Business

For some of us, VAIO E series is top of the line in modern mobile computing design. But out there are some smarter people that would prefer the business versions of laptops. For this group we have a bunch of new Toshiba notebooks to show, where they can feast on the masterpiece Portege M780.
This new [...]

The newest game from Electronic Arts managed his way up in the top of Chart-Track’s UK sales even from it’s debut. Mass Effect 2 overcame with ease last years winner Just Dance, which still made his way up to the second place this year.
Comparing debut weeks between the first and second versions of Mass Effect, [...]

Exxon Mobile, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, has announced earlier today that it will buy XTO Energy for a total of $41 billion. The deal will see Exxon paying $31 billion in stock to XTO’s shareholders, while the remaining amount of $10 billion represents the debt that the latter [...]

The war between Intel and AMD has started many years ago, and it seems like the former will kill the latter, but not so fast. After being fined by the European Commission with $1.45 billion, Intel has reached an agreement with AMD to pay $1.25 billion in order to end every single legal dispute as [...]

This is somewhat odd, but I thought it’s useful for all of you as it can help you raise some extra money. If you’re a person who spends a lot of time in the car, then you should know that a company called Free Car Media exists and it offers you money for driving your [...]

As you probably know, the Blackberry Bold 9700 has just been announced and already it managed to be praised for having new and useful features but still retaining what made the original Bold great. So, without further introduction it’s worth mentioning that the new Bold now has a hot-swappable SD card to make your time [...]

Emerson Electric has announced that it will acquire Avocent for $1.2 billion in order to make their equipment more energy efficient, a fact which will help its customers, and probably their business. Emerson Electric manufactures industrial-automation equipment, power systems, heating systems, cooling systems, and other industrial equipments, while Avocent develops systems for operators that later [...]

Netflix makes money from DVD renting. The company is just mailing DVDs to its customers and it’s doing really well although the sales have decreased from $15.9 billion last year to $14.5 billion. A report says that Netflix rents half a billion movies a year, and the number is growing and it will continue to [...]

High frequency trading is what it keeps the trade orders at such high levels. The exchange market is what rules this world and anybody can have access to it now since 2005 when SEC’s Regulation National Market System decided that trade orders have to be posted nationally, not at individual exchanges. In order to be [...]

A few days ago Dell bought Perot Systems for “only” $3.9 billion, and today another great deal was officialized: Xerox bought Affiliated Computer Services for $6.4 billion. ACS is a business process outsourcer which generated revenue of $6.52 billion for the year to June 30. This deal will allow Xerox to expand their services beyond [...]