely that there will be a new iPhone this Fall. Not even a 'baby' iPhone, a cheaper version for the emerging markets! Gadget lovers can’t wait to know the latest titbit about the possible iPhone launch. Some say they want to see the iPhone 5 on the store so that they can explore the features of iPhone 6.
Apple will reportedly offer the iPhone 3GS for free with a two-year contract when the next generation of iPhone becomes available this fall.
Oracle Corp posted disappointing quarterly results particularly in hardware sales, sparking concerns about a sharper-than-expected slowdown in tech spending and sending its shares down 6 percent.
Apple will not launch its fabled iPhone 5 in September during the iPod refresh event.
Trends for Bridal--Spring and Fall 2011
Stock index futures pointed to a lower open on Wall Street on Monday, with futures for the S&P 500 down 0.7 percent, Dow Jones futures down 0.7 percent and Nasdaq 100 futures down 0.7 percent at 0758 GMT (3:58 a.m. ET).
Stock index futures fell on Monday after euro zone finance ministers postponed a final decision on extending emergency loans to debt-stricken Greece.
Shares in Japanese game developer Sega Sammy Holdings Inc fell on Monday after information belonging to 1.3 million customers was stolen from its database, the latest in a rash of global cyber attacks against video game companies.
According to rumors and a Tweet from CNet's Brian Tong, Apple is set to launch their new Mac Pro, and Mac Mini in early August 2011. The fall release is set to feature upgraded CPU with Sandy Bridge and Thuderbolt along with the newest OS X Lion.
Silicon Valley opened more tech job positions in May, which helped lower the unemployment rate in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara metro area from 9.9 percent to 9.7 percent, the California Employment Development Department (EDD) reported Friday.
Stocks continued to fall in early afternoon trading Wednesday, erasing most of Tuesday's gains.
Shares of Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> slid almost 3 percent on Monday after the company forecast a larger-than-expected fall in operating profit as it struggles to restore production following the earthquake in March.
Toyota Motor Corp <7203.T> is expected to forecast a fall in annual profit later on Friday as the world's largest automaker works to restore output knocked out by Japan's March 11 disaster and grapples with a strong yen.
The government may not be able to extend as much financing as initially planned under a $25 billion loan program aimed at helping auto and other companies make more fuel-efficient vehicles.
Asian stocks fell on Wednesday and the dollar wavered after uninspiring comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke added to worries about the slowing global economy.
Job openings were harder to come by in April as private sector hiring ebbed, further evidence that the labor market remains precarious, Labor Department data showed on Tuesday.
Stocks extended a losing streak for a fifth day on Tuesday on mounting concerns about the economy after bearish comments from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Making the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) on Monday at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, CEO Steve Jobs said iOS 5 is a major release, and that it will have more than 200 new features. Apart from the yet to arrive iPhone 5, the all new iOS 5 will start being seen in devices like iPhone 3GS and 4, iPad and iPad 2, and iPod touch 3 and 4, from this fall. Some dashing features it will have are the new messaging service iMessage, integrated Twitter, PC-free us...
Donna Karan's newest pre-fall line has us scrambling to buy up everything!
Around noon on Friday, 11-year-old Abiah Jones fell from a Ferris wheel, and was pronounced dead 45 minutes later at Cape Regional Medical Center. Just a day after the tragedy, Morey's Mariner's Landing Pier in Wildwood reopened at noon Saturday.