2011年12月14日星期三

Technology Report: Amazon extends Christmas shipping deadline

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12/13/2011
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The WSJ.com reports that Apple is softening its approach to its iAd mobile advertising service due to the tepid response as it loses ground to Google in the fast-growing mobile-ad market.

Marketers say they have been turned off by iAd's high price tag as well as Apple's hard-charging sales tactics and its stringent control over the creative process which has forced Apple to make some changes.

Facebook is probably not the first place that comes to mind when contemplating new career opportunities.

But Monster.com, the career search website, hopes to change that with BeKnown, a professional networking app that allows users to build their professional identities within Facebook.

Staying with Facebook, Bloomberg reports that the social networking site is planning its first push into mobile advertising by the end of March, giving the company a fresh source of revenue ahead of a possible initial public offering, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

With Apple said to be in talks to buy Israel's Anobit, a maker of flash storage technology, Forbes.com says that Flash memory is becoming one of the biggest tech stories of the year.

U.S. safety investigators called for a nationwide ban on texting and cell phone use while driving, a prohibition that would include certain applications of hands-free technology becoming more common in new cars.

Finally, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is planning to build a spaceship that could replace the Space Shuttle this decade.

Allen is hoping his new company -- called Stratolaunch Systems -- will launch unmanned rockets from a flying carrier plane to ferry government and commercial payloads into space and back, and eventually evolve to human space missions.

 
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December 13, 2011 10:00 AM ET
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December 13, 2011 08:39 AM ET
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December 13, 2011 03:15 PM ET
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks slipped in Tuesday afternoon trading as investors digested a statement from the Federal Reserve. | Full Article
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December 13, 2011 02:58 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve on Tuesday pointed to turmoil in Europe as a big risk to the economy, leaving the door open to a further easing of monetary policy even as it noted some improvement in the labor market. | Full Article
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen in sworn testimony earlier this year called the rules on insider trading "very vague" and said sometimes it's a "judgment call" as to whether a tidbit about a public company is inside information. | Full Article
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